[1] On the mondaie in the wéeke before Easter, chan|ced a sore earthquake thorough all the parts of this land,An earth|quake. such a one as the like had not beene heard of in England sithens the beginning of the world. For stones that laie couched fast in the earth, were remoo|ued out of their places, stone houses were ouer|throwne, and the great church of Lincolne was rent from the top downwards.