Record

RefNoCLP/4i/19
LevelItem
TitlePaper, regarding a fatal lightning strike, by Mr Thomas Neale
Date1666
DescriptionA relation of the death of Mr Brookes, a justice of peace of Hampshire [England] as it was written in a letter by Mr Thomas Neale, the then high Sheriff of that county.
The incident occurred on 24 January 1665 as Brookes was travelling to Andover.

Subject: Meteorology / Physiology

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'A relation of a sad effect of thunder and lightning'

Read to the Royal Society on 23 May 1666
LanguageEnglish
Extent2p
FormatManuscript
PhysicalDescriptionInk on paper
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AccessStatusOpen
RelatedMaterialDOI: 10.1098/rstl.1665.0104
RelatedRecordRBC/2/75
RBO/3/36
Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA8407Neale; Thomas (1641 - 1699); politician and projector1641 - 1699
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