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Rh Warwick to Bury of about 100 miles in length; and generally ſpeaking, 40 miles in breadth. And this vaſt ſpace was pervaded by this amazing motion, as far as we can get any ſatisfaction, in the ſame inſtant of time. They deſcribe it, that the houſes totter’d, and ſeem’d to heave up, and down: tho’ it laſted but a few ſeconds. It was attended with a ruſhing noiſe, as if the houſes were falling, and people were univerſally ſo affrighted, as to run out; imagining that their own, or their neighbours houſes were tumbling on their heads. In the villages around, the people being generally at divine ſervice, were much alarm’d: both with the noiſe, which exceeded all the thunder they had ever heard, beyond compare: and with the great ſhock accompanying I which was like ſomewhat, as they imagin’d, that ruſh’d againſt the church-walls, and roof. Some thinking the pillars crack’d, many that the beams of the roof were disjointed; and all, that the whole was falling. And happy were they that could get out firſt. Many people fancied, that neſts of drawers, and cabinets, or the like heavy things, were fallen down above ſtairs: or that chimnies had broke thro’ the roof of the houſe: or that ſome perſons fell down ſtairs: and the like. Some perceived the crackling of inward wainſcots or partitions: as Dr. Mortimer and I, obſerv’d in our firſt and ſecond ſhocks