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The Bible and the sword, or, The appointment of the general fast vindicated in an address to the common people, concerning the propriety of repressing obstinate licentiousness with the sword, and of fasting when the sword is drawn for that purpose.
John William FletcherDate: 1776
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The autobiography of Elizabeth Squirrell of Shottisham, and selections from her writings : together with an examination and defence of her statements relative to her sufferings, blindness, deafness, entire abstinence from food and drink during twenty-five weeks, and other extraordinary phenomena: also facts and opinions illustrative and suggestive / by one of her watchers.
Squirrell, Elizabeth, 1838-Date: 1853- Books
"A wonderful little girl" : the true story of Sarah Jacob, the Welsh fasting girl / Siân Busby.
Siân BusbyDate: 2003- Books
"Shall she famish then?" : female food refusal in early modern England / Nancy Gutierrez.
Gutierrez, Nancy A., 1951-Date: [2003]- Ephemera
By the king : A proclamation for a general fast / William R.
William IVDate: 1832







![A full exposure and confession of Ann Moore, the fasting woman of Tutbury / [Ann Moore].](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b12154325_0001.jp2/full/282%2C/0/default.jpg)

