59$ ANNUAL REGISTER, 1804. 



♦ion. A new writ was in conse- 

 quence ordered to be issued. 



7th. Mr. Iliff, of Narborough, 

 ^ith three of his men, being in a 

 field near Enderby Mill, in Leices- 

 tershire, at the beginning of a storm 

 ef lightning, repaired to a hovel, 

 faking with them two horses and 

 dogs, and in a short time there came 

 something like a ball of fire, and 

 bwst amongst them, which gave 

 them a violent shock, and caused 

 one of the horses to fall. A fine 

 greyhound, which lay in a round 

 posture, as is frequent with dogs 

 when asleep, was quite dead, and 

 appeared as if it had never stirred 

 after it was struck. 



8th. This afternoon a man in 

 the service of Mr. Porter, of Felix- 

 stone, Norfolk, was struck dead 

 from the top of a hay-stack, during 

 a storm of thunder and lightning, 

 and a dog killed, which lay at the 

 foot of the latter. The stack was 

 set on fire, and another man near it 

 had his head singed. The storm 

 extended over the whole of Norfolk 

 and Suffolk, and did much injury in 

 diiferent quarters. At Bury, a cow 

 was struck dead in a field belong- 

 ing to Mr. Butcher.— At Harwich, 

 <iuriug the same storm, another man 

 was struck dead, while assisting to 

 cover a haystack from the rain. 

 His watch Mas entirely melted, and 

 some halfpence in his pocket were 

 found run in a mass, as if melted in 

 a crucible. The farmer, who m as 

 standing at the bottom of the lad- 

 der, had his foot much burnt. 



11th. A matter of very consi- 

 derable importance oame on to be 

 tried at the quarter sessions of Bed- 

 ford : — An overseer of the parish of 

 Lidlington, in that country, was in- 

 difted for dismissing of a woman 

 from his s^vice, she being, at the 



time of such dismissal, actually in 

 labour, without making any provi- 

 sion for her relief. It came out in 

 evidence, that both the master and 

 mistress of the woman (the over- 

 seer and his wife) were well ac- 

 quainted with the state in which she 

 was; that they refused to receive 

 her into their house, upon her en- 

 treaty to be so received, and that 

 the overseer ordered one of his la- 

 bourers to wallc with her as far as 

 Ampthiil, a distance of three miles 

 and upwards, and there left her at 

 the first public house. The jury 

 found a verdi(5t of guilty, and the 

 court sentenced the overseer to an 

 imprisonment of two months, and a 

 fine of 201. 



A thousand pound bank note, 

 one of those alledged to be lost by 

 Nowland, a bankrupt, who has been 

 in Newgate for nearly 12 years, for 

 not making a satisfactory disclosure 

 and surrender of his effects, was 

 lately presented for payment at the 

 bank. The note being stopped, the 

 holders (foreigners) this day brought 

 an art ion for its recovery in the 

 court of king's bench, and succeed- 

 ed ; it appearing that they had given 

 value for the note in Germany, in 

 order to make a remittance to Eng- 

 land. 



A Mr. Dinwiddle, the same day, 

 having given a false character of one 

 Harrison, to a Mr. Hutchinson, by 

 Avhich the last mentioned sustained 

 a loss, by the acceptance of bills, 

 drawn by Harrison, to the amount 

 of 1,0601. 8s. Id. A jury'in the 

 court of king's bench awarded Mr. 

 Dinwiddie to stand to the consc" 

 quences of his improper recommen- 

 dation of Harrison, and to pay Mr. 

 Hutchinson the whole amount of 

 said loss, and all his costs. 



12th. In the court of king's 



bench. 



