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nifefl: that this Phenomenon appeared in our Neighbour- 
hood three feveral Times, and chat with confiderable In- 
tervals, within theCampafsof one Year; though our 
Englifh Hiftorians have not recorded the two latter ; nor 
did Gemma, fee that of November 1574, as ’tis molt likely 
by reafon of Clouds. After this, in the Year 1580. we 
have the Authority of Michael Mceftlin, * (himfelfa good 
Aftronomer, and (till more famous for having had the 
honour to be the great Keplers Tutor in the Sciences) 
that at Baknangm the Country of Wirtemburg in Germany, 
thefe Cbafmata, as he likewile (files them, were feen by 
himfelf no lefs than (even times within the Space of twelve 
Months. The firft of thefe, and moft oonlidetable, fell 
out on the very fame Day of the Month with ours, viz. 
©n Sunday the fixth of March, and was attended with 
much the fame Circumftances, which, for Brevity s fake, 
I omit. And again the fame things were feen in a very 
extraordinary manner on the 9th of April and 10 th of 
September following : but in a lefs degree, on the 6th of 
April, i\ ft of September, 26 th of December and 16th of 
February, 1581: the laft of which, and that of the lift 
of September mUfl needs have been more confiderable than 
they then appeared, becaufe the Moon being near the 
Full, neceflafily effaced all the fainter Lights. Of all 
thefe however no one is mentioned in our Annals to have 
been feen in England, nor in any other p ace that I can 
find ; fiich was the negled of curious matters in thofeDays, 
The next in order that we heat of, was that of the Year 
1621, on September the 'id. ft. vet . feen all over France, 
and well deferibed by 6 'ajfendus in his Phyftcks, who gives 
it the Name of Aurora Borealis. This, tho’ little inferiour 
to what we lately faw\ and appearing to the Northwards 
both of Rouen and Paris, is nb Where faid to have been 
obferved in England, over whichthe Light leehied to lie. 
And fmee then for above 80 Years, we have no Account 
* M. Msftlin. lib. de Cometa j 580. of 
