two piilures, which hung at the fide of the bed, were much
broke ; and one of the pannells fell out lately, when a fervant
was dulling it..
“ My .Lord’s account of what he obferved is, that he was
awaked with the noife of a great guft of wind ; that, upon looking
up, and drawing the curtain, he perceived the lightning enter
the room with great brightnefs, appearing of a bluiih colour. It:
made him cover his eyes for a moment; and on looking up, the
light feemed to be abated, and the bluiih colour had difappeared,
at the fame time he heard the thunder, which'made an uncommon,
noife; he felt at the fame time the bed and the whole room fhake
much in. the fame manner one feels a horfe when he roufes I and was'
like to be choaked with the fulphur. When the maid opened the
door, Ihe was fcarcely able to breath from the fulphureous fleams.
which filled the room; happily the room was large,, being 22 feet
fquare, and 16 feet high.
“ In an adjoining bed-chamber a gilded fcreen w a s -quite fpoiled,.
and though folded up,,the gilding is burnt off every leaf.
“ In the parlour the gilding was melted off the leather hangingsnearly
of this form\; and in the window direilly oppofite, at the
diftance of 24 feet,, in one of the panes, there is a rent exactly pf the
fame form with the melted place of the gilding, which does not reach
to either end of the pane, about 2 . inches long, each line, the length,
of the lines of the melted hangings, being above 2 feet each. This,
room in the fouth front.
“ In the drawing-room on this flo.or there were many effeds of;
the lightning. It has two windows to the fouth, and two to the
eaft,.
eaft. A pannel was loofe, but kept from falling by a half-length
picture which hung before it, upon a nail in the wall above the top
of the pannell: on removing the piihire the pannell came down,
and a piec^ of ftone in the wall fed in, which probably had beat the
pannel out of its place. On the outfide of the houfe we difcovered
two breaches oppofite to the panned ; but they did not feem to go
deep. Several other pannells were beat out, and particularly one of
g feet high, and 3 feet broad, was beat out fo as to have the infide
turned outward, and was found refting with the end upon a chair.
Betwixt the two fouth windows flood a peir glafs, which has a piece
taken out of it of a femicircular figure, nearly 3 inches long and 2 inches
deep, and no crack or flaw in the reft of the glafs ; the gilded frame
much finged above and below : the piece was found broken, and one
part had the quickfilver melted : above the glafs we perceived a hole
in the panned, as if burnt through. There was only one pane broke
¡n this room, which was in one of the eaft windows. The hole in
the pane was of the fize and ihape of a weaver’s ihuttle. A glafs
(like the other) which flood betwixt the two eaft windows was broke
in pieces : the chimney.glafs not touched. The vent of this room
goes to the chimney-top, which was beat down..
In the adjoining bed-chamber, there were feveral pannells beat out,
and fome parts of them appeared to be burnt. A piece of ftone was
found in the floor, which was evidently beat from behind one of the
pannells, from a large hard ftone, which appeared to be much
fluttered.
“ In the Attick ftory is the billiard-room, above the. two eaft
drawing-rooms : here the floor is tore up in two places, and large
fplinters are carried off from the middle of the planks. A pi&ure
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