Sir J, Prestwich, Bart. — Notes, on Earthquakes. 543 



bituminous matters, which uniteing in the manner of fermentation, 

 and swelling with heat, immediately kindles, which being further 

 assisted by the pent-up air, which being now in a violent motion, 

 cannot rarefie and desperse, but encreasing take fire all at once, and 

 bursting forth with a sudden concussion which make all the ground 

 above to tremble and be convulsed, so as to cause an earthquake 

 attended with a great noise like thunder, and frequently an erruption 

 of water, smoke, fire, wind, etc., also the dividing or falling in of 

 the earth as is before observed, by which means frequently whole 

 cities have been swallowed up and destroyed. 



EAUTHaUAKES THAT HAVE HAPPENED IN ENGLAND, iiS BECORDED IN OUR 



AnTIENT HiSTaRIANS. 

 A.D. 



974. A very great earthquake throTighout England. Sim. Bunelm. ^wit. col. 159. 



1048. May 1. A very great earthquake in Worcestershire, "Warwickshire, Derhy, 

 and many other places. A great mortality among the cattle, et ignis aerius, 

 vulgo dictus silvaticus, in Derbegensi provincia, et quibusdam aliis provineiis, 

 villas et segetes inultas ustulavit. S.. Dunelm. col. 183i /. Brompton, col. 939. 



1067. Terrcemotus ingens totam Angliatm exterruit, 3^ Idus Aug. horrendo miraculo 

 ut aedifieia omnia eminus resilirent, et mox pristino more residerent W. 

 Malmsb. p. 1 25. ed. Francf. 



1076. March 27. A general earthquake in England; and a frost from November 1 

 to the middle of April. M, Westm. p. 227, ed. 160'1. 



1081. April 25. One — cum graviterra gemitu. M. Paris, p. n. id. 1640. 



1089. August 11. About three o'clock a very greaet one all over England. Ohron. 

 Saxon, and Sim. Dunelm. Mist. col. 215. 



1090. One throughout all England, followed by a great scarcity of fruit and a late 

 harvest. 



1 110. A very great earthquake at Shrewsbury. lb. col. 232. One, ib. Shropshire. 



1116. One in December, 



1117. December 11. At midnight, tei'ra m^ta est, et luna versa in sanguinem. 

 M. Westm. p. 229. 



1119. September 29. An earthquake in many places in England, particularly in 

 Gloucestershire and Worcestershire. S. Dun. col. 240, and Chron. Saxon. 



1120. One in September. 



1122. July 25. A great one over all Somersetshire, and in Gloucestershire. Chr. 



Saxon. 

 1129. A great one on St. Nicholas's day. Ibid. 



1 1 33. An earthquake in England, which threw dovra many houses ; and fire burst 

 out of the earth. Holinsh. p. 44. 



1134. One on the 2d of August ; just as King Henry was about to take ship, and 

 sail for Normandy, there was a most terrible earthquake. During the earth- 

 quake, flames of fire burst out of certain riffs of the earth with great violence. 



1142. December 25. One felt thrice at Lincoln, and about the northern parts. S. 



Dun. col. 268, and Roger de Hoved. p. 629. 

 1145. January 25. At midnight a great one. Chron. Gerv. col. 1398. 

 1158. One in many parts of England, and the river Thames dried up at London. 



Chr. Gervas, col. 1380. 

 1165. January 25. One in Ely, Norfolk, and Sufi'olk, which threw people down, 



and made the bells ring. M. Paris, p. 104. 

 1185. April 15. A great earthquake —/«re per totam Angliam, qualis ab initio 



mundi in terra ilia non erat auditus ; petrm enim scissce sunt ; domua lapidecB 



ceciderunt ; ecclesia Lincolniensis Metropolitana seissa est a summo deorsum. 



R. de Hoveden, p. 629. 

 1187. An universal one, great and horrible — ita ut etiam in Anglia, iibi raro con^ 



tigit, multa cedificia subverterentur. 31. Paris, p. 144. 

 1199. May 22. A great one in Somersetshire and Norfolk— e7a ut stantes prostrArit. 



R. de Diceto Ymaginines, col. 709. 

 1233. One at Huntingdon and other places. Holinshed, p. 217. 



