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tlien abroad at his Day labour) to aflift them. The 
Caufe, whatever it was, whether Thunder-Bolt, Thun- 
der-Ball, Lightning, £fc, (The Learned are ,be(t a- 
ble to diftinguifti) ftruck (*tis imagined) at the Eafl: 
End, near the Foundation, into the Hearth, and cleaved 
in two a thick Stone of about half a Yard in Breadth 
beyond the Fire (which we commonly call in PTel/j 
Pentan) One Part whereof ftill remains, and that 
cleft, but the other is (battered into fmall Particles 
and Splinters, and thofe (hot into their Fle(h, which 
(’tis prefumed) did the moft Hurt. About twenty-four 
or more of thofe Stones were from Time to Time taken 
out of their Wounds ; two of thofe, being all I could 
get, I have fenu for an Inftance. To proceed in as 
regular a Method as pofTibly I can with the' Account, 
it appears, ’that afterwards it forced its Way out through 
the Wall on the South-(ide within the Compafs of the 
Hearth, when it made a terrible Breach from Fop to 
Bottom, and removed the Stones from the Foundation, 
and nigh thereto made a deep Hole perpendicular in the 
Earth, that one might thruft in a Staff to the Wrift, 
as the Woman herlelf informed me. That part of the 
Wall was made up before I viewed the Spot. By the 
Violence of it, the Brand-Irons and Legs thereof were 
(trained, and by endeavouring to put them to their 
true Pofition as before, they were fo burnt up, that 
they fell a-funder like rudy Iron, or Timber Worm- 
eaten, and fo became of no further Ufe. The Partitions 
in the Houfe, which were of no (trong Subltance (be- 
ing watled, fuch as they have in Country Houfes) 
were moved out of place, and a Cheft full of Corn 
forced down towards the Door, fome Yards from the 
Place it flood. The Bucket the Woman had in her 
O o 0 z Hand, 
