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AN ACCOUNT OF MRS. MARY HONYWOOD. 357
consequence of a suggestion from Professor Hermbstadt, of
Berlin, Mr. Robertson carried with him two birds; the
rarefaction of the air killed one of them ; the other was not
able to fly ; it lay extended on its back, but fluttered with
its wings ; 7. Water began to boil by means of a moderate
degree of heat maintained with quicklime ; 8. According
to observations made, it appears that the clouds never rise
above 2000 toises, and it was only in ascending and de-
cending' through clouds that Mr. Robertson was able to
obtain positive electricity.
An Account fl/’Mrs. Mary Honywood, tt’/zo left behind
her 367 lawful Descendants.
[With her Portrait.]
Tnisdady, who was one of the ancestors of the present
Honywood family, in Kent, was born at Lenham in that
county, about the year 1533, and was united by marriage
very early in life to Robert Honywood, Esq. of Charing,
in the same county, who was her only husband,—She was a
widow 44 years; but notwithstanding that, at her decease,
in the 93d year of her age, on the 18th of May, in 1620,
though she bore only 16 children, in her own person had
then lawfully descended from her, 114 grand children;
that is to say, 228 in the third generation, and 9 in the
fourth ; making in the whole 367. Her long life and health
was in a great measure accounted for, by the even and
Christian temper of her life, not being reckoned a restless
or censorious fanatic, but a truly pious, resigned, and
charitable Christian.—Her long course of life and widow-
hood, she at length finished, not where she began it, but
at Markeshall, in the county of Essex, the dwelling of
one of those numerous relatives before mentioned, then
-wanting less than seven of a hundred years of age.—Her
maiden name was Mary Waters, and her eldest son, Sir
Robert Honywood, after her decease, caused a monument
to be erected to her memory, at Markeshall Church, in
the county of Essex aforesaid.
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consequence of a suggestion from Professor Hermbstadt, of
Berlin, Mr. Robertson carried with him two birds; the
rarefaction of the air killed one of them ; the other was not
able to fly ; it lay extended on its back, but fluttered with
its wings ; 7. Water began to boil by means of a moderate
degree of heat maintained with quicklime ; 8. According
to observations made, it appears that the clouds never rise
above 2000 toises, and it was only in ascending and de-
cending' through clouds that Mr. Robertson was able to
obtain positive electricity.
An Account fl/’Mrs. Mary Honywood, tt’/zo left behind
her 367 lawful Descendants.
[With her Portrait.]
Tnisdady, who was one of the ancestors of the present
Honywood family, in Kent, was born at Lenham in that
county, about the year 1533, and was united by marriage
very early in life to Robert Honywood, Esq. of Charing,
in the same county, who was her only husband,—She was a
widow 44 years; but notwithstanding that, at her decease,
in the 93d year of her age, on the 18th of May, in 1620,
though she bore only 16 children, in her own person had
then lawfully descended from her, 114 grand children;
that is to say, 228 in the third generation, and 9 in the
fourth ; making in the whole 367. Her long life and health
was in a great measure accounted for, by the even and
Christian temper of her life, not being reckoned a restless
or censorious fanatic, but a truly pious, resigned, and
charitable Christian.—Her long course of life and widow-
hood, she at length finished, not where she began it, but
at Markeshall, in the county of Essex, the dwelling of
one of those numerous relatives before mentioned, then
-wanting less than seven of a hundred years of age.—Her
maiden name was Mary Waters, and her eldest son, Sir
Robert Honywood, after her decease, caused a monument
to be erected to her memory, at Markeshall Church, in
the county of Essex aforesaid.
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