[1] [2] The eight of Iulie in the morning,Tempest at London by lightning and thunder. happned a great tempest of lightning and thunder, where tho|rough a woman and thrée kine were slaine, in the [page 1206] Couent garden néere to Chaxingcrosse. At the same time in Essex a man was torne all to péeces as he was carieng haie, his barne was borne downe, and his haie burned: both stones and trées were rent in manie places.King Phi|lip [...] procla|mation at Bruxels. The councell of king Philip at Bruxels commanded proclamation to be made in Antwerpe and other places, that no English ship with anie cloths, should come into anie places of the low countries: their colour was (as they said) the danger of the plague, which was at that time in London, & other places of England. Neuerthelesse they would gladlie haue gotten our woolles, but the quéenes maiestie thorough sute of our merchant ad|uenturers caused the wooll fleet to be discharged, and our cloth fléet was sent to Emden in east Friseland, about Easter next following, in the yeare of our Lord 1564. Forsomuch as the plague of pestilence was so hot in the citie of London,Thréefold plague to the poore citizens [...] London. there was no tearme kept at Michaelmasse. To be short, the poore citizens of London were this yeare plagued with a thréefold plague, pestilence, scarsitie of monie, and dearth of vittels, the miserie whereof were too long here to write: no doubt the poore remember it, the rich by flight into the countries made shift for them|selues, &c.