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X ... W I. ylri Account of the F feels of 
Lightening at South Weald, in Ellex: 
By W. Heberden, M. D. and F. R. S. 
Reac j 7 ^ ne zS ’ QOUTH Weald is a village in Eflex, 
U4 ’ about eighteen miles diftant from 
London, and two to the North Weft of Brentwood, 
in the road from London there is analmoft continual 
a Lent for the laft four or five miles, which makes a 
confiderable eminence above any parts of the neigh- 
bouring country. On the higheft part of it ftands 
the church, which has at the Weft end a tower, and 
in one corner of this there is a round turret, being a 
continuation of the ftair-cafe, about four feet wide, 
eight feet high, and the walls of it one foot thick. 
In the top of the wall of this turret, which was 
leaded, are fixed feveral iron bars, that are bent fo as 
to meet in the middle and fupport a weather-cock, 
which was put up about fixteen years ago. 
On Monday June 1 8th, 1764, between twelve 
and one (about three hours before the time when the 
thunder and lightening happened in London, by 
which St. Bride s Steeple and Eftex-Street were da- 
maged) there was a ftorm at South-Weald, attended 
with uncommonly loud thunder. The lightening 
ftruck the weather- cock, and pafting along the iron 
bars, upon which it ftands, rufhed againft the wall 
of the turret, and has broken a fpace from the top of 
the turret to the leads of the tower, about four feet 
wide, being about one third of the circumference of 
the turret and facing the North. The weather-cock, 
and irons that fupport it feem to be unhurt. The 
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