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The worlds wonder

being a true relation of the strange and dreadful apparitions seen in the air, on Tuesday last was seven-night, at New-Market-Heath, and in the western parts: wherein you might discern the flaming-sword, the fiery dragon, sparkling-coals, burning-beams, beating of drums, sounding of trumpets, and a desperate conflict between two armies. Likewise, the presenting of the earth with a mighty thunder-bolt ... and the taking of it up, and carrying it to Justice Fosters, where many hundreds of people resort to see it, to the great admiration of all that behold it. As also, the strange and wonderful ringing of the bells, by four white spirits in the perfect shape of men, at Ferry-Briggs in York-shire, on the first of this instant March, betwixt 12 and one of the clock in the morning. With the minister, clerk, and others going to them, demanding, In the name of the Father, of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, what they meant, and what their business was? With the answer which proceeded from a vo

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  • First published:
  • 17th century
  • Language: English

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None of the 1 source behind this record supplied a summary of The worlds wonder (1659). What the catalog does say:

Traditions: Ghosts, hauntings, and poltergeists, Prophecy, oracles, and revelation

Subjects: History, Early works to 1800, Histoire, Prophecies, Great Britain, Apparitions, Ouvrages avant 1800, Prophéties

Provenance

Why this book is in the catalog

Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Ghosts, hauntings, and poltergeists and Prophecy, oracles, and revelation.

  • Ghosts, hauntings, and poltergeists

    Retained metadata contains “Apparitions” in the subtitle, “ghost” in the subtitle, “Apparitions” in the subject metadata, and 2 additional metadata match(es).

    • “Apparitions”· in subtitle
    • “ghost”· in subtitle
    • “Apparitions”· in subject
    • “Apparitions”· in edition subtitle
    • “ghost”· in edition subtitle
  • Prophecy, oracles, and revelation

    Controlled discovery queries from harvard matched “prophecy”. Retained metadata contains “Prophecies” in the subject metadata.

    • “prophecy”· via Harvard LibraryCloud
    • “Prophecies”· in subject

Membership records how this book met the catalog’s discovery criteria — relevance to a tradition, not a judgment of the book’s claims.

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being a true relation of the strange and dreadful apparitions seen in the air, on Tuesday last was seven-night, at New-Market-Heath, and in the western parts: wherein you might discern the flaming-sword, the fiery dragon, sparkling-coals, burning-beams, beating of drums, sounding of trumpets, and a desperate conflict between two armies. Likewise, the presenting of the earth with a mighty thunder-bolt ... and the taking of it up, and carrying it to Justice Fosters, where many hundreds of people resort to see it, to the great admiration of all that behold it. As also, the strange and wonderful ringing of the bells, by four white spirits in the perfect shape of men, at Ferry-Briggs in York-shire, on the first of this instant March, betwixt 12 and one of the clock in the morning. With the minister, clerk, and others going to them, demanding, In the name of the Father, of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, what they meant, and what their business was? With the answer which proceeded from a vo

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1659Printed for George HortonEnglish—Catalog record

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  • 99154238055803941

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