STrange and wonderful are the Works of an Omni­potent God, whose boundless Power commands both Sea and Land, stills the winds, and tames the raging VVaves, at whose Rebuke the Heavens fly, the Earth doth tremble, and the Mountains melt, and with his looks he dries the deep; Justice and Judgment are be­fore his Face, and yet his Mercy Triumphs o're his Power. A God so great and good, what Mortal can but with Reverence Adore him: How loath he is to crush Rebellious man, and like an indulgent Father, shakes his threatning Rod, but yet forbears to strike the weighty blow; for Portants and Prodegies so oft have been seen of late in these Dominions, that they have almost lost their Names, and are become but common things; but amongst all the numbers that appearance made to signifie in Characters the Divine will of Hea­ven to those Rebellious men, that dare unlawfully resist Anointed Power, striving contrary to the will of the wise Creator of their Mundine frame, to inovate in Church and State Affairs, by Rapines, cruel Murders, and the like, wherefore Heaven thought fit in time to curb their Infolencies, and by loosening the Foundation of the World, to shake them out, and drive them [Page 4] thence, the which may be conjectured by a terrible Earthquake; with several strange and wonderful Pro­degies, the which appeared on Thursday the 10th of this instant July 1679. at Strevin Lansdown another place in the West of the Kingdom of Scotland, where the Rebels Camp was before their defeat by his Maje­sties Army, under the Command of his Grace the Duke of Monmouth, the certainty of which were atte­sted by several credible persons Inhabiting these places, and communicated by a Letter from one Mr. Williams a Gentleman in the City of Glasgow, to his Friend in London, the manner thus, That on Thursday the date a­foresaid, about five of the Clock in the Afternoon, the Skies began to darken, and thick Clouds over-spread the Face of Heaven, whereupon such dreadful Volleys of Thunder and streaming flashes of Lightning discharg­ed from broaken Clouds, attended by fearful Storms of Hail and Rain, that people from all parts were forced to take shelter in Barnes, Houses, and other convenient places they could first procure; the which Storm or Tempest lasted for the space of two hours without inter­mission, tho being sometimes more violent than others; the Hail-stones being of such magnitude, that they broke and shattered many Glass-windows to a considerable damage; as likewise the Tiles falling off the Houses in several places, the Morter that supported them being loosened by the violence of the Tempest, at which in­letts the wet poured in at the Roofs of the Houses; during this violent Storm, to compleat the Scene, and make it appear more dreadful, the Basis of the Earth [Page 5] began to heave, as if all Nature had been oppressed with some ponderous pain, upon which the tottering Fabricks began to Dance, and Dishes both Puter and Earthen, betook themselves to motion as if they had been anima­ted, and leap from off the Shelves, Stools, Chairs, and other Utonsils in the like Posture, whilst in the Streets, the Tiles that did before but drop one by one, now fall as thick in comparison as Hail, so that people durst not go out of their Houses for fear, but some doubting the substantialness of their Buildings, desperately ventured with their VVives and Children abroad, rather trust­ing to the Fury of the Storm, than to their Dancing habitation: The dreadful motion continued near the spare of half an hour, in which space it gave three se­veral onsets very furious and strange; no sooner was it over, but the Storm of Thunder, Lighning, and Hail, began by little and little to abate, the which no sooner done, but a great bright Cloud arising from the North-West, and coming forward before the wind amain, and still as it came, seemed to open as with two folding doors, from whence exceeding brightness issued forth, and at every such disclosing, several strange shapes ap­peared in it, as at first the perfect Figure of a Mans hand, with a Scepter, the shape of an Horse, the per­fect date of this Year 79, and several other strange things, and Representations; for at every Opening there was a several Scene, and a darting brightness; it continued so to do till it descended our Horison at South-East: before this Tempest, Earth-quake, and Prodegy happened, several people that were abroad in the Field about their [Page 6] occasions, do affirm, That they heard a noise in the Earth like the Bellowing of a Bull, and now and then certain VVhirlwinds whistled about with unusual force and violence; and others affirm, they heard swift voices in the Air, but in that they might probably be mistaken by the whistling of those sorts of Collateral VVinds, called as before, VVhirlwinds, the which keep no cer­tain Point nor Compass, but fly in a Body carelesly, and were by the Antients taken to proceede from the bad Influence of some malignant Star. And thus much Sir concerning what I thought to give you an Impartial Account of, for the confirmation of which, I could in­cert many credible Attestators, but 'tis a thing so gene­rally known, that I think there is little need of so do­ing. Sir, I rest, yours to serve you,