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Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 4 5 6 Hurt in Essex.From a town [...] called Rainam, vnto the towne named Mauldon, all alongst by the water side were the marishes all ouerflowen, wherein were a great number of cattell drowned.Hurt doone by [...] tẽpest in Suffolke and Oxford. In Claie were two ships laden with Danske ware which came to shore, with no man in them, nor anie man could tell of whence they were. In Claie the dwellers there lost a verie great parcell of salt and herrings barrelled, being housed in an house walled with bricke thrée foot thicke, and yet the wall was broken downe. Also, there was lost much saffron ground, with manie o|ther things mo, to the great hinderance of manie a man. Also, in Walder [...]wicke, Dunwich, and Bla [...]|brooke, was great losse of boord, planke, timber, and salt. A great part of the bridge by Magdalene col|lege was borne cleane awaie, and manie trées were turned vp by the root.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 The thrée and twentith of Ianuarie, the quéenes maiestie, Anno Reg. 13. accompanied with hir nobilitie, came from hir house at the Stran [...],The quéenes [...]ing to the Bursse after [...] was fini| [...]hed. called Summerset place, and entered the citie of London by Temple bar Fléetstreet, Cheape, and so by the north side of the Bursse, to sir Thomas Greshams in Bishops gate stréet, where she dined. After dinner, hir grace retur|ning through Cornehill, entred the Bursse on the southside, and after hir highnesse had viewed euerie part thereof aboue ground, especiallie the Pawne, which was richlie furnished with all sorts of the [...]|nest wares in the citieShe giueth it [...] name the Roiall ex|change. she caused the same Bursse by an herald and a trumpet, to be proclamed the Roi|all exchange, so to be called from thensefoorth, and not otherwise.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 The seuenteenth of Februarie at a place called Kinnaston,A strange kind of earth moouing in the countie of He|reford. néere Marlech hill in the countie of He|reford, was séene the ground to open, and certeine rockes with a péece of ground remooued, and went forward the space of foure daies, making at the first a terrible noise as it went on the earth. It remooued it selfe betwéene six of the clocke in the euening, & se|uen the next morrow fortie pases, carrieng great trees and shéepecotes, some sheepecotes with three|score sheepe in them, some trées fell into the chinkes, other that grew on the same ground, grow now as firmelie on a hill; and some that stood east, stand west; and those that stood west, stand east. The depth of the hole where it first brake out is thirtie foot, the breadth of the breach is eight score yards, and in length aboue twentie score yards. It ouerthrew Kinnaston cha|pell. Also two high waies be remooued nigh one hun|dred yards, with the trées of the hedgerowes. The ground in all is six and twentie acres: and where til|lage ground was, there is pasture left in place; and where was pasture, there is tillage ground gone vp|on it. The ground as it remooued draue the earth be|fore it, & at the lower part ouerwhelmed the ground, so that it is growen to a great hill of twelue fadams high. It remooued from saturdaie till mondaie at night following, and so staied.

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