Show STORMS OF OLD ENG engelb many severe lows laws are M lb of historic record records 1 I 1 i r ihu london chronicle finds to hae ha boon been a mere teacup af affair f fair compared with storms ot of historic lil record in the year in 1 ondon london alone 1500 houses wore were blown down in ili october 1091 1001 a groat great number of churches and houses homes were de destroyed st royed in 1235 it thundered for fifteen dayt days consecutively tie dreadful night which spirit passed has hag for a for poet and partisan parti tan and the great storm that oer palo lalo britannia passed in november 1701 tho most terrible tn in british annals also has its enduring record in etry it did damage in london to the amount of f C 2000 over people were drowned in floods in various barlous parts of the country twelve men of war with over 1800 men on board went down lit la sight of land and the eddystone lighthouse along with Winstan loy its inventor was swept away |