ftorm of Hail about the Coaft-Towns of Suffolk^^ tracing along 
Sickford'Hall, IVood-bridge, Snape bridge^ Aldborough, &c. more to 
the North-ward. The Hail was fmall near Tarmouthi but at 
Seckjord-Hall^ one Hail-ftone was found by meafuretobe 9. 
Inches about. One of this Town {vii{^. Wood bridge) found one at ' - 
Melton^ Inches about. At Snape^bridge ^ man affirm'd , that he 
lightedononeabout ! 2. 7/2^^1^/ about. A Lady o( FriJiofi^Hall^ 
putting one of them into a Ballance, found it weigh 12/. 6 d. 
Several perfons of good credit in Jldborough affi'rm'd, fome Hail- 
ftones to have been full as bigg as Turkeys-Eggs ; ( an ordinary 
Hens- Egg weighs but about 9 /.) jf. Baker of Rumborough^dvi^ 
ving a Cart on the Heath by Aldborough\ had his head broken by 
the knocks of them through a ftiff Country- felt : In fome places 
his head bled; in others , bunnyes arofe: The Horfes were fo 
peltedj that they hurried away his Cart beyond all command. 
They feem*d alln?to^,fmooth without^fliining within. 'Tis fome- 
what ftrange, methinks, that their pillar of Air fliould keep them 
^loft, if they were not clapt together in the falling ; efpecially at 
fuch a time of the year, when the Air is lefs thickned and its 
Spring weaker. 
Account of a great number of Stones^ found in one BlaSer^ by 
'h\v.Coodric\Ch\v\xvgcovi oi Bury St, Edmunds afErm*d tome, 
that himfelf Cutting a Lad of the Stone(for which he hath a great 
name) took out thence, at one tirae^ 96 fmall Stones, all of them 
of unlike fliape, Size, Corners, Sides ; fome of which were fo be- 
ftow'd as to Aide upon others , and nad thereby worn their flats 
to a wonderfull flikneG. He aflurd me aIfo,that in the fame place, 
another, when dead, had h Stone taken fromhimj almoft as big 
as a new-born Childs head, and much of that Shape,. 
7he Defcription of a Well^ and jE^rt/ji/^Lanchafhire, taking 
Fire by a Candle approached to it. 
This was imparted by that Ingenious and Worthy Gentleman, Tho- 
mas Shirley ^/^'^ an Eye-ivitnefs oj the thing, non> to be related in his 
orvn rvards > viz. 
About the later end of February 1 659. returning fronr a Jour- 
ney to my houfe in Wigan, I was entertained with the relation of 
an odd Spring, fcituated in one Mr, Hawkleys Ground (if I mi- 
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