Southcott
Britishnoun
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Managing director Peter Southcott added: "We will not hesitate to take whatever action may be necessary."
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The Panacea Society believed the opening of this box would "guide the English nation through its time of danger" - it even paid for posters on London buses, warning that "England's troubles will increase until the bishops open Joanna Southcott's box".
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Two centuries ago, a 64-year-old woman called Joanna Southcott announced she was pregnant with the Messiah.
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She would soon learn of the life of Southcott, who had predicted a messiah would spark "the millennium" or the Second Coming in England.
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Southcott's various prophesies were kept in a sealed box, which she instructed must only be opened by a gathering of 24 Church of England bishops.
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