The next account we have from the Reverend Mr. Thomas Cheft, 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, X703, 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 four 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 tide, overflowed the lower p
