VII. An account of a storm of thunder and lightning at Norwich, on the 13th of July 1758

Abstract

Read Feb. 15, A B O U T four o’clock on Thurfday l 7 5 9i \ afternoon, July 13th 1758. a fhort but fevere thunder-ftorm^with lightning, fell upon the top of an houfe ftandtihg alone, and belonging to a common garden, on the caufeway near Sandling sferry, in the city of Norwich 5 ftruck off the tiles of the roof at the eaft end, to the fpace of a yard or two 5 burnt a very fmall hole in the middle of a lath, in piercing into the chamber, and then darted to the north-eaft 5 ript off the top of an old chair, without throwing it down $ fnapt the two heads of the bed-pofts, rent the curtains, drove againft the wall (the front of the houfe ftands due north-eaft forced out an upright of a window frame a yard long, three inches broad, and two th ick ; fmote it in a right line into an oppofite ditch, ten or twelve yards diftant; then ftruck down on the wall of the chamber, paring off half a foot s breadth of its plaiftered covering quite down to the floor j lifted up a board of the floor, and leaving an hole of half an inch diameter, pierced thro’ by the fide of the main [ 38 3