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with ftieh a bituminQus fmdl like fired Gunpowder 
as almoft ftiSed the poor woman, who was done in 
the Houfe, but upon opening the door received no 
further damage. I went from thence, having bought 
the Candleftick to prelerve as a Memorial of fo un- 
common an accident, to enquire of one in that Neigh- 
bourhood, concerning one more fatal, of which the 
Parifh Regifter has this Note. ^ 2d oiSept. i6j2. 
"• was ^//r/W Thomas, the Son e?/ James Lambert Junior^ 
* deceafed^ of Holbeck, Jlain the day before^ being the 
Lords dajiy bj a Thunderbolt. There were other 
Children in company, who were alfo caftdown by 
the ftorm, amongft whom the party I fpoke to, had 
a Brother and Sifter^ he had a pair of new Stockings 
burnt off his legs, and himfelf was fo fcorched, that 
he never recovered his natural complexion, (he ha- 
ving a Wafte-coat clafped before (as the faftiion then 
was ) was fo burnt betwixt her Breads, that the fears 
thereof remain to this day 5 another had the ftiffned 
neck of his doublet ftruck ofF,bnt all recovered except 
Lambert's Boy,ivho was found with his face upward, 
whereas all the reft had theirs to the earth : which 
re-minds me of our Cole-miners praftice, who, when 
any fvvoon away by their fulphurous damps, dig a 
hole in the earth and lay em on their bellies, with their 
mouths in it,which(it it prove not an abfolute fuffo- 
cation) recovers them. I cannot at this diftance of time 
gain fo particular an account as I could wi(h , what 
wounds or contufions were upon the body of the faid 
Jho L^wbert^hut only in general,that his skin was per- 
fectlyl^urac black, and was fhrunk up hard like Parch- 
ment or Leather burnt with fire. I put off the longer 
giving you this account, in hopes Dr P. would have 
recovered the narrative he writ of it, immediately 
upon the accident, but not being able to retreive 
that, I fend you it, the beft I can procure fromthofe 
wlio were Eyc-witnciTb, 
Leedcsj Jffn, 2^. IJOO* IIL 
