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1 great Ipswich vessell brake upon the gore but y e Ma r & 21 men 
escaped in their long boat 1 other great London vessell strake upon 
y e sands & broke off Thorn ham and p rt of her rigging came up at 
Holme w ch I bought.”* 
This storm of 1703 was long referred to as the “Great Storm,” 
it occurred in the night of the 26 — 7th of November (O.S.). By it 
the first Eddystone Light-house was destroyed, and many lives were 
lost, both at sea and on land. Dr. Kidder, Bishop of Bath and 
Wells, and his wife were killed by the fall of part of his palace. 
Addison refers to it in ‘The Campaign,’ in the following lines: — 
“So when an angel, by divine command, 
With rising tempests shakes a guilty land 
Such as of late o’er pale Britannia passed.” 
(Works, edit. 1811, vol. i. p. GO). 
A passage which called forth the caustic criticism of Thackeray in 
his ‘ English Humourists.’ 
Dr. Derham communicated an account of this storm to the 
Koyal Society which was published in the ‘ Philosophical Trans- 
actions ’ for 1704. There are also some particulars in the ‘ Penny 
Magazine ’ for 1836, p. 490, and in ‘ Notes and Queries,’ third series, 
vols. iii. , v., and vii. 
Dr. Sutton had an oye to the utilisation of the waste products of 
the ocean, as is evinced by the following extract dated August 13th, 
1800: “Tythe taken at Thornham. An account of bushels of 
Asterias, [Aster i as r aliens, L. The common Star-fish or Five-finger 
of the Fishermen] taken in the Oister nets which it is thot might 
be made an useful manure & might be had for 3 d a bushel.” 
* Mr. le Strange also sends me another extract from the same Note-book 
(p. 49), which is so curious that I cannot refrain from quoting it : 
“ Dec 11 th 1705. A large Hamborough flly boat haveing 2 d before struck 
upon some sand & slipt her rudder in y® channell, put ashore at y e Greeve her 
chief ffreight was 50 Red-Deer being a present from y c king of Russia to 
y® Duke of Newcastle & bound for Hull. The Deer were most in Deal cases 
fitted to their heights. The Staggs had their horns sawn off ab‘ 6 in long from 
y e Burr. The old Deer were of a very large size and of a Badger color. The 
M ar of the Vessell being judg’d a very careless & Knavish ffellow quitted his 
shipp & sold her whole, as she lay to Mr. W. &c. , who design’d to have gott 
her off to sea the very next tide, if the Wind had not turned cross, but soon 
after took her away to Wells. I mention this for y* curiosity of the Lodeing, 
since she came up whole & went to sea againe.” 
