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A Declaration from Oxford, of Anne Green (age 23), A young woman that was lately, and unjustly hanged in the Castle-yard; but since recovered, her neck set strait, and her eyes fixed orderly and firmly in her head again: With her Speech touching four Angels that appeared to her when she was dead; and their strange expressions, apparations, and passages that happened thereupon, the like never heard of before: Being a more full and perfect Relation of the great handiwork of God to the said Anne Green, Servant to Sir Tho. Read, who being got with Child, and delivered of it in a house of Office, dead born, received an unjust sentence to be hanged, and after half an hour, was cut down, and carried to the Colledge of Phys [...]tians, where all the learned Doctors and Chyrurgions met to anatomize her; but taking her out of the Coffin, and laying her on a Table, she began to st [...]r; whereupon Dr. Petty (age 27) & others, caused a warm bed to be prepared for her; and after 14 hours, she came to her self, uttering these words, Behold Gods providence, in raising me from death to life: With an excellent Prayer used by her morning, noon, and night, fit to be read in all Families, throughout England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales: Whereunto is annexed another strange Wonder from Ashburn in Darbishire, shewing how a young Woman dying in Child-bed, was buried, and delivered of a young Son in the grave, the strange things that befell thereupon, at the taking her out again.
Life of Henry VIII by Edward Herbert
The life and raigne of King Henry the Eighth. Written By the Right Honourable Edward Lord Herbert of Cherbury. 1649.
Robert Drury Trial and Execution
[After 26th February 1607]. A true report of the araignment, tryall, conuiction, and condemnation, of a popish priest, named Robert Drewrie (age 40) at the Sessions house in the old Baylie, on Friday and Wednesday, the 20. and 24. of February: the extraordinary great grace and mercie offered him, and his stubborne, traytorous, and wilfull refusall. Also the tryall and death of Humphrey Lloyd, for maliciouslie murdering one of the Guard. And lastly the execution of the said Robert Drewry, drawne in his priestly habit, and as he was a Benedictine fryer, on Thursdaie following to Tiborne, where he was hanged and quartered.
Several Speeches Upon the Scaffold
1649. The several speeches of Duke Hamilton Earl of Cambridge, Henry Earl of Holland, and Arthur Lord Capel, upon the scaffold immediately before their execution, on Friday the 9. of March. Also the several exhortations, and conferences with them, upon the scaffold, by Dr Sibbald, Mr Bolton, & Mr Hodges. Published by Special Authority. Printed for P. Cole, F. Tyton, and J. Playford,1649.
The History of Richard III by George Buck
The History of Richard III by George Buck, Master of the Revels.
A Wonder of Wonders. BEING A faithful Narrative and true Relation, of one Anne Green (age 23), Servant to Sir Tho. Reed in Oxfordshire, who being got with Child by a Gentleman, her Child falling from her in the house or Office, being but a span long, and dead born, was condemned on the 14. of December last, and hanged in the Castle-yard in Oxford, for the space of half an hour, receiving many great and heavy blowes on the brests, by the but end of the Souldiers Muskets, and being pul'd down by the leggs, and was afterwards beg'd for an Anatomy, by the Physicians, and carried to Mr. Clarkes house, an Apothecary, where in the presence of many learned Chyrurgions, she breathed, and began to stir; insomuch, that Dr. Petty (age 27) caused a warm bed to be prepared for her, let her blood, and applyed Oyls to her, so that in 14 hours she recovered, and the first words she spake were these; Behold Gods Providence! Behold his miraculous and loving kindness! VVith the manner of her Tryal, her Speech and Confession at the Gallowes; and a Declaration of the Souldiery touching her recovery▪ Witnessed by Dr. Petty, and Licensed according to Order. 13th January 1651.