Of OXFO %T)^SHI \E, i^j 
his wife^ who were all that lived in the houfe with her, and will 
confidently affert (for they carefully obfcrved) that they do not 
believe (lie ever took any thing in thofe ten rreeh time, nor any 
thing more all the jear following but vv^hat was above-mention-^ 
ed : wherein I think they may the rather be credited, becaufe 
there was never any advantage made of this wonder^ which argues 
it clear of all juggle or dtfign. 
1 2. Concerning the death ofwomen^ we have two as remark - 
zh\e examples^ as any perhaps to be met with in Hiftorj^ both of 
them being confirmations of what FUny fays of them, that they . 
much more frequently revive after they have been reputed dead, 
thznmales do whence doubtlefs alfo the Froz/erZ», mulierinecre- 
das^ne mortud^ quidem. Of which recoveries of the /m/^/e Sex ra- 
ther than the male^ the fame Pliny offers us a natural reafon, but 
I think fit to wave it, efpecially fince the revivifcence of Anne Green^ 
innocently condemned to dye, and executed at Oxford for the 
murther of an abortive Infant, is rather afcribed to the Jujlice of 
Heaven^ thantothe ftrength or other conveniencies of nature fox: 
fuch purpofe in women rather than men^ though it muft alfo be al- 
lowed, that GoJ Himfelf makes ufe many times of natural mems 
in produftion of the moft wonderful, moft amazing effe^fs. The 
i^i/?£)ry whereof, as it is taken out of a Chronicle of the hte Civil 
Wars, by Jam es Heath Gentlermn'^^ and the continuation of the 
HiJIoryof the IForld, by Dionjifm Petaviu^'', with fome few ad- 
ditions and alterations, take as followeth. 
13. In the year i6$o. this Anne Green^ being a Servant-maid 
of the Right Worfliipful Sir Thomas Read of Duns Tew in Oxford- 
fiire^ was gotten with child by fome ferv an t^ or other of the fami- 
ly (as conftantly affirmed when had little reafon to lye) 
and through over-working her felf in turning of rnault^ fell in tra- 
vel about the/owr//? month of her time: But being but a young 
wench, and not knowing what the matter might be, repairs to the 
houfe of eafmentj where after fome ftraining, the child (fcarce 
above a fpan long, of what fex not to be diftinguidrd) fell 
from her unawares. Now prefently after, there appearing figns of 
fome fuch matter in the linnen where (lie lay, and /?je before ha- 
ving confeft, that (be had been guilty of what might occafion 
* Hiji-Nat lib. j.cap.^2. « Hiftoryof the Civil Wars of England^ Scot/and^ znd Irehwid) inAnm 
1650- " Append, ad Wfi. D. Pi'tavii, m Anno 1650. 
her 
