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Ball lightning in 1638.
Then it goes straight up in the same Ile, and strook off all the hinder part of the Warriners head, the braines fell backward intire and whole into the next seate behind him, and two peeces of his scull, and dasht his blood against the wall, the other peece of his scull fell into the seate where he sate, and some of the skin of his head, flesh and haire was carried into the Chancell, and some of his haire to the quantity of a handfull, stuck fast as with lime and sand newly tempered upon one of the barres of the timber-work partission betweene the Church and Chancell.