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and painfully laboured at his Trade, being a Carpen- 
ter, and having ended his Day’s Work, went home 
to his Houfe j and, after his coming home, betook 
himfelf to his Reft $ and, being in Bed with his 
Wife and Child, in the Deep of the Night, the Light- 
ning came on fo fiercely, that an old Woman, named 
Agnes Rujfell , Mother to the Wife of the faid John 
Jiitchelh having received a terrible Blow on her 
Cheek (by what means I know not), was therewith 
awakened, and cry’d to the faid John Hitchell and 
his Wife to help her: But they not anfwering, the 
poor old Woman flatted out of her Bed, and went 
unto the Bed where they lay, and awakened her 
Daughter, who was, upon the fudden, mod lamenta- 
bly burnt all on one Side of her, and her Husband and 
Child dead by her Side. Yet neverthelefs his poor 
Wife, when fhe faw her Husband and Child had thus 
ftrangely finifhed their Days, fhe (as it feemeth) thought 
not fo much of the Hurt fhe had received herfelf, as 
fhe was careful to have preferved the Life of her 
Husband, if by any means poflibly fhe couid ; and 
therefore (notwithflanding all her grievous Wounds) 
fhe dragg’d him out of the Bed into the Street ; and 
there, by rcafon of the Vehemency of the Fire, fhe 
was inforced, to her no fmall Grief, to forfake him $ 
where he lay burning upon the Ground for the Space 
of three Days after, or thereabouts. Not that there 
was any Appearance of Fire outwardly to be feen on 
him, but only, a kind of Smoke afcending upwards 
from his Carcafe, until it was confumed to Afhes, 
except only feme fmall Shew of Part of his Bones, 
which were cafl into a Pit made by the Place. 
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