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Title: Old and new London : a narrative of its history, its people, and its places
Year: 1873 (1870s)
Authors: Thornbury, Walter, 1828-1876
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Publisher: London : Cassell, Petter, & Galpin
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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three days was not to be taken in aliteral sense, but as denoting three certain periodsof time. Two of these periods, he said, had St. Johns Wood. J LAST HOURS OF JOANNA SOUTHCOTT. ^53 already passed, and the third would expire in1842, in which year he held it to be as certainthat the prophetess would arise from her grave,and give birth to Shiloh, as that he was thena living man ! More than thirty years havepassed away since these words were written, andtlie grave of Joanna Southcott has never yet givenup the dead bones which rest in it.Some passages in Joannas • prophecies are of some other persons of property; and so determinedwere many of her followers to be deceived, thatneither death nor dissection could convince themof their error. Her remains were first removedto an undertaker* in Oxford Street, whence theywere taken secretly for interment in this cemetery.A tablet to her memory contains these lines :— While through all thy wondrous days,Heaven and earth enraptured gazed ;
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EYRE ARMS rather a practical character, if the following may betaken as a specimen :— I am the Lord thy God and Master. Tell I to pay thee five pounds for expenses of thy coming up to London ; andhe must give thee twenty pounds to relieve theperplexity of thy handmaid and thee, that yourthoughts may be free to serve me, the Lord, inthe care of my Shiloh. The Lord is made to in-form his people somewhere, anxious to go to meetthe Shiloh at Manchester, that travelling by thenew cut is not expensive. On her death-bed,poor Joanna is reported to have saidr:— If I havebeen misled, it has been by some spirit, good orevil. Li her last hours, Joanna was attended byAnn Underwood, her secretary; Mr. Tozer, whowas called her high-priest; Colonel Harwood, and214 While vain sages think they knowSecrets thou alone canst show ;Time alone will tell what hourThou It appear to greater power. Sabineus. About three years after the death of Joanna South-cott, a party of her disciples, conceiving them-se

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