Cumberland.
Deaths -- May [1821]. As the eldest son of Mr. R. Armstrong, of Brampton, was returning home from Hawistle, he was struck down by lightening, and both he and his horse were instantaneously killed. When he was found, all his clothes, with the exception of his stockings and shoes, were torn to pieces, and some of the fragments were picked up at nearly an hundred yards distance. There were deep wounds in the neck and thigh, and the few clothes which remained, were burning when found. The saddle was also torn to pieces, and the hair nearly singed off the horse.
(Source: The Investigator [Quarterly Magazine], Vol III, July and October, 1821, London, England: Provincial and Miscellaneous Interlligence, pp. 212-.)
