On June 3rd, 1647, (the day that Cornet Joyce did carry King Charles prisoner to the Isle of Wight from Holdenby,) did appeare this phenomenon, [referring to a sketch in the margin which represents two luminous circles, intersecting each other; the sun being seen in the space formed by their intersection.-J.  B.] which continued from about ten a clock in the morning till xii.  It was a very cleare day, and few took notice of it because it was so near the sunbeams.  It was seen at Broad Chalke by my mother, who espied it going to see what a clock it was at an horizontal dial, and then all the servants about the house sawe it Also Mr. Jo.  Sloper the vicar here sawe it with his family, upon the like occasion looking on the diall.  Some of Sr.  George Vaughan of Falston’s family who were hunting sawe it.  The circles were of a rainbowe colour:  the two filats, that crosse the circle (I presume they were segments of a third circle) were of a pale colour.
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Ignis fatuus, called by the vulgar Kit of the Candlestick, is not very rare on our downes about Michaelmass. [These ignes fatui, or Jack-o’- lanthorns, as they are popularly called, are frequently seen in low boggy grounds.  In my boyish days I was often terrified by stories of their leading travellers astray, and fascinating them.- J. B.]

Biding in the north lane of Broad Chalke in the harvest time in the twy-light, or scarce that, a point of light, by the hedge, expanded itselfe into a globe of about three inches diameter, or neer four, as boies blow bubbles with soape.  It continued but while one could say one, two, three, or four at the most It was about a foot from my horse’s eie; and it made him turn his head quick aside from it.  It was a pale light as that of a glowe-worme:  it may be this is that which they call a blast or blight in the country.
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Colonel John Birch shewed me a letter from his bayliff, 166f, at Milsham, that advertised that as he was goeing to Warminster market early in the morning they did see fire fall from the sky, which did seem as big as a bushell I have forgot the day of the moneth.
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From Meteors I will passe to the elevation of the poles.  See “An Almanack, 1580, made for the Meridian of Salisbury, whose longitude is noted to bee ten degrees, and the latitude of the elevation of the Pole Arctick 51 degrees 47 minutes.  By John Securis, Maister of Art and Physick”.  To which I will annexe the title of another old almanack, both which were collected by Mr. Will.  Lilly.  “Almanack, 1580, compiled and written in the City of Winchester, by Humphrey Norton, Student in Astronomic, gathered and made for the Pole Arctik of the said city, where the pole is elevated 51 degrees 42 minutes”.
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I come now to speak of echos:-