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PG-P.750.036
21 Jun 1750:21 (1123)
Extract of a letter from Windsor [England], April 4. The
town was so full this day, that beds lett at a guinea each,
the concourse of people being as numerous as at an
installation, (supposed to be occasioned by the pannick fear
of a third shock of an earthquake.) A very odd accident
happened at the White Hart; some young people dancing in a
room, shook down two delf jars of a very large size, which
broke to pieces in the fall, and made such a noise, that it
alarmed all the people in the house, who thinking it to be
an earthquake, immediately run out, which alarmed the town,
so that it was empty presently, and the field, called the
Play fields, in Eaton, were crowded all night.
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