ſhocks at London. A few ſlates, tiles, and parts of chimneys fell from ſome houſes: pewter, china, glaſſes, and braſs from ſhelves. A clock bell, chamber bell ſometime ſtruck: windows univerſally rattled, and the like circumſtances of tremor.
In regard to circumſtances, they were pretty ſimilar throughout. Many people ſitting in their chairs relate, that they and their chairs were ſeveral times ſenſibly lifted up and ſet down again. A ſtack of chimneys were thrown down in College-lane; a place retaining the memory of a ſort of univerſity once beginning at Northampton. The windows of houſes rattled throughout the whole town: but no miſchief done: in general it was frightful, and innocuous.
They fancied there, the motion of it, as they expreſſed it, to be eaſtward. In ſtreets that run north and ſouth, the houſes on the eaſt ſide of the way, were moſt affected. And Dr. Stonehouſe’s dwelling, the ſtrongeſt in the town, was moſt ſenſibly ſhaken. So it was likewiſe obſerv’d, that churches were moſt ſubject to its violence. They thought too, that the motion ſeem’d rather horizontal, or lateral, than upward. Some counted the pulſes diſtinctly, to the number of four: that the ſecond, and third pulſes were ſtronger, than the firſt, and fourth.
