Miscellanies upon various subjects ... / [John Aubrey].

  • John Aubrey
Date:
1784
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Credit: Miscellanies upon various subjects ... / [John Aubrey]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    fame apparition, and diffuaded the Bifhop from giving the firft onfet, but could not ‘prevail upon him. In the mean time, I find nothing in this revelation, that any common foldier might not conclude without extraor- dinary means. Near the fame place, a party of the Pro- teftants had been furprized, fleeping by the Po- pifh Irifh, were it not for feveral wrens that juft wakened them by dancing and pecking on the drums as the enemy were approaching. For this reafon the wild Irith mortally hate thefe birds, to this day, calling them the Devil’s fervants, and killing them wherever they catch them; they teach their children to thruft them full of thorns: you will fee fome- times on holidays, a whole parifh running like mad men from hedge to hedge a wren-hunt- ing. Anno 1679. After the difcovery of the Po- pih plot, the penal laws were put in execution againft the Roman Catholics; fo that, if they did’ not receive the facrament according Ls oars | to
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