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out fome large dones near it. It then puffed out of 
the deeple about that place, and {truck oft part of 
the arch on the outlide, together with a large piece 
of the done window-frame adjoining ; then attended 
about four feet higher (which was near the top of 
the fteeple) and beat off a large piece of an old 
carved Gothic done head, without injuring the leaden 
pipe, which came out of its mouth. 
Though many people happen’d to be in different 
parts of the church, yet providentially no one re- 
ceived any hurt. 
The belfry was fo full of fmoke, attended with a 
drong fulphureous fmell, that they, who went thi- 
ther immediately after the accident, were almod fuf- 
focated ; and they apprehended, that fome part of the 
church or deeple was on fire, and a watch was kept 
all night in the church for fear of what might 
happen. 
N. B. The lime and done were in many places fo 
far affe&ed with the lightning, as to be eafily 
reduced into a powder, by the bare preffure of 
the finger. 
About the lame time of the day, two horned cat- 
tie in a wood, near two miles fouth-wed of the town 
of Moulton, were druek dead under a large oak, and 
the tree itfelf appeared much fcorch’d. 
And in another parifh, about the fame didance to 
the lbuth-ead of Moulton, and likewife at the fame 
time, three dieep which were lying together in a 
field were likewife kill’d ; the ground under them 
having two holes made about 2 feet deep each, one 
of them almod perpendicular, and the other at 
about a foot didance, more oblique.. 
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