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in an hour. 1580, April 6th, at 6 p.m., throughout England, espe- 

 cially at^London, Dover, and the whole of Kent; also in Prance, 

 in Belgium, Zealand, and Holland ; most violent in England, lasted 

 about a minute ; two other shocks were felt in Kent, at 9 and 11 

 p.m. ; at Sandwich and Dover, vessels dashed against each other in the 

 harbours, the great bells of Westminster sounded, and portions of 

 buildings and chimneys were thrown down in London, the sky clear 

 and the air tranquil ; another shock on the 1st of May in Kent, 

 strongest at Ashford, occurred also in the Netherlands and as far as 

 Cologne. 1583, landslip in Dorsetshire. 1597, shocks at Perth and 

 other parts of Scotland. 1609, flux and reflux of the tide twice in 

 an hour. 1638, at Chichester, several shocks did great damage ; 

 stated in the 'Dresdner Gelehrte Anzeiger' of 1756 to have been 

 accompanied by the smell of pitch and sulphur, and that the atmo- 

 sphere was obscured, as if by a cloud. 1657, July 8th. 1661. In 

 1666, at Oxford, Stanton, Coventry, etc. ; and in Hungary rocks 

 were cleft in pieces. September, 1671, on coasts of English Channel 

 and German Ocean, and from St. Malo as far as Antwerp. 1677, 

 Wolverhampton. 1678, Jan. 5th (new ^tyle), 8 a.m., on borders of 

 Derbyshire, supposed direction E. to W. ; and a second at 11 p.m., 

 in Staffordshire, S. to N., preceded by subterranean noise, recorded 

 in Plott's ' Staffordshire ;' another on 20th Oct., at same places, at 

 11 p.m., preceded by loud noise, like prolonged thunder ; at Brewood, 

 etc., Nov. 14th, at 11 p.m., N. and S., repeated three times before 

 2 a.m. ; Nov. 15th, less violent. 1680, Jan. 4th, 7 a.m., in Somer- 

 setshire and the country round ; air calm ; shock accompanied by a 

 noise like a sudden gust of wind. 1683, Sept. 28th, at 7 a.m., Ox- 

 ford, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, and the shocks recorded at 4 a.m. ; 

 a man who was fishing in the Cherwell perceived the boat to tremble 

 under him, and the little fish showed signs of alarm ; accompanied 

 by a low noise like prolonged thunder ; weather wet to 20th, became 

 fine on evening of 27th ; a tin vessel thrown down ; another, Oct. 

 9th, Oxford, north to Derbyshire, feeble at former, violent in latter 

 county. 1688. 1690, Oct. 17th, Ireland; Dec. 18th, middle of 

 night, in Bedfordshire and Scotland. 1691, Deal, Canterbury, Sand- 

 wich, and Portsmouth, said to last six minutes. 1696, Palmouth. 

 1704, Jan. 8th, most violent at Lincoln, N. and S., accompanied at 

 Hull by a noise like the sighing of the wind, though air perfectly 

 calm, doors and furniture set in motion, and chimneys thrown down. 

 1712, Shropshire, said to have been very violent. Another in 



