An essay for the recording of illustrious providences

He that was dead (when by putting into a warm Bed, and rubbing, and putting strong Waters into his month, &c. no Life could be brought into him) was the next morning brought to Town; where among multitudes of others, who came to see; Dr. Willis. Dr. Mellington, Dr. Lower, and my self, with some others, went to view the Corps, where we found no wound at all in the skin; the face and neck swart and black, but not more than might be ordinary, by the settling of the blood: on the right side of the Neck was a little blackish spot about an inch long, and about a quarter of an inch broad at the broadest, and was as if it had been seared with a hot Iron: and as I remember, one somewhat bigger on the left side of the neck below the ear. Straight down the Breast, but towards the left side of it, was a large place, about three quarters of a foot in length, and about two inches in breadth; in some places more, in some less, which was burnt and hard, like Leather burnt with the fire, of a deep blackish red colour, not much unlike the scorched skin of a losted Pig: and on the forepart of the left Shoulder such another spot about as big as a shilling; but that in the neck was ⟨p. 121⟩blacker and seemed more seared. From the top of the right shoulder, sloping downwards towards that place in his Breast, was a narrow line of the like scorched skin; as if somewhat had come in there at the neck; and had run down to the breast and there spread broader. The Buttons of his Doublet were most of them off, which some thought might have been torn off with the blast, getting in at the neck, and then bursting its way out, for which the greatest presumption was (to me) that besides four or five Buttons wanting towards the bottom of the breast, there were about half a dozen together clear off from the bottom of the Collar downwards, and I do not remember that the rest of the buttons did seem to be near worn out, but almost new. The Collar of his Doublet just over the fore-part of the right Shoulder was quite broken asunder, cloth and stiffening, straight and downwards, as if cut or chopped asunder, but with a blunt tool; only the inward linen or fustian lining of it was whole, by which, and by the view of the ragged edges, it seemed manifest to me, that it was from a stroke inward (from without) not outwards from within.

He that was dead (when by putting into a warm Bed, and rubbing, and putting strong Waters into his month, &c. no Life could be brought into him) was the next morning brought to Town; where among multitudes of others, who came to see; Dr. Willis. Dr. Mellington, Dr. Lower, and my self, with some others, went to view the Corps, where we found no wound at all in the skin; the face and neck swart and black, but not more than might be ordinary, by the setling of the blood: on the right side of the Neck was a little blackish spott about an inch long, and about a quarter of an inch broad at the broadest, and was as if it had been seared with a hot Iron: and as I remember, one somewhat bigger on the left side of the neck below the ear. Streight down the Breast, but towards the left side of it, was a large place, about three quarters of a foot in length, and about two inches in breadth; in some places more, in some less, which was burnt and hard, like Leather burnt with the fire, of a deep blackish red colour, not much unlike the scorched skin of a losted Pig: and on the forepart of the left Shoulder such another spot about as big as a shilling; but that in the neck was