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12th April 1624
Proceedings in Parliament 1624
… in the second. Sir John Eliot. That it is a prodigious comet that is easier to see the effects than the cause. That … that the House would remove this strange and prodigious comet which so fatally hangs over us, etc. Such comets, whose … divided them. Sir John Eliot compares him to a meteor or comet and ran much upon that allegory. In fine, concluded him …
1330, membranes 42, 41, 40, 39, 38, 37, 36, 35, 34, 33, 32, 31, 30, 29, 28, 27, 26, 25, 24, 23, 22, 21
Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edward III
20th March 1624
Proceedings in Parliament 1624
… These fatal treaties have hanged [ sic] over us as a fatal comet. This is a rent commonwealth in respect of some great … These treaties had long hung over our heads as a fatal comet, not only in respect of foreign danger but in respect …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: James I
… [ Ibid., No. 114.] Dec. 9 ? Verses by the King upon the Comet, ridiculing those who think that it portends the …
Calendar of State Papers Foreign: Elizabeth
… shall be destroyed. Towards the end of May a very strange comet was seen at Venice. Divers commissions have been found …
Chronicle of the Grey Friars of London
… MS., but in Arnold's Chronicle "a blasing starre," i. e. a comet. P. 26, 4th 1. from foot. " And this yere was brent a …
The Diary of Henry Machyn
… in p. 348, was calculated by Halley to have been the same comet which had before appeared in the year 1264, and which, … present year, 1848. The learned Fabricius described the comet of 1556 as of a size equal to half that of the moon. …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… fifth rates; Seahorse and Dunwich, sixth rates; Comet and Blunt, bombs; the Etna fire-ship is ordered from …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… know what the end will be. Since the 22nd we have seen a comet, which rises at 7 in the evening and disappears at 9. … There have been great wagers as to the meaning of this Comet. Some will have it foretell a great war; others the …
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