Report about an attempted exorcism of The Lady Peckham

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The Lady Peckham died on Saturday last at night & being

in great extremities & talking very fantastically there were three

seminary priests present, viz [namely], Carleton alias [known as] Sherwood, Yaxley alias

Saer, and Barthe alias Lee, who said that she was possessed with a

devil & therefore took upon them to exorcise her & during their

exorcisms she yielded up her breath & they presently solemnised her

obsequies [funeral rights] & celebrated diriges [Roman Catholic service for the dead] for her as though they had presently

buried her although as yet her body is not committed to the earth