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to feel It 5 but it was fo alraoft univerfally felt 
that there can be no manner of doubt of the truth of it. 
' Mr Peer/, my Reader, (who is an ingenious good man^ 
* was then at his Study, and writing,but the heaving up of 
* his Chair and his Desk, and. the fhake of his Chamber, 
^ and the ratling of his Windows, did fo amaze him, that 
' he was really affrighted, and was forc'd for a while to 
^ give over his work 5 and there are twenty fuch inftances 
a^nongft Tradefraen , too tedious to repeat. My 
Wife was then in her Clofet, and thought her Chwa 
' would have come about her Ears, and my Family felt 
' the Chairs mov'd, in which they were fitting by the 
* Kitchen Firefide, and heard fuch a rattle of the Pewter 
* and Windows as almoft affrighted them. A Gentlewo* 
' man not far off faid, her Chair lifted fo high, that (he 
^ thought the great Dog had got under it, and to fave 
* her felf from falling, flipt off her Chair. I fent to a 
* houfe where part of a Chimney was (hak'd down, to cn- 
quire of the particulars 5 they kept Ale, and being pretty 
' full of Company that were merry, they did not perceive 
* the fliock, only heard the Pewter and GlaU win^^ows 
* dance 5 but the Landlady's Mother, who wjs in a Cham* 
' ber by her felf,felt the (hock fo violent, that (he verily be- 
' liev*d the houfe to be coming dov/n (as pan of the Chim- 
* ney afore-mention'd did at the fame moment) and cryed 
* out in a fright and had farn,but that fhecatched hold o^ 
^ aTable.It came and went fuddenly,and was attended with 
* a noife hke the Wind, tho there was then a perfeft Calm. 
From other hands I have an account that it was felt in 
Beverly^ and other places, at Sontb Dalton particularly, 
where the Parfons Wife (my only Sifter) being alone in 
her Chamber, wasfadly frighted with the heaving up of 
the Chair (he fate in, and the very fenfible fhake of the 
Room, efpecially the Windows, c^r. A Relation of mine, 
who is a Minifter near Lincoln^ being then at a Gentle- 
mans boufe in the Neighbourhood, was amaz'd at the mo- 
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