Brans ton. 
Belton. 
Grantham. 
Manthorpe. 
Peterbo- 
rough. 
Boston. 
286 Mr. Edmund Turnor's Narrative of the 
it rained heavy and large drops, which continued some time. 
The windows, window-bells, pewter upon shelves, &c. gave 
ample evidence of the agitation. Its direction was from north- 
west to south-east. It was slightly felt at Branston, though 
not at Lincoln. 
Captain Pennyman , in a letter to Mr. Tumor. 
We were all much alarmed by a violent and sudden shock of 
an earthquake ; it made the house at Belton shake, and was 
followed by a violent gust of wind, and a noise like thunder, 
which lasted about six or seven seconds. I really thought my 
chair was sinking into the ground, and, after I had recovered 
myself, I was not convinced that one of the fronts of the house, 
or a chimney, had not given way, till I had been in all the 
rooms, where I found every thing in its place. All the other 
servants felt it as I did, and the neighbours in the village 
thought their houses were going to fall upon them. It was 
felt at Grantham, Manthorpe, and other towns in the neigh- 
bourhood. Chr. Driffield, in a letter to Lord Brownlow. 
An uncommon rumbling noise was heard round my pre- 
mises, 110 yards, resembling that occasioned by drawing a 
large garden roller slowly over the pavement. The sound did 
not appear like thunder over the head, but upon or near the 
ground. The like, in every respect, happened October 27th, 
1776, about a quarter before ten at night. 
Rev. Archdeacon Brown, in a letter to Mr. Tumor. 
The earthquake was felt and heard by a lady at Boston, 
who declared so at the time it happened, and said, she was 
