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Excerpt from a pamphlet titled A Tempest in Suffolk.

Sunday being the 4th of this August in the year of our Lord 1577 to the amazing and singular

astonishment of the present beholders at a certain town called Bungee not 10 miles past

the city of Norwich there fell from heaven an exceeding great and terrible tempest,

sudden and violent, between nine of the clock in the morning

and 10 of the day of four set.

This tempest took beginning with a rain which fell with wonderful force with no less violence

than abundance, which made the storm so much the more extreme and terrible. This tempest was not simply of rain, but also of lightning

and thunder. The flashing of the one whereof was so rare in vehement and the roaring noise

of the other so forcible and violent that it made not only people perplexed in mind and at their wit's end.

There were assembled at the same season to hear divine service in common prayer, according to order, in the parish church of the

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