Was Ezekiel Fogg the kinsman of Dr. Philip Read?

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John Brandon

Was Ezekiel Fogg the kinsman of Dr. Philip Read?

Legg inn av John Brandon » 02 jan 2007 18:25:58

This is possibly the reason Dr. Read accused John Gifford of cheating
his kinsman of one thousand pounds ...

http://books.google.com/books?vid=OCLC0 ... ogg&pgis=1

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Andrew V. Rapoza, "The Trials of Dr. Phillip Reade, Seventeenth-Century
Itinerant Physician," pp. 82-94 in _Medicine and Healing: The Dublin
Seminar for New England Folklife, Annual Proceedings, 14 and 15July
1990_ (Boston University, 1992), pp. 90-92 (again, forgive the
long quotes):

Even Reade's brush with the gallows did not make him more circumspect.
Over the ensuing years, he continued to hurl calumnies and exchange
epithets with others who were at least equally unimpressed with him.
The most serious of these confrontations came between Reade and the
Giffords of Lynn in 1679. The aggressive behavior of Reade and John
Gifford matched each other; while Reade had spent the last ten years in
and out of courts predominantly in Middlesex County, Gifford has been
called the "stormy petrel of Essex County and litigant parexcellence."
The first recorded accusation was made by Reade, who called
John Gifford a "cheating dog" for somehow cheating Reade's kinsman of
one thousand pounds. Reade added to the tension by incriminating
Gifford's wife Margaret as a witch--"for there were some things which
could not be accounted for by natural causes" and that others had been
"strangely [and] badly handled by her." The Giffords were incensed by
Reade's accusations. Meeting up with Reade at Goodman Clarke's
ordinary in Reading on the last Saturday of September, Margaret Gifford
told Reade "that shee was clear of that [which] he accused her of and
that she should appears one day to be a Child of God when he should
not." John Gifford called Reade "Doctor cheating dog," to which Reade
replied, "noe more than himself." The Giffords then returned to Lynn
where Gifford told some of the townspeople "he had met with the
Cowardly Dog Doctor Reade ... [who] drew his rapier at him ... [and] he
would make [Reade] Eate the point of his own rapier."


John Brandon

Re: Was Ezekiel Fogg the kinsman of Dr. Philip Read?

Legg inn av John Brandon » 02 jan 2007 20:29:51

"The Fifth Reason is only a Charging of mr Geffard wth swaring for
Selfe Ends & mallice, wch Concernes sd Giffard more then the Defdt or
the Case"

http://books.google.com/books?vid=OCLC0 ... ton&pgis=1


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