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ving of the Chaks they fat upoiij which, vvss fo vioieora 
he writes every Liiaib of him was fiiakcnr [ am toklrilia 
from a fare hand, thatfo nigh us as Selby^ where Mr Tr i- 
vers^ a Minifter, being in his Study v/ri jogj waMOter- 
rupted much what as Mr Peers above»mcndoned, which 
minds me of worthy Mr Banks'skx\om QGV\c\x£\on. ' And 
' now I hope you will not think it unbecoming my cha- 
'rafter to make thisrefle&ion upon it, viz, that Famines, 
^ Peftilences and Earthquakes, are joyned by our Bieifcd 
' Saviour, as portending future calamities, and par dculafl f 
^ the deftruftion of 'jerufakm and the 'jevpijh State, if not 
* the end of the World, Matth. i^.^. And if, as Philo« 
* fophers obferve, thofc gentler convulfions within the 
* bowels of the Earth, which give the Inhabitants but an 
, eafie jog, do ufually portend the approach of fome more 
* dreadful Earthquake 3 then fur el y we have reafon to 
* fear the worftji becaufc I fear we fo well deferve it, and 
* pray God of his infinite mercy to avert his future Judg- 
•mcnts. 
Since my former Account of th« Earthquake ztUuU^ 
my Goufin C€$kJon has procured to me the follo¥/?ng 
Account from his Brother, who is a Clergy :iir " « ! hi- 
€0ln^ viz. that he, being about 5 in the E% en ' 
the 20th paft, fet with a neighbouring J/iinJ). 
houfe about a mile from Navenby^ th^y 
with a fudden noi(e, as if it had been of t|y 
Coaches driven furioufly down the Yard 5 w 
the Servant wasfenttothe Door, in oipcftatio 
Strangers, but they quickly perceiv dwhat 
fhakingof theChairs they fat upon,they codd perce? 1 ^ 
very Stones move, thegreateft damage was to the C ' 
woman of the Houfe, who was put into fiich a friglii th;v< 
flic mifcarried two days after : he writes, they were pat 
into a greater fright upon the Faft day, when there vvasfo 
irident a Storm, they verily thought the Church woold 
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