362 Dr. Gray’s Account of the Earthquake 
“ he had been in bed about a quarter of an hour, when he was 
“ astonished by a hushing rumbling noise, and was immedi- 
“ ately shook in bed, by a lifting up, of first his head, and 
“ then his fbet, three times in about three seconds ; his bed 
44 standing south and north, he thought it came from the south. 
44 At an inn there the servants were frightened by the glasses 
44 shaking upon a table ; some gentlemen, in another room, 
44 felt nothing of it. One person at Bakewell observed a flash 
“ of light like lightning ; and Mr. Buxton’s house, (afBake- 
“ well,) which stands upon a limestone rock, was shook till 
“ his bell rung. 
“ The Rev. Mr. Peach, of Edensor, was shook in bed, and 
“ heard a noise in his room, like the collision of two stones. 
“ At Chesterfield some chimnies fell.” 
The county of Nottingham, however, appears to have been 
that in which the earthquake was most severely felt. From 
that county two very circumstantial accounts of it have been 
received ; one of them from the Rev. Edward Gregory, in 
a letter dated Langar, December 12, as follows. 
44 I was, on the 38th of November, at Wollaton, (the seat 
“ of Lord Middleton,) about three miles to the west of Not- 
“ tingham, where I felt the shock of the earthquake. A vio- 
44 lent gale of wind, which blew from the south-west, raged 
44 with uncommon fury all the morning, and brought on heavy 
44 rain about noon ; the storm still continuing with unabated 
44 violence. About three o’clock the wind changed to north- 
“ west, and the tempest presently subsided. The clouds now 
44 separated, and formed themselves, on the northern quarters of 
44 the horizon, into those very large white mountainous clouds 
44 which, in the summer months, generally precede a thunder 
