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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 hail-stones as big as pullets egg, and others five, six and seven inches in compass, ... 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 [sic] extraordinary tempest that happcned [sic] at Blois in France, accompanied with hail-stones as big as a man's fist; whereby the Jesuites church and other houses and churches were beaten down, and all the corn and vines in eight parishes utterly destroyed; in which calamity the Protestant-Church there was wonderfully preserved entire, and not a slate or glass broken. With an account of the

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