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WONDERFUL SLEEPERS.
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SLEEPER IN THE TOWER OF LONDON.
William Foxley, pot-maker for the Mint in the Tower of
London, fell asleep on Tuesday, in Easter week, and could
not be waked, with pinching or burning, till the first day
of the next term, which was full 14 days ; and when he was
then awaked, he was found in all points, as if he had slept
but one night. He lived 40 years after: this matter fell
out in the 37th year of King Henry the Eighth’s reign.
Baker’s Chron. p. 428. Stowe’s Chron. p. 591.
Wanley, fyc.
AN ACCOUNT OF AN EXTRAORDINARY SLEEPER, AT ST.
GILIAN, NEAR MONS, IN HAINAULT.
BY DR. BRADY, PHYSICIAN TO PRINCE CHARLES OF LORRAIN.
This woman, whose name was Elizabeth Orian, was of a
healthy robust constitution, and many years servant to the
parish priest of St. Gilian, near Mons, in Hainault. In
the beginning of the year 1738, when she was about 36
years of age, she became suddenly uneasy, sullen, and surly;
and in the month of August, fell into a sound sleep, that
lasted four days, notwithstanding all possible endeavours to
awake her. At last, she awaked of herself, in a very bad
humour, but went about her business for the next six or
seven days, as usual, when she fell asleep again, and slept
18 hours ; from that time till 1753, n ar 15 years, she con-
tinued to sleep every day, from about three in the morning
till eight or nine at night, except about four months in the
year 1745, when she had a natural sleep, and about 21 days
In the year 1748, when she was kept awake by a tertian ague.
On the 20th of February, 1755, about five in the even-
ing, Dr. Brady went to see her, with the surgeon-major of
an Austrian regiment; he felt her pulse, and found it
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187
SLEEPER IN THE TOWER OF LONDON.
William Foxley, pot-maker for the Mint in the Tower of
London, fell asleep on Tuesday, in Easter week, and could
not be waked, with pinching or burning, till the first day
of the next term, which was full 14 days ; and when he was
then awaked, he was found in all points, as if he had slept
but one night. He lived 40 years after: this matter fell
out in the 37th year of King Henry the Eighth’s reign.
Baker’s Chron. p. 428. Stowe’s Chron. p. 591.
Wanley, fyc.
AN ACCOUNT OF AN EXTRAORDINARY SLEEPER, AT ST.
GILIAN, NEAR MONS, IN HAINAULT.
BY DR. BRADY, PHYSICIAN TO PRINCE CHARLES OF LORRAIN.
This woman, whose name was Elizabeth Orian, was of a
healthy robust constitution, and many years servant to the
parish priest of St. Gilian, near Mons, in Hainault. In
the beginning of the year 1738, when she was about 36
years of age, she became suddenly uneasy, sullen, and surly;
and in the month of August, fell into a sound sleep, that
lasted four days, notwithstanding all possible endeavours to
awake her. At last, she awaked of herself, in a very bad
humour, but went about her business for the next six or
seven days, as usual, when she fell asleep again, and slept
18 hours ; from that time till 1753, n ar 15 years, she con-
tinued to sleep every day, from about three in the morning
till eight or nine at night, except about four months in the
year 1745, when she had a natural sleep, and about 21 days
In the year 1748, when she was kept awake by a tertian ague.
On the 20th of February, 1755, about five in the even-
ing, Dr. Brady went to see her, with the surgeon-major of
an Austrian regiment; he felt her pulse, and found it
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