she lived several years; being a girl of a bold, daring spirit, she would venture at those difficulties and dangers that no boy would attempt.
In the year 1645 (she then being nineteen years old), she being, one day, knitting in an arbour in our garden, there came over the gardenhedge to her (as she affirmed) six persons, of a small stature, all clothed in green, which she called fairies; upon which she was so frighted, that she fell into a kind of convulsion-fit. But, when we found her in this condition, we brought her into the house; and put her to bed, and took great care of her. As soon as she recovered out of her fit, she cries out, "They are just gone out of the window; they are just gone out of the window; do you not see them?" And thus, in the height of her sickness, she would often cry out, and that with eagerness; which expressions were attributed to her distemper, supposing her light-headed.
[On her recovery she becomes very religious, goes constantly to church, and takes mighty delight in devotion, although she could not herself read. She even begins to work miracles, and, by the blessing of god, cures her old mistress's leg, which had been hurt by a fall, as she was coming
these particulars to the right reverend father in god Edward Fowler lord bishop of Gloucester, printed in 1696.
