A Comet and three dead Kings
“This yeir, in the wintar, appeired a terrible Comet, the stern wharof was very grait, and proceiding
from it toward the est a lang teall, in appeirance, of an eall and a half, lyk unto a bissom or scurge maid
of wands, all fyrie. It rease nightlie in the south-weast, nocht above a degrie and an halff ascending
above the horizon, and continued about six oukes, or twa monethe, and piece a piece weir away. The
graittest effects wharof that out of our countrey we hard was a grait and mightie battell in Barbaria in
Afric, wharin thrie kings war slain, with huge multitud of peiple.”
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