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Underwood, John (John R.)

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    The true relation of two wonderfull sleepers. The one ... Elizabeth Jefkins, who ... did sleep from Munday about 4 in the afternoone, July 25, untill the Saturday following ... at which time she dyed, with a particular relation of the strange passages during ... her sleep, and the manner of her death. The other ... John Underwood, hath already slept full nine dayes and nights, and doth still continue sleeping.

    | Date: 1646
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    The true relation of two wonderfull sleepers : The one a woman in the little old Baily, her name Elizabeth Iefkins, who to the great admiration of the beholders, did sleep from Munday about 4 in the afternoone, July 25. untill the Saturday following, being August the first, at which time she dyed, with a particular relation of the strange passages during the time of her sleep, and the manner of her death. The other, being a man in Gravell-lane, by name John Underwood, hath already slept full nine dayes and nights, and doth still continue sleeping, with the most wonderfull manner of it.

    | Date: 1646
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