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BEP(F.753.015
3 Sep 1753:12 (940)
Gloucester, May 15. We hear from the parish of St.
Nicholas, near Cardiffe in Glamorganshire, that one Morgan,
a farmer, who married a widow of substance, and has since
behaved very barbarously to her, turn'd her and her children
out of doors, and liv'd in a riotous manner on her fortune,
was on the 25th past, in the midst of their jollity, at the
Three Tuns in the said parish, struck seemingly dead,
insomuch that he was laid out, a platter with rosemary and a
lighted candle placed upon his body (according to the custom
of the country) and the bell tolled for him an hour, when he
revived, to the great grief and astonishment of the mourners
and spectators.
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