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a(9:Iy of the fliape reprefented in the F/|;^r^ R. Thei?%ap» 
pear'dof a fomewhat brighter Light than the Body-y and the 
black h'nes a a, croffing the Ring, and b b crofling the Sody 
f whether Shadows or not J difpute not j were plainly vifible*' 
whence! could nianifecJily fee, that the Smther -mo^ part of the 
Ring was on thijt fide of the Sodyjand the Northern partsbehind^ 
or covered by the ^ody; 
A Relation 
Of a fad effeSi (f Thunder and Lightning.* 
This Relation was written by that worthy Gentleman, Tho^ 
mas iVe>^/^ Efqiiirc,(the then High Sheriff oi the Coooty of 
Hampjhire^ when this difafter hapned) to a Friend of his in 
London, as follows 5 
On the t^ oijanuary 1 66.^j one Mr. BrQQ\s of Hampjloire, go- 
ing from Winchefter towards his houfe near Andover in very bad 
Weather, was himfelf flain by Lightning, and the HorfCj he 
rode on^ under him. For about a mile from Winchfler he was 
found v/ith his Face beaten into the graundjone leg in the ftir- 
rup, the other in the Horfcsmanc, his Cloaths all burnt ofFhis 
back^not a piece as'big as a handkerchief left intire^and his hair 
and all his body finged. With the force, that ftruck him down, 
his nofe was beaten into his face, and his Chin into his Breaft 5 
where was a wound cut almoft as low, as t© his Navil 5 and his 
cloaths beiogj asaforefaid, torn, the pieces were fo fcatcercd 
and coqfum^dj that not enough to fill the crown of,a hat could 
be found. His gloves were whole, but his hands in them fing'd 
to the bone. "The hip-bone and llioulder of his Horfe bora C 
and bruifed i and his faddle torn in little pieces. This was 
what appeared to the Coroners inqueft, and fo is likely to be as 
near truth J as any is to be had> 
So/^sr this Letter : Which, if it had comefoon enough to the 
hands of the Publijher^ would have been joyned to a like 
tion ^ inferted in the next foregoing Papers { IJurr,, 13.) 
of an accident hapn'd at a later time. With both wh.ch may / 
be compared the Account, formerly publiflied in Latin by the 
Learned Dr, Charleten, concerning; the Boy^ that was Thunder- 
Ll ftruck 
