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Through a woman I receiv’d the wound
Which quickly brought by Body to ye ground.
Its sure in time that she will have her due.
The murdering hands Gods vengeance will pursue.
The debt I ow’d that Caused all the strife
Was very small to Cost me my Sweet life
She threatened to give me a mark
and made her cause look very dark.
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Name of deceased: Edward Purdey
Date of death: 9 August 1743, aged 35
Location: St John the Baptist Church, Old Dalby, near Melton Mowbray, Leics.
Entered by: Colin Greensmith and Anny Jones, Sheffield
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According to Jenny Stuart, who occasionally preaches at the church, Joyce Lee’s Who’s Buried Where in Leicestershire recounts how ‘one evening in 1743 Edward Purdey had gone to drink at his local inn. When the time came to pay the bill, he was a halfpenny short. The landlady demanded payment in full, threatening to put a mark (or bewitch) him if he did not settle up. Finding her threats to no avail, she is said to have let her dog savage him to death.’ |
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