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Compare 1587 edition: 1 High tides.And in the ſame yeare, the waters of Furth and Tay roſe with ſuche high tydes in flowing ouer the bankes, that many townes and villa|ges were drowned, to the great deſtruction both of men and beaſtes.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 A blazing ſtarre.In the .xx. yeare of his reigne, there was a Comete or blaſing ſtarre ſeene of a meruailous quantitie, ſhyning euery day towarde the ſouth, euen about noone dayes.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 On the Epiphanie day next after, roſe ſo great windes,Great wyndes. with ſtormes of ſuch vnmeſurable great hayle ſtones, that many townes were throwne downe by violence thereof.

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