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
I cannot give you any great account of the particular damage the
late great Winds has done, but at _Penchurst Park_ there was above
500 Trees blown down, and the Grove at _Southborough_ is almost
blown down; and there is scarce a House in Town, but hath received
some damage, and particularly the School-House. A Stack of Chimnies
blown down, but no body, God be thanked, have lost their Lives, a
great many Houses have suffered very much, and several Barns have
been blown down: At _East Peckam_, hard by us, the Spire of the
Steeple was blown down: And at Sir _Thomas Twisden_'s in the same
Parish, there was a Stable blown down, and 2 Horses killed: And at
_Brenchly_ the Spire of the Steeple was blown down; and at _Summer
Hill Park_ there were several Trees blown down; which is all at
present from,
_Your Servant to Command_,
Elizabeth Luck.
_At_ Laneloe _in the County of_ Brecon _in_ Wales, _a Poor Woman with a
Child, was blown away by the Wind, and the Child being about 10 years
old, was taken up in the Air two or three yards, and very much Wounded
and Bruised in the fall._
_At_ Ledbury _in_ Herefordshire, _we have an Account of two Wind Mills
blown down, and four Stacks of Chimneys in a new built House at a
Village near_ Ledbury, _which Wounded a Maid Servant; and at another
Gentleman's House near_ Ledbury, _the Coachman fearing the Stable would
fall, got his Master's Coach Horses out to save them, but leading them
by a great Stack of Hay, the Wind blew down the Stack upon the Horses,
killed one, and Maimed the other._
_From_ Medhurst _in_ Sussex, _the following Letter is a short account of
the loss of the Lord_ Montacute, _in his Seat there, which is
extraordinary great, tho' Abridg'd in the Letter_.
_SIR_,
I received a Letter from you, wherein you desire me to give you an
account of what damage was done in and about our Town, I praise God
we came off indifferent well; the greatest damage we received, was
the untiling of Houses, and 3 Chimneys blown down, but 4 or 5 Stacks
of Chimneys are blown down at my Lord _Montacute_'s House, within a
quarter of a mile of us, one of them fell on part of the Great Hall,
which did considerable damage; and the Church Steeple of _Osborn_,
half a mile from us, was blown down at the same time; and my Lord
had above 500 Trees torn up by the Roots, and near us several Barns
blown down, one of Sir _John Mill_'s, a very large Tiled Barn.
Medhurst, _Your humble Servant_
_Jan._ 18. 1703/4. John Prinke.
_From_ Rigate _the particulars cannot be better related, than in the
following Letter_
_SIR_,
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