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1207 January 27. About midnight a sudden and violent 

 storm of wind coming, threw down buildings,uprooted trees, 

 and destroyed thousands of sheep and cattle (M. of W.). 

 January 17. About the midst of the night there rose 

 such a tempest of wind upon a sudden that many houses 

 were overthrown therewith, and sheep and other cattle 

 destroyed and buried in the drifts of snow which as then 

 lay very deep upon the ground (Holinshed). 



Cold so intense that most of the travellers in Germany 

 were frozen to death on the roads (Chambers). 



Matthew of Westminster says the great storm was 

 January 27. 



1208 In the beginning of March there was an eclipse of 

 the sun (M. of W.). 



1210 Inundation at Perth about the time of the Feast of 

 St. Michael, which carried off much of the harvest crops 

 from the fields. The waters of Tay and Almond so 

 swelled that the large bridge of St. John was overthrown 

 (Fordun and Major]. 



1212 July 10. London was burnt (M. of W.\ This was 

 probably a very dry time (T. H. B.\ 



1213 March. Two comets appeared very terrible to be- 

 hold, the one did shine before the rising of the sun, and 

 the other before the going down thereof. In the winter 

 after there was seen two moons in the firmament, the 

 one being severed from the other and in shape naturally 

 horned {Holinshed). 



1214 The Thames so low between the Tower and the 

 Bridge that women and children waded over" it, which 

 continued a whole day. Sands bare several miles from 

 shore (L. Townsend). 



1215 A sudden tempest rose in the channel, in which Hugh 

 de Boves and forty thousand men were drowned (Matthew 

 Paris). 



1218 Earthquake in different parts of England this winter 

 (Mallet). 



