Scriptures Self-Evident Authority, Historical note
A brief Collection out of Simeon Dunelmensis his History, written Anno 1134. Johannes Hagustaldensis his Continuer, and others, when and how often the City of London hath been almost totally burnt by sudden Fires in former ages.
AN…o Domini 798. aSim. Dun…lm. Hist. col. 114. l. 45.Lundoni… igne repentino cum magna hominum multitudine consumptacst.
bIbid…m, col. 118. l. 2.Anno 801. Hathuberht Lundoniae Civitatis antistes vitahu…us contempsit tempora: Et paulo post, magna pars vic… ipfius repentino igne consumpta est.
These two great Fires in London within three years space, made it in a manner desolate and unhabitable for 85. years, till re-edified by King Alfred, Anno 886. as the same cIbid…m, col. 131. l. 31. col. 150. l. 9. … Bromton, col. 812, 813Historian, and the Chronicle of Bromton thus record: Eodem tempore (Anno 886.) Rex Anglorum Elfredus, post incendia u…bium, stragesque popul…rum Londoniam per maximam Civita… honorifice restauravit, & habitabil…m fecit; as if it was not habitable before.
dIbidem, col. 161. l. 30. col. 177. l. 37.Anno 982. Civitas Lundoniae ig…e cremata est; so Simeon Dunelmensis But the Chronicle of Bromton, fereigne cremata est.
eSim. Dunelm Hist. col. 213. l. 45. Hen…y de … de Ev…nt. Ang…. l. 2. col. 2353. l. 37.Anno Dom. 1087. Ferox flamma urbes multas, … quoque Sancti Pauli Apostoli, cum majore & meliori part: Londoniae consumpsit.
fSim. Dunelm. Hist. continuata per Johannem Hagustaldesim, col. 263. l. 3.Anno 1133. (21 H. ….) Maxma pars Londoniae Civitatis in ebdomala …; before which, stella Cometes …ctavo idus Octobris fere per dies 7. apparuit: as we had two Comets succeeding each other in few Months, before the late devouring Pestilence, and consuming Fire, visibly seen in and over London, not to be parallel'd in any Age.
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End of the text · Thomas Ford, Scriptures Self-Evident Authority (1667)