THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF LEONARD WHRATCROFT. 49 



[Scott in his Discovery of Witchcraft, p. 137, gives the follow- 

 ing : — " To heal the King or Queen's Evil, or any other soreness 

 in the throat, first touch the place with the hand of one that died 

 an untimely death : otherwise, let a virgin fasting lay her hand 

 on the sore — repeat certain words — and then spit three times 

 upon it."] 



"But he (David) being so far gone by that distemper continued 

 till Oct. 15"', 1688, then dyed. But severall since have been cured 

 by doing and saying as aforesaid. 



" Vpon Oct. 9 did my doughter Ester go towardes Lundon, 

 and I went with her as far as Nottingham. 



" In the mean time my brother John dyed Aug. i, and his 

 wife not long after. 



"Then did another- daughter of myne, Anna by name, take a 

 jorney into Yorkshire Aug. 15, 1687, where she had not lived 

 above 2 years, but she was married to one John Ingle, a farmer 

 living in the Towne of Barwick near Castellford. In the same 

 yeare 1687 I did bind my son Sollomon to my cuzen John 

 Wheatcroft for 2 years to be a Tayler. In the mean while, 

 my wife Elizabeth dyed, viz. March 3, 1688, whose Elegy you 

 may find and David's also in my Book of Poetry. [See Jourtial 

 xviii. 75.] 



"In the yeare 1690 my brother William's wife Elizabeth dyed 

 in childbed. She was buried Feb. 19, 1690. 



" My son Titus begun to work at the Tayler trade in the yeare 

 1690, and Anna had a child borne July 2, 1695. 



" My eldest son Leonardus was wed to one Ellen Pirkin, of 

 London, a widdow Feb. 9, 1690, and upon May 29 I went to his 

 honours Parpoynts where I presented to him verses of his Birth- 

 day, who veri well rewarded me. [Samuel Pierpoint of Oulecoates, 

 /oHr?taI xviii., 73]. 



" In the yeare 1691, my doughter Anna and her husband John 

 Ingle came to see me at Ashover Wakes, and I was as glad to see 

 them as they me. And in that yeare I bulded y'^ fabrick upon the 

 top of Ashover Hill upon which I made a song which you may 

 find in my Book of Poetry. 

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