AN Exact and true Relation, Of the wonderful WHIRLWIND, on Saturday, June the 2. about 4. of the Clock in the Afternoon at Worthington, and Worthington-Hall, and at Tongue, and some other Places in the County of Leicester.  
AS ALSO, The terrible Devastation that it made in beating down many Trees and Houses, and with a sudden violence stripping naked many great Okes, and plucking their barks from their Bodies; As also taking away a Hive of Bees, and great store of Linen, which could never since be heard of.  
Together with the miraculous mercy of GOD preserving many Men, Women, and Children, who were desperately involved in that dreadful Danger.  
Very necessary to be Read.  
Attested by Colonel Tho: Rag, and Major Fran. Beniskin of Tongue, to whom the said Hive of Bees belonged; and by many thousands of others, whose Names are too many to be here inserted.  
June 25 LONDON, Printed by T.F. for Fr. Coles, in the old Bailie at the Lamb. 1660.   

An Exact and true Relation, OF The wonderful Whirlwind at Northington, Springwood, and other places in Leicester shire, on Saturday, June the 2. about 4. of the Clock in the Afternoon, etc.  
THe Tuesday before was a whirlwind of Joy, the Acclamations of the Nobility, Gentry, and people of the Nation for the Restauration of his Majesty to the Government of his People, being such that it is not to be paralleled in any History of the world.  
God save the King, was never breathed forth in England with such universal Shouting; The air itself did seem to suffer in the Excellence of our joys; It is remarkable, that when God brought his Majesty unto us, the weather all the time, was f●ire and seasonable, but it pleased God wh●n the ●ravell was over and the King in his Palace at White-Hall, that on the next day we had Rain, a great blessing of Almighty GOD o● the Countries, that did so much desire and pray for it.  
You may remember that not long before, Colonel john Lambert, Col. john Okey, and some other discontented persons of the late Army, did intent to rendezvous their mutinous numbers in Leiceste● shire, and to make those parts the seat of the War, from whence they threatened like a Whirl wind to m●r●h towards the City, and to bear down all before them, but it pleased God their violent motion was easily suppressed, and the Enemy almost as soon put to flight as discovered, but it seems that there remained still in those parts some turbulent Air, which had not the leisure to vent itself until the Second of this present Month, which it did then in the most prodigious manner as almost was ever heard of.  
It is true, that we have had some strange and high winds and Tempests heretofore, as about four years since (much about the same time of the Day) in the City of Norwich and the adjacent Counties, where the Wind was so unruly that it laid all things desolate, the Birds were stifled as they did fly in the Air, and did fall down dead on the ground, And many Beasts not able to endure the violence of the Tempest were found dead next morning. Even the Coneys themselves that were grazing in the fields were overtaken by the fury of the Wind and deprived of life before they could recover their own holes. There are many thousands yet living that can witness this truth.  
We are sensible also of a very violent wind and Tempest some few days before the Death of the late great Usurper, if he did not indeed die at the same time in the height of it as some have affirmed. The Prince of the air was then so busy, that there is hardly any place in the whole Nation, where some marks were not to be seen of the ruinous effects thereof.  
But that you will say, was at the Death of an Usurper and a man of Blood.  
This of which we come now to speak of, is at the Restoration of a Mild, Gentle, and a merciful Prince unto his Nations, whose very Enemies are overcome by his Goodness, as he hath overcome his own suffrings by his Innocence and his Patience; and even those now do extol his candour and his Piety, who before stood in fear of his Power; We are truly to believe that all Airs of Division, and Contention which before for a long time did overcloud the face of the whole Nation, are now blown away with this Tempest, which will put a period to the Disturbance and Confusion which raged like a Contagious Fever amongst us; and that for the time to come we shall enjoy all Tranquillity, Peace, Health and happiness under the Reign and Government of our most gracious Sovereign, whom GOD long preserve amongst us.  
On Saturday june the second, about four of the clock in the afternoon, the Sun beginning by degrees to be overcast with many clouds, there was a great da●kness at a Town called Worthington in the County of Leicester; which struck a ●errour into many of the Inhabitants, who were then in the Fields, and made hast some thinking to avoid the violence of some sudden shore, which threatened to pour down upon them; not long afterwards there arose agreat & violent Whirlwind, which wrestling with the clouds, and the air made a dreadful noise, and sweeping through the town untiled many of the houses, and ruined a great part of the Chapel, The inhabitants hearing the tiles so r●ttle did fly into their houses, giving strict Command unto their Children not to stir out of doors, but some of the broken stones falling within doors, as well as without, they knew not to what place to betake themselves for protection, and had the only refuge to seek to Alm●ghty God upon their knees, to preserve them from so great a danger.  
It pleased God, to hear their prayers, and the tempest suddenly passed from thence, to another place distant not fare from it called Worthington-h ll, where it exercised its former fury, and indeed was fare more violent than it was at the first, insomuch that it not only unt led the House, and unglazed and broke the windows, but it forced open some doors that were locked, and d stroyed seven B●yes of Building, and fell blustering in upon the house with so much violence, that a great part of it fell down to the ground, as to this day it is still to be seen, the house being torn from the top unto the very foundation of it.  
Yet behold mercy in this great judgement, there was a Barn not fare off, which had also been ruined and leveled to the ground by this whirlwind, whiles the stones were clattering, and the great beams and supporters cracking, there were three people in it of whose lives and safety, God so wonderfully, and so miraculously did dispose that not one of them was hurt.  
It was a singular providence of God, that when all was fallen, or falling down, these three men should stand upright in the midst of the Ruin, and not so much as one of them be hurt.  
The s●m● g●acious God who preserved the three Children in the midst of the fire, that not so much as a Hair of their Heads were singed, preserved these three old Men, when the S ones, the joyce, and rubbish of the falling Barn came all like so many Summons to death about their ears.  
These three Men being delivered from so great a danger did tremble down upon their knees, and the violent wind by the mercy of God having whirled itself into another corner, the People who began to come out of their Houses did find them in that devout Posture, praising of God, and joined with them in their thankfulness for their deliverance.  
There were many houses that were torn up from the very foundation, yet the goodness of God was so remarkable, and had such a Command over the Storm, that no Man, Woman, or Child were killed, only one or two were a little bruised, or received some little scratch by the fall of the Timber, who would imagine that so many great Beams and R●f●ers should fall to the ground, and bring a great Ruin along with them, yet that not so much as one Christian amongst so many hundreds that were engaged in that great Desolation should be mortally wounded. The Brains of Dogs were scattered up and down, and besprinkled many a Post: the Horses were struck down dead in the Stables. It was God alone (to whom be the Honour of it) yet did divert the danger from those who prayed unto him for his Protection.  
In the mean time the whirlwind roaring and flying from place to place, and showing every where some testimony, or other of his devilish rage, was permitted to come to a place called Springwood, which is a Wood belonging to the Right honourable, the Earl of Stamford. Here as if it had b en let lose, it showed all the effects and practices of its ou ragious violence and Fury. It is a common saying, that things that are lightest are always in greatest danger; and so it appeared in this wood, for the whirlwind wrestling with the fairest, and the tallest of the Timbers, did lay many of them upon their backs with their heels higher than their Heads, many it tore up by the roots, and did cleave and split their vast bodies, as if they had been laboured by so many Wedges, it took off several other trees by the middle, and snapped them a sunder. A strange sight it was on the day following to see such a Havoc made in a wood without Axe or Hatchet; you would have thought the courteous Whirlwind to repair the Breaches it had made in the Houses, and leveled so many Timber trees, for the building of them up again. But one thing is indeed yet more wonderful, and shows that the Whirlwind partakes with the lightning both in the suddenness, and the subtleness of his effects; for ranting thus (as I have said) in the wood, it took off the barks and stripped naked many of the trees, which it performed in a moment's space, and with such dexterity, and handsomeness that a deliberate labourer could not have taken off the barks so artificially in a whole day. The trees thus stripped and plundered by the Whirlwind are still to be seen, and having nothing of the Bark left to cover the bodies of them, are many of them in a perishing condition.  
Having thus ransact and destroyed a great part of the Wood, it whirled to a Village not fare from it called Tongue, where it did very much hurt to the ruin of many of the Inhabitants blowing down trees, and not only untiling, but beating down many of the House. The Orchards here suffered extremely, for many trees which hereofore did bear gallant fruit, and this year were full of hopes, were torn up by the Roots, many of them had their heavy and laden arms plucked a sunder from their bodies, and being thus maimed and defective, they are become the pity who were before the Pride of their Owners.  
One thing is truly admirable, At this Town of Tongue there was a Hedge full of linen , and not far from it, a Hive of Bees in a garden, the whirlwind sweeping by with an extraordinary noise and violence did take all the linen, and the Hive of Bees quite away, and being very often and hourly enquired they can never be heard of since.  
A bay of a Barn was there taken away from between two several Houses; There was a man that lay asleep in the barn, and yet received not the least prejudice.  
Another house was torn almost quite to pieces, there being a woman and three small Children in it, who (God so directing them) ran under the Mantletree, and received no hurt at all. It ran afterward two Miles and a half doing much hurt all along to the Trees of Fruit, & dwelling Houses as it passed by them. Thus hath God graciously been pleased to visit those parts in Leicestershire, who as they have great Reason to acknowledge hi● judgement, so they have a greater Obligation laid upon them to applaud, and to be be thankful for his mercies.   
The End.