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Excerpt from Portraits, Memoirs, and Characters of Remarkable Persons, From the Reign of Edward the Third to the Revolution, Vol. 2: Collected From the Most Authentic Accounts Extant
Richard farnham, a weaver, in White chapel, in the year 1636, like the pretended pro phet Richard Brothers, of the present time, possess ed himself with the thought of being the chosen king of Jerusalem; with this only difference, that instead of conducting the Jews to Jerusalem, he imagined that he himself must first be slain, and rise again, before he could attain to the govern ment of that very city in which Kings David and Solomon once reigned. The text on which he founded his belief has these words But I will' About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
