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yards, forced upon a window of the house of Samuel Templer, Esq. and very 

 much bent an iron-bar in it. Not to take notice of its stripping of several 

 houses ; one thing is remarkable, which is, that at Mr^ Maidwell's it forced 

 open a door, breaking the latch ; thence passing through the entry, and forcing 

 open the dairy door, it overturned the milk vessels, and blew out three panes 

 or lights in the window: next it mounted the chambers, and blew out nine 

 lights more. It tore off a great part of the roof of the parsonage-house. It 

 blew a gate-post, fixed two feet and a half in the ground, out of the earth, and 

 carried it many yards into the fields. 



The other instance was October J 3, 1670, at Braybrook, likewise in Nor- 

 thamptonshire, about eleven o'clock; when the wind, in a storm, assaulted a 

 pease-rick in the field, uncovering the thatch of it, without touching another 

 only 20 yards off. Thence it proceeded also to the parsonage, by a narrow 

 current, scarce 8 yards in breadth, blowing up the end of a barley-rick, there- 

 with some stakes in it of near five feet long ; without touching a wheat-hovel, 

 within six yards of the barley-rick. It beat down a jack-daw from the rick with 

 that violence as forced the guts out of the body, and made it bleed plentifully 

 at the mouth. Thence it went in a right line to the parsonage-house, and took 

 off the cover of all the house in its compass. From hence it passed over the 

 town without any damage, the rest of the town being low in situation, and 

 went on to a place called Forthill, where it uncovered so much of a malt-house 

 as lay within its line and breadth. 



Braybrook stands in a valley, environed by hills on three sides, at three 

 quarters of a mile distance from it. There is also a hill called Clackhill, within 

 a mile of it, and exactly in that point of the compass in which the wind then 

 blew: no other hill in its way till the wind had passed over all the places it 

 damaged. There have also been two earthquakes in this town within these ten 

 years, with little or no wind. 



A Narrative of two Petrifications [^calculous Concretions^ in Human 

 Bodies. Communicated by Mr. Christopher Kirkby, in a Letter 

 from Dantzick, dated April 8, 167 1. N" 71, p. 2158. 



A woman of 56 years of age, unmarried, whose whole course of life had been 

 extremely sedentary, was troubled, some years before her death, with great 

 pains in her back, especially towards the right side, and a continual vomiting; 

 whose urine, for some time before, was turbid, and as it were mingled with 

 blood ; yet totally void of salsuginous matter. She was under the care of the 

 best doctors in this place, who adjudged that symptom of bloody water to have 



