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Title: A full account of the late dreadful earth-quake at Port-Royal in Jamaica, written in two letters from the minister of that place, from aboard the Granada in Port-Royal Harbour, June 22. 1692.
Author: Heath, E., Rev., fl. 1692.
Publication info: Printed at Edinburgh ;, and re-printed at Glasgow : [s.n.], 1692.
subjects: [Earthquakes -- Jamaica -- Port Royal -- Early works to 1800] [Natural disasters -- Jamaica -- Port Royal -- Early works to 1800] [Jamaica -- History -- To 1962 -- Early works to 1800]
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Title: The Late dreadful and most admired calamity of a parcel of land and many great oaks, and other trees sunk many yards under ground into so deep a water that the tops of the highest oaks are not to be seen, together with a great quantity of land and other trees that are daily falling ... neer unto the parish of Bulkley, about nine miles from Chester, it being part of the land of the Lord Cholmley : this strange accident hapned on the 8 day of Iuly 1657.
Publication info: London : Printed for Tho. Vere and William Gilbertson ..., 1657.
subjects: [Natural disasters -- Cheshire (England) -- 17th century] [Disasters -- Religous aspects -- Early works to 1800] [Cheshire (England) -- History -- 17th century]
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Title: News from sea, or, A True relation brought from Dover of a terrible tempest of thunder and lightning which on the 26 of July last, kill'd outright one William Eaton of Dover, on board a ship called the Henry and Mary, David Huggett, master, bound for Newcastle ...
Publication info: London : Printed for D.M., [1676]
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Title: Sad and lamentable newes from Holland Being a true relation of the great and wonderful inundation of waters, that brake in at the town of Gorkham, in the night-time, near the city of Amsterdam, where many stately houses became bnried [sic] in the violent waves; both men, vvomen and children perishing in the raging billows. Also, the manner how the waters brake in again with great violence, on Munday last about noon, at the two strong sluces of Bonmel and Thieler, where about thirty villages were drowned and not any thing to be seen, but the tops of some few steeples and chimneys, many perishing in the vvaters; some escaping in boats, and the poor infants floating upon the raging vvaves in their swadling-bands and cradles together with the sad and wofull cries and groans of the poor distressed inhabitants; and the ringing of the bells backward, to prevent the perishing of others.
Publication info: London : printed for J. Johnson, 1663.
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Title: The Strange and dreadful relation of a horrible tempest of thunder and lightning and of strange apparitions in the air, accompanied with whirlwinds, gusts of hail and rain which happened on the tenth of this instant June, at a place near Wetherby in the County of York, with the account how the top of a strong oak ... was taken off by a sheet of fire ... : as likewise, another strange relation of a monstrous child ... born ... on the nineteenth of May last.
Publication info: [S.l. : s.n., 1680?]
subjects: [Abnormalities, Human] [Natural disasters] [Wetherby (York) -- Storm, 1680]
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Title: A true relation of the many sad and lamentable accidents that have happened by the fearfull floods occasioned by the late unusual rains in several counties of England, for several days past by which many people, cattle, houses, barnes, much corn and the like have been destroyed, together with the dismal effects of the prodigeous thunder and lightening very amazing and dreadfully attended with many fearful circumstances well worthy the perusal of all Christians.
Publication info: London : Printed by E. Mallet, 1683.
subjects: [Natural disasters -- England -- Early works to 1800] [Floods -- England -- Early works to 1800] [Thunderstorms -- England -- Early works to 1800]
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Title: Two letters: the first, being a relation of a sad accident that fell out at Erpingham neer Norwich: July 2. shewing how a fire-ball fell from the heavens into the parish church there, broke down part of the steeple and several places in the church-wall, kill'd one man and wounded diverse, &c. The second, being a relation of a strange sight in the heavens, seen by three justices of the peace their sons. Dated, Hungerford in Wiltshire, June 19. 1665.
Publication info: London : printed for L. Chapman in Exchange-Alley, in Corn hill, 1665.
subjects: [Natural disasters -- England] [Meteorites] [Astronomy]
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