Practical reflections on the earthquakes that have happened in Europe and America but chiefly in the islands of Jamaica, England, Sicily, Malta, &c. With a particular and historical account of them, and divers other earthquakes / by John Shower.
- John Shower
- Date:
- 1750
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Practical reflections on the earthquakes that have happened in Europe and America but chiefly in the islands of Jamaica, England, Sicily, Malta, &c. With a particular and historical account of them, and divers other earthquakes / by John Shower. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![/ . £<m] In the 13th year of queen Elizabeth, a prodigious * Earthquake happened in the eaft parts Qf Hereford - lhire, near a little town called Kinafton. On the 17th of February, at fix o’ clock in the evening, the earth began to open, and an hill, with a rock under it, (making, at fir ft, a great bellowing noife, which was heard a great way of) lifted itfelf up a great height and began to travel; bearing along with it the trees that grew upon it, the fheep-folds, and flocks of fheep ' abiding there at the fame time. In the place, from whence it was firft moved, it left a gaping diftance forty foot broad, and fourfeore ells long; the whole field was above twenty acres. Palling along, it over- threw a chapel ftanding in the way, removed an yew- tree planted in a church-yard, from the weft unto the eaft: with the like force it thruft before it high-ways, fheep-folds, hedges and trees; made tilled ground paf- ture, and again turned pafture into tillage. Having walked in this fort from Saturday, in the evening, till Monday noon, it then flood flill. Anno 1588, the like prodigy happened in 1 Dorfet- ihire, as in the year 1571, in Herefordfhire. A field of three acres, with the trees and fences, in Black- more, moved from its place, and pafted over another field, travelling in the high-way that goeth to Herne, and there flayed. . . In the 23d of Q. Elizabeth, Anno 1580, in the be¬ ginning, of April, about fix in the afternoon, happen¬ ed an 2 Earthquake, not far from York, which, in fome places, ftruck the very ftones out of the build¬ ings, and made the bells in churches to jingle. The night following the earth trembled once or twice in Kent, and again the ift of May; This Earthquake was felt at London, fo as to give occafion to an order of prayer, and a godly admonition concerning it, ap- 9 Canibden’s Eliz. p. 158, 1^9. Baker’s Chron. p. 399, 1 Cabdem’s Eliz. p. 244. Baker’s Chron. p. 400. 4 Cambden, ibid. p. 286. - pointed '](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30355588_0074.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
