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- Nor indeed, during the Reign of that glorious Princefs, 
was this fo rare a Sight as it has been fince. For we find in a 
Book entituled a Defer ipt ion of Meteors, reprinted at London 
in the Year 16^4, whofe Author writes himfelf W.F. D.D. 
that the fame things which he there calls Burning Spears, 
was feen at London on January 30-1 560 ; and again by 
the Teflimony of Stow, on the ythotOclober 1 f 64 And 
from foreign Authors we learn, that in the Year 1575-, 
the fame was twice repeated in Brabant, viz. on the « 3 th 
of February and 28 th of September ; and feen and deferibed 
by Cornelius Gemma , ProfefTor of Medicine in the Uni- 
verfity of Lovain, and Son of Gemma Friftui the Mathe- 
matician. He, in a Difcourfe he wrote of the Prodigies 
of thofe Times, afterfeveral ill-boding Prognofticks, thus 
very properly deferibes the Cupola and Corona that he 
faw in the Chafma (as he calls it) of February Faulo poft 
undecunque [urgent thus Haft is flammis novis ,flag r are caelum 
a Borea parte ufque ad vertieem videbatur : ac denique ne ni- 
hil qua contigerunt haffenus pr&figuratum antea videretur, 
converfa eft Coeli facies , per horx f pat turn, in Fritilli aleatorit 
fpeciem peregrinam 3 alternantibus fefe c&ruleo & candido, non 
minore veriigine mot ufque celeritate, quam folares radii folent , 
quoties ab objeffo fpeculo regeruntur. Here it is not a lit- 
tle remarkable, that all thefe four already mentioned fell 
exadtly upon the fame Age of the Moon, viz. about two 
Days after the Change. 
As to the other of September in the fame Year 157?, 
thefe are the W ords of Gemma. Minus quidem horrendum , 
fed varia tamen magifque confuja nobis apparuit alterius Chaf- 
matis forma, quarto Calendas Odtobreis fubfecuti, ftatim ab 
cccafu Solis. Nam in illo vift funt arcus illuftres plurimi, ex 
quibus Haft a [enfim emlnentes, Urbefque turrit a & Acies mill - 
tares. Erant hinc radiorum excurfus quaquaverfum, & nu- 
lium fluff us & pralia : infeffabantur invicem & fugiebant , 
faff a in orient converfione mirabill. From hence 'tis ma- 
X t t nifeft 
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