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A perfon {landing by the fouth window within the 
church, at the time when the lightning happen’d, 
felt a blow crofs his foot, as if it had been taken off 
with an axj and others near him had ftrokes in dif- 
ferent parts of their bodies, the fire-ball, as they 
call’d it, paffing between them. 
Befide this ball of fire, they obferved likewife an- 
other ball, to appearance, which (after damaging 
3 01*4 niore large flone window- frames, and making 
breaches in divers places of thofe flone frames and 
fouth wall) roll’d towards the well end of the church, 
where it enter’d the belfry : it there broke a very 
large flone of the floor near the weft door into feve- 
ral pieces, and threw a great part of the flone from 
its place, and flopp’d the church clock, which was 
near it : from thence afcending the fteeple, it divided 
the great iron rod or fpindle of about 50 feet long 
(compofed of feveral joints fixed into fquare fockets, 
and convey’d from the clock for turning the hand 
of a dial, plac’d in the fouth front of the fteeple) 
out of their refpedtive fockets, which were much 
forced and rent : broke and twilled the iron wire of 
the chimes and clock from the belfry to the bell- 
chamber (being about eighty feet high) in a moft 
extraordinary manner ; fome of the wire being much 
burnt, and in fundry places, melted into little grains. 
It then enter’d the bell-chamber, threw a large bell 
off the brafs it hung upon ; forced the faid brafs out 
of the beam, broke off part of the gudgeon, and 
fhatter’d the faid beam and frame of the bell : made 
feveral breaches in the eaft and well, but moftly 
fouth walls and quoins, fplit the arch of the fouth 
window, which was over the faid bell, and drove 
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