[1] [2] [3] The seauenth of October at night, from eight a clocke till after nine of the clocke,Fierrie im|pressions. all the north parts of the element séemed to be couered with flames of fire, procéeding from the northeast and northwest, to|ward the middest of the firmament, where after it had staied nigh one houre, it descended west: and all the same night (being the next after the change of the moone) seemed nigh as light as it had béene faire daie. Anno Reg. 7. Houses shat|tered with gunpowder. The twentith of Nouember in the morning, through negligence of a maiden with a candell, the snuffe falling in an hundred pounds weight of gun|powder, thrée houses in Bucklersburie were sore shaken, and the maid died two daies after. The one and twentith of December began a frost,The Thames frozen ouer. which con|tinued so extremlie, that on Newyeares euen, peo|ple went ouer and alongst the Thames on the ise from London bridge to Westminster. Some plaied at the football as boldlie there, as if it had béene on the drie land: diuerse of the court being then at Westminster, shot dailie at pricks set vpon the Thames: and the people both men and women went on the Thames in greater numbers, than in anie strèet of the citie of London. On the third daie of Ianuarie at night it began to thaw, and on the fift daie was no ise to be seene betwéene London bridge and Lambeth, which sudden thaw caused great floods and high waters, that bare downe bridges and hou|ses, and drowned manie people in England: especi|allie in Yorkshire,Owes bridge borne downe. Owes bridge was borne awaie with others.