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BEP(F.756.005
5 Apr 1756:21,22 (1075)
Copy of a letter from a Trinitarian fryar at Seville, dated
Nov. 4.
The first instant, being All Saints Day, about ten in the
morning, began a most terrible earthquake, which lasted very
violently for the space of seven minutes: Every one
deserted their houses, and the fryars their convents; the
priests who were saying mass, and the whole audience, left
the churches, and ran about the streets publickly confessing
their sins, and asking forgiveness of the almighty. At the
same time the roofs of the houses, the steeples and lofty
towers of the churches fell down. The beautiful cathedral
is spoilt, and the canons are obliged to celebrate their
offices in the India House; its magnificent tower, which
exceeded any thing of the sort in Europe, is so much damaged
that they can't ring the bells; the pyramids are fallen, and
it is imagined the whole must be pulled down. . . [3/5ths
col. in all.]
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