1582 - The life and times of Dr John Dee

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At ſix a Clock in the Evening, in April was an Earthquake not far from York, which in ſome Places ſhook the Stones out of the Buildings, and made the Church Bells jangle ; the next Night the Earth trembled once or twice in Kent, as it did alſo May the 1ſt following. --- November the 1ſt, in Kent, and the Marſhes of Eſſex, was a ſore Plague of ſtrange Mice, ſuddenly covering the Earth, and gnawing the Graſs Roots ; this poiſoned all Field Herbage, for it raiſed the Plague of Murrain among Cattle grazing on it. No Wit nor Art of Man could deſtroy theſe Mice, till another ſtrange Flight of Owls came and killed them all. A great Earthquake in Peru.

Short, Thomas. A General Chronological History of the Air, Weather, Seasons, Meteors, &c. in Sundry Places and different Times ; more particularly for the Space of 250 Years. Together with ſome of their moſt Remarkable Effects on Animal (eſpecially Human) Bodies, and Vegetables. Page 267–268.
Auguſt the 12th, roſe a great Tempeſt in Norfolk, of Thunder, Lightning, Whirlwind, Rain, and Hail-ſtones like Spur Rowels, two or three Inches about ; it laid Corn flat on the Ground, tore up, and ſhivered in Pieces, or twiſted like a Withy, many Trees ; Houſes were blown down, Churches damaged. This did inexpreſſible Hurt to Shipping. Beutherus. May the 15th, at Night appeared a Comet deſcending toward N.W. its Beard ſtreaming to S.E.

Ibid., page 268