A chronicle of the Kings of England, from the time of the Romans goverment [sic] unto the raigne of our soveraigne lord, King Charles containing all passages of state or church, with all other observations proper for a chronicle / faithfully collected out of authours ancient and moderne, & digested into a new method ; by Sr. R. Baker, Knight.

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Title: A chronicle of the Kings of England, from the time of the Romans goverment [sic] unto the raigne of our soveraigne lord, King Charles containing all passages of state or church, with all other observations proper for a chronicle / faithfully collected out of authours ancient and moderne, & digested into a new method ; by Sr. R. Baker, Knight.
Author: Baker, Richard, Sir, 1568-1645.
Publication: London :: Printed for Daniel Frere ...,; 1643.
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Subject terms: Great Britain -- History.; Great Britain -- Kings and rulers.
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Of Casualties happening in his time.

IN his second year, at the time when the Duke of Buckingham meant to passe with his Army over Severn; so great an inundation was of wa••er, that men were drowned in their beds, houses were overturned, children were carried about the fields swimming in Cradles, beasts were drowned on hills: which rage of water con∣ti••••ed ten dayes; and is to this day in the Countries thereabout, called the great water, or the Duke of Buckingham•• water.