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Title: Historical rarities and curious observations domestick & foreign containing fifty three several remarks ... with thirty seven more several histories, very pleasant and delightful / collected out of approved authors, by William Winstanley ...
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Print source: Historical rarities and curious observations domestick & foreign containing fifty three several remarks ... with thirty seven more several histories, very pleasant and delightful / collected out of approved authors, by William Winstanley ...
Winstanley, William, 1628?-1698.
London: Printed for Rowland Reynolds ..., 1684.
Subject terms:
World history -- Early works to 1800.
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Historical Rarities. &c.
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To the Noble and Generous, THE Pattern and Patron of Laudable Endeavours, Sir THOMAS MIDDLETON, Of Stansted Montfichet, Knight.
The PREFACE TO THE READER.
THE TABLE.
HISTORIES AND OBSERVATIONS Domestick and Foreign.
The miraculous and strange Adventures and Deliverances of one Andrew Battel of Leigh in Essex.
A strange Deliverance of an English-man from a Desolate Island near to Scotland, wherein he had long continued in extream penury and mi∣sery.
A strange Adventure of some English-men in the recovery of their own Freedom, and a Ship called the Exchange of Bristol, from the Tur∣kish Pirates of Argier: Published by John Rawlins one of the Actors thereof.
A remarkable Story of eight Men left in Green∣land, Anno Christi, 1630. with a Relation of their strange Preservation until the Ship's Re∣turn.
A notable Story of Edgar, King of England, how he was, by his chief Favourite, circumvented of the fair Lady Elfrida, and how afterwards the King was revenged of him for the same.
The Story of Mackbeth, King of Scotland.
Of a Costermonger's Daughter of London; how, after many strange Adventures, she came at last to be chief Sultaness to the Grand Seig∣nior of Constantinople.
Historical Observations out of several Authors.
How they Baptize, Marry, and Bury in Russia.
Their way of marrying.
Of their manner of Burial.
Of their Priests in Muscovia.
The Manner of making Fryars in Muscovia.
The Life, Manner, and Customs of the Samoits, a People inhabiting near Nova-Zembla.
A Description of Groen-land, and the Inhabi∣tants thereof: by an Eye-witness, Anno 1612.
Several Varieties of the West-Indies.
Of the Tortoises in the West-Indies.
Several Rarities of divers Countreys.
Of a mirthful Custom, formerly used at Dunmow in Essex.
Of what we find in credible Authors concerning the famous Guy, Earl of Warwick.
The Life of St. Patrick the Irish Apostle.
A marvellous Preservation of the Protestants in Ireland in the time of Queen Mary, by a mer∣ry Accident.
Of the horrid Murther of Duffe, King of Scot∣land, and how miraculously it came to be dis∣covered.
Of the Cruelty which Albovine, King of Lom∣bardy, used to his Queen Rosamond; and by what means she was revenged on him; with her miserable end.
The miseries of inforted Marriage; exemplified in a story of a Knight in Warwickshire, Murthered by his own Lady.
A remarkable Story of the occasion which made the Danes first to invade England: and of their murthering St. Edmund.
Some few notable Histories of Parents crossing the Affections of their Children, and the sad Effects attended thereon.
Certain Observations upon Kings of several Nations.
A strange Change of Religion of the two Dr. Reinolds.
Why the Fish called Tunny is not suffered to be sold at Venice.
Of Machamut a Moorish King, of a poysonous Nature.
A notable Imposture of one Margaret Ulmer, at Elsing in Germany.
Of People long-lived, who have had their Teeth and Excrements of Hair renewed.
An Example of Divine Vengeance pursuing Sinners.
Of two famous Virago's, the one a French-wo∣man, called Joan of Arc, or, La Pucelle de Dieu, the other a Biscainer, called Catarina d' Arcuso.
Of Catarina d' Arcuso.
That the Italians are very revengeful; an Exam∣ple out of Howel's History of Naples.
Spanish Pride exemplified, in a Story taken out of Sir Thomas Row's Voyage to East-India.
A mirthful Conceit of Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy.
Memorials of Thomas Coriat, the famous Od∣combian Traveller.
The reason inducing the Mahometans to often Prayer, exemplified by a Story.
Of a strange Murther, related by Sanderson in his History of King James.
The Custom of Lapland for the marrying of their Daughters.
Of Spirits or Devils, and that they have had carnal Knowledge of People.
The Birth, Life, and Actions of the Impostor Mahomet, according to their Saracenical Story of him.
Of the Talmud of the Jews, their Dreams concerning Adam, &c.
Of the Opinion of the Chinesses concerning the peopling of the World after the Flood.
A strange and wonderful Relation of Ferdinand Mendez Pinto a Portugal, which he saw in his Journey in China.
The History of Agbarus Prince of the Edesseans, his Epistle to our Saviour, with our Saviour's Answer, taken out of Eusebius, lib. 1. cap. 14.
The Epistle of Agbarus to our Sauiour.
Our Saviours Answer to Agbarus.
The Conversion of a Thief by St. John the Apo∣stle, related by Clemens, and quoted by Euse∣bius, Lib. 3. ch. 20.
The Conspiracy of Earl Gowry to have murther∣ed King James in Scotland. Anno 1600.
A notable Combat betwixt a Knight and an Esquire in the time of Richard the Second.
Of such another like Combat fought in France.
A remarkable piece of Justice done by the Emperour Rodolphus.
Of the great friendship betwixt Damon and Pithias, two Pythagorean Philosophers.
Another of Christian Friendship.
The admirable love and affection betwixt Titus and Gisippus, two Noble young men, the one of Rome, the other of Athens.
Of mount Aetna, and of the fiery irruption there in the year 1669.
The Relation that was sent Enclosed.