in the morning till eventide, and then it fell down with 

 an horrible noise, so that as such as were thereabout 

 were put in great fear. That piece of earth with the fall 

 was swallowed up, leaving a great deep pit in the place, as 

 was to be seen many years after (Holinshed). 



1179 August 1 8. The moon was eclipsed (Holinshtd). 



1180 April 25. At Nottingham and throughout the Mid- 

 land counties an earthquake. Many houses were thrown 

 down {Lowe). 



September 29. Two or three earthquake shocks 

 (Mallet). 



1181 An eclipse of the sun on the vigil of the Exaltation of 

 the Holy Cross, at 3 o'clock (M. of W.\ 



1185 On the calends of May, being the day of the Apostles 

 St. Philip and St. James, about mid-day, a total eclipse 

 of the sun was seen, which was followed by thunder and 

 lightning, and a mighty tempest, from the effects of which 

 men and animals perished, and many houses being set on 

 fire thereby were burned to the ground (Roger de Hovederi). 



A comet appeared fourteen days together with long 

 beams, very terrible to behold. On the Monday in the 

 week before Easter chanced a sore earthquake through 

 all the parts of this land, such a one as the like had not 

 been heard of in England since the beginning of the 

 world. For stones that lay couched fast in the earth were 

 removed out of their places, stone houses were over- 

 thrown, and the great church of Lincoln was rent from 

 the top downwards (Holinshed). 



1186 After middle of September an earthquake. In Eng- 

 land houses were thrown down. One of the cities of 

 Calabria overwhelmed in the Adriatic (Mallet). 



1188 In the vigil of St. Laurence there was seen at Dun- 

 stable by divers persons a figure of the cross, very long 

 and large, in the air, with the shape of a crucifix thereon. 

 This strange appearance continued in sight from noon till 

 almost night (Holinshed). 



