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east moved from and to the wall, but seemed also to move
along it somewhat, i.e., north-west and south-east. Flower
pots on a table rocked in a direction almost east and west,
and a window facing the south-east shook; her bed also,
lying north-west and south-east, waved, and seemed as if
giving way. This took place, she says, a little after nine.
In a cottage on the Gault, where another invalid was lying, a
window facing south-west rattled, a picture shook on the
wall on which it is fixed, and the bed, lying south-east and
north-west, also waved. This was, she thought, at nine, but
the time must have been later. She noticed that the wind
was still. No noise was heard except the clatter caused by
the rattling of the buildings ; but at a mill on the Incknield
Way, near Tring, lying at nearly lat. 51° 48' and long 0° 40',
a rumbling was heard."
Ware.—Very slight shock probably felt.
Buckinghamshire .
Great Marlow.—Mr. Alfred H. Cocks, M.A., reports that
the oscillation was distinctly felt (about 9.18) in three first
floor rooms at Thames Bank ; a picture on a wall was seen
to swing forwards perceptibly towards the S.W.
Lane End, Taplow, and Princes Risborough.—Shock felt.
Oxfordshire.
Bicester.—Shock felt.
Chiltern Bills. — Shock felt by Mr. B. T. Hodge at
Wyfold Court, on the Chiltern Hills. Mr. Hodge was in bed,
and felt the movement of the bed and room ; time 9.25 (?).
Oxford.—Oscillation of room felt in one of the colleges at
about 9.18.
Wallington.—Writing from Shirburn Castle, near here, the
Countess of Macclesfield states :—
" I was sitting at my dressing table at 9.20 when I felt
a very slight oscillation of the floor, which lasted about
three seconds, and seemed to be from north to south. Two
ladies in the upper floor of the Castle felt it also."46
46 The Countess adds " At the time of the great Lisbon earthquake in
1755 the moat that surrounds Shirburn Castle was agitated, and the
water rose simultaneously at the north-eastern and south-western
corners." (See p. 14).