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quake at Huntingdon and thereabouts, after this came a 

 great death amongst the people being commonly a near 

 companion to great famine and dearth. March 23. A 

 great and terrible tempest of thunder, and after followed a 

 marvellous wet summer with many floods. April 8. In 

 the parts about Hereford and Worcester there appeared 

 four suns in the element besides the natural sun, of red 

 colour and a great circle of crystalline colour, at betwixt 

 six and seven in the morning (Holinshed). 



Trees split by frost, excessively cold in Italy {Cham- 

 bers}. 



1234 Loaded wagons crossed the Adriatic in front of 

 Venice (L. Townsend). 



1235 Sore and exceeding great rains in the spring (Holin- 

 shed). 



December 20. There chanced a great thunder, and 

 on the first Friday in December, which was the fifth of 

 that month, there was a counterfeit sun seen beside the 

 true sun (Holinshed). 



Thames rose so high at Westminster that the lawyers 

 were brought out of the hall in boats (L. Townsend). 



1236 Great torrents of rain fell during January, February, 

 and part of March, the rivers overflowed their banks. 

 The Thames broke into the palace at Westminster, and 

 persons crossing the hall were forced to use a boat (A. 



Y. JR.). 



The Cattegat was a bridge between Norway and Jut- 

 land (Chambers). 



Great tempests of rain which filled the earth full of 

 water and caused monstrous floods, for this rain con- 

 tinued all the months of January, February, and part of 

 March, and for eight days it rained in manner without 

 ceasing; and upon the tenth of February, immediately 

 after the change of the moon, the Thames rose with such 

 a high tide that boats might have been rowed up and 

 down in Westminster Hall. In the summer following, 



