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fed the dry Reapers to retreat for SheIter,to aQnick (cr 
Hedge, with a Ditch by the fide of it, of about Twerv 
ty Yards in Length, crofs the Head of (ome Had^ 
Lands^ (as they are called) about Twenty Perfons la 
all; of whom Four (not Five, aswasfaid) were killed. 
Eight others dangeroufly Hurt, of whom one wasa-Wo- 
man great with Child ; (whereof Six were in the Ditch, 
and Two out of it) the reft not much hurt. 
The Four that were killed, were Simon Marriot, a 
Taylor, and his Son Robert Harriot (a Youth of about 
Seventeen or Eighteen Years of Age,) Richard Wells a 
Shoemaker, and Thomas Burroughs a Weaver,- all of the 
Parifli of Badly. Upon the firit Tidings of it, Mr. Ed^ 
wards the Minifter of Badly repaired to the Place : Where 
Rolert Marriot lay on his Back, cut of the Ditch, having 
ftrugled (as was faid by the By-Standers) after theStroak, 
Mr. Edwards fays, he faw no Marks, or Sign of Hurt 
on the Body, (though (bme Londoners who were there, 
have faid, that all his Bones were broke within him, 
which is fuppofed to be a Miftake;) but Delorah Trafe* 
ler of Badly (the Woman who laid out him and the reft) 
fays, there was a Hole about the Bignefsof a Goofe-fliot 
in the Pit of his Stomach, and many more about his 
Legs.There was in the Hedge a Pollard- A(h,under which 
fat Simon Marriot and Richard Wells; but Thomas Bur- 
roughs fat at the Diftance of Two or Three Yards from 
thence. In this Tree were cut or rafed Four (or more) 
Grooves or Furrows, from the Top to near the Bottom, 
(deeper than the Bark, and about an Inch broad each of 
them) on that Side of the Tree on which the Men fat; 
but no Damage Appeared on the Tree elfewhere ; there 
being a Knot on the oppofite Side, which is fuppoftd to 
have diverted the Stream of the Fiery Matter, The 
Green Thorns were Scorched, and the Place fmelt rank 
of Sulphur. 
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