30 THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF LEONARD WHEATCROFT. 



caused by a blow received some years before. She underwent 

 two watches, having been attended by some forty to sixty 

 women who watched strictly night and day. One of these 

 watches was appointed by the neighbouring townships, the other 

 by the Earl of Devonshire. Four different pamphlets were 

 published, one by Joseph Reynolds, and addressed to the 

 Royal Society: the last extant is dated March 30th, 1669. 

 By an entry in the Parish Register it appears she was buried 

 June 1 2th, 1684, having survived the publication of the last 

 pamphlet fifteen years. There is no account as to whether 

 she was detected as an impostor, or whether she was a real 

 sufferer, and having recovered, returned to her usual habits. 

 It is probable some of these pamphlets might have fallen into 

 the hands of the notorious impostor, Ann INIoore, the fasting 

 woman of Tutbury, who also is said to have been a native of 

 Derby. The latter pretended to have lived without eating or 

 drinking from 1807 till 18 13, when her case was discovered 

 to be a fraud.] * 



"Jan. 21, 1668, I came to Boulsoure againe but I was resolved 

 not long to stay there because they were base crosse Neighbours, 

 so to Ashover I went againe. There did I take a house of 

 John Farnworth at which house I lived 4 years. There did my 

 wife begin to sell Alle, and so did continew for many years 

 after. I took this house Aprill 5, 1669, but stayed at Boulsover 

 until April 17, on which day I and my wife and 4 of my 

 children came to Ashover, where many of our ould Neighbours 

 bade us hartily welcome home againe, tho' our substance was 

 but small then, for both my wife and I could make {possessed) 

 but two pence in brasse at that time ; but it pleased God I 

 did soone fall to worke amongst my ould customers and get 

 moneys againe. 



"June 7. I went to Boulsoure for sum of my goods I had 

 left behind. After I came home I went to Winster to fetch 

 home the rest of my children, and soone after (June 24) was 



* See Bradshaw's Histoiy of Derby, p. 413. 



