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NYGWPB.750.024
11 Jun 1750:21 (386)
London, March 12. The shock of the earthquake which was
felt on the 8th inst. was very sensibly felt in Essex, as
far as Epping, and at the following places, viz. Bromley, as
far as Chrislehurst, Beckenham and Croydon; at the two last
mentioned places it occasioned the hammers of the clock to
strike upon the bells . . . at Islington it was so violent
that the bells at several gentlemen's door run as if pulled
by a sudden jerk. . . .
The Bishop of London . . . give attention to the warnings
. . . had by two great shocks of an earthquake . . .
His lordship to inforce the serious consideration of this
warning takes notice of the general corruption of the times:
"While I was writing this, says he, I cast my eye upon the
news-paper of the day, and counted no less than fifteen
advertisements for plays, opera's, musick and dancing, for
meetings at gardens, for cock-fighting, prize fighting, &c.
Should this paper go abroad, what an idea must it give the
churches there, of the manner in which Lent is kept in this
Protestant country?"
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