The Storm: or, a Collection of the most Remarkable Casualties and Disasters which Happen'd in the Late Dreadful Tempest, both by Sea and LandDefoe, Daniel
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The Storm: or, a Collection of the most Remarkable Casualties and Disasters which Happen'd in the Late Dreadful Tempest, both by Sea and Land
Defoe, Daniel
Storms -- Early works to 1800
2. At _Jurdans_, a Gentleman's Seat in the same Parish, there was a
Brick Stable, whose Roof, one Back, and one End Wall, were all
thrown down, and four foot in depth of the Fore Wall; in this Stable
were 4 Horses, which by reason of the Hay-loft that bore up the
Roof, were all preserv'd.
3. At _Sevington_ Parish, three Miles East from this Town, _John_
Hutkens had the Roof of a new built House heaved clean off the
Walls. _Note_, the House was not glazed, and the Roof was thatch'd.
4. In _White Larkington_ Park, a Mile East from this Town, besides
four or five hundred tall Trees broken and blown down, (admirable to
behold, what great Roots was turned up) there were three very large
Beaches, two of them that were near five Foot thick in the Stem were
broken off, one of them near the Root, the other was broken off
twelve Foot above, and from that place down home to the Root was
shattered and flown; the other that was not broken, cannot have less
than forty Waggon Loads in it; a very fine Walk of Trees before the
House all blown down, and broke down the Roof of a Pidgeon House,
the Rookery carried away in Lanes, the Lodg-House damaged in the
Roof, and one End by the fall of Trees. In the Garden belonging to
the House, was a very fine Walk of tall Firrs, twenty of which were
broken down.
5. The damage in the Thatch of Houses, (which is the usual Covering
in these Parts) is so great and general, that the price of Reed
arose from twenty Shillings to fifty or three Pounds a Hundred;
insomuch that to shelter themselves from the open Air, many poor
People were glad to use Bean, Helm and Furse, to thatch their Houses
with, Things never known to be put to such Use before.
6. At _Kingston_, a Mile distance from this Town, the Church was
very much shattered in its Roof, and Walls too, and all our Country
Churches much shattered, so that Churches and Gentlemen's Houses
which were tiled, were so shatter'd in their Roofs, that at present,
they are generally patch'd with Reed, not in Compliance with the
Mode, but the Necessity of the Times.
7. At _Broadway_, two Miles West of this Town, _Hugh Betty_, his
Wife, and four Children being in his House, it was by the violence
of the Storm blown down, one of his Children killed, his Wife
wounded, but recovered, the rest escaped with their Lives. A large
Alms-house had most of the Tile blown off, and other Houses much
shattered; a very large Brick Barn blown down, Walls and Roof to the
Ground.
8. Many large Stacks of Wheat were broken, some of the Sheaves
carried two or three Hundred Yards from the Place, many Stacks of
Hay turned over, some Stacks of Corn heaved off the Stadle, and set
down on the Ground, and not broken.
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