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to bring her to life again, by giving her comfortable cordials, but all proving ineffectual, her father was ſent for, as were alſo ſeveral neighbours, who all gave her over for dead, there not being the leaſt ſign of breath left in her, ſo ſhe continued all that day and night to the ſorrowful lamentation of her parents, who loved her beyond meaſure, inſomuch, that the Reverend Mr. Dalton, Miniſter of that pariſh was ſent for to comfort them.

On the ſecond day, her body began to be cold, ſo it was propoſed among ſome of her friends to have her buried that evening; but by good fortune an uncle of her's living in Northamptonſhire, could not be at her funeral till the third night, upon which it was put off until that time.

Notice being given to the Reverend Mr. Dalton, the Miniſter. who came to preach her funeral ſermon on account of her ſudden death, which abundance of the neighbouring country people came to hear ſo that it was difficult to get into the church, the crowd was ſo great and preſſing. When about ſeven o'clock in the evening, all the (illegible text)nes being made ready to carry her to the church, after the relations, friends and acquaintance, had viewed her as long as they pleaſed, the corps was ordered to be nailed (illegible text), at which interim of time, to their great astoniſhment, the ſuppoſed dead body raiſed herſelf up, and reached out her arm to her mother who ſtood juſt by in order if poſſible, to be one of the laſt that ſaw her; who was