( 2^90 ) 
now kmc that to you. The .Account I had from a Wor- 
thy Gentleman of this Couq|y, who had a Box full of 
thefe Fillies which he preferved, but that being miflaid, 
he could not perform his Promife of giving me fome of 
them, which he (ays he will certainly do, whenever he 
findjs ir. Tlie Account is thus : 
On ^^^^«^y^^i)' before Ea/ler, Anno \666. a Failure 
Field at CranfteaJ near Wrotham in Kent, about Two 
Acres, which is far from any part of the Sea or Branch 
of it, and a Place where are no Fifli Ponds, but a Scarci- 
ty of Water, was all overfprcad with little Fiflies, con- 
ceived to be rained down, there having been at that 
time a great Tempeft of Thunder and Rain ; tht Fiflies 
were about the Length of a Man*s little Finger, and 
judged by all that faw them to be young Whitings, ma- 
ny of them were taken upandlhewed to feveral Perfons; 
the Field belonged to one Ware a Yeoman, who was at 
that Eafter^Seffions one of the Grand Tnqueft, and carried 
fbme of them to the SelTions at Maidjlone in Kent^ and 
he Ihowed them, among others, to Mr. Lake, a Bench- 
er of the Middle Temple, who had One of them and 
brought it to LondonjLho. Truth of it was averr'd by many 
that law the fifties lye fcattered all over that Field, and 
none in other the Fields thereto adjoining : The Quanti- 
ty of them waseftimated to be about a Bufliel, being aH 
together, Mr. Lake gave the Charge at thofe Seffions, 
