(2157) 
It paffed with a curfory falute at Tkomas jlfarfions ^ down to 
lAv^ George Wignils, at leaft afourlongs diftance horn Marfionsj 
and twotourlongs from Spngg's^ where it plaid notorious ex- 
ploits^ blowing a large hovel of peafe from its fupporters^ and 
' fetting itclcverly upon the ground, without any confiderable 
damage to the thatch. Here it blew a gate-poft^ fixed two foot 
and an half in the ground, out of the earthy and carried it in- 
to the fields many yards from its firft abode. 
In this cafe, the Scite of that part of Ajhley^ molefted hj 
this windjis confiderable with thePofition of the field to the then 
point of the compafs, wherein the windftood. About |- a mile 
diftant from the Town is a fmall Wood on the top of an Hillj 
and partly defcending into a Vale encompafTed by Northerly 
and Southerly Hills I fo that the wind may feem confined to 
the Vale as a channel befcre it affaulted the Town^ and thereby 
enforced to fpend itfelf only in thatgiaad^ 
But I am not unapt to think, that fome jiaths from thedef^ 
cendingWood^ground might contribute to this accident^ be- 
caufe the wind continued, fofar as men could judge, as high 
in the field afterwards, andthefcite of the Town did expofe 
(by reafon of thofe Valleys) a far greater part of the Town to 
this damage than was trqubled, the Valley being above 
four or five times the breadth of that part of the Town concern* 
ed in it. 
T\\Q other \n^2inCQ wasO^o^, 19. 1670^ at Braybrook^ likewife 
in North amptowfhire^ about eleven a Clock 5 when the wind^ia 
a ftrange florm ajQTaulted a Peafe-reek in the field , uncovering 
the thatch of it, and leaving another within twenty yards un* 
concerned^ Thence it proceeded alfo to the Parfonage, where 
it carried not twelve 3 fcarce eight yards inbreadth^ blowing 
' up the end of a Barley-rsek and therewith fome ftakes in it of 
near five foot long t In the mean while it left a Wheat-hovef, 
within fix yards of the Barley-reek, and being without all flieL 
ter, untouched, no part of the thatch of the hovel being fo 
much as furled. Neverthelefs it beat down a Jack-daw from! 
the reek with that violence as forced the guts out of the body, 
and made it bleed plentifully at the mouth* This I faw, and 
took up in fome company^ the Daw very warm. Thence it 
went 
