VIII. In February, 1646, falling into great disability by bleeding, at the Lady Cook’s house at Milbourne in Darby-shire, I removed to Mr Noel’s house at Kirkby Malory in Leicestershire, where I lay weak three
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London (1645)
About the year 1645, Richard Baxter, author of “Baxter’s Saint’s Rest,” a book valued by many Christians second only to the Bible, delivered an “Historical Discourse on Apparitions,” in which he said: “There is now
Continue ReadingPlaistow, East London (1645)
Strange and fearfull newes from Plaisto. In the parish of West-ham, near Bow, four miles from London, in the house of one Paul Fox, a silk weaver, Where is daily to be seen throwing of
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37. Amongst such unaccountable things as these, we may reckon the strange passages that happened at Woodstock in Anno 1649. in the Manor-house there, when the Commissioners for surveying the Manor-house, Park, Deer, Woods, and
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