Gloucester,
[Great Britain] March 17. We have an account of a very extraordinary instance
of the divine vengeance that happened about a week ago at Chalford in this
county. One Richard Parsons, a young Man of that place, was playing at cards,
and he most profanely wished his flesh might rot, and his eyes never shut, if
he did not win the next game. When he was going to bed he observed a black spot
upon his leg, from which a mortification began immediately to spread all over
his body, so that he died in a day or two, his flesh being quite rotten; nor
could his eyes be shut, notwithstanding all the efforts of his friends to close
them. The truth of this fact is attested by many of the neighbours who were
with him.
