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• The godly maid of Leicester : Being a true relation of Elizabeth Stretton, who lying upon her death-bed, was wonderfully delivered from the temptations of Satan: worthy the noting of all that would live and dye in the fear of God. The tune is, In summer time.
  Published: (1678)
• The godly maid of Leicester. : Being a true relation of Elizabeth Stretton, who lying upon her death-bed, was wonderfully delivered from the temptations of Satan: worthy the noting of all that would live and dye in the fear of God. The tune is, In summer time.
  Published: (1678)
• The Hartford-shire wonder. Or, Strange news from vvare : being an exact and true relation of one Jane Stretton the danghter [sic] of Thomas Stretton, of ware in the county of Hartford, who hath been visited in a strange kind of manner by extraordinary and unusual fits, her abstaining from sustenance for the space of 9 months, being haunted by imps or devils in the form of several creatures here described the parties adjudged of all by whom she was thus tormented and the occasion thereof with many other remarkable things taken from her own mouth and confirmed by many credible witnesses.
  Published: (1669)
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  by: Ormond, Leonée
  Published: (1975)
• A Leicester-shire frolick; or, The valiant cook-maid : Being a merry composed jest of five taylors that had been at work till their wages came to five pounds; likewise a merry conceited cook-maid that lived in the house, went to her master and desired him to lend her a horse, and she would venture her skill to take the 5-pound from these five taylors, without either sword or pistol, in a jesting way, to make her master some sport and to show her valour: her master loving mirth more then sadness, agreed to it: so a horse was sadled, and other things to disguise her self, because she might not be known: away she went (it being in the evening) and met them before they got home, with nothing in her hand but a black pudding, the faint-hearted taylors delivered her their money very quietly, for fear they should a been shot through with a black pudding, and what followed after is expressed in this following ditty. Tune is, Ragged and torn. With allowance.
  Published: (1641)