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Doc. 269.] 577
SHEARSMITH’S AFFIDAVIT.
own mouth; and what I write now is from an exact copy of
part of a letter written by Mr. Springer himself.
’
I remain, dear Sir,
’
Yours, &c.
’
London, Nov. 28, 1786.’
’ROBERT HINDMARSH.
C.
AFFIDAVIT OF MR. AND MRS. SHEARSMITH.22
"Richard Shearsmith, of Coldbath Fields, London , peruke
maker, and Elizabeth Shearsmith, formerly Reynolds, his
present wife, jointly and severally make oath, and say, That
the late Honourable Emanuel Swedenborg came to lodge a
second time at his , this deponent’s , house, No. 26, Coldbath
Fields aforesaid, in the month of July or August, one thousand
seven hundred and seventy-one, and continued to lodge there
until his death, which happened the twenty-ninth of March
following. That a short time before Christmas, one thousand
seven hundred and seventy-one, he had a paralytic stroke,
which deprived him of his speech, and occasioned his lying
in a lethargic state for three weeks and upwards, during the
whole of which time he took no sustenance whatever, except
a little tea without milk, and cold water occasionally ; and
once, about two tea-spoonfuls of red currant jelly. That about
the expiration of three weeks from the time he was so struck, he
recovered his speech and health a little, and eat and drank
toast, tea, and coffee, as usual. That from that time to the time of
his death he was visited but by a very few friends only, and always
seemed unwilling to see company. That about a month before
* Mr. Hindmarsh adds here in a note : "This affidavit has been strangely
mutilated and misrepresented, first by the Editors of the ’New Jerusalem
Magazine’ for 1790, p. 225, and since that time by almost all the writers
who have had occasion to quote it ; although it was correctly printed
in the ’Magazine of Knowledge’ for 1791, p. 300, from the original document
which is still in my possession." It had previously been printed in a French
translation in a work published in 1785 by B. Chastanier under the title:
"Tableau analytique et raisonné de la Doctrine Céleste," &c. pp. 240 to 242.
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