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The dreadful and most prodigious tempest at Markfield at Leicestershire

first meteors appeared in the air, then hail in the form of swords and daggers, lightning caused fire and an explosion at a Lime-kiln

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The Most true and wonderfull relation of a starre of a great magnitude

a while ago blood rained from the sky in another town, discusses other stars or ‘apparitions’ in the sky but says that this one is unparalleled in history, then describes the comet seen at Haulin which was apparently huge in its magnitude and splendor, sometimes it appears as a square and other times as a sword, then it split into pieces of red coal in the sky

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VVherin is manifested how master Ralph Ashley, a deboyst cavalier, attemted to ravish a young virgin

a young virgin, daughter to Master Adam Fifher, she was out visiting friends and kin when it got dark, and her friend wanted her to stay over in fear of Cavaliers out at night but she insisted that her father would want her home, she was startled by a Mr. Ralph Afhley who promised to take her home to her father, he began to rape her when a comet appeared in the sky and a stream of fire in the shape of a sword came fro the Comet and struck him, he died yelling and calling her a whore to men who appeared, they took her to her fathers thinking her dead but then realized she was alive