 | Kirby's wonderful and eccentric museum - 1820 - 536 pages
...were divers witnesses, both squires aud ladies, whose names were engraved on the stone. This stone was to be sent to a town hard by Exeter, where this happened." Gentleman's Magazine, n 86. p. 999A SUBTERRANEAN FIRE DISCOVERED ON DIGGING A WELL. AT Antignac, a... | |
 | Nicholas Toms Carrington, Noel Thomas Carrington - 1834 - 340 pages
...little after, and such a bird was seen fluttering about his head a little before he expired, which vanished afterwards, " Here lies Elizabeth Oxenham,...churches. The accidental appearance of this bird at Oxenham, attracted thither by the light in the sick chamber, or by some other cause, may have given... | |
 | Robert Southey - Admirals - 1834 - 378 pages
...since, when such a bird with a white breast was seen about her bed before her death.' ** To- all these there be divers witnesses, both squires and ladies,...sent to a town hard by Exeter, where this happened. Were you here I could raise a choice discourse with you hereupon."— Epistohe Ho-Elian^i book i. sec.... | |
 | English essays - 1862 - 860 pages
...since, when such a bird with a white brest was seen about her bed before her death.' "To all these thcr be divers witnesses, both squires and ladies, whose...This stone is to be sent to a town hard by Exeter wher this happcu'd. Wore you here, I could raise a choice discoui * with yon hereupon. So hoping to... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1862 - 962 pages
...death.' "To all these ther be divers witnesses, both squires and ladies, whose names are engraven npon the stone. This stone is to be sent to a town hard by Exettr wher this bappen'd. Wore you here, I could raise a choice discours with you hereupon. So hoping... | |
 | John Timbs - London (England) - 1865 - 332 pages
...a white breast fluttering about the bed : witnesses' names were engraven on the stone, which " was to be sent to a town hard by Exeter, where this happened." Rackstrow was also a statuary, and had Sir Isaac Newton's Head for a sign : his museum consisted of... | |
 | Frederick George Lee - Spiritualism - 1875 - 322 pages
...monuments in late years by so-called " Church Restorers," this is not to be wondered at. "To all these there be divers witnesses both squires and ladies,...is to be sent to a town hard by Exeter where this happen'd. Were you here, I could raise a choice discours with you hereupon. So hoping to see you the... | |
 | Frederick George Lee - Spiritualism - 1875 - 316 pages
...monuments in late years by so-called " Church Restorers," this is not to be wondered at. " To all these there be divers witnesses both squires and ladies,...is to be sent to a town hard by Exeter where this happen'd. Were you here, I could raise a choice discours with you hereupon. So hoping to see you the... | |
 | William Henry Kearley Wright - Cornwall (England : County) - 1882 - 276 pages
...monument commemorating several examples o the omen, and he gives the inscriptions on it. He adds that " this stone is to be sent to a town hard by Exeter where this happened." Dr. Lee cites, in addition to this, a rare pamphlet in the British Museum (Press Mark, E., 205, 9),... | |
 | James Howell - England - 1890 - 704 pages
...years since, when such a Bird with a white breast was seen about her bed before her death. To all these there be divers witnesses, both Squires and Ladies,...is to be sent to a Town hard by 'Exeter, where this happen'd. Were you here, I could raise a choice Discourse with you hereupon. So, hoping to see you... | |
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At the bottom of the stone there is : Here lies ELIZABETH OXENHAM the mother of the said John, who died sixteen years since, when such a bird with a white breast was seen about her bed before her death. 
