| Description Of Item | Five pages of notes about a fifty-seven-year-old woman called Mrs Wood. They were not written by Thomas Laycock. For seven years Mrs Wood believed that she was dead and was now in hell, killed by the devil. She consistently sat on the same stool in a corner and rubbed her face with her hands, resulting in redness and blisters. She was a Presbyterian but had no prior history of religious excitement.
From the collection of Thomas Laycock. |