[1] [2] [3] This yeare also about the same time, to wit, Matth. Paris. A great thun|der. the morow after S. Martins daie, chanced great thun|der and lightning, which continued for the space of 15 daies togither, to the great terrour and feare of the people, and namelie of the Londoners, which haue that kind of weather so familiar to them, that if there be anie abroad in the land, they haue their part there|of. Moreouer on the 23 of March, was heard an o|ther great and terrible tempest of thunder,A wet sum|mer. and after followed a maruellous wet summer with manie flouds. Also on the 8 daie of Aprill, in the parts a|bout Hereford and Worcester,Foure summer beside the ac|customed sun. there appeared foure sunnes in the element, beside the naturall sunne, of red colour, and a great circle of christaline colour, the which compassed with his largenesse as it had béene the whole circuit almost of the whole realme of Eng|land, Matth. Paris. from the sides whereof went foorth certeine halfe circles, in whose sections appeared the said foure sunnes. The naturall sunne was at the same time in the east part of the firmament, for it was about the first houre of the daie, or betwixt six and seuen in the morning, the aire being the same time verie bright and cleare. The bishop of Hereford, and sir Iohn Monmouth knight, and manie others beheld this woonderfull sight, and testified the same to be most true. Matth. Paris. And after this there followed the same yeare in those parts cruell warre, slaughter, terrible bloud|shed, & a generall trouble through England, Wales, and Ireland. About the same time, to wit, in Iune,A strange woonder. in the south parts of England néere to the sea coast, two huge dragons appeared fighting in the aire, and after a long fight the one ouercome the other, and fol|lowed him, fléeing into the depth of the sea, & so they were séene no more.