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another at the Ale-houfe on the fide of the Church- 
yard ; who profedes to me , upon the Fall of 
the Hail, the Church-yard feenvd to them as ftrew'd 
with Duck- Egg'^. He fays, Darmn s Wife weighed a 
Hai^ftone brought in by Mr. Letham^ which amounted 
to full half a Pound : And that Mr. Peter Morton (Bro- 
ther to the Bifhop of KiUare') being a little way from 
the Hail of Sephton^ where he and his Sifters dwell, 
puird down his Hat hard upon his Head to fave his Face, 
and down comes a Stone and tears the Brim from the 
Crown, fb far, that Mr. Shepherd could have put his 
whole Hand through the Hole. This_ Morning 
comes our conftart Butcher, from Ormskirk ^ 
and tells Mr. Richmond and me, he would not un- 
dertake to repair the Giafs broke by the Storm in that 
Town for Sixty Pounds and that he was wirh DrTarle- 
ton when GleajTs Windows were ail to the Weft beaten 
in, and the Tiles off theHoufe. He adds, thatMn^^r- 
/•t?» the Apothecary there, and Mr. Ja. Farrer^ weigh- 
ed two Hail-ftones, which came to Three Quarters of 
a Pound a piece. This Morning Rich, taylour of Ime 
came to Mr. Richmond for his Taxes, and affirms, That 
Wiiliam Fleetwood md Rich. Rofe, had either of them a 
Horfe knock'd down in the Plow, and Fleetpjood's Man 
fell at the fame time,- the Hail being there part as big 
as Duck, and part as Goofe-Eggs. In jOrosly, fome 
Beafts were knock'd down. One Jo, Holland was found 
dead in Skirmjdale after the Shower, but whether by 
the Hail or Lightning (for it came with Thunder and 
Lightning I have not yet heard). I now ftep back to a 
Domeftick Concern forgot before , remembring my 
Servant had told me of the Slaughter of Sea-Fowl, I 
had a mind to fend fome People to the Sea- 
fide for trial of the matter ; but they told me 
it bad been full Water at Six a Clock, and that the 
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