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Mrs. May of Calne, upon the generall fright in their church of the
falling of the steeple, when the people ran out of the church,
occasioned by the throwing of a stone by a boy, dyed of this fright in
halfe an hour's time. Mrs. Dorothy Gardiner was frightened at Our Lady
Church at Salisbury, by the false report of the falling of the
steeple, and died in... houres space. The Lady Jordan being at
Cirencester when it was beseiged (anno atatis 75) was so terrified
with the shooting that her understanding was so spoyled that she
became a child, that they made babies for her to play withall.
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At Broad Chalke is a cottage family that the generation have two
thumbes. A poor woman's daughter in Westminster being born so, the
mother gott a carpenter to amputate one of them with his chizel and
mallet. The girl was then about seven yeares old, and was a lively
child, but immediately after the thumb was struck off, the fright and
convulsion was so extreme, that she lost her understanding, even her
speech. She lived till seventeen in that sad condition.
The Duke of Southampton, who was a most lovely youth, had two
foreteeth that grew out, very unhandsome. His cruel mother caused him
to be bound fast in a chaire, and had them drawn out; which has caused
the want of his understanding.
[This refers to Charles Fitzroy, one of the natural sons of King
Charles II.
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