a Storm which happen'd the 18th at Night, lost another, which renders her uncapable of proceeding with us till supply'd. I saw several Trees and Houses which are blown down. _Your Humble Servant_, Jos. Soanes. _The next Account we have from the Reverend Mr._ Tho. Chest, _Minister of_ Chepstow, _whose Ingenious account being given in his own Words, gives the best Acknowledgement for his forwarding and approving this design._ _SIR_, Upon the Evening of _Friday, Nov._ 26. 1703, the Wind was very high; but about midnight it broke out with a more than wonted Violence, and so continued till near break of day. It ended a N.W. Wind, tho' about 3 in the Morning it was at S.W. The loudest cracks I observed of it, were somewhat before 4 of the Clock; we had here the common Calamity of Houses shatter'd and Trees thrown down. But the Wind throwing the Tyde very strongly into the _Severn_, and so into the _Wye_, on which _Chepstow_ is situated. And the Fresh in _Wye_ meeting with a Rampant Tyde, overflowed the lower part of our Town. It came into several Houses about 4 foot high, rather more; the greatest damage sustained in Houses, was by the makers of Salt, perhaps their loss might amount to near 200 _l._ But the Bridge was a strange sight; it stands partly in _Monmouthshire_, and partly in _Gloucestershire_, and is built mostly of Wood, with a Stone Peer in the midst, the Center of which divides the two Counties; there are also Stone Platforms in the bottom of the River to bear the Wood-work. I doubt not but those Stone Platforms were covered then by the great Fresh that came down the River. But over these there are Wooden Standards fram'd into Peers 42 Foot high; besides Groundsils, Cap-heads, Sleepers, Planks, and (on each side of the Bridge) Rails which may make about 6 foot more, the Tyde came over them all: The length of the Wooden part of the Bridge in _Monmouthshire_ is 60 yards exactly, and thereabout in _Gloucestershire_; the _Gloucestershire_ side suffered but little, but in _Monmouthshire_ side the Planks were most of them carried away, the Sleepers (about a Tun by measure each) were many of them carried away, and several removed, and 'tis not doubted but the great Wooden Peers would have gone too; but it was so, that the outward Sleepers on each side the Bridge were Pinn'd or Bolted to the Cap-heads, and so kept them in their places.