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clear off from the houfe, and threw it into a pool of 
water twenty feet diftant. In the chamber over the 
kitchen, diredtly beneath the top of the chimney, 
there was a little clofet boarded in ; all the boards 
were broken to pieces, the timbers of the roof flat- 
ter’d ; all'o the bed dead in that chamber ; of the 
chamber- partition two planks were forced, a large 
cloaths-prels thrown, and the fouth windows of the 
chamber-floor (excepting one cafement) all broken, 
and blown out. From the top of the chimney, and 
chamber-floor, it defcendcd into the kitchen below, 
where the family was : the farmer faw no lightning, 
nor heard any thunder, after the firft clap before- 
mention'd ; but, as foon as he had given the orders 
to his apprentice- boy, as before-faid, was ffruck fenle- 
lefs with the firft flalh, and thrown into the middle 
of the kitchen, and continued fenfelefs for a quarter of 
an hour. As foon as he came to himfelf, he afked, 
who flruck him ? but had not the ufe of his arms j 
and felt an aching pain, Ihooting, as he defcribed it, 
into his bones ; and a brand-iron, which hung in the 
chimney, being thrown down into the pan of water, 
had dafh’d the boiling water upon him to that degree, 
that his life was in extreme danger for more than a 
fortnight after. 
Mrs. Olivey, fitting at (2), was flruck down be- 
fore the hearth (13). Both her fhoes, tho’ buckled 
on as ufual, were flruck off her feet ; but her feet 
not hurt : and being neither burnt nor fenfelefs, was 
able to cry out for help, but could not move ; for 
fhe had no ufe of her under-limbs for a day and an 
half. 
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