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made it ring. He ſays, it was perceiv’d of moſt of the people of Stamford, who generally ran out of their houſes. At Oakham the chief town of Rutland, the congregation ran out of the church whilſt the preacher was in the pulpit. All the towns round Stamford, were ſenſible of it: and at Peterborough, down to Wiſbech.

Thus far the Alderman. But we have had many advices from all hands, at the firſt, and ſecond meetings of the Royal Society, for the winter ſeaſon; with further particulars relating to this great concuſſion. That it was felt at the ſame time, at Rugby in Warwickſhire, and reach’d to Warwick, at Lutterworth, in Leiceſterſhire: at Leiceſter, and round about. It extended itſelf to Coventry, Derby, Nottingham, Newark; then came eaſtward to Harborough, Towceſter, Northampton, Rowel, Kettering, Wellingborough, Oundle, in Northamptonſhire; Uppingham, Oakham, in Rutland; Stamford, Bourn, Grantham, Spalding, Boſton, and to Lincoln in Lincolnſhire; Holbech, and all Holland in that county. Peterborough, Wiſbech, in the iſle of Ely; together with all the intermediate, and adjacent places. Then it paſſed over the whole breadth of Ely fen: was felt at Mildenhall, and reach’d to Calford by Bury in Suffolk, and the country thereabouts; of which we had notice from lady Cornwallis. An extent from

Warwick