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,ft°rm o about the Coaft- Towns of Suffolk tracing along 
Seckford-Had, Wood-bridge, Snaps- bridge ? Aldborough , See. more to 
? e ^°J^ ard * The Hail was f mall near Tar mouth s but at 
Seckjord-Hall , one Halftone was found by meafure to be 9r 
Inches shorn. One of this Town (%. Wood bridge) found one at 
Melton B . Inches a bout. At Shape-bridge a' man affirm’d , that he 
lighted on one about •12. Inches about. A Lady oiFrfflohHall 
putting one of them into a Ballance, found it weigh 1 z s. 6 d. 
Several perfons of good credit in Aldborough affirm'd, feme Hal- 
ftones to have been full as bigg as Turkeys-Eggs ,• ( an ordinary 
Hens- Egg weighs but about 9 /.) J. Baker of Rumborougb^ vL 
vinga Cart on the Heath by Aldborough , had his head broken by 
the knocks of them through a ftiff Country-felt: In feme places 
his head bled; mothers, bunnyes arofe: The Horfcs were fo 
pelted, that they hurried away his Cart beyond all command. 
They leenftd all white, imooth without, ffiining within. ’Tis fome- 
nt ft range, methrnks, that their pillar of Air ftiould keep them 
aloft, if they were not clapt together in the falling ; efpecially at 
fucli a time of the year , when the Air is lefs thickned and its 
Spring weaker. 
Account of a great number of Stones , found in one Bladder 7 by 
the fame,. 
Mr. Goodrich^ Chirurgeon of Bury St. Edmunds affirm’d to me, 
that himfelf Cutting a Lad of the Stoneffor which he hath a great 
name) took out thence, it one time, 96 /mail Stones, all of then! 
©f unlike fhape, Size, Corners, Sides ; fome of which were fo be- 
ftow’d as to Aide upon others , and had thereby worn their flats 
to a wonderfull flikneft. He allur’d me alfoghat in the fame place, 
another, when dead, had a Stone taken from him, almoft as big 
as.a new-born Childs head, and much of that Shape. 
The Defer iption of a Well \ and Earth in Lanchafliire, taking 
Fire by a Candle approached to it. 
This was imparted, by that Ingenious and Worthy Gentleman , Tho« 
mas Shirley EJqy an Eye-mtnefs of the thing , now to be related in his- 
own words >, viz. 
About the later end of February 1 6 5p. returning from a Jour- 
ney to my houle in Wigan, I was entertained with the relation of 
an odd Spring* feituated in one Mr. ft aw {leys. Ground (if I mb* 
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