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The Houfe ftands alone in the Park : And Lady 
Cornwallis had declined making any Inquiry amongft 
the Inhabitants of the adjacent Village; partly, for 
fear of alarming them with Apprehcnfions of Dan- 
ger, of which they would be very fufceptible from 
the Name of an Earthquake ; and partly from the 
little Hopes fhc could have of procuring any tolerably 
accurate Account of the Tad from fuch Reporters. 
As you have been fo careful and exad in collcd- 
ing the fevera.Hi'ftories of thofe various Shocks, which 
have been felt in diverfe Parts of the Kingdom within 
thefe nine Months iaft paft, it will not be unaccept- 
able, I hope, to furnifh you with this Supplement to 
them ; efpecially as none of the former have (as 
far as I remember) affeded thefe Parts. 
P. S. 
Great Finborough-Hall, near Stowmarket, Suffolk, 
Sunday, jth Odober, 1750. 
e . "Dear Sir , 
On our Return hither to Mr. Wollajloris , we 
found a Letter from a worthy Friend of Mr. fVolla- 
Jloris and mine, Mr. Metcalfe , a Clergyman of Re- 
putation, Scnfe, and Fortune ; who refides at Leice- 
Jler , and has two Livings near that Place ; one at 
Mar boro ugh, the other at : Tilton : Out of which 
I will tranferibe a Paragraph, which will ferve to 
confirm Lady Cornwallis’s Relation. 
<£ Ycftcrday [It is dated Leicefler , Off. 1. i7fo.], 
tc about Noon, we were all greatly alarmed with a 
“ very great Shock of an Earthquake. I was in the 
Pulpit at Narborough j where the whole Church 
c ‘ fhook with fuch Violence, that the Congregation 
“ expeded 
