John Sloper, father of these two, was vicar of Broad Chalk, Wilts.; see
in the life of John Hales.
=Jane Smyth= (1649-16--).
[971]Mris Jane Smyth borne at ... the 15th of April 1649, between
fower and 5 a clock in the morning.--She was told on Venus's day, i.e.
Fryday[972]: if not so, 'twas on a Tuesday. It was the April after the
beheading King Charles the first. It thundered and lightened and the
house was on fire then.
My almanac, 1676, says the _natalis_ was the 14th April[973]--quod
N.B.: but Mrs. J. S. tells me again 'twas the fifteenth.
About 7 yeares old she lived in Sussex, Redhill, neer which Mr.
Bradshaw, schoolmaster, lived--uxores germanorum.