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SINGULAR PRESERVATION, &C.
the time of his final retirement from the world, had kept a
shop at Chesham, in Buckinghamshire. This he not only
gave up, but sold a considerable estate to give to the
poor, in compliance with what he esteemed a command, in
Mark, chap. x. verse 21.—Go thy way, sell whatsoever thou
hast, and give it to the poor. After this, he esteemed it a
sin against his body and soul to eat any sort of flesh, fish,
or living creature; or to drink any wine, ale, or beer.—-
It was even said, he would live upon three farthings a-week,
as his constant food was cabbage, carrots, dock leaves, tur-
nips, or grass; also bread and bran, without butter or
cheese.
SINGULAR PRESERVATION IN AN UNCOMMON ACCIDENT.
On Friday, June 3, 1803, a brewer’s dray with two horses,
coming down Snow-hill from Cow-lane, a very deep cavity
being dug for the foundation of a large house where the
leatherseller’s stood, one of the horses being restive, they
ran against the rail put there to prevent accidents, and
precipitated themselves with the man, who had hold of the
fore horse, into the deep declivity. Having by the sudden
motion detached themselves from the dray, it hung upon
the brink; and though the three butts of beer rolled down
from the dray in quick succession after the horses, to the
farthest end of the cavity, happily neither man nor horse
received the least injury. To release them from this un-
toward situation, and form a slope for their ascent, it was
found necessary to dig away a great part of the wall and
the ground.
On Monday, June 6, a coroner’s inquest, held at the sign
of the Hospital, near Mile-End Turnpike, on the body of
Joseph Williams, landlord of the Three Cranes public-
house, and those of his wife, her mother, and three children,
who were all burnt to death on the Saturday morning
preceding;
SINGULAR PRESERVATION, &C.
the time of his final retirement from the world, had kept a
shop at Chesham, in Buckinghamshire. This he not only
gave up, but sold a considerable estate to give to the
poor, in compliance with what he esteemed a command, in
Mark, chap. x. verse 21.—Go thy way, sell whatsoever thou
hast, and give it to the poor. After this, he esteemed it a
sin against his body and soul to eat any sort of flesh, fish,
or living creature; or to drink any wine, ale, or beer.—-
It was even said, he would live upon three farthings a-week,
as his constant food was cabbage, carrots, dock leaves, tur-
nips, or grass; also bread and bran, without butter or
cheese.
SINGULAR PRESERVATION IN AN UNCOMMON ACCIDENT.
On Friday, June 3, 1803, a brewer’s dray with two horses,
coming down Snow-hill from Cow-lane, a very deep cavity
being dug for the foundation of a large house where the
leatherseller’s stood, one of the horses being restive, they
ran against the rail put there to prevent accidents, and
precipitated themselves with the man, who had hold of the
fore horse, into the deep declivity. Having by the sudden
motion detached themselves from the dray, it hung upon
the brink; and though the three butts of beer rolled down
from the dray in quick succession after the horses, to the
farthest end of the cavity, happily neither man nor horse
received the least injury. To release them from this un-
toward situation, and form a slope for their ascent, it was
found necessary to dig away a great part of the wall and
the ground.
On Monday, June 6, a coroner’s inquest, held at the sign
of the Hospital, near Mile-End Turnpike, on the body of
Joseph Williams, landlord of the Three Cranes public-
house, and those of his wife, her mother, and three children,
who were all burnt to death on the Saturday morning
preceding;