A major source for my book The Great Flood of 1607 was published at Weston-super-Mare but it claims the flood extended to the east coast which I find baffling. My research cannot trace it further south than Devon on the west coast. The alternative of there being 2 different floods at the same time is the only other explanation but this is still an extraordinary claim. Yet the following account is so full of detail it seems plausible.

In the south Wales church of Nash is an old print-probably Victorian that names Romney, Brent and Lambeth which has been accepted as evidence of the Great Flood of 1607 reaching the East Coast and London which makes no sense. Part of the confusion comes from the confusion in dating at the time, i.e. the variable use of the Gregorian and Julian dating systems. But this book claims the East Coast Flood was almost exactly a year later. This makes sense in the east account mentions increased stocking of the east coast, to help recover from the previous year’s western flood.

Also, prints of the South Wales flood were available in London but there is no information on the date of this 19th century reprint suggesting it was not contemporary but added later. Baker actually states the second flood was a year later almost to the day which makes it 1608 in modern dating. There must be records of it on mainland Europe. Can anyone find it in your records?

The following are the relevant pages from the Ernest E Baker book

If anyone can make sense of this I’d love to hear from you. Of special interest would be anyone in Europe who can find evidence there of a huge storm at this time.