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remain, and which, by a different treatment, might have 

 been kindled into flame." 



There is an elegant allusion in the closing 

 words of Dr. Hawes to the motto of the medal 

 given by the Humane Society : " Latent scintil- 

 lula forsan." I cannot gather from the sermon 

 that Mr. Girle had been attracted to the subject 

 by any known instance of hasty interment having 

 occurred at Lancaster. The "proofs" that he 

 quotes are the case of Mrs. Godfrey, Mistress of 

 the Jewel Office, and sister of the great Duke of 

 Marlborough, who lay in a trance, apparently 

 dead, for seven days ; and was even declared by 

 her medical attendants to be dead. Colonel God- 

 frey, her husband, would not allow her to be in- 

 terred, or the body to be treated in the manner of 

 a corpse ; and on the eighth day she awoke, with- 

 out any consciousness of her long insensibility. 

 The authority assigned for this story is Mr. 

 Peckard, Master of Magdalen College, in a work 

 entitled Further Observations on the Doctrine of 

 an Intermediate State. 



Stories are also told of a Mr. Holland, impro- 

 perly treated as dead, who revived, however, 

 only to die from the effects of exposure to cold in 

 the grave dress ; and of a Mrs. Chaloner, a lady 

 of Yorkshire, who was buried alive, and who was 

 found, on the re-opening of the vault in which 

 she was interred, to have burst open the lid of her 

 coffin, and to be sitting upright in it. Mr. Girle 

 makes use of the statement, that on his birth Dr. 

 Doddridge showed so little signs of life that he 

 was thrown aside as dead, but one of the atten- 

 dants perceiving some motion took the infant 

 under her charge, and, under her treatment, the 

 flame of life was gradually kindled. Mr. Girle, 

 in mentioning the Humane Society, states that it 

 was at the outset exposed to much ridicule : it 

 being supposed that it was impossible to recover 

 to life in the case of persons drowned. 



R. Bhook Aspland. 

 Dukinfield. 



Dr. Graham, who is mentioned by your corre- 

 spondent C. Mansfield Ingleby. acquired great 

 wealth and an unenviable notori;;ty by his pre- 

 tensions to a power of indefinitely extending the 

 length of human life. His boasted remedies were 

 the " Bath of Warm Earth," and an " Elixir of 

 Immortality," to which many wealthy persons be- 

 came dupes. The history of his career would be 

 amusing, and might be instructive, but would 

 occupy too much of the valuable space of " N. & 

 Q." _ The following account of one of his pro- 

 ceedings appears in a periodical publication of 

 1791: 



« Aug. 2. — Dr. Graham last week informed the inha- 

 bitants of Newcastle-upon-Tyne ' that he and a young 

 lady intended to be buried on Saturday next for positively 

 the last time ! ' The Doctor and his f^iir partner accord- 



ingly stripped into their first suits about twelve at noon, 

 and were each interred up to the chin, their heads beau- 

 tifully dressed and powdered, appearing not unlike two 

 fine full-grown cauliflowers. Ihese human plants ru- 

 maiued in this whimsical situation six hours." 



Artekus. 

 Dublin. 



THE REV. THOMAS CRANE, M.A. 



(2"'i S. ii. 124.) 



The following account of the Rev. Thomas Crane, 

 taken from Palmer's Nonconformist Memorial, will 

 probably interest your correspondent G. N. 



" Mr. Thomas Crane, M.A., of Exeter College, Oxford, 

 born at Plymouth, where his father was a merchant. Upon 

 his removal from the university he became assistant to 

 Mr. H. Allein, and at length was put into the living of 

 Hampesham, in Dorsetshire, by Oliver Cromwell, from 

 whence he was ejected at the Restoration. He afterwards 

 settled at Beminster, where he continued till his death, 

 which was a few daj-s after that of Queen Anne, 171-1, 

 aged eighty-four. He was indicted in King Charles I.'s 

 time, at the sessions at Bridport, where he was publicly 

 charged with coming to divine service, &c., the word not 

 being omitted ; which caused the indictment to be dis- 

 missed, so that he escaped. From the known character 

 of the officer concerned, it was plain that this was not the 

 fruit of an}' design to do him service; it could be im- 

 puted to nothing but the interposition of that Providence 

 in his favour, the honour of which he had so earnestly 

 studied and endeavoured to promote. For he was so 

 great an observer of the steps of Divine Providence to- 

 wards himself and others, and so frequent in his remarks 

 thereon, that he was commonly called Providence. He at 

 length published a treatise upon it which is commended 

 by Mr. Flavel in the PS. to his book upon the same sub- 

 ject. Mr. Crane was an hard student and had a penetrat- 

 ing genius. His composures were remarkably judicious. 

 He was a good textuary, and an excellent casuist, but 

 much inclined to solitude : a mirror of patience, and one of 

 remarkable charity to his bitterest enemies, if he found 

 them in want. He continued the constant exercise of his 

 ministry till within a month of his death." 



Works : 



" A Prospect of Divine Providence. A Dedication of a 

 posthumous piece of Mr. Lyford's (his father-in-law), 

 upon Conscience." 



A. S. Smith. 



If your correspondent is right in speaking of the 

 Rev. Thomas Crane as a Puritan, the small con- 

 tribution I now send cannot relate to the same 

 person. G. N. may have good grounds, in the 

 internal evidence of the volume he mentions, for 

 thus characterising the author ; but the dates 

 given in the MS. note quoted would render it 

 more probable that he was ejected as a Nonjuror, 

 at the age of fifty-nine, than as a Nonconformist, 

 at the age of thirty-two. 



I have a small 4to. volume, of which the follow- 

 ing is the full title : 



" Job's Assurance of the Eesiirrection. A Sermon at 

 Winwick, in the County Palatine of Lancaster, June 20j 



