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of the Judges in King Charles I reign, being, in the long vacation, his country-house in Holsworth in  happened, upon too ferious reflection  some juvenile miscarriages, to fall into  deep fit of the hypocondria, insomuch  he fancied himself to be dead, and was very obstinate under the influence of  whimsical distemper that he would not  persuaded to stir hand or foot, or  any manner of suftenance, but what was forced down his throat by syrenges, or  like stratagems, till he had brought his  into so low a condition, that had a  candle been in his belly, his sides  have proved as transparant as a. In this stubbom phrenzy he lay upon back, stretched out at full length like  corp, and as motionless as a stone figure  on an old tomb, neither his physician  his family knowing what to do with him.