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A lighter note, but some might be interested in the following notes from
Bromsberrow registers 1600-1710

"1607 year of ye Great Frost

Upon the 18th May Anno 1680 fell in and about Londo, a pdigious storm of
haile so[me] of ye stones being 8 inches in copus & 2 ounces in weight.
The sa[me] year in 9ber & Deceber foll[owing] was seen above Eng & Isles
and pts adjacent a very straing & unusall blazeinge star; wn the star was
setting in the west the tail or blaze that followed (in shape much like
the blade of a sword) reached almost if not altogether, to the Zenith.

In Sept 1682 another blazeinge star not with so long a brush as the former.
In the latr end of Feb & beg of Mche 92 fel a severe snow. On 26th & 27th
days of Nov 1709 Arose ye most dredful storms of winde that evr was heard
of in this generato doing great damage both by sea & land."