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A TRUE AND FAITHFUL

NARRATIVE

OF

WHAT PASSED IN LONDON,

DURING THE

GENERAL CONSTERNATION OF ALL RANKS AND DEGREES OF MANKIND,

ON

TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY, THURSDAY, AND FRIDAY LAST.





ON Tuesday the 13th of October, Mr. Whiston held his lecture, near the Royal Exchange, to an audience of fourteen worthy citizens, his subscribers and constant hearers. Beside these, there were five chance auditors for that night only, who had paid their shillings apiece. I think myself obliged to be very particular in this relation, lest my veracity should be suspected; which makes me appeal to the men, who were present; of which number, I myself was one. Their names are,

Henry Watson, haberdasher.
George Hancock, druggist.
John Lewis, drysalter.
William' Jones, cornchandler.

Henry