Ancestors of Cley

Blakeney Sunday 27 October 1772 about three o'clock in the afternoon it thundered very much the claps louder than usual, the wind south-west by west, at half an hour past three o'clock there fell a storm of hail, the hail-stones exceeding large, some measured (by report) four inches in girth, they broke a part of all the glafs windows fronting the west, some the windows they damaged exceedingly, at Langham they did great mifshief to the glafs-windows, in pafsing over the fields they cut the turnip-tops.

The storm continued no longer than five minutes (I think) it went off to sea, did no damage at Wiveton, nor at Cley.

Henry Calthorpe, Rector