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A DREADFUL WHIRLWIND.
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and hurt; and in its way it tore up every tree and shrub„
Abbut four o’clock the wind abated, the sky was as clear
and serene, as if no such dreadful scene had been so re-
cently exhibited ; only the sinking and dismasted vessels
still remained, as so many melancholy proofs. The sink-
ing of the five ships in the road was so sudden, that it was
a doubt whether it was done by the immense weight of this
column pressing them instantaneously into the deep, or by
the water being forced from under them. Most of the dis-
abled ships were towed, up to the town the next day ; and
Captain Scott, of the Scarborough, appointed to convoy
those able to put to sea, in the room of the Dolphin ship of
war.
THE FOUNDER OF FAIRLOP FAIR.
MR. EDITOR,
“ Observing in Number IT. of your enter tam-
ing Magazine, an account of the Great Oak at Fairlop in
Essex; I thought it would be more complete, if your Read-
ers knew something of that singular character to which that
tree and the fair held about it, owe all their celebrity.—
The authenticity of the following anecdotes cannot be
called in question. “ I am yours, &c. J. J, B.”
Mr. Daniel Day, whose eccentricity was the cause of
Fairlop Fair, was well known many years as an eminent
pump and engine maker, in the parish of St. John’s Wap-
ping ; where, to this day, his memory is respected as that
of a great benefactor, particularly in his gift of the great
bell at the consecration of the new church in 1760. Mr.
Day was born in St. Mary Overy’s parish, where his father
was an opulent brewer. Mr. Day, after being in business
some years, having a small estate near Fairlop Oak, was
in the habit of going there every year about a fortnight after
Midsummer, to receive his rents ; and being of a convivial
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and hurt; and in its way it tore up every tree and shrub„
Abbut four o’clock the wind abated, the sky was as clear
and serene, as if no such dreadful scene had been so re-
cently exhibited ; only the sinking and dismasted vessels
still remained, as so many melancholy proofs. The sink-
ing of the five ships in the road was so sudden, that it was
a doubt whether it was done by the immense weight of this
column pressing them instantaneously into the deep, or by
the water being forced from under them. Most of the dis-
abled ships were towed, up to the town the next day ; and
Captain Scott, of the Scarborough, appointed to convoy
those able to put to sea, in the room of the Dolphin ship of
war.
THE FOUNDER OF FAIRLOP FAIR.
MR. EDITOR,
“ Observing in Number IT. of your enter tam-
ing Magazine, an account of the Great Oak at Fairlop in
Essex; I thought it would be more complete, if your Read-
ers knew something of that singular character to which that
tree and the fair held about it, owe all their celebrity.—
The authenticity of the following anecdotes cannot be
called in question. “ I am yours, &c. J. J, B.”
Mr. Daniel Day, whose eccentricity was the cause of
Fairlop Fair, was well known many years as an eminent
pump and engine maker, in the parish of St. John’s Wap-
ping ; where, to this day, his memory is respected as that
of a great benefactor, particularly in his gift of the great
bell at the consecration of the new church in 1760. Mr.
Day was born in St. Mary Overy’s parish, where his father
was an opulent brewer. Mr. Day, after being in business
some years, having a small estate near Fairlop Oak, was
in the habit of going there every year about a fortnight after
Midsummer, to receive his rents ; and being of a convivial