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Pillars crack’d; many, that the Beams of the Roof 
were disjointed; and all, that the Whole was tail- 
ing ; and happy were they that could get out firft. 
A few Slates, ..Tiles, and Parts of Chimnies, fell 
from tome Houfes ; Pewter, Glafies, and Brafs, fell 
from Shelves; a Clock-Bell fometimes ftruck ; Win- 
dows univerfally rattled ; and the like Circumftances 
of Tremor. 
The fame extended itfelf to Coventry, "Darby , 
Nottingham, Newark ; then came Eaft ward to Har- 
borough, Towcejfer , Northampton , Rowell, Ket- 
tering, Wellingborough , Oundle in Northampton - 
Jhire, Uppingham , Okeham in Rutland, Stamford, 
Bourn, Grant ham, Spalding, Bojlon, and to Lincoln, 
in Lincolnfhire ; Holbech , and all Holland, in that 
County ; Peterborough , Wisbech in the iQe of Ely, 
together with all the intermediate and adjacent Places. 
Then it palled over the whole Breadth of Ely-Fen , 
and reached to Bury in Suffolk, and the Country 
thereabouts; of which we had Notice from Lady 
Cornwallis : An Extent from Warwick to Bury of 
about ioo Miles in Length ; and, generally fpeak- 
ing, 40 Miles in Breadth. And this vaft Space was 
pervaded by this amazing Motion, as far as we can 
get any Satisfaction, in the fame Infant of Time. 
In regard to Circumftances, they were pretty fimi- 
lar throughout. At Northampton, a Gentlewoman, 
fitting in her Chair, relates, that fhe and her Chair 
were twice fcnfibly lifted up, and fetdown again. A 
Stack of Chimnies were thrown down in College- 
lane ; a Place retaining the Memory of afortof LJni- 
verftty once beginning at Northampton. The Win- 
dows of Houfes rattled throughout the whole Town } 
but 
