Dreadful news from Southwark: or, A Most true relation how one Margaret Simpson widow, together with Elizabeth Griffin an infant of about a year and an half old, were wonderfully struck dead with a thunder-bolt : in ship-yard in Kent-street, on Munday the 4th of this instant August, between two and three of the clock in the afternoon: the said Margaret Simpson having but just before used many oaths and execrations on her self, about paying a farthing; which 'tis believ'd was false. With the miraculous manner how the thunder-bolt entred, and no place to be found where it should pass out, nor wound found on either of the said parties kill'd | Collections

Dreadful news from Southwark: or, A Most true relation how one Margaret Simpson widow, together with Elizabeth Griffin an infant of about a year and an half old, were wonderfully struck dead with a thunder-bolt : in ship-yard in Kent-street, on Munday the 4th of this instant August, between two and three of the clock in the afternoon: the said Margaret Simpson having but just before used many oaths and execrations on her self, about paying a farthing; which 'tis believ'd was false. With the miraculous manner how the thunder-bolt entred, and no place to be found where it should pass out, nor wound found on either of the said parties kill'd | Collections | The Huntington

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Research Material: [Burke Casari' photocopies of articles about Richard F. Burton bound with Heroes of the Dark Continent and How Stanley Found Emin Pasha, Richmond, VA, 1890], ([before 2004]), 1 volume