Portraits, memoirs, and characters, of remarkable persons, from the revolution in 1688 to the end of the reign of George II Collected from the most authentic accounts extant . ngan act of humanity, stamped on her breast andbelly; and one Oran, a soldier, struck her withthe butt-end of his musket. After all this, whenSir William Petty, Dr. Willis, and Mr. Clarke,came to prepare the body for dissection, they per-ceived some small rattling in her throat, and beganto use means for her recovery ; in which they wereso successful, that, within fourteen hours she beganto speak, and the next day talked
Portraits, memoirs, and characters, of remarkable persons, from the revolution in 1688 to the end of the reign of George II Collected from the most authentic accounts extant . ngan act of humanity, stamped on her breast andbelly; and one Oran, a soldier, struck her withthe butt-end of his musket. After all this, whenSir William Petty, Dr. Willis, and Mr. Clarke,came to prepare the body for dissection, they per-ceived some small rattling in her throat, and beganto use means for her recovery ; in which they wereso successful, that, within fourteen hours she beganto speak, and the next day talked and prayed veryheartily. Nor did the humanity of the doctorsstop, till, by obtaining a pardon for her, they se-cured that life which their skill had restored. 2 F 2 220 MI:MOIRS or [GEORGE n. She was afterwards married, had three children,lived in good repute among her neighbours atSteeple-barton, and died in What was mostremarkable, and distinguished the hand of Providencein her recovery, she was found to be innocent ofthe crime for which she suffered ; and it appearedthe child had never been alive, but came fromher spontaneously, four months after THE NKW PUBLIC LIBRARY
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