Modest observations on the present extraordinary frost : containing I. A brief description thereof ... II. An account of the most eminent frosts that have happen'd for many hundred years past ... III. Philosophical presages of what may be feared now to ensue, viz. Scarcity of corn and victuals, general sicknesses, and pestilences ... IV. The cries of the poor; and an easy way proposed how there may be twenty thousand pounds a week, at least, raised for their relief, about London ... / By T.T.

  • Tryon, Thomas, 1634-1703.
Date:
1684
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Credit: Modest observations on the present extraordinary frost : containing I. A brief description thereof ... II. An account of the most eminent frosts that have happen'd for many hundred years past ... III. Philosophical presages of what may be feared now to ensue, viz. Scarcity of corn and victuals, general sicknesses, and pestilences ... IV. The cries of the poor; and an easy way proposed how there may be twenty thousand pounds a week, at least, raised for their relief, about London ... / By T.T. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    aay | Cattel perifht for want of water. In the year Sar. the rreateh Rivers - . [o£ Europe, asthe Riine, the Danubiws, the Elb, and the Sein, were fo _ |incrufted with Ice, that for the fpaceof above30 days, Carriages freely _| pafled along.on them, as on the Land. . _| But tolook nearer home----In the year of our Lord 136 5. and 49th , | |year of K. Edward the 3d, A Frost latted from the midit of Septemmer '|to the Month of Apri; but though 0 tedious, the Cold. was nothing fo. » jintenfeor violent as now. In the 15th year of the Reign of K. Henry ithe Eighth, after great Rains and Winds, ‘there followed fo fore 2 iFroft, that many 4yed for cold, and fome loft Fangers.: Somme Tiers and imany their Nails. [ I follow the very words of Sir R. Bakers fol. 297.) (The fame Author tells us, That in the feventh yeat Of Oy Elizeberh, an, ithe 21. of December, begana Froft fo extream, thai ov New-Year 5- Daye. jEven people pafled-over the Thames on footy fome plaid at Foot BU. fome- Wot atPricks,asif ithad been firm grovnd; yetthis great Froft, the third : of Fanuary atnights began to Thaw; and by the fifth day, there was no, ice to be feeny but great Inundations folow:d: In the year 1609. [Which ’tis not impoffible, but fonre Living might re-. inember, being but 74 years ago) 4 Froft began in Deecimbcr, which cone. jinued till 4prz1 following, wich fuch violence,- that the Thames wags Lo frozen that Carts loaden, were frequently driven-over i mot fowls. and Birds were deflroyed. In the year 1637. wasanother F 4tsowhich:, rendred the Lhames paflable; fo in the year 1664. immed iacely follow- led by the Great Sickne/s; And ths like towards the latter. end of the lyear 1676: i Some of the Confequences of thefe extream Froj's,} have mertioe . ned, more I.might, 2/.are not Convenient; thofe thar confult Chyvrolee . cyomay eafily fatisfy themfelves ; a man may foon err in afligning Effedty . co fuch or fuch particnlar Cau/es, or adapting Events to Significators;, Alen pefty isthe firft Leflonin Wifdoms Sclool. Therefore as we have been. tudions in warter, of Fatt, paft, . but {paring as to Sequels; fo we hall retain the fame becoming renderne/s.as to Futures ; wherein we {hall - jeer our-Gourfe rather by the Guidance of Wurure inher ufyal Opera- Hons here below, than by curious Refeatches. inta remoter influential ; (anfes above, though not neglecting them neither, For the Oniver fe is (ative, Harmonicel, and Sympathetical, ané he that does not competently Inderftand the right Zeve of the whole, and the true Key of every part, yill make but ea Adujickwherever he lays his Clumfy Fingers. Firft then I fay, This Extremity of Cold prefages many Calantities an vils to attend Mankind, and the re& of ‘their Felow-Creatures; for ag. reionocent Inhabitants of the dir, ox expanded Suburbs of Heaven, bce Viz, 5 ee sole ie Dai aL