The Digital Ark: Early Modern Collections of Curiosities in England and Scotland, 1580-1700
Grace Batter'd ( - fl. c. 1670)
Wife of a shoemaker Relevant locations: Lived at or near Plymouth, DevonReferences in Documents:
Selections from Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London (1665-1669)
Grace Batter'd, the wife of a shoemaker, of honest
Repute, and mother of five Children, now come to the
full time to be delivered of a sixth Birth, about twelve a
Clock at night began to have travelling pains; and near
four a Clock in the morning the Head of a Child came to the
Birth: When the Midwife, putting her hand to help off this,
felt another, (by its heat and motion) alive; and therefore
made all possible speed to deliver her of this.