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5 - Anna Trapnel ‘sings of her Lover’

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 September 2009

Erica Longfellow
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Kingston University, Surrey
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In December 1654, at the end of Anna Trapnel's annus mirabilis of visions, missionary journeys and imprisonment, a Londoner confided to a friend about the puzzling experience of meeting a prophetess in the flesh:

As for your desires concerneing Anna Trapnell, it is (to be playne) to me a very strange dispensation, yet I am perswaded she hath communion with God in it, but under what sort to ranke it, I am at some stand. The dispensation is strange, because rare, more strange, because to me there appeares no such amongst the Scripture Records, as to the manner of it, for I cannot reckon it among the vissions and Revelations of the Lord, because in the thinges she utters (whether in verse or prose) it's onely what she hath beene conversant in before, and had the knowledge of … If she did continue in it but for one or two dayes, I should be apt to thinke she might do it when she would, in the strength of parts, save for two thinges. 1st. she is so stifned in hir Body that were she not warme one would thinke hir dead. […]

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Print publication year: 2004

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