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Ycfterday I heard they had a little of it at Portf- 
mouth and Lymington: And a Servant-Maid in this 
Town fays, file felt her Chair fhakc 5 and the Windows 
fhook, and the Wainlcot crack’d, juft at the fame 
time : But I neither feit it, nor can find any body 
befidcs that did. 
XXXI. 
A Letter from Mr. Peter Newcome F. R. S> 
to the Prelident, concerning the fame Shock 
being felt at Hackney, near London. 
Read March 
1750. 
I 
SIR , 
BEG Leave to give you fome Ac- 
count of what was felt in our Houle 
at Hackney , on Sunday the 18th, a little alter 6 o’ 
Clock ill the Evening 5 as we have received Ac- 
counts of the Shock of an Earthquake being felt at 
Bath , Portf mouth , and fome other Places on that 
Day. 
My Coufin Peter Newcome was fitting in his 
Chamber on the upper Floor of the Houle, look- 
ing towards the Fire, when he plainly perceiv’d the 
Hearth of his Chimney to be moved ■, and imme- 
diately felt the Chamber rock three or four times 
from Weft to Eaft; but heard no Nolle, as at the 
time of that Shock felt on the 8th. 
Being much furprifed, he was running down- 
ftairs, and there met with one of the Maid-Seryams, 
who was running in a great Flight out of another 
Room 
