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The Story of Ruth Pierce

© the copyright holder. Image credit: Devizes Town Council

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Ruth Pierce on 25th January 1753, together with two other women, agreed to buy a sack of corn in the market and for each to pay her share. One of the women who collected the quotas found a deficiency and on asking Ruth to make up the amount was told she had paid her full share and that she ‘wished she might drop dead if she had not’. She rashly repeated this awful wish, when, to the consternation of the persons standing by, she instantly fell down and expired, having the money concealed in her hand.

Devizes Town Hall

Devizes

Title

The Story of Ruth Pierce

Date

1955

Medium

wood

Measurements

H 48.5 x W 78 x D 5 cm

Accession number

S07

Work type

Relief

Signature/marks description

W.R. NEWMAN. 1955

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Devizes Town Hall

St John's Street, Devizes, Wiltshire SN10 1BN England

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