Of 0XF0%T>.SH1\E. 5 
England)ytlw^s remarkable at Oxoniln thefetwo refpefts.i.That 
though it forced the ftones inwards into the cavity of All-hallows 
Spire, yet it over-threw it not. And 2'^'* That in the morning, 
when there was fomc abatement of its fury, it was yet fo vio- 
lent, that it laved water out of the River Cherwell^ and caft k 
quite over the Bridge at Magdalen College, above the furface of 
the River near 20 foot high ; which paflage, with advantage of 
holding by the College walls, I had then the curiofity to go fee 
my felf, which otherwife, perhaps, Iftiouldhave as hardly cre- 
dited as fome other perfons now may do. But thofe that have 
failed to th^ Indies can inform them what force //wrnc^we'i and 
Turbo's have, with what violence and impetuofity they take up 
whole Se^s of water, and furioufly mount them into the air 
Now that fuch as thefe may alfo happen at Land (though per- 
haps for the moil part of lefs ftrength) I think we have little rea- 
fon to doubt,fince our own Chronicles inform us, that in Qjyia^ 
ties time, within a niile of Nottingham^ all the houfes of two 
little Pariflies, with their Churches, were wholly born down by 
fuch a Tempefl: ; and the water, with the mud from the bottom 
of the River Trent ^ that ran between them, carry ed a quarter of 
a mile and caft againft Trees, with the violence whereof they 
were torn up by the roots. 
10. of much fuch another Land Hurricane^ BeUamin gives us 
a relation fo incredible, that he himfelf premifeth, Quod nifi vi- 
dijjem non crederem, Vidi (faies he) a vehementijfimo vento effoflhm. 
ingentem terrdi molem^ eamque delatam fuper pagum quendam^ ut fovea 
altijfma confj>iceretur unde eruta fuerat^ ib' pagus totus coopertus is 
quafi fipultus manferitj ad quern terra ilia divenerat Which be- 
ing fufficient (I fuppofe) to evince the poffibility of my ftory, I 
proceed to 
1 1 . The fecond tempeft of Thunder and Lightning, on the 
10^^ of May^ 1666, which though terrible enough to all parts 
adjacent to Oxford^ yet was mifchievous only at Medley^ a well 
known Houfe, about a mile or fomwhat more diftant from it ; 
two Scholars o{Wadham College, alone in a boat, and new thruft 
off (liore to come homewards, being ftruck off the head of the 
boat into the water, the one of them ftark dead, and the other 
n Tt was ohfervedby an able Sea-man of Brifto], that this wind was the fag-end of a Hurricane, wkiih 
began in Neiy-Eil gland about three hours bsfn it came hither ; the Sea-men objernfd that it vjent diriiil) te- 
•u;;??'^/^ England. " BeUarmin. de afcenf.ment. in Deum, Grad. 2- cap. 4. 
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