Casualties that happened in his time.

IN the Eleventh yeare of this Kings Raigne, on the six and twentyeth day of Ia∣nuary, was so great an Earth-quake in Ely, Norfolke, and Suffolke, that it over∣threw them that stood upon their feet, and made the Bells to ring in the Steeples. In the seventeenth yeare of his Raigne, there was seene at Saint Osythes in Essex, a Dragon of marveilous bignesse, which by moving, burned houses, and the whole City of Canterbury was the same yeare almost burnt. In the eighteenth yeare of his Raigne, the Church of Norwich with the houses thereto belonging was burnt, and the Monkes dispersed. At Andover, a Priest praying before the Altar, was slaine with Thunder. Likewise one Clerke and his Brother was burnt to death with Lightning. In the three and twentyeth yeare, a showre of Blood Rained in the Isle of Wight two houres together. In the foure and twentyeth yeare, the City of Yorke was burnt, and on Christmas day, in the Territory of Derlington, in the Bishopricke of Durham the Earth lifted up it selfe in the manner of an high Tower, and so remained unmoveable from morning till evening, and then fell with so hor∣rible a noyse that it frighted the Inhabitants thereabouts, and the earth swallowing it up, made there a deepe pit, which is seene at this day: for a Testimony where∣of Leyland saith, he saw the Pits there, commonly called Hell-kettles. Also in the same yeare, on the tenth day of Aprill, the Church of Saint Andrewes in Rochester was consumed with fire. In the eight and twentyeth yeare of his Raigne, Barne∣well, with the Priory, neare unto Cambridge was burnt. In the thirtyeth yeare, the Abbey of Glastenbury was burnt with the Church of Saint Iulian. In the yeare 1180. a great Earthquake threw downe many buildings, amongst which the Ca∣thedrall Page  80 Church of Lincolne was rent in peeces the five and twentieth of Aprill: And on the twentieth of October, the Cathedrall Church of Chichester, and all the whole City was burnt. This yeare also, neare unto Orford in Suffolke, cer∣taine Fishers tooke in their Nets a Fish, having the shape of a Man in all points, which Fish was kept by Bartholomew de Glanvile in the Castle of Orford sixe mo∣neths and more; he spake not a word; all manner of meates he did gladly eate, but most greedily raw Fish, when he had pressed out the juyce; oftentimes he was brought to Church, but never shewed any signe of adoration: at length, be∣ing not well looked to, he stole to the Sea, and never was seene after. In the yeare 1188. on the twentieth of September, the Towne of Beverley with the Church of Saint Iohn there was burnt. And in this Kings time the bones of King Arthur, and his Wife Guynevour, were found in the Vale of Avalon, under an hollow Oake, fifteene foote under ground; the haire of the said Guynevour being then whole and of fresh colour; but as soone as it was touched, it fell to powder, as Fabian relateth.