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.