Excerpt from A True Relation of Those Sad and Lamentable Accidents, Which Happened in and About the Parish Church of Withycombe in the Dartmoores, in Devonshire, on Sunday the 21; Of October Last, 1638 There fell in time of Divine Service a strange darkenesse, increasing more and more, so that the people there assembled could not see to reade in any booke, and suddenly in a fearefull and lamentable manner, a mighty thunde ring was heard, the ratling whereof did answer much like unto the sound and report of many great Cannons, and terrible strange lightening therewith. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.