Kent, Maid Of

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see Barton, Elizabeth.

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Barton, Elizabeth - 1506?–1534, English prophet, called the Maid of Kent or the Nun of Kent. She was a domestic servant who, after a period of illness, began (c.1525) to go into trances and to utter prophecies, whic...