Newes and strange newes from St. Christophers of a tempestuous spirit, which is called by the Indians a hurry-cano or whirlewind : Which hapneth in many of those ilands of America or the West-Indies, as it did in August last, about the 5. day. 1638. Blowing downe houses, tearing up trees by the rootes, and it did puffe men up from the earth, as they had beene feathers, killing divers men. Whereunto is added the true and last relation of the dreadfull accident which hapned at Withicombe in Devonshire the 21. of October last past.

Format:

Microformat

Author/Creator:

Taylor, John, 1580-1653.

Series:

Early English books, 1475-1640 ; 1005:5.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Saint Kitts--History--Hurricane, 1638--Early works to 1800.

Widecombe in the Moor (Devon)--History--Storm, 1638--Poetry--Early works to 1800.

Local Subjects:

Saint Kitts--History--Hurricane, 1638--Early works to 1800.

Widecombe in the Moor (Devon)--History--Storm, 1638--Poetry--Early works to 1800.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

4 unnumbered pages, 20 pages : illustrations (woodcut)

35 mm

monochrome

service copy

positive

Place of Publication:

Imprinted at London : By I[ohn] O[kes] for Francis Coules dwelling in the Old-Baily, 1638.

Notes:

By John Taylor.

Partly in verse.

Printer's name from STC.

Identified as STC 21558 on UMI microfilm.

Reproduction of a photostat of the original in the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery.

Microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1964. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. (Early English books, 1475-1640; 1005:05). s1964 miun a

Cited in:

STC (2nd ed.) 23778.5

OCLC:

55188521