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in an hour. 1580, April 6tb, at 6 p.m., throughout England, espe- 
cially at London, Dover, and the whole of Kent ; also in France, 
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 AVestminster 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 IS'etherlands 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 1750 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 style), 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. 
0th, 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 
