_The following is inscribed on a black Tablet in Sherborne Church,
Dorset:_

This Monument was erected by
Mr. Thomas Mansel, of this Towne,
in remembrance of a great hailstorme,
May 16th, 1709,
between the hours of one and four in
the afternoon;
which stopping the course of a small
river, west of this church, caused of a
sudden an extraordinary flood in the
Abbey Garden and Green,
running with so rapid a stream, that it
forced open the north door of the
church, displaced and removed about
1,222 feet of the pavement, and was
two feet and ten inches high as it
passed out at this south door.

_Sturminster._

RURIS.

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