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XXX. Tart of a Letter from Mr, Samuel Bow- 
dich, to Dr. William Mufgrave, F. S. 
giving an Account of a Woman who had lain fix 
Days cohered with Snow, without receiving any 
?iouriJhment } &c. 
Chardftocki February 15. 1708-9, 
J Oanna Crippen of Chardjiock in Dorfet , going from 
hence on the 24th of January laft (being Chard 
Market,) to her Matters for Work, (he being a Spinner 
of Yarn or Woofted, and coming homeward with fome 
of her Neighbours, it blowing very hard, and being 
very deep, was forc’d into a poor Cottage for Shelter, 
defiring fhe might abide there in the Chimney-corner 
for that Night, offering a Penny to the Woman of the 
Houfe, which (he refus’d. The Perfons that came with 
her, went to their refpeftive Places of Abode, which 
were not far from the Place where fhe begg*d to lye 3 
fo that fhe was alone, and had almoft a Mile thence to 
her own Home, having no manner of Suftenance with 
her (as 1 noted before in my former) only a quarter of 
Tobacco, a Pound of Wootted Yarn, and three Fence 
in Copper, not fo much as a Bit of Bread, Biskef, or the 
like. And being (as you may judge) forc'd out of this 
Place, was conftrain’d to travel, as well as a poor tired 
Creature could, towards her own Home 3 but going not 
far from thence, was met with by a Man of our Parifh, 
whofeName is exprefs’d in the Narrative 3 who feeing her 
M m tumbling 
