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Mortals, Predestination, and a Woolpit-Tragedy Sketch
Fragments recount a 1810 Woolpit incident where two men from Woolpit to Bury St Edmund’s died after a wagon wheel crushed the elder and the youth’s head struck the wheel. The narrative links the deaths to impious conduct and religious hostility, noting prior disturbances at a preaching gathering and a violent, fatal accident amid a winter morning.
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