Old and new London : a narrative of its history, its people, and its places . also issuedto her followers sealed papers, which she termedher seals, and which, she assured them, would See Vol. IV„ p. 318. See p. 212, ante. 252 OLD AND NEW LONDON. [St. Johns Wood. protect them from the judgments of God, both inthis and the other world, assuring them finalsalvation. Strange as it may seem, thousands ofpersons received these with implicit confidence,and among them were a few men and women ofgood education and a respectable position insociety. In course of time Joanna is said to haveimagined hersel
Old and new London : a narrative of its history, its people, and its places . also issuedto her followers sealed papers, which she termedher seals, and which, she assured them, would See Vol. IV„ p. 318. See p. 212, ante. 252 OLD AND NEW LONDON. [St. Johns Wood. protect them from the judgments of God, both inthis and the other world, assuring them finalsalvation. Strange as it may seem, thousands ofpersons received these with implicit confidence,and among them were a few men and women ofgood education and a respectable position insociety. In course of time Joanna is said to haveimagined herself to have the usual symptoms ofpregnancy, and announced that slie was to give however, were not to be undeceived, and for sometime continued to believe that she would rise againfrom her trance, and appear as the mother of thepromised Shiloh. Mr. James Grant writes thus, in his Travels inTown, published in 1839:—Many persons willbe surprised when they are informed that JoannaSouthcott has still her followers in London. Icannot state with certainty what their number LuRD S GROUND birth, at midnight, on the 19th of October, 1814,to a second Shiloh, or Prince of Peace, miracu-lously conceived, she being then more than sixtyyears of age. The infatuation of her followers wassuch that they received this announcement withdevout reverence, prepared an expensive cradle,and spent considerable sums, in order that all mightbe suitable for so great and interesting an expected birth did not take place ; but onthe 27th of December, 1814, the woman died, ather house in Manchester Street.* On a post-mortem examination, it was found that the appear-ance of pregnancy which had deceived others, andperhaps herself, was due to dropsy. Her followers, • See Vol. IV., p. 425, but I have reason to believe it is 200 or 300 atleast. They meet together on Sundays, but I havenot been able to discover the exact place ; but Iknow they are most numerous in the parishes ofSt. Luke and Sho
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