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about five Inches about. I was bufied a while in my 
Study, topreierve fome Papers from an expe(9:ed Wet, 
one of the Stones having fiiiver'd a part of my Weft- 
Window, but no Rain fucceeded the Fall of the HaiL 
Then I went down and viewed the Garden and Court, 
and found the Stones had fallen at good diftances one 
from another, and that they v/ere melting very faft, 
the Weather being very hoCj fcarce any of them, was 
To little as a Mufquet Bullet, but mob of them far big- 
ger, and of that Figure. In a littie lirne comes my 
Servant from Bootle-Miil^ wherein he was during the 
Shower, and teils us a dreadful Story, what a Noiie the 
Hail made upon the Slates there ; and how -thp.. Sea 
fcem'd to be nfeo to an unwonted Heigth, and to bear 
the Appearance of a Wood, ^So they concluded that ' 
either the Mill would be beateo^dowo upon their Heads, 
or the Sea overflow the Land and drown them • nor 
durft they, leave their Covert, for fear of being wound- 
ed by the Hail. When the Storm was over, hefaid, he 
view'd the Hail-ftones, and found them as big as Poot- 
Eggs. He told us many Sea-Fowl and Land Fowl were 
killed; that he faw the one lie dead at a diftancCj the 
other in his return home ; and as an L^»ftance of it, he 
took up a Sea-Swallow on Eootie-Marjh, whofe VViog 
was broken with an Icy Pellet^and brought her home. 
Confidering that the Storm came from the Narrh Weft, 
and that it was juft fpent when thofe Stones fell here, I 
thouglit there was (bme Ground for my Servants Story ; 
ui)on which ! mounted and rid towards the Grounds 
which had ftiared more in it. When I came to Bootle, 
I faw Jane Mutchefi Windows ill battet'd ; and a httla 
further at the Spings, Tho. Afcroft, who with a iMaid 
was drawing Thatch, told me, the young Woman was 
knock'd down with a Hail-ftone ; ihe confirmed his 
Word, and added, as flie was running to the next Houfe 
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