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comb, where (by force of thunder and lightning) a 

 part of the steeple of the church was thrown down, 

 i yth of the same month much harm was done in London 

 with an outrageous wind, the violence whereof over- 

 turned and rent in pieces above five hundred houses. 

 Moreover, at Salisbury much hurt was done with the like 

 wind and thunder, for the top of the steeple and many 

 buildings besides were sore shaken and cast down 

 (ffolmshed). 



November 6. Feast of St. Edmund. London Bridge 

 swept away by force of waters (Florence of Worcester], 



1092 By the high spring tides many towns, castles, and 

 woods were drowned, as well in Scotland as in England. 

 After the ceasing of the tempest, the lands that some- 

 time were Earl Goodwin's, by violent force and drift of 

 the sea were made a sandbed, and ever since have been 

 called Goodwin's Sands. Such dreadful thunder hap 

 pened also at the same time, that men and beasts were 

 slain in the fields, and houses overturned even from their 

 foundations. In Lothian, Fife, and Angus, trees and 

 corn were burnt up by fire kindled no man knew how 

 (Holinshed). 



Terrible flood followed by great frost, and then a 

 second flood, as the like was remembered by none 

 ( W. ofM.}. 



This year a great deal of rain fell, and an inundation 

 took place, a greater than which had never been seen 

 (M. of W.\ 



1093 Such excessive rain, and such high floods, the rivers 

 overflowing the low grounds that lay near unto them, as 

 the like had not been seen of many years before, and 

 afterwards ensued a sudden frost, whereby the great 

 streams were congealed in such sort that at their dis- 

 solving or thawing many bridges, both of wood and stone, 

 were borne down, and divers water-mills rent up and 

 carried away (Holinshed). 



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