An exact diary of what was observ'd during a close attendance upon Mary Toft, the pretended rabbet-breeder of Godalming in Surrey, from Monday Nov. 28, to Wednesday Dec. 7 following. : Together with an account of her confession of the fraud. / By Sir Richard Manninghan.

  • Manningham, Richard, Sir, 1690-1759.
Date:
1726
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: An exact diary of what was observ'd during a close attendance upon Mary Toft, the pretended rabbet-breeder of Godalming in Surrey, from Monday Nov. 28, to Wednesday Dec. 7 following. : Together with an account of her confession of the fraud. / By Sir Richard Manninghan. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    then leaping in Mary Toft, lent me Notice of it by Letter about eleven of the Clock the fame Night, defir¬ ing withal that I would keep at home, and he would call upon me fome time that Night, in order to carry me with him to Guilford. -- - I fat up till two in the Morning waiting for him, and then fent my Servant to his Houfe, defiring to be excufed, for I was then going to Bed; my Servant return’d before I was got into Bed, and told me Mr. St. Andrli would be with me prelently, and de- lired I would not go to Bed. Accordingly, between three and four in the Morning, He and Mr. Uimhorch, a German Surgeon and Man-Midwife, came to my Houfe ; and Mr. St. Andre told me he had been at Kenfmgton fince he wrote to me,