Fight, which lasted for the space of about half an hour, and then vanished. Afterwards there appeared two Lyons, who with great fury and violence, assaulted each other three several times, neither of them prevailing against the other, till at length both of them wearied with their continual striving, did, as it were, give over for breath, when on a sudden a third Lyon of a very great and huge stature appeared and falling first upon the one, and then on the other, destroyed them both. They being vanished, there appeared a King, with a Crown upon his head, and he so plainly and visibly discerned as that the spectators did discover the very Buttons on his Coat. After all was vanished, the said Spectators continueing there, and walking too and fro upon the sands, the Ocean, so far as they could see, seemed to be Blood. On the next morning, the same Apparition, in all its Circumstances, was seen again, and the truth thereof attested upon Oath, before the Magistrates of Goeree, by the said Spectators; so that there is no doubt made of the truth thereof. And this happening in this juncture of time, begets some strange apprehensions; for that about six Months before Van Trump was slain in the former Wars with England, there was seen near the same place, an Apparition of several Ships in the Air, as it were fighting with each other.' [Illustration: APPARITION IN THE AIR AT GOEREE IN HOLLAND, 1664.] This broadside was printed at London, 'by Thomas Leach in Shooe Lane in the Year 1664. _With Allowance_ October 13, 1664. Roger L'Estrange.' The illustration is an etching, very well and freely executed. Amongst other things which appear to have been revived at the Restoration was the _Mercurius Civicus_. In Dr. Burney's collections in the British Museum there is preserved a copy of Number 4 of _Mercurius Civicus_, dated May 1, 1660. On the title-page it is stated to be 'published by order of the Lord Mayor and Court of Aldermen;' but it is not illustrated, as was its predecessor of the time of the Civil War. [Illustration: THE MURDER OF ARCHBISHOP SHARP, 1679.]