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The New Hampshire Gazette
Portsmouth, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
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Two men arrived in Cologne claim a divine mission to urge repentance, prophesying the world's end in 1773 with specific disasters from 1765 onward. They broke their irons to prove their mission and are to be sent to Rome for examination by the French envoy.
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The French envoy at Cologne has received orders to examine them strictly.
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Cologne
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they are going to be carried to rome; french envoy ordered to examine them strictly.
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The two men lately arrived at Cologne, say, that they are come by the order of Heaven, to turn men to repentance. They say that the world will infallibly be at an end in 1773. They are going to be carried to Rome, and were at first put into irons, when they were glad of that opportunity of proving the truth of their mission by breaking their irons asunder. They say that the war will be general in 1765. Constantinople destroyed in 1766. The true God acknowledged by all nations in 1767. A valiant man gives his testimony to it 1768. England overflowed 1769. An earthquake all over the world 1770. The fall of the sun, moon and stars 1771. The globe of the earth burnt 1772. The universal Judgment 1773.