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dcfcribcs it thus: 4 They were fuddchl'y furprifu'd 
‘ with an- uncommon Noife in the Air, like the 
* rolling of large Carriages in the Street, tor about 
1 20 Seconds. At. the fame Infant they felt a 
* great Shake, or Snap (as he calls it) infornuch 
c that it fcnfibly fhook a Punch-bowl, which was 
c in his Parlour, and made -Jt ring. He fays, it was 
* perceived of moft of the People of . Stamford, 
‘ who generally ran out of their Houfes. At Cke- 
1 ham , the chief Town in Rutland, the Congregar 
‘ tion ran out of the Church. Ail the Towns 
* round Stamford were fenhble of if, and at W- 
1 terborough, down to Wisbich * ^ ' ' 
Thus far the Alderman. But we have had marly 
Advices from all Hands, at the firft and fecond MceC 
ings of the Royal Society., for the Winter ^Sealon* 
with further Particulars relating to this great Com 
cuflion : That it was felt at the fame rime at 
Rugby in Warwickjhire, and reach’d to Warwick ’-, at 
Lutterworth in Lckeferfhire ; at -Leicefer, -and 
round about. They ddcribe it, that the Houfes 
totter’d, and feem’d to heave up and down, tho’ 
it lafted but a few Seconds, it was attended with 
a rufhing Noife, as if the Houfes -were falling ; and 
People were univ.erfaliy fo affrighted as to run out ; 
imagining that their own, or Neighbours Houfes, 
were tumbling on their Heads. In the Villages 
around, the People, being at divine Service, were 
much alarm’d, both with the Noife, which ex- 
ceeded all the Thunder they had ever heard, be- 
yond Compare; and with the great Shock accom- 
panying, which was like fomewhat that rufh’d againft 
the Church- Walls and Roof; fome thinking the 
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