it, and burning under the ruines thereof, many
Men, Women, and Children, and those at far.
ther distance (with the Churches also) receaving
very much dammage, especially in their
coverings and glasse windows, and many people
were the e by it, likewise destroyed; a Child
about 18 moneths old, having laid 24 houres
under the ruines, was taken up, not hurt at all:
the number of the dead is not yet certainly
known, they being hourely digged out: but its
supposed neere 500 and that two third parts in
three of the houses therein, are either quite destroyed
or much ruined thereby. And a most
lamenteble spectacle it is, to go round the walls
and behold the ruines of so gallant a City, and
to add one afflection to another day following,
almost all the afternoone, was very wet
weather but especially towards the evening,
and most part of the night, there was such a
violent storm of winde and Raine, that I have
hardly observed the like, and those goods that
and the fire; were then spoyld by the Water,
having no defence against it, were forced to quit
there houses and repaire in hast to the Churches
for shelter; the violence of the blow did
shake the houses in the Hague, being neere 4
miles from it, and at Delph amongst the rest
poore Captain Culpepper and English man, lost 2
Children and a Maid, and formerly had 2
Children more drowned; and his wife then
reading a book, was with the force of that blow
removed in her chayre a good distance, and that