.... Lord High Chancellor. He lived at
Salisbury. "Tis pitty such accidents are not recorded in other
Almanacks in order for a history of the weather.
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Edward Saintlow, of Knighton, Esq. was buried in the church of Broad
Chalk, May the 6th, 1578, as appeares by the Register booke. The snow
did then lie so thick on the ground that the bearers carried his body
over the gate in Knighton field, and the company went over the hedges,
and they digged a way to the church porch. I knew some ancient people
of the parish that did remember it. On a May day, 1655 or 1656, being
then in Glamorganshire, at Mr. Jo. Aubrey's at Llanchrechid, I saw the
mountaines of Devonshire all white with snow. There fell but little in
Glamorganshire.
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From the private Chronologicall Notes of the learned Edward Davenant,
of Gillingham, D.D.:- "On the 25th of July 1670, there was a rupture
in the steeple of Steeple Ashton by lightning. The steeple was ninety-
three feet high above the tower; which was much about that height.
This being mending, and the last stone goeing to be putt in by the two
master workemen, on the 15th day of October following, a sudden storme
with a clap of thunder tooke up the steeple from the tower, and killed
both the workmen in nictu oculi. The stones fell in and broke part of
the church, but never hurt the font. This account I had from Mr.
Walter Sloper, attorney, of Clement's Inne, and it is registred on the
church wall.
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