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A54935	An account of one Ann Jefferies, now living in the county of Cornwall, who was fed for six months by a small sort of airy people call'd fairies, and of the strange and wonderful cures she performed with slaves and medicines she received from them, for which she never took one penny of her patients in a letter from Moses Pitt to the Right Reverend Father in God, Dr. Edward Fowler, Lord Bishop of Glocester.	Pitt, Moses, fl. 1654-1696.	1696 (1696)	Wing P2301; ESTC R2495	10,095	24

AN ACCOUNT OF ONE Ann Jefferies Now Living in the County of Cornwall who was fed for six Months by a small sort of Airy People call'd Fairies And of the strange and wonderful Cures she performed with Salves and Medicines she received from them for which she never took one Penny of her Patients In a Letter from Moses Pitt to the Right Reverend Father in God Dr. Edward Fowler Lord Bishop of Glocester All the Works of Providence are not alike Sometimes for wise and good Reasons God has been pleased quite to alter the Course of Nature as it were to shew himself to have a Power above it Mr. Samuel Barton's Sermon before the House of Common April 16 1696. Page the 7th London Printed for Richard Cumberland at the Angel in St. Paul's Church-yard 1696. MY LORD WHEN about Christmas last I waited on you with my printed Letter to the Author of a Book intituled Some Discourses upon Dr. Burnet now Lord Bishop of Salisbury and Dr. Tillotson late Lord Arch-Bishop of Canterbury occasioned by the late Funeral-Sermon of the former upon the latter After I had paid my Duty and Service to your Lordship you were pleased to take me by the Hand and would not let me go till I had promised you to publish to the World this following Narrative of and concerning Ann Jefferies which I had told you about 15 or 20 Years ago one Lord's-day at Dinner where was also Mr. Will. Tom sometime since Mayor of Plimouth and at this time living there and is Son of the Gentlewoman of that Name mentioned in this Narrative who did aver the Truth of many if not all the Passages I here relate and will also still justify the same I doubt not but I could bring several other Persons now living to justify the Truth of what I here writ Nay she her self who is at this time living in Cornwall must own it and a great deal more if she could be prevailed with to speak out My Lord I thought I could if any Person alive have prevail'd with her she being the Servant that attended me in my Childhood but your Lordship may see that I cannot and therefore your Lordship must be content with what I here publish And altho I was then but a Child yet I am satisfied I was not nor could not be imposed on in this Affair they having made so great am Impression on me from my Childhood hitherto I know my Lord that the great Part of the World will not believe the Passages here related by reason of the Strangeness of them but I cannot help their Unbelief Your Lordship knows the Record where it 's mentioned That the Great God did marvelous things in the sight of our Forefathers but for all that they sinned yet more and believed not his wonderous Works And therefore Unbelief is no new Sin crept into the World And moreover my Lord if Men would give themselves time to think they cannot but remember that the Great God has done as great and marvelous Works in our Age both in Judgment and in Mercy as he did in the days of old By which the greatest Atheist may be convinc'd not only of the Being of a God but also that his Power and his Goodness are as manifest now as of old and therefore it 's the Duty of all that do by personal Knowledg know any extraordinary Works or Providences of God which are uncommon to publish them to the World that the Great God may be glorified and Mankind edified which is purely and truly the Design of publishing the following Narrative An ACCOVNT of one Ann Jefferies now alive in the County of Cornwall who was fed for 6 Months by a small sort of Airy People call'd Fairies and of the strange and wonderful Cures she performed c. ANN Jefferies for that was her Maiden Named of whom the following strange things are related was born in the Parish of St. Teath in the County of Cornwall in December 1626. and she is still living 1696. being now in the 70th Year of her Age she is married to one William Warden formerly Hind a Hind is one that looks after the rest of the Servants the Grounds Cattel Corn c. of his Master to the late eminent Physician Dr. Richard Lower deceased and now lives as Hind to Sir Andrew Slanning of Devon Bar. I must acquaint you Sir that I have made it my Business but could not prevail to get a Relation from her of what she her self remembers of those several strange Passages of her Life that I here relate or of any other that I have either forgot or that never came to my Cognizance but she being prevail'd with by some of her poor ignorant Neighbours not to do it and she fancying that if she should do it she might again fall into Trouble about it I here give your Lordship the best and faithfullest Account I can In the Year 1691. I wrote into Cornwall to my Sister Mary Martyn's Son an Attorney to go to the said Ann and discourse her as from me about the most material strange Passages of her Life He answers my Letter Sept. 13 1691. and saith I have been with Ann Jefferies and she can give me no particular Account of her Condition it being so long since my Grandfather and Mother say that she was in Bodmyn Goal three Months and lived six Months without Meat and during her Continuance in that Condition several eminent Cures were performed by her the Particulars no one can now relate My Mother saw the Fairies once and heard one say that they should give some Meat to the Child that she might return to her Parents Which is the fullest Relation can now be given But I not being satisfied with this Answer did in the Year 1693. write into Cornwall to my Sister's Husband Mr. Humph. Martyn and desired him to go to Ann Jefferies to see if he could perswade her to give me what Account she could remember of the many and strange Passages of her Life He answers my Letter Jan. 31 1693. and saith As for Ann Jefferies I have been with her the greatest part of one day and did read to her all that you wrote to me but she would not own any thing of it as concerning the Fairies neither of any of the Cures she then did I endeavoured to perswade her she might receive some Benefit by it She answered That if her own Father were now alive she would not discover to him those things that did then happen to her I ask'd her the Reason why she would not do it She reply'd That if she should discover it to you that you would make either Books or Ballads of it And she said That she would not have her Name spread about the Country in Books or Ballads of such things if she might have five hundred Pounds for the doing of it for she said she had been questioned before Justices and at the Sessions and in Prison and also before