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Ralph Josselin's Diary is in Stewart Books.
17th February 1662. In the night it raind, the wind rose and was 18 [18th February 1662], violent beyond measure, ovrturning a windmill at Colchester, wherin a youth kild, divers barnes, stables, outhouses, trees, rending divers dwellings; few escapd, my losse much, but not like some others; God sanctirie all to us; throwing clown stackes of chimneys, part of houses; the Lady Saltonstall kild in her bed, her house falling. Whitehall twice on fire that day, some orchards almost ruind. 27, Trees blown down within priory wall. Timber trees rent up in high standing woods; the winde was generall in England & Holland sea coast, but not in Scotland.