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Strange and lamentable news from the county of Essex : being a true relation of a wonderful and sad accident which happned [sic] on Tuesday the tenth of July, to a country farmer near Witham in the said county, who being in a field at plow, flung a stone at one of his horses, and slew his boy, and afterwards went home, and hang'd himself in his own orchard : also the manner how his wife (leaving her young child on a table) followed him into the orchard, and returning again finding the childes neck broke, she took a knife and kill'd herself : the truth of this is averred by Mr. Ponder minister living in the aforesaid town of Witham. |
Publication Info |
London : Printed for J. Jhonson [sic], and are to be sold at the Royal Exchange, 1661. |
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