 After travelling over various parts of the kingdom, during the greater part of a century, she settled at Norwood, whither her great age, and the fame of her fortune-telling, attracted numerous visitors. From a habit of sitting on the ground, with her...  A Handbook for Travellers in Kent and Sussex - Page 58by John Murray (Firm), Richard J. King - 1863 - 395 pagesFull view - About this book
 | David Hughson - 1808 - 576 pages
...Norwood ; whitiier her great age, and the fame of her fortune-telling, attracted numerous visitors. From a habit of sitting on the ground, with her chin...rise from that posture : after her death, they were oblige to inclose her body jn a deep square box. IJer funeral was attended by two mourning coaches... | |
 | David Hughson - 1808 - 566 pages
...Norwood ; whither her great age, and the fame of her fortune-telling, attracted numerous visitors. From a habit of sitting on the ground, with her chin...rise from that posture : after her death, they were oblige to inclose her body in a deep square box. Her funeral was attended by two mourning coaches ;... | |
 | Edward Pugh - 1808 - 572 pages
...at Norwood; whither her great age, and the fame of her fortune-telling, attracted numerous visitors. From a habit of sitting on the ground, with her chin resting on her knees, the sinew? at length became so contracted, that she could not rise from that posture: after her death,... | |
 | John Britton, Edward Wedlake Brayley, Joseph Nightingale, James Norris Brewer, John Evans, John Hodgson, Francis Charles Laird, Frederic Shoberl, John Bigland, Thomas Rees - 1808 - 878 pages
...Noiwood ; whither her great age, and the fame of her fortune-telling, attracted numerous visitors. From a habit of sitting on the ground, with her chin resting on her knees, tbe sinews at length became so contracted, that she could not rise from that posture: after her death,... | |
 | John Britton - 1808 - 888 pages
...the ground, with her ehin resting on her kr.ccs, the sinews at length became so contracted, that the could not rise from that posture : after her death, they were obliged to inclose her body in a deep square box. Her funeral was attended by two mourning coaches: 2 sermon was... | |
 | Priscilla Wakefield - 1809 - 234 pages
...settled at Norwood ; whither her age, and the fame of her fortune-telling, attracted numerous visitors. From a habit of sitting on the ground with her chin...that posture. After her death they were obliged to inclose her body in a deep, square box. Her funeral was attended by two mourning coaches, a sermon... | |
 | James Caulfield - 1820 - 386 pages
...Norwood. About eleven years prior to her decease, she adopted a habit, and afterwards a constant custom, of sitting on the ground with her chin resting on her knees, which caused her sinews to become so contracted, that she could not extend herself or change her position... | |
 | Thomas Allen - 1826 - 566 pages
...Norwood ; whither her great age, and the fame of her fortune-telling, attracted numerous visitors. From a habit of sitting on the ground with her chin...obliged to enclose her body in a deep square box. She was buried in Beckenham Church-yard, Oct. 24, 1740. Her funeral was attended by two mourning coaches.... | |
 | Thomas Allen - 1826 - 562 pages
...Norwood ; whither her great age, and the fame of her fortune-telling, attracted numerous visitors. From a habit of sitting on the ground with her chin...obliged to enclose her body in a deep square box. She was buried in Beckenham Church-yard, Oct. 24, 1740. Her funeral was attended by two mourning coaches.... | |
 | J S. Forsyth - 1827 - 472 pages
...description, whither her great age and the fame of her fortune-telling, attracted numerous visitors. From a habit of sitting on the ground, with her chin...that posture. After her death they were obliged to inclose her body in a deep square box. Her funeral was attended by two mourning coaches, a sermon was... | |
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