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A82084	A declaration from Oxford, of Anne Green a young woman that was lately, and unjustly hanged in the Castle-yard; but since recovered, her neck set strait, and her eyes fixed orderly and firmly in her head again: with her speech touching four angels that appeared to her when she was dead; and their strange expressions, apparations, and passages that happened thereupon, the like never heard of before: being a more full and perfect relation of the great handiwork of God, to the said Anne Green, servant to Sir Tho. Read, who being got with child, and delivered of it in a house of office, dead born, received an unjust sentence to be hanged, and after half an hour, was cut down, and carried to the colledge of physitians, where all the learned doctors and chyrurgions met to anatomize her; but ... she began to stir; ... and after 14. hours, she came to her self, ... Whereunto is annexed another strange wonder from Ashburn in Darbishire, shewing how a young woman dying in child-bed, was buried, and delivered of a young son in the grave		1651 (1651)	Wing D585A; ESTC R226660	4,964	9

Musket and having hung half an hour she was cut down being quite dead and put into the Chyrurgions Chest who had beg'd her for an Anatomy and carried to Mr. Clarks house an Apothecary where the Physitions met to try their skill and having prefixed a time for the reading a Lecture over her being usual upon the anatom●zing of either man or woman When they were all met her body was taken out of the Coffin and laid upon a large Table where in the presence of them all she began to breath which was no small terror nor admiration to all that were then present whereupon a large dispute arose about her and one amongst the rest Dr. Petty by name went to her took her by the hand and laid his ear to her Temples and perceiving life declared that there was a great hand of God in the business and imediatly let her bloud in three places After which he caused a warm bed to be prepared for her and a woman to lie with her and applyed several Oyls unto her using many other circumstances of art until she recovered which was within 14. hours And even in the last minute of the 14. hour she opened her eyes uttering these words Behold Gods Providence and his wonder of wonders which indeed is a deliverance so remarkable since the ceassing of Miracles that it cannot be parallel'd in all Ages for the space of 300 years And withall it may remain upon record for a president to all Magistrates and Courts of Judicature to take a special care in denounsing of sentence without a due and legal process according to the known Laws of the Land by an impartial and uncorrupted Jury either of men or women c. This poor Creature is now well recovered and in perfect health since which time being asked what apparisions she saw during her Trance she replyed That being as it were in a Garden of Paradice there appeared to her 4. little boyes with wings being four Angels saying Woe unto them that decree unrighteous Decrees and take away the right from the Judges that the innocent may be their prey Upon which words they vanished c. And being further asked whether she felt any pain at the place of execution she replyed That she never felt when her Irons was knockt of nor how she was brought out of prison but remembred the time of her being upon the Ladder and what she spake to the People further alleaging that she saw her chief enemy dead before her which is observable that within some hours after Sir Tho. Read died Since her recovery she hath uttered many worthy expressions glorifying of God and magnifying his great name for these his wonderful mercies bestowed upon her and withall morning noon and night doth not cease from acknowledging his divine goodness and deliverance vouchsafed to her calling upon his great name in these words O most gracious and merciful Father who art the Lord of health and si●kness of life and of death who killest and makest alive who bringest down to the grave and raiseth up again who art the only preserver of all those that trust in thee I thy poor and unworthy Servant having now felt the grievousness due unto sin and the greatness of thy mercy in forgiving sinners and perceiving with what a fatherly compassion thou hast heard my prayers and restored me to my health and strength again do here upon the bended knees of my heart return with the thankful Leaper to acknowledge thee alone to be the God of my health and salvation and to give thee the praise and glory of my strength and deliverance out of my late grievous malady and for thus turning my mourning into mirth my sickness into health and my death into life My sins deserved punishment and thou hast corrupted me but hast not given me over unto death I lifted up mine eyes unto thee O Lord and thou didst comfort me and when I found no help in my self nor in any other Creature saying I am deprived of the residue of my years then didst thou restore me to health again and gavest life unto me I found thee O Lord ready to save me And now Lord I confess that I c●n n●ver yield unto thee such a measure of thanks as thou hast deserved at my hands And seeing that I can never be able to repay thy goodness with acceptable works Oh that I could with Mary Magdalen testifie the love and thank fulness of my heart with abounding tears Oh what shall I be able to render unto thee O Lord for all these benefits which thou hast bestowed upon my soul O Lord I do hare offer up my self unto thee beseeching thee still to assist me with thy holy spirit that the remainder of my life may wholly be spent in setting forth thy praise and glory O Lord forgive me my former follies and unthankfulness that I was not more careful to love thee according to thy goodness nor to serve thee according to thy will nor to obey thee according to thy benefits O Lord with my new health renew in me a right spirit which may free me from the slavery of sin and establish my heart in the service of grace Work in me a greater de●●station of all my sin● and increase my faith in Jesus Christ who is the Authour of my health and salvation Let thy good spirit lead me in the way that I should walk and reach me to deny all ungodliness and worldly lusts and to live soberly righteously and godly in this world that others by my example may think better of thy truth And therefore O Lord I do here from the very bottom of my heart acknowledge to be due unto thee O Father which sitteth upon the Throne and to the Lamb thy Son who sitteth at thy right hand and to the holy spirit all praise honour glory and power from this time forth and for evermore Amen Another strange passage worthy of observation lately happened at Ashborn in Darbishire where a woma● being in sore travel after many hours died in Child-ded and having lain dead for some certain time according to usual custom her Corpes was buried and within an hour after a Country Virgin passing by the Grave over the Church-yard she heard a young Child cry who going to the place and laying her ear close to the ground perceived that her Neighbour was there delivered whereupon she imediately ran to the Clark and acquainted him therewith the Clark hastned to the Minister and both came together to the forecited place where taking off the moulds and opening ehe Coffin they found that the woman was delivered of a Sonne but both dead which did not a little cause great admiration and to the end that a further examination might be made concerning the business other Ne●ghbours were called to testifie the truth and certainty of this great work of God where at present I shall desist from further insisting thereupon by reason that there is preparing for the Press a full and infallible Narrative touching the same with a subscription of divers Knights and Gentlemens hands thereunto FINIS

A Declaration from Oxford of Anne Green A young woman that was lately and unjustly hanged in the Castle-yard but since recovered her neck set strait and her eyes fixed orderly and firmly in her head again With her Speech touching four Angels that appeared to her when she was dead and their strange expressions apparations and passages that happened thereupon the like never heard of before Being a more full and perfect Relation of the great handiwork of God to the said Anne Green Servant to Sir Tho. Read who being got with Child and delivered of it in a house of Office dead born received an unjust sentence to be hanged and after half an hour was cut down and carried to the Colledge of Phys●tians where all the learned Doctors and Chyrurgions met to anatomize her but taking her out of the Coffin and laying her on a Table she began to st●r whereupon Dr. Petty others caused a warm bed to be prepared for her and after 14. hours she came to her self uttering these words Behold Gods providence in raising me from death to life With an excellent Prayer used by her morning noon and night fit to be read in all Families throughout England Ireland Scotland and Wales Whereunto is annexed another strange Wonder from Ashburn in Darbishire shewing how a young Woman dying in Child-bed was buried and delivered of a young Son in the grave the strange things that befell thereupon at the taking her out again Licensed according to Order Behold Gods Providence LONDON Printed by J. Clowes 1651. A Word to the judicious Reader DIvine Providence having been pleased to illustrate to the World its great power and magnificence in former Ages for the relieving of the oppressed and righting of the poor and innocent hath now in our days most wonderfully and miraculously vouchsafed to look down from Heaven with a bright unspotted and All seeing Eye upon the unwarranted proceedings and free corrupting juglings of the wicked men on earth and to the end that this great work of God may be made known I shall here present thee with an infallible Narrative touching one Anne Green sent from Oxford by an eye and ear witness who unjustly re●eived sentence to be hanged in the Castle-yard on the 14. of Decemb. last the manner charge and particulars whereof follow This Anne Green Servant to Sir Thomas Read being very busie at turning of Mault over-reaching her self found her self to be very ill whereupon she imediately went into the house of Office remaining about a quarter of an hour full of pain at last a Child about a span long sprung from her but abortive which much impaird her health and strength but being exceeding fearful that a discovery should be made thereof she laid it in a corner of the aforesaid house and covered it with dust and rubbish During which time one of her Fellow-Servants admiring that she staid so long and hearing many heavp groans went to see what was become of her who found her in a very sad and deplorable condition and asking her what the matter was she reply'd she was utterly undone undone undone Why Anne I hope thou art not with Child Alas alas Mary that ever I was born to live and die in shame and scorn I was but now I am clear of it Why what is become of it she answered look yonder where it lies and going to the place casting off the dust ran shrieking out into the house acquainting her Master and Mrs. with this sad accident in so much that they presently sent for her in and demanded who it was that had committed that foul act and contemptible crime with her who answered a Gentleman of good birth and Kinsman to a Justice of Peace But after half an hours discourse she was carried before a Just●ce who upon examination confessed that she was guilty of the Act in committing of the sin but clear and innocent of the crime for murthering of it for that it was dead bor● yet notwithstanding after further examination the Justice caused her Mittimus to be made inditing her to answer it at the next Assizes and forthwith sent her to the Castle-Goal at Oxford where she remained t●ll the Sessions at which time she was arraigned for her life who being brought to the Bar pleaded not guilty but after a short tryal she was convicted for her life and received sentence to be hanged on Oxford Gallowes which was accordingly performed and being brought to the place of execution she fell down on her knees at the ladder foot humbly desiring of God that his D●vine Majesty would be pleased to shew some remarkable judgement on her for a signal and testifi●ation to the world of her innocency which most miraculously was evidenced to her to the great and wonderful admiration to all that shall either hear of or read these ensuing lines But before I insist upon this miraculous deliverance it is requisite that I should communicate her speech and deportment upon the Ladder which was with great comfort and undauntedness of spirit by this poor soul performed to the great admiration of the spectators At the going up the Ladder she fixt her eyes on the Executioner saying God forgive my false accusers as I freely forgive thee and then turning her self on the Ladder uttered these words Dear Friends YOur business hither to day is to see a sad spectacle an innocent woman to be in a moment cut off in the prime of her years which sudden change doth not in the least strike dread or terror to my heart but rather incites me to a motion of eternal joy and happiness for I conceive there is no more then this Rope and Ladder between me and Heaven and I doubt not but that I am now going to receive that blessed Portion which my blessed Saviour and Redeemer Jesus Christ hath purchased for me by ransoming my soul with his precious blood and bitter passion And as for this untimely end I do unfained acknowledge and corfess that it is Gods just judgement and wrath upon me for sins long unrepented of many judgements withstood and mercies slighted therefore God hath whipped me by his severe Rod of correction that he might not lose me One thing more I desire and to you dear Cousen being a young man standing at the foot of the Ladder I represent my suit That when the doomful turn from off the Ladder comes that you would use all possible means to dispatch me of my pain and then casting up her eyes to Heaven being prepared for a new change of life breathed forth her last words saying Sweet Jesus receive my soul upon the uttering of which words the Executioner did his Office and being turned off the Ladder her Kinsman took hold of her feet and hung with all the weight and force of his body on them that so he might the sooner rid her of her pain A Souldier standing by gave her 4 or 5 blowes on the brest with the but end of his