241 



234 A.D. With a long interval, the next storm recorded occurred this year 

 at Canterbury. 



277. Several people were killed in London. 



301. An equally fatal storm took place at Winchester. 



349. 420 houses in Carlisle were blown down. 



416. Great part of Colchester was destroyed. 



458. Many houses in York were very much injured. 



549. 250 inhabitants of London lost their lives. 



566. A severe storm on the coast of Kent, Sussex, and Hampshi^. 



701. 100 houses blown down at Lincoln. 



772. A great storm occurred at Wells. 



781. Another at Coventry. 



919. At Cambridge 40 houses were destroyed. 



92L At Manchester a violent storm took place. 



944. 1500 houses in London were unroofed or destroyed by a storm whici. 

 was felt over nearly the whole country. 



951. Southampton nearly destroyed by lightening. 



1055. 500 houses blown down in London. 



1091, Oct. 5. The steeple of Winchelscombe, Gloucestershire, was blown 

 down. 



A steeple at Old Sarum was also destroyed the same year. 



St. Duneln records that it took off the whole roof of St. Marylebow 

 Church and carried it a long way. There were four beams, 26 feet long each, 

 that fell with such force in one of the streets which were not then paved, but 

 of moorish ground, that they could not be pulled up, but had to be sawn off even 

 with the ground. 



1221. "During a violent tempest fiery dragons and flying spirits were 

 seen careering through the air." 



1222. A storm occurred which threw down several churches. 



1205 or 1203. Many lives lost and houses overthrown. The corn in the 

 fields destroyed by hail as large as hens' eggs. — Chronicle of the Mayors of London. 



1223 or 1233. Thunderstorms in England for fifteen successive days with 

 great rains and gales. 



1233, AprilS. In Herefordshire and Worcestershire, "4 sunnes besides 

 the true sunne of a red color ; also portions of eight circles appeared." 



1251. "Fearful tempest upon the seas." The chimney of the chamber 

 where the Queen of King Henry III. and her children lay was blown clown, and 

 their whole apartment shaken. Many trees in the park were rent asunder and 

 torn up by the roots. 



1282. Great gales in the eastern counties. The monastery at Spalding 

 and many churches were destroyed. 



1285. A great thunderstorm in London, 



