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miwonancs.LONDON.Sept. 16. By a Letter from Woodbridge in Suf folk, we learn, that the Country People about Af-pal Stonham, and the Neighbourhood, are fiill fo full of Ignorance and Superftition, that they imafine there are feveral Witches and Wizards in the leighbourhood ; and that they have tied up two or three old People in Sheets, with Cords round their Middles, and flung them into the Rivers, to fee if they could fave themfelves ; but whether the Cords held them up, or Providence fuppoited the poor Wretches, it's certain they got fafe on Shore. This has confirmed their Opinion; and to them they attribute the Lofs of Cattle, bad.Harvefl, c. and infift that theie poor Wretches (hall be tried by the Church Bible, whether they are Witches or no ; for if Witches the Bible will turn round, and not weigh them down, and fuch iole Stuff; but the Clergy in that Neighbourhood are too wife to liften to them, or fuffer fuch nonfenfical Trials.Extrad of a Letter from an elderly Gentlewoman of great Reputation in the Town of Buckingham, dated Auguft 10, 1752, to an eminent Divine in London.Dear Sir,The Stile Adi, as they call it, being to take Place the 3d of next Month, it gives me vafi Concern to think that we muft then give up that Sabbath which was appointed fo many Centuries ago to keep holy, by God and our Saviour. According to our prefent Method of Reckoning, the ystb of this prefent Month of Auguft is Sunday; and, was not the eleven Days to be dropt, the following Sunday would have beenSeptember 6, the next September 13 : Whereas now, according to this new Alteration, after Sun day Auguft 30, we are to have no more Sundays 'til September 17. Had no Sunday been kept from Auguft 30 'til September zo, it would have givenme no Manner of Uneafinefs, as we Jbculd only have dropt two Sundays, and then have kept our natural Sundays• as before; but I am fadly at a Lofs to conceive how thinking People can reconcile it to their Confciences to go to Church on Thurfday, September 17, and call it Sunday', and to open their Shops, and fet tbcis People to work on Sunday, September 20, and call it only Wednefday; for my Part, who am a JlriQ Ob/erver of that Holy Sabbath, only appointed by God and my Saviour, I cannot reconcile it to my Confcience at all; and therefore beg the Favour of you, Sir, as I know you to be a Man offreat Learning, to clear this Matter up to me in a'oft or two. [Surely this venerable Gentlewomancannot be fufpefted of Witchcraft.]
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Annapolis Maryland Gazette
Annapolis, Maryland, US
Thu, Jan 11, 1753
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