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(whofe Judgment and Accuracy are fuperior to all 
Doubt or Exception, and her Veracity ftill more fo), 
affined me. That on Sunday lad, about One o’Clock, 
as fhc was fitting and reading in her Dr e (ling- room 
at Culford, fhe fuddenly felt and faw her Chair and 
Perfon move backwards and forwards 5 fo that die 
fearched and examined whether any Dog had got 
under her Feet and Chair, or any one entered her 
Chamber unperceived ; but found herfelf abfolutely 
alone in the Room : Whereupon fhe tried, whether, 
by laying her Hand or Elbow upon the Table, fhe 
could repeat the fame Motion, or any thing like it ; 
but could not. She added, that fhe felt herfelf a 
good deal furprifed at this extraordinary Senfation, 
at the Inftant of perceiving it : But neither then, nor 
afterwards, had the lead Imagination about an Earth- 
quake; till, upon coming down to Dinner, fhe was 
asked by Mils Charlotte Cornwallis , her Second 
Daughter, a yonng Lady grown up, “ Whether fhe 
<c had not felt the Earthquake?” Mifs Charlotte 
agreed to the Time ; and was herfelf alfo fitting and 
reading in her own Drefling-room, which was one 
Pair of Stairs higher than her Ladyfhip’s, yet on the 
fame Side of the Houfe. However, it was alfo felt 
by Mifs Charlotte Cornwallis’s Maid-Servant, whofe 
Chamber was in a different Part of the Houfe, and 
diftant from cither of the Ladies Apartments ; and 
who was fo alarmed at it, as to leave her Room, and 
come into her young Lady’s, to fee what was the 
Matter. No one elfe in the Houfe perceived it. 
But Lady Cornwallis fays, that, as far as fhe can 
learn, they were all upon their Feet; none being 
fitting, except the three already mentioned. 
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