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2 unusual facts about Richard Farnham


Richard Farnham

Farnham added in an appendix an explicit denial that he claimed to be Christ or Elias, or that he had prophesied a shower of blood, but insisted that he foresaw a long drought, pestilence, and war.

On the 23rd February 1636–7, Farnham was still in Newgate and petitioned the Archbishop of Canterbury, William Laud for his own release.



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