Early Daffodil. _Narcissus Pseudonarcissus simplex._
Dedicated to _St. Perpetua_.
~March 8.~
_St. John_ of God, A. D. 1550. _St. Felix_, A. D. 646. _Sts.
Apollonius_, _Philemon_, &c. A. D. 311. _St. Julian_, Abp. of Toledo,
A. D. 690. _St. Duthak_, Bp. of Ross, A. D. 1253. _St. Rosa_, of
Viterbo, A. D. 1261. _St. Senan_, 5th Cent. _St. Psalmod_, or
_Saumay_, about 589.
Romish saints are like earthquakes, wherein _shocks_ crowd so fast they
cannot be noted.
_An Earthquake in London._
On the 8th of March, 1750, an earthquake shook all London. The shock was
at half past five in the morning. It awoke people from their
sleep and frightened them out of their houses. A servant maid in
Charterhouse-square, was thrown from her bed, and had her arm broken;
bells in several steeples were struck by the chime hammers; great stones
were thrown from the new spire of Westminster Abbey; dogs howled in
uncommon tones; and fish jumped half a yard above the water.
London had experienced a shock only a month before, namely, on the 8th
of February 1750, between 12 and 1 o’clock in the day. At Westminster,
the barristers were so alarmed that they imagined the hall was falling.
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