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Miles, and many Thoufands more Acres on both Sides the 
Road are given L 
F. Drake, 
XXIV. A better from Mr. Jofepli Ames F. ft. £ 
and Seer . of the Soc. Aatiquar. to C. Mor- 
timer M \ D. Seer. R. S. concerning a Plic& 
Polonica. 
Good Sir , 
Read May ^ N E the 22d, 174 6, in the Morning* 
5747 ‘ J Mrs. Hannah Coomes/ a neat old 
Woman, whofe Hair for ‘Plica Polonica , as it is calfdlj 
I fhew'd the Society laft Thurfday, came and gave me 
the following Informations. 
That fee was of a genteel Family in Staffordshire, 
who had fuffer’d much in the Civil Wars 5 and that 
her Mother had her Hair grow in the fame manner, 
whofe Maiden Name was Alice Goldfmith $ but her 
own Maiden Name was Hannah Bunby , born in the 
Hay-market, in the Parifh of White-Chapel and bap- 
tized at Aldgate on a Saturday the, oi June, 1645 . 
Her Mother, having fuch fort of Hair, ufed to comb 
hers much to prevent it, till fomedmes the Blood 
came: When fee was about 14 Years old fee per- 
ceived it to grow thick juft about the back Part of 
her Head, and at length grew to this matted long 
Subftance I now faw it, of 109 Inches long. She 
fays 
