“To the immortal praise of God Almighty, that saveth his people in all adversities, be it kept in perpetual memory, That on the Feast-Day of _All saints_, being the first of November in the year of our Lord 1613, late in the night, the sea broke in through the violence of a North East wind, meeting with a Spring Tide, and overflowed all _Marshland_, with the town of _Wisbeche_, both on the north side and on the south; and almost the whole Hundred round about; to the great danger of men’s lives, and the losse of some; besides the exceeding great lossc which these counties sustained through the breach of the banks, and spoil of corn, cattle, and housing, which could not be estimated.” Dugdale in his History of Embanking has preserved— “An Abstract of the losses in general (sustained on the above occasion) as they were presented by the Jurors of several Hundreds at the Session of Sewers held at Lynn, December 9, 1613.—_Within_ the Ring of Marshland the statement of the said losses is as follows—_Terrington_, 10,416_l_; _Walpole_, 3,000_l_; _West-Walton_, 850_l_; _Walsoken_, 1,328_l_; _Emneth_, 150_l_; _Wigenhale_ and _South Lynn_, 6,000_l_; _Tilney_ and _Islington_, 4,380_l_; _Clenchwarton_, 6,000_l_; _West_ and _North Lynn_, 4,000_l_—in all 35,834_l_.—_Without_ the Ring of Marshland, the damage was far less considerable, and is given as follows, _Gaywood_, 205_l_; _South Wotton_, 313_l_; _North Wotton_, 810_l_; _Watlington_, 500_l_; _Totnel_ cum _Wormegay_, 60_l_; _Holm_ cum _Thorpland_, 40_l_; _Stow Bardolf_, 100_l_: in all 2,028_l_; which added to the former account will amount to no less a sum than 37,862_l_.”—A sum equal, perhaps, to near half a million of our money. The damages at or about Wisbeach, and _out of Norfolk_, are not included in the above abstract; though they must, doubtless, have been very considerable, and probably not much less than the former: the whole together must, of course, have been enormous, and equal to many hundred thousand pounds of our money.