23; also Quincy, History of Harvard University, vol.ii, p.

219; also Works of John Adams, vol.ii, pp.

51, 52; also Parton's Life of Franklin, vol.i, p.

294.
In England, the first lightning conductor upon a church was not put up until 1762, ten years after Franklin's discovery.

The spire of St.
Bride's Church in London was greatly injured by lightning in 1750, and in 1764 a storm so wrecked its masonry that it had to be mainly rebuilt; yet for years after this the authorities refused to attach a lightning-rod.