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THE

LIFE AND ADVENTURES

OF

MRS. CHRISTIAN DAVIES,

COMMONLY CALLED

MOTHER ROSS;

Who, in several Campaigns

Under King WILLIAM

AND THE

Late Duke of MARLBOROUGH,

In the Quality of

A Foot Soldier and Dragoon,

Gave many signal Proofs of an unparallell'd COURAGE and personal BRAVERY.

Taken from her own Mouth when

A Pensioner of Chelsea-Hospital,

And known to be true by Many who were engaged in those great Scenes of ACTION.

LONDON:

Printed for and Sold by R. MONTAGU, at the BookWare-House, in Great Wylde-Street, 1740.

PREFACE.

In the following life of Mrs. CHRISTIAN DAVIES, taken from her own mouth, we may remark examples of uncommon intrepidity but rarely found in the fair sex. By her having been long conversant in the camp, she had lost that softness which heightens the beauty of the fair, and contracted a masculine air and behaviour, which however excusable in her, would hardly be so in any other of her sex.

She was long before her death afflicted with a complication of distempers, as dropsy, scurvy, &c., at length her husband being taken ill, she would sit up with him at nights, by which she contracted a cold that threw her into a continual fever, which carried her off in four days.

She died on the 7th of July, 1739, and was interred in the burying-ground belonging to Chelsea Hospital, with military honours.

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