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Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 The fourtéenth of Nouember being sundaie, about midnight following,Fierie im|pressions [...]llous. diuerse strange impressions of fire and smoke were séene in the aire to procéed foorth of a blacke cloud in the north toward the south, which so continued till the next morning that it was daie light. The next night following, the heauens from all parts did séeme to burne maruellous raginglie, & ouer our heads the flames from the horizon round about rising did méet, and there double and roll one in another, as if it had béene in a cleare fornace. The eightéenth daie at night blew verie stormie & tem|pestuous winds out of the south, Anno Reg. 17. as hath not béene knowne the like out of that quarter,Tempestuous winds out of [...] south. especiallie af|ter midnight, till the next morning that it was daie light. These are to be receiued as tokens of Gods wrath readie bent against the world for sinne now abounding, and also of his great mercie, who dooth onlie thus but to shew vs the rod wherwith we dailie deserue to be beaten.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 This yeare at London after haruest, the price of wheate began by little and little to fall, from seuen shillings to thrée shillings the bushell, at which price it staied (little or nothing rising or falling) all the yeare after: but baie salt was raised from three shillings to foure shillings, [...]aie [...]alt [...] fiue shillings, and six shillings the bushell, the like whereof had neuer béene seene or heard within this realme. The 24 day of Februarie, being the feast of saint Matthie, on which daie the faire was kept at Teukesburie, a strange thing hap|pened there. For after a floud which was not great, but such as therby the medows néere adioining were couered with water, in the after noone there came downe the riuer of Seuerne great numbers of flies & b [...]tels, [...] in Fe|bruarie the [...]. such as in summer euenings vse to strike men in the face, in great heapes, a foot thicke aboue the water, so that to credible mens iudgement there were séene within a paire of buts length of those flies aboue a hundred quarters. The mils there a|bouts were dammed vp with them for the space of foure daies after, and then were clensed by digging them out with shouels: from whence they came is yet vnknowne: but the daie was cold and a hard frost.

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