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44 EXTRAORDINARY STRENGTH OF
A Rat-catcher, who lived at Oxford in 1788, had a
very famous dog; for some time he perceived that the
animal was very uneasy, and walked inclining on one side.
To relieve him, if possible, he had often examined his
side, but never found any thing that could account for it;
till one day, when examining him, for the same purpose,
he felt something slightly prick his hand, when getting a
pair of scissars to clip away the hair, he accidentally caught
hold of the point of a needle, which proved a large one,
used for darning stockings, and he drew it out of his
body, with a piece of worsted attached to it a yard and a
half long.'—What was more extraordinary, the dog was
instantaneously cured of the inconvenience he had laboured
under, without any further application whatever.
Extraordinary Strength o/De Courcy, Earl of Ulster,
in the Reign of King John-, which was the Cause of the
Family Privilege of being covered before the King.
TL his privilege appears to have been granted by that
Monarch, in 1203 ; when John de Courcy, Earl of Ulster,
was supplanted, and lost the King’s favour; Hugh de
Lacy, the younger, Earl of Meath, who was formerly
joined with him in the government of Ireland, alledging he
had spoken several disrespectful words, highly reflecting
on the King about the murder of his nephew Arthur,
Duke of Britany in France (whose right to the crown was
before that of King John) ; at which the King being sorely
displeased, ordered the said Lacy, who was then Governor
of Ireland, to seize the Earl of Ulster, and send him pri-
soner to England. Lacy, who was the Earl’s grand enemy,
gladly obeyed the command, and several times attempted
to take him by force ; but finding that would not do, he
at last hired some of the Earl’s own servants to betray
their master into his hands, which took effect on Good-
Friday, 1203 ; for on that day, the Earl (according to the
devotion
A Rat-catcher, who lived at Oxford in 1788, had a
very famous dog; for some time he perceived that the
animal was very uneasy, and walked inclining on one side.
To relieve him, if possible, he had often examined his
side, but never found any thing that could account for it;
till one day, when examining him, for the same purpose,
he felt something slightly prick his hand, when getting a
pair of scissars to clip away the hair, he accidentally caught
hold of the point of a needle, which proved a large one,
used for darning stockings, and he drew it out of his
body, with a piece of worsted attached to it a yard and a
half long.'—What was more extraordinary, the dog was
instantaneously cured of the inconvenience he had laboured
under, without any further application whatever.
Extraordinary Strength o/De Courcy, Earl of Ulster,
in the Reign of King John-, which was the Cause of the
Family Privilege of being covered before the King.
TL his privilege appears to have been granted by that
Monarch, in 1203 ; when John de Courcy, Earl of Ulster,
was supplanted, and lost the King’s favour; Hugh de
Lacy, the younger, Earl of Meath, who was formerly
joined with him in the government of Ireland, alledging he
had spoken several disrespectful words, highly reflecting
on the King about the murder of his nephew Arthur,
Duke of Britany in France (whose right to the crown was
before that of King John) ; at which the King being sorely
displeased, ordered the said Lacy, who was then Governor
of Ireland, to seize the Earl of Ulster, and send him pri-
soner to England. Lacy, who was the Earl’s grand enemy,
gladly obeyed the command, and several times attempted
to take him by force ; but finding that would not do, he
at last hired some of the Earl’s own servants to betray
their master into his hands, which took effect on Good-
Friday, 1203 ; for on that day, the Earl (according to the
devotion