An account of a strange and prodigious storm of thunder, lightning & hail : which happened in and about London, on Tuesday the eighteenth of this instant May; wherein there fell some hail-stones as big as pullets egg, and others five, six and seven inches in compass, ... Likewise, a relation of a terrible tempest of thunder, lightning, &c. at a town in Oxfordshire, which burnt much corn, some barns, and houses, and killed many cattel, and had like to have consumed the whole town. As also, another relation of what happened to a ship at sea by thunder and lightning. Together with an account of on [sic] extraordinary tempest that happcned [sic] at Blois in France, accompanied with hail-stones as big as a man's fist; whereby the Jesuites church and other houses and churches were beaten down, and all the corn and vines in eight parishes utterly destroyed; in which calamity the Protestant-Church there was wonderfully preserved entire, and not a slate or glass broken. With an account of the noble and magnificent appearance at the first going out of the Colonel's company of the Orange under the command of the Right Honourable Sir Robert Claytou [sic] Lord Mayor of London.
1680
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An account of a strange and prodigious storm of thunder, lightning & hail : which happened in and about London, on Tuesday the eighteenth of this instant May; wherein there fell some hail-stones as big as pullets egg, and others five, six and seven inches in compass, ... Likewise, a relation of a terrible tempest of thunder, lightning, &c. at a town in Oxfordshire, which burnt much corn, some barns, and houses, and killed many cattel, and had like to have consumed the whole town. As also, another relation of what happened to a ship at sea by thunder and lightning. Together with an account of on [sic] extraordinary tempest that happcned [sic] at Blois in France, accompanied with hail-stones as big as a man's fist; whereby the Jesuites church and other houses and churches were beaten down, and all the corn and vines in eight parishes utterly destroyed; in which calamity the Protestant-Church there was wonderfully preserved entire, and not a slate or glass broken. With an account of the noble and magnificent appearance at the first going out of the Colonel's company of the Orange under the command of the Right Honourable Sir Robert Claytou [sic] Lord Mayor of London.
Created/published
London : Printed for N.I., 1680.
Description
8 p. ; (4to)
Note
Signatures: A⁴.
ESTC staff note
Signatures from DFo.
Cited/described in
Wing, D.G. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and British America, and of English books printed in other countries, 1641-1700 (2nd ed.), A193
English short title catalogue (ESTC), R6559
English short title catalogue (ESTC), R6559
Place of creation/publication
Great Britain -- England -- London.
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254- 601q
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Purchase made possible by The Elizabeth L. Cabot Acquisitions Fund.