An account of a strange and prodigious storm of thunder, lightning & hail, : which happened in and about London, on Tuesday the eighteenth of this instant May; wherein there fell some hailstones as big as a pullets egg, and other five, six and seven inches in compass, which cut the faces, heads and hands of several persons, and shattered, broke and destroyed abundance of glass-windows in and apout the city. Likewise, a relation of a terrible tempest of thunder, lightning, &c. at a town in Oxfordshire, which burnt much corn, some barns, and houses, and killed many cattel, and had like to have consumed the whole town. As also, another relation of what happened to a ship at sea by thunder and lightning. Together with an account of on extradordinary tempest that happened at Blois in France, accompanied with hail-stones as big as a man's fist ... with an account of the noble and magnificent appearance at the first going out of the Colonel's Company of the Orange under the command of the Right Honourable Sir Robert Clayton Lord Mayor of London

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