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that a Beam in the new Toll houfe near Harborough 
was fplit by the Shock: and one tragical Effect is 
certain 5 I mean, that Mrs. Adcock, Wife to the 
chief Gentleman in Loddington, who had been de- 
liver’d of her firfl Child a few Days before, and was 
in a very fine Way, was fo alarmed with the Acci- 
dent, that (lie expired within a few Hours, to the 
great Grief of all that knew her. 
I was furprifed to fee how little the Inhabitants 
of Northampton were imprefied with this awful 
(tho’ by no means fupernatural) Event : The Sound 
of luch a Shock was, in a manner, grown familiar 
to their Ears, by what they had heard from Lon- 
don, and other Places. Many did not themfelves 
perceive it ; others found it very gentle i and in a 
very few Hours it feem’d to have affeded them no 
more than a Shower of Rain. 
I obferve, that moft Accounts from the Northern 
Parts date the Shock later than we felt it here ; but 
that may perhaps be accounted for by the Difference 
of Clocks j but where they were mod exadly ad- 
jufted, all agree pretty well as to the Time. I find 
alfo, that the Degree of the Shock was very differ- 
ent in nearly contiguous Places. Thus at Eajton - 
Maudit it was hardly felt at all j but at Cattle - 
Afhby was very violent. It was fcnfibly perceived at 
Lord Lomfrel’ s, and not at all at Towcefier , tho’ 
within half a Mile of it 5 and, generally fpeaking, 
the higher Places were moft affeded, tho’ in fome 
it was quite otherwife. 
It had been calm c'oudy Weather for feveral Days 
before j and what little Wind there was to be per- 
ceived was generally North- Weft. The Height of 
the 
