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5. In the yeare 1634. in Autumn, a flying Dragon, flaming horribly was ſeen throughout all Bohemia and Sileſia. And that this was no whit below a miracle, we may gather from hence, becauſe in the ſame day and houre (about Sun-ſetting) it was obſerved in ſo many and remote places, that our faith could ſcarce elevate it ſelf ſo high to credit it, if it were not confirmed by a thouſand witneſſes.

6. In the ſame year at Podebrade bloud flowed out for a whole moneth together (the ſpring neare the high-way being broken up.) Which ſome have uſed as a Rubrick (and to beget the more credit) have writ the ſtory thereof with that very bloud. Nor perhaps ought wee to omit that which theſe eyes have ſeen in the ſame year: Upon the City-gate of Chrudim, the Armes both of the King and Queene were painted, with a diſtich written in Golden letters. Theſe were thrice at leaſt drawne over with Chalk ſince the Emperors victory: and all the reſt being quite blotted out, onely the name Fredericke at ſeverall times became extant and legible by all.

7. In the yeare following 1625. neare Beneſſow, then in the Dominion of Paul Michna, a Fiſh pond was wholly turned into bloud; for the ſpace of three dayes, as alſo it happened in other places at other times. In the confines of Moravia and Sileſia great

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