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kirby’s wonderful museum;
windows thrown open in a moment; and the very instant,
particularly here, the brew-house door opened into the
kitchen with a discharge of fire and ashes from the kiln, which
wTere soon joined by the fire and ashes in the kitchen ; these,
together with the dirt, dust, stones, boughs, and leaves, from
without, formed and dispersed a horrid mixture all over the
house in a moment. About two furlongs from Loose, it
crossed the road from Battel to Hastings, unpoled a hop-
garden across the way, and took off the hop-garden gate, and
carried it away; the head was found at one place, and the
slits at another, above a quarter of a mile from the place
where taken off. To this hop-garden joins the Bothurst
Woods, very full of timber, likewise belonging to Sir Thomas
Webster, where it tore up by the roots, twisted asunder, and
broke down most of the timber by the course of a gill in its
way, for about a hundred roods wide, and demolished a very
strong barn at Marlly, near the western verge of its course,
as appears by the farm-house, &c. standing entire, not above
fifty yards more to the westward. After it had slaughtered
down the timber in the Bothurst Woods, nearly a mile in
length, and at some places half a mile in breadth; it forced
a glade through the Petly Woods, likewise very thick set
with timber, which was either torn up by the roots, twisted
and shook in pieces, or the tops cropt off and demolished.
The whole quantity of timber trees blown up by the roots
and broke down, upon Sir Thomas Webster’s Battel estate,
is computed at least to thirteen or fourteen hundred trees.
From these,woods it crossed the brooks, and no more wood-
land nor buildings lying in the way till it reaches Sedlescomb-
street, what appears is only the hedges disordered, and drove
out of their places, stems turned up by their roots, and the
earth of some sowed lands drove into the hedges with such
violence and quantities, as entirely to cover the wood and
leaves of the hedges. Richard Elliot, on the south side of
Sedlescomb-street, had two barns blown down; one of them
was just raised new, and only thatched: his house was
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kirby’s wonderful museum;
windows thrown open in a moment; and the very instant,
particularly here, the brew-house door opened into the
kitchen with a discharge of fire and ashes from the kiln, which
wTere soon joined by the fire and ashes in the kitchen ; these,
together with the dirt, dust, stones, boughs, and leaves, from
without, formed and dispersed a horrid mixture all over the
house in a moment. About two furlongs from Loose, it
crossed the road from Battel to Hastings, unpoled a hop-
garden across the way, and took off the hop-garden gate, and
carried it away; the head was found at one place, and the
slits at another, above a quarter of a mile from the place
where taken off. To this hop-garden joins the Bothurst
Woods, very full of timber, likewise belonging to Sir Thomas
Webster, where it tore up by the roots, twisted asunder, and
broke down most of the timber by the course of a gill in its
way, for about a hundred roods wide, and demolished a very
strong barn at Marlly, near the western verge of its course,
as appears by the farm-house, &c. standing entire, not above
fifty yards more to the westward. After it had slaughtered
down the timber in the Bothurst Woods, nearly a mile in
length, and at some places half a mile in breadth; it forced
a glade through the Petly Woods, likewise very thick set
with timber, which was either torn up by the roots, twisted
and shook in pieces, or the tops cropt off and demolished.
The whole quantity of timber trees blown up by the roots
and broke down, upon Sir Thomas Webster’s Battel estate,
is computed at least to thirteen or fourteen hundred trees.
From these,woods it crossed the brooks, and no more wood-
land nor buildings lying in the way till it reaches Sedlescomb-
street, what appears is only the hedges disordered, and drove
out of their places, stems turned up by their roots, and the
earth of some sowed lands drove into the hedges with such
violence and quantities, as entirely to cover the wood and
leaves of the hedges. Richard Elliot, on the south side of
Sedlescomb-street, had two barns blown down; one of them
was just raised new, and only thatched: his house was
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