72 AUBREY'S NATUEAL HISTORY OP WILTSHIRE. 



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. M 118 . Joane Suinner hath often assured me that the sayd 

 wench did sweat a cold sweat when she lay dead ; and that she severall tunes 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. 



In September 1661 a grave was digged in the church of Hedington for a widow, where her 

 husband was buried in 1610. In tlu's grave was a spring ; the coffin was found firme ; the bodie not 

 rotten, but black ; and in some places white spotts ; the linnen was rotten. Mr. Wm. Scott's wife of 

 this parish, from whom I have this, saw it, with severall of her neighbours. 



Mrs. Mary Norbonie, 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. 



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 tin's fright in 

 lialfe 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. 



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. 



[Tliis refers to Charles Fitzroy, one of the natural sons of King Charles II. by his mistress, 

 Barbara Villiers, Duchess of Cleveland. He was created Duke of Southampton in 1674 ; became 

 Duke of Cleveland on the death of his " cruel mother " in 1709 ; and died in 1730. J. B.] 



Mdm. Dr. W. Harvey told me that the biteing of a man enraged is poysonous. He instanced 

 one that was bitt in the hand in a quarrell, and it swoll up to his shoulder, and killed him hi a short 

 time. [That death, from nervous irritation, might follow such a wound is not improbable : but that 

 it was caused by any " poison" infused into the system is an idea too absurd for refutation. J. B.] 



