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Richard KirbyAn astrologer and medical practitioner, living at Mr. Loft's, in King-Street, St. Ann's, Westminster, Richard Kirby allegedly helped cure Jane Walter of East-Basham near Feaknam in Norfolk, a young man in Suffolk, the daughter of John Ballard of Ditchingham-Dam, near Bungy in Norfolk, Ann Burgess in St. Edmunds Parish, near Five Bridge, in Norwich, and Sarah Bower.(3)After this, viz. at the end of the 6 Weeks, and about 9 Weeks since, this Maiden, as she was rising in the Morning, and out of her wonted Fits, she was taken Speechless, only she could make an odd sort of a Noise, and her Tongue, which always in her Fits used to hang out of her Mouth, like a Calf below her Chin, was now contracted and drawn almost into her Throat: I perswaded her Aunt to let me put my Hand into her Mouth, which she permitted, and Single illegible letterndeavoured to move her Tongue, but it was so fixed, that I could not[.]()