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kirby’s wonderful museum.
geon and anatomist to his Majesty. To which is added,
An exact Diary of what was observed during a close at-
tendance upon the Rabbit Breeder, from Monday,
November 28, to Wednesday, December 7, 1726, by
order of his Majesty. With an account of her confession
of the fraud, at Lacey's Hotel, Leicester Square. By
Sir Richard Manningham, Knt. Fellow of the Royal
Society, and of the College of Physicians, London.
The following extraordinary narrative of Mary Toft, oc-
cupied the attention of the whole community at the time,
equal to Ann Moore, oi' Joanna Southcott; and when the
names of such respectable surgeons are accompanied with
the tale, the public are more easily led astray, and an impo-
sition not so soon detected, thereby numbers of well-mean-
ing and charitable people are duped of their money:—
a Whatever may be the fate of this account, I think myself
indispensably obliged to relate the facts that I saw and
transacted myself, as also the reasons which first induced me
to inquire into the truth of such an extraordinary event;
but I here declare, that I take on me no other part of this
narration, than that in which I was actually concerned.
11 As Mr. Howard himself intends shortly to publish the
whole account, and prove every circumstance of it, by such
evidences as will put this matter out of all possibility of
doubt, I must refer to him for several particulars here
omitted
“ And as it will be impossible to judge impartially of this
fact, till the evidences above mentioned are produced, it can-
not be doubted but all such persons as are not governed by
prejudice, or some worse motive, will suspend their judg-
ment till these facts come to their knowledge by a more cer-
tain way, than by thing reports and conjectures.
a The first intelligence which 1 received of this matter, was
on the 5th instant, when 1 saw a very particular account,
taken the 4th instant, at Guildford, by Mr. Davenant, of
kirby’s wonderful museum.
geon and anatomist to his Majesty. To which is added,
An exact Diary of what was observed during a close at-
tendance upon the Rabbit Breeder, from Monday,
November 28, to Wednesday, December 7, 1726, by
order of his Majesty. With an account of her confession
of the fraud, at Lacey's Hotel, Leicester Square. By
Sir Richard Manningham, Knt. Fellow of the Royal
Society, and of the College of Physicians, London.
The following extraordinary narrative of Mary Toft, oc-
cupied the attention of the whole community at the time,
equal to Ann Moore, oi' Joanna Southcott; and when the
names of such respectable surgeons are accompanied with
the tale, the public are more easily led astray, and an impo-
sition not so soon detected, thereby numbers of well-mean-
ing and charitable people are duped of their money:—
a Whatever may be the fate of this account, I think myself
indispensably obliged to relate the facts that I saw and
transacted myself, as also the reasons which first induced me
to inquire into the truth of such an extraordinary event;
but I here declare, that I take on me no other part of this
narration, than that in which I was actually concerned.
11 As Mr. Howard himself intends shortly to publish the
whole account, and prove every circumstance of it, by such
evidences as will put this matter out of all possibility of
doubt, I must refer to him for several particulars here
omitted
“ And as it will be impossible to judge impartially of this
fact, till the evidences above mentioned are produced, it can-
not be doubted but all such persons as are not governed by
prejudice, or some worse motive, will suspend their judg-
ment till these facts come to their knowledge by a more cer-
tain way, than by thing reports and conjectures.
a The first intelligence which 1 received of this matter, was
on the 5th instant, when 1 saw a very particular account,
taken the 4th instant, at Guildford, by Mr. Davenant, of