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News from sea: or, a true relation brought from Dover of a terrible tempest of thunder and lightning; which on the 26 of July last kill'd outright one William Eaton of Dover, on board a ship called the Henry and Mary, David Heggett master, bound for Newcastle, and lying off of the Kentish Knock, and with its violence struck down a boy, so that he lay as dead for a considerable time. : As likewise how the said ships top-mast was burnt with the lightning, and her main-mast strangely split with the thunder, and rendred utterly unserviceable, &c. The truth whereof is well known to most inhabitants of Dover, there being many eye-witnesses that saw the tackling spoil'd and the said dead corps, when the vessel (disabled to pursue its voyage) put in there again. Licensed Aug. 22. 1676. Ro. L'Estrange