the month of October, in the year 1250, the moon being in its prime, the sea passed her accustomed bound?, flowing twice without ebb, and made so horrible a noise, that it was heard a great way inland, not without the astonishment of the oldest men that heard it. Besides this, at dark night, the sea seemed to be a light fire, and to burn, and the waves to beat with one another, insomuch that it was past the mariners' skill to save their ships : and to omit others, at a place called Hucheburn (probably East or Hither- Bourne) three noble and famous ships were swallowed up by the violent rising of the waves, and were drowned. And at Winchelsea, a certain haven, eastward, besides cottages for salt, fishermen's huts, bridges, and mills, above three hundred houses, by the violent rising of the waves, were drowned."
In a book remaining with the records of the town of Rye, is the following passage, -
