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deuouring and fierce woolf, for oftentimes the Inhabitants found the Armes & legges of dead Men, Women, and Children, ſcattered vp and down the feelds to their great greefe and vexation of hart, knowing the ſame to be doone by that ſtrange and cruell Woolfe, whome by no meanes they could take or ouercome, ſo that if any man or woman miſt their Childe, they were out of hope euer to ſee it again aliue, miſtruſting ſtraight that the Woolfe had deſtroyed it.
And heere is to be noted a moſt ſtrange thing which ſetteth foorth the great power and mercifull prouidence of God to ye comfort of eache Chriſtian hart. There were not long agoe certain ſmall Children playing in a Medowe together hard by ye town, where alſo ſome ſtore of kine were feeding, many of them hauing yong calues ſucking upon thē: and ſodainly among theſe Children comes this vilde Woolfe running and caught a prittie fine Girle by the choller, with intent to pull out her throat, but ſuch was ye will of God, that he could not pearce the choller of the Childes coate, being high and very well ſtiffened & cloſe claſpt about her neck, and therwithall the ſodaine great cry
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