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Scufe, whole Veracity is unqucftionable, andwfiofe 
Judgment in this Cafe is, I chink, rational and juft. • 
Wm. Barlow* 
The Earthquake at London was on Thurfday , Fe- 
bruary 8. about Noon. 
The Declaration of the Hon. Philip Vanbrugh Efqy 
Commifioner of His 'Majefy’s Dock-Tar d near 
Plimouth, Devon.. 
T HAT, in the Night, betwixt Thurfday the 8th 
Day of February 1749. and the Day follow- 
ing, towards One o’ Clock, as he was reading in 
Bed, he was fenfibly affected by a fudden Shake : 
That, looking about, he obferved, betwixt the Foot- 
Curtains, which were partly open, fome Drawings 
which hung on the Wall, alfo the Side-Curtains, in 
a trembling Motion : That it immediately brought 
into his Mind the Earthquake in Jamaica in 1692* 
which fevcral Years ago had been, at Jamaica, par- 
ticularly deferibed to him, by a Perlon who was in 
the Ifland at the time of that Earthquake. 
March 12. 1749. 
Ph. Vanbrugh, 
The Declaration of Mrs. Vanbrugh, Sifter of the 
Commiffioner , li-z iny in the fame Houfe. 
T HAT, the Night above- mention'd, at what Hour 
fhe cannot fay, fhe was greatly furprifed by an 
unufual Motion of her Bed 5 which immediately 
brought 
