(h 7 ) 
a$Iy 01 the fhape reprefented in the Figure R. The #?w£ ap- 
pear’d of a fomewhat brighter Light than the Body 5 and the 
black lines a a, crofting the Ring, and bb eroding the #ody 
f whether Shadows or not, I difputenotj were plainly vifi^lej 
whence I could manifedfcly fee, that the Souther- mod part of the 
Ring was on third ide of the Z?ody,and the Northern part s behind, 
or covered by the Body: 
A Relation 
Of a fad effeSl of Thunder and Lightning: 
This Relation was written by that worthy Gentleman, Tho- 
mas Neale Efquire,(the then High Sheriff of the County of 
Hampshire , when this difafter hapned) to a Friend of his in 
London , as follows 5 
On the 24 of January 1 66%, one Mr. Broops of Bampjhire, go- 
ing from Winchefier towards his houfe near Andover in very bad 
Weather, was himfelfflain by Lightning, and the Horfe, he 
rode on, under him. For about a mile from Winchefier he was 
found with his Face beaten into the ground, one leg in the ftir- 
rup, the other in the Horfes mane ; his Cloaths all burnt off his 
backjtiot a piece as big as a handkerchief left intire : and his hair 
and all his body finged. With the force, that ftruck him down, 
his nofe was beaten into his face, and his Chin into his Zfreaft 5 
where was a wound cut almoft as low, as to his Navil 5 and his 
cloaths being, asaforefaid, torn, the pieces were fo fcatter.d 
and confum’d, that not enough to fill the crown of a hat could 
be found. His gloves were whole, but his hands in them fiog’d 
to the bone. The hip-bone and fhoulder of his Horfe burnt 
and bruifed i and his faddle torn in little pieces. This was 
what appear'd to the Coroners inqueft, and fo is likely to be as 
near truths as any is to be had* 
So far this Letter % Which, i f it had come foori enough to the 
hands of the Publijloer , would have been joy ned to a like Jtyfa? 
tion , inferred in the next foregoing Papers ( Nun- 1 .. ) 
of an accident hajm'd at a later time. With both which may 
be compared the Account, formerly .publiflitd in Latin by the' 
Learned Dr. Charletou , concerning the Boy, that was Thunder- 
LI ftruck 
