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elfe tliey would do, to wit the Perig£ofts of the Moon. And this 
hath been my opinion (taken up firft upon the confideration of 
the Moons coming nearer the Earth) ever fince 1652, when living 
at FeverJJmm in Kent near the SeaJ found by bbferving the Tydes, 
(as often^is I had leifure, ) that there might be fcnne truth in my 
Conjedure^ and therefore in a little Pamphlet, publifhed in 
1653. by the nzmt hf Sjizygiafiicon jnftatfratum^ I dcfired^ that 
others would obferve that year^ whether the Spring- Tydes after 
thofe Fulls and Changes, when the Moon was in Perigao(t\it wind 
together confidered) were not higher than ufual. And fince that 
lime I have found Several high Tydes and Inundations (though 
1 muft not fay ^//5 ) toliappec upon the Moons being in , or very 
near her Ver.igmm, For Example, 
I. That famous Inundation , mentioned before out of Uolinf- 
head^ 1250. Off ^/>, I. was, when the Moon wa? in ?er/g^, as ap- 
pears by Calculation. . , 
2^ 1 530^ NoTiemL That Inundation on which was made the 
Diftick, V r> . 
AnnoterdinopollfefqHimilley Novewhrh 
^intdyftat faljis Zelandia i&ta Juh uftdis 3 
wasj when th€ Moon watin Fm^t^icii Ji'^lnr. 
3> jf^>^. 15 . i}55i^ the Sea. (faith in his Chroniclje)brake 
in at Sandwich, aud overflowed all the Marfhes thereabout , and 
drowned much Cattel : the Moon in Perigdeo. 
4. i570. Ni?z;e«?/>. I. was a dreadful Flood at Antmrp ^ znd on 
all the Coafts of HoUaniy that made infinite Ipoyl ; the Moon in 
Tcrig£o, ' 
* 5» 1600. Decemh,^^ above mentioned : the Moon in Terig^o. 
6. 1 6of 4 Jan. 20. was a great Inundation in Severne , mentio- 
ned in Hcwes s Chronicle, that did much hurt in Somerfetjhire^ 
and Gloeejierjfjire^ &cc, the Moon in Perig^o, 
7. 1555. Sfptemk 30. ( forgotten in its due pUce: ) the Moon 
WBsinPer7g(^o^ 
8. 1643. jan.2^. ft.n* ((aith a little Low-Dutch Chronicle that 
I hav€) was a terrible high Water-flood in Fnejland,&cc. wliereky 
much hurt was done to the Dykes ; and at Gaes by Haerlingen the 
Dead bodies ftreamed out of the Earth : the Moon m Perii^o. 
9. 165 r/Fe^. 2?- ft*"* (faith the lame Chronicle) was St* Pe- 
ters High flood, whereby much hurt was done to the Dykes in 
frhjland^ 
