, this happened, (he would have been fuffocated be- 
fore die could have got out : a memorable providence 
of the Almighty ! which (he and I ought always to 
be thankful for. I then went into the next chamber 
on one fide of hers, where the chimney had fallen 
from, that lay open to the air : a large done round 
the chimney, in dead of marble, hung dropping,, 
which was forced to be taken down by two or three 
men, to prevent its breaking the marble hearth : 
the chimney-board and a brafs hearth broken to 
pieces, as was the wainfcot over the chimney : fix 
panes of the falli- window were broken. I then re- 
turned from viewing the mifehief done up -flairs, and 
went into the garden ; the door into it had a large 
piece of ftrong, found oak fplit off, and carried away: 
a done fixed into the gravel, to receive the water 
from the fpouts, was thrown upon its edge, and 
finoaked like a boiling pot, occafioned, I fup- 
pofe, from being wet with the rain, that had fallen a 
little before the thunder-clap, that did this damage : 
. about ten yards from this done, the gravel was torn 
up as if with a plough-fhare. A little garden, that 
had two gates oppofite each other ; the one, in the 
fame wed front as the houfe, was fplit to pieces; and 
the leaden fpout, that went down the fide of the gate, 
was beat fiat, and the ground round it thrown up : the. 
other gate had its eell torn quite up : the lead over the 
door and windows of that fide of the houfe rolled up 
like a fheet; and, what is more amazing, the cham- 
ber, over the parlour that was fo much damaged^ 
hurt ; yet the two beyond it received fo much damage 
as I have before related ; and none of the rooms under 
the aforefaid chambers were in the lead hurt. Thefe, 
