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Article EXCERPTA ET COLLECTANEA. ← Page 2 of 2 Article FATAL PESTILENCE IN THE AIR, IN THE REIGN OF HENRY III. Page 1 of 3 →
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wife pretended to go distracted , and was sent to a village a few miles out of town , where the Captain had a little box for his convenience . There they took their full swing uninterrupted . Some time after the . daughter was sent to school ; but she had not been there long , befor ' e the remembrance of what she had been a witness of awoke her conscience in most horrid and frightful dreams . Says -the young
lady , that was her bed-fellow , ' What is the reason that you start and scream so ? ' ' There ' s a spirit in the room !—there ' s Mr . Stobbine ' s spirit!—See how dreadful it looks !'—In the morning , the young lady acquainted the school-mistress with ,. the accident of the preceding night . She sent for a clergyman to talk with the young-Miss , to whom she discovered the whole affair . It was
communicated to a diligent justice of the peace in the neighbourhood , who dispatched proper warrants , and he soon had the parties concerned in his power , who were all brought before him , without any knowledge of one another ' s being taken up , till they all met together , in the greatest confusion and dismay , which evidenced their guiit . They were committed to the Gatehouseand brought the
, next sessions to the Old Bailey , tried and condemned upon the evidence of the child , to the entire satisfaction of the court and country , and ail present . The Captain was condemned to the gibbet ; Mrs . Myltystre was hanged ; and thrown into the gully-hole , to rot , near the house in Wapping , where she had formerly lived ; the apothecary was anatomized ; and the wife was strangled and
burnt , according to custom in such like cases . They were attended at Tyburn by an Irish Priest of the Romish Church , called Mac-Arthy , who gave them absolution , and they all died negative . '
Fatal Pestilence In The Air, In The Reign Of Henry Iii.
FATAL PESTILENCE IN THE AIR , IN THE REIGN OF HENRY III .
[ n ; o . » . i A SCAF . CE OLD CIIIIOSICLE . ] THE ijth day of March ( says an ancient record from which this account is taken ) the newe mooue was scene , where the chaunge by nature should not have beene ' tyil the 16 th day following-, and for the space of 15 days that then next ensuedthe sunnethe moone ,
, , and starres , appeared of a red colour . And herewith the whole face of the earth seemed as it had been shadowed with a thicke myst , or smoke , the winde notwithstanding remaining north and north east . And herewith began a sore drought , continuing a long time , the which , together with morning frosts , and northerly windes , destroved he fruitcs and other growing tilings , which were blasted in such wise ,
that although , at the first , it was a very forwarde yeare , and great pientie towardes of corne and fruite , yet by the meanes aforesaid , the same was great ! - / hindered , and specially in the summer season , which the sunne ' s heat increased , and the drought still continued . The residue of suche fruitcs as then remayned , withered away , so that scarce a tenth p . irt w ;; s left , and yet there was indifferent store . For if the abundaunce which the blossomes promised had come for-
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Excerpta Et Collectanea.
wife pretended to go distracted , and was sent to a village a few miles out of town , where the Captain had a little box for his convenience . There they took their full swing uninterrupted . Some time after the . daughter was sent to school ; but she had not been there long , befor ' e the remembrance of what she had been a witness of awoke her conscience in most horrid and frightful dreams . Says -the young
lady , that was her bed-fellow , ' What is the reason that you start and scream so ? ' ' There ' s a spirit in the room !—there ' s Mr . Stobbine ' s spirit!—See how dreadful it looks !'—In the morning , the young lady acquainted the school-mistress with ,. the accident of the preceding night . She sent for a clergyman to talk with the young-Miss , to whom she discovered the whole affair . It was
communicated to a diligent justice of the peace in the neighbourhood , who dispatched proper warrants , and he soon had the parties concerned in his power , who were all brought before him , without any knowledge of one another ' s being taken up , till they all met together , in the greatest confusion and dismay , which evidenced their guiit . They were committed to the Gatehouseand brought the
, next sessions to the Old Bailey , tried and condemned upon the evidence of the child , to the entire satisfaction of the court and country , and ail present . The Captain was condemned to the gibbet ; Mrs . Myltystre was hanged ; and thrown into the gully-hole , to rot , near the house in Wapping , where she had formerly lived ; the apothecary was anatomized ; and the wife was strangled and
burnt , according to custom in such like cases . They were attended at Tyburn by an Irish Priest of the Romish Church , called Mac-Arthy , who gave them absolution , and they all died negative . '
Fatal Pestilence In The Air, In The Reign Of Henry Iii.
FATAL PESTILENCE IN THE AIR , IN THE REIGN OF HENRY III .
[ n ; o . » . i A SCAF . CE OLD CIIIIOSICLE . ] THE ijth day of March ( says an ancient record from which this account is taken ) the newe mooue was scene , where the chaunge by nature should not have beene ' tyil the 16 th day following-, and for the space of 15 days that then next ensuedthe sunnethe moone ,
, , and starres , appeared of a red colour . And herewith the whole face of the earth seemed as it had been shadowed with a thicke myst , or smoke , the winde notwithstanding remaining north and north east . And herewith began a sore drought , continuing a long time , the which , together with morning frosts , and northerly windes , destroved he fruitcs and other growing tilings , which were blasted in such wise ,
that although , at the first , it was a very forwarde yeare , and great pientie towardes of corne and fruite , yet by the meanes aforesaid , the same was great ! - / hindered , and specially in the summer season , which the sunne ' s heat increased , and the drought still continued . The residue of suche fruitcs as then remayned , withered away , so that scarce a tenth p . irt w ;; s left , and yet there was indifferent store . For if the abundaunce which the blossomes promised had come for-