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fmutted towards the bottom. The Chnrch^book was flung 
on the inner paflage : The Covers of the Altar were finged io 
divers parts, as by ppwder^ and fomewhat burnt and fmutted 
here and there^as alfo torn in forae places. A firong piece of 
Wainfcotj with a Pifture upon it^ behind the great Akar^ was 
fplit in t wo> Of the Ghurch cicck^in the Weft end^at the fame 
time, both the Brafs and Iron-Wires of the whole and quar- 
ter- hours hammer was partly b. okep,and the reft could no: be 
found^and an Oaken Port fixt in the wall for the fupport of ihe 
DyalljWas half torn, and beneath the fame divers Bricks were 
ftruckout of the two Head-Pillars fupporting the Steeple. On 
the top of the Southern fteeple,aD Oaken Gutter, and a ftrong 
Beam and Supporter were fliatter'd, and fell dangeroufly^ but 
that one part of it held faft yet by one Nail* 
Oneof the Minifters, though fitting near the Altar to the 
South} had no hurt at all. Divers of the people feated round 
about the Altar fell down to the ground with the fright One 
Youthj that ftood next the faid Minifter^ Pew^ not being able 
to recover his fences, was carried home. On the North fide 
of the Altar, four perfons fell down^ and one of the Oaken 
Seats being fplit under him that fate thereon, that perfonwas 
«luch hurt by it, and more than any other. Some that ftood 
^inor by the BelfreCj near the Clock, were flightly hurt here 
and there ^ and among them a Mariner^ leaning on a lined 
oaken Seat there^had his right arm bruifed 5 and another man 
though but (lightly hurt^yet could not remember, how he got 
liome from Church. 
The Sermon being broke off, and the people making haft a- 
way^fomeobferv'djthat there ifTued forth a huge Damp out of 
the Southern Steeple, like unto Smoak which pofleffed many 
with great fears of Fire within 5 but the Church-Carpenter, 
upon fearchofthe faid Steeple and Church-roof within, met 
only with a prefent noifeand thick damp, which, though it 
frighted him at firft into an apprehenfion of Fire indeed ^ yet, 
I getting to the Windows, and opening them, the damp iffued 
with great violence, but there appear d no Fire anywhere, 
faveonlya little in the fhatter'd parts of the Steeple, which 
i \was foon quenched^ 
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