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Tree. About one of the Clock it reached Wentmrt/s - 
Woodboufe. The Hail-Stones were from $ to 5 Inches 
in Circumference, and fome fay larger, which killed fe- 
veral Pidgeons 3 but the chief Damage done here was it* 
thsv Glafs- Windows, which coft Forty Pounds in re-, 
pairing. In Wajh Fields about two Miles from thence, 
it did vaft Damage. This Field is generally computed’ 
to be worth a Thoufand Pounds when in White Corn 
(to ufe the Countryman’s expreflion :) Some part of it 
efcaped, and the Barley received no Damage $ but the 
generality of the Wheat was cut off, about half a Yard 
from the Ground, and the Rye about two Foor* The 
Stubble, tho’ green at firft, turn’d white, that it look’d 
like a Field newly Shorn. The Rye was afterwards 
Mown inhead of Shearing, and yielded not above a 
Bufhel of Corn in a Wain-load. Some of the Wheat 
took Roof, and grew up 5 but the Husbandmen gene- 
rally thought, that if it fhould come to Perfection, it 
would fcarce yield as much as would be Seed for ano- 
ther Year. The breadth of this Storm was about half 
a Mile, as appeared by the EfFefrs. In Places adjoining / 
there was no Hail, but large drops of Rain. A Joiner 
working with the Minifter, from whom Treceiv’d pait- 
of this Relation, meafured one of the Hail-Stones with - 
bis Compafles, and it was an Inch and half in length 5 „ 
But thefe were not globular.* but moftly oblong. The 
generality of them there (which was at Bolton fnpev 
Dearne ) were of the bignefs of ordinary Cherries ^ tho’ 
theaforefaid Minifter’s Son took up one that was an Inch 
and half in Diameter and round, not long, and fome- 
whab bar, as the others were^ but the Youth durfi: not 
Ray long cut, the Hail fell with Rich violence^ Ten 
of hb- Pidgeons were brought in. fore wounded, tho 1 
not quite dead. Great quantities of Twigs and final I 
Boughs were beaten off the Trees, which being of kfs 
