International journal of cardiology
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We have discovered an interesting account of sudden death reported in the Liber Eliensis, a Latin compendium of twelfth century happenings in the environs of Ely, the cathedral town found just north of Cambridge in the fenlands of England. The account tells how Gervase, a Norman official of the Sheriff, oppressed the local Saxons. The abbot took the people's part and was summoned before Gervase. ⋯ Etheldreda, struck him with her staff in the chest. He woke with pain, crying out that St. Etheldreda was about to strike him again, and died.