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Dr. Wm. Harvey, author of the Circulation of the Blood, told me that
one Mr. Palmer's wife in Kent did beare a child every day for five
daies together.
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A wench being great with child drowned herself in the river Avon,
where, haveing layn twenty-four houres, she was taken up and brought
into the church at Sutton Benger, and layd upon the board, where the
coroner did his office. Mris. Joane Sumner hath often assured me that
the sayd wench did sweat a cold sweat when she lay dead; and that she
severall times did wipe off the sweat from her body, and it would
quickly returne again: and she would have had her opened, because she
did believe that the child was alive within her and might bee saved.
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In September 1661 a grave was digged in the church of Hedington for a
widow, where her husband was buried in 1610. In this grave was a
spring; the coffin was found firme; the bodie not rotten, but black;
and in some places white spotts; the lumen was rotten. Mr. Wm. Scott's
wife of this parish, from whom I have this, saw it, with severall of
her neighbours.
Mrs. Mary Norborne, of Calne, a gentlewoman worthy of belief, told me
that Mr.... White, Lord of Langley's grave was opened forty years
after he was buried. He lay in water, and his body not perished, and
some old people there remembred him and knew him. He was related to
Mrs. Norborne, and her husband's brother was minister here, in whose
time this happened.
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