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Newspaper
Bristol Journal
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Jun 28, 1788
Page
4
A long readers’ reply column revisits the alleged deliverance of George Lukins of Yatton. The writers print letters and narratives from 1788 describing brutal fits, demonic possession, and controversial exorcism claims, urging public judgment.
An account from June 18 1788 describes a man brought to BrioF who, during a vestry meeting at Temple Church, exhibited violent convulsions and multiple voices claiming to be devils. Clergy prayed as the patient endured prolonged fits, delivering by prayer and uttered cries of blasphemy. After two hours the afflicted man calmed, prayed, and departed delivered, with no recurrence reported.
A writer details George Lukins of Yatton and his supposed demonic fits after a Christmas outing in 1769 1770. Lukins later claimed witchcraft or evil spirit influence, yet the account notes his retained senses and highlights his singing background amid varied paroxysms and alleged magical exclamations.
In 1788 at Yatton, George Lukins exhibited fits and tricks blamed on witches and devils. A physician narrator describes observed feints, testing movements, and attempts to prove bewitchment. After hospital care and home lodging, his feats continued, shifting blame to Satan, with the narrator defending his strength and noting relief after institutional attention.
This fragment recalls the Hanway memorial in North Cross Isle with a multi figure epitaph praised for charity and virtue, plus a Marine Society funded monument design. It also describes trials at Guildhall, a stabbing incident, Lady Strathmore versus Bowes, a fatal docking accident near Daventry and Dunchurch, and Cherbourg wind damage to cones with government plans for new cones and port hopes in France.
COUNTRY NEWS from Margate Southampton Reading Oxford Stamford and Salisbury details a denied search on the Grand Duke privateer after a Deal offer to board for seamen, a whale-ship bounty voyage from Southampton, a Buckinghamshire storm at Colnbrook, a Royal Prince of Wales theatre visit rumor, a Whittering fatal accident involving a two year old, and Venus the evening star visible near Salisbury.
A parcel directed for Richard Child of Worcester, left between Newport and Tewksbury after leaving the Bush Tavern Bristol at two in the morning of Tuesday the fifth. All payments are stopped and no one should cash them. A reward of five guineas is offered for information leading to restoration to the owner E Doughty Bristol Tones Swanson Glocester H Collett Tewwhbury or R Child Worcester. On each bill the letters TF and a red ink number are appended.
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