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DUKE 
 
 UNIVERSITY 
 
 LIBRARY 
 
 Treasure %oom 
 
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 ■ 
 
 MISCELLANIES, 
 
 VIZ. ' ^ 
 
 I, Day-Fatality. 
 
 XIV. Tranfportation in 
 
 II. LocaJrFaKlity. 
 
 the Air. 
 
 IIL Oftenta. 
 
 XV. VifionsinaBeril, 
 
 IV. Omens. 
 
 or Glaft. 
 
 V. Dreams. 
 
 XVI. Converfe with 
 
 VI. Apparitions. 
 
 Angels and Spirits- 
 
 VII. Voices. 
 
 XVII. Corps-Candles in 
 
 VIII. Impulfes. 
 
 • Wdn. 
 
 IX. Knockings. 
 
 XVIILOracles.- 
 
 X. Blows Invifi- 
 
 XIX. Exftafie. 
 
 ble. 
 XI. Prophefies. 
 
 XX. Glancesof{^°^: 
 
 XII. Marvels. 
 
 XXI. Second - Sighted- 
 
 XIILMagick. 
 
 Perfons. 
 
 Colleaed by J. AiArey, Elq; 
 
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 LONDON: 
 
 Yintcd for Edward Cafik, next Scotland- 
 Yard-Gate by Whitehall. 1696. 
 
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 T O T H E 
 
 Right Honourable 
 
 JAMES 
 
 EARL of Abingdon, 
 
 Lord Chief- Juftice in Eire of 
 all His Majefties Forefts and 
 Chaces on this RdcTrent. 
 
 My Lord, 
 
 WHEN I enjoyed ti?e 
 Contentment of Soli- 
 ' tude in Tour fleafant 
 
 Wal}\s and Gardens at Laving- 
 ton the lajl Summer, Irevietred 
 A 3 feve' 
 
 174865 ■ 
 
The Dedication; 
 feveral fcattered Tapers nvhicb 
 had lain by me for feveral Tears : 
 And then prefumed to thinly, that 
 if they -were put together^ they \ 
 might be fomexphat entertaining : 
 I therefore digejied them there in 
 this Order J in rphich I now pre- 
 fent them to Tour Lordjhip. 
 
 The Matter of this ColleBion 
 is beyond Humane reach : We be- 
 ing mijerably in the dar}\jy as to 
 the Oeconomie of the Invifihle 
 World:, which h^ows what we do, 
 or incline to, and worlds upn our 
 Vajjions, andjometimes isfo l^nd 
 as to aford us a gUmffe of its 
 Prafcience. 
 
 My 
 
Me- 
 Oxm. 
 
 Wr 
 
 The Dedication, 
 
 My Lord, 
 
 It was my intention to have .R^p^ritea 
 fnijhed my * Defcription ot;;:f,t 
 Wiltfhire [^balffinifli'd already^ ' 
 and to have Dedicated it to Tour 
 Lordjhip: But my Age is now too 
 far f^ent for fuch Vndertaf^ngs : 
 I have therefore devolved that 
 TasJ^ on my Countrey- man Mr. T. 
 Tanner, who hath Touth to go 
 through with it, and a Genius 
 trover for fuch an Vundertal^ 
 fng. 
 
 Wherefore, I humbly hefeech 
 ^Tour Lordfbip to accept of this 
 fmall Offering as a grateful Me- 
 morial of the profound RefpeB 
 •j^hich I have for Tou, who 
 wave for many Tears tak^n me in- 
 to your Favour and Vroteciion. 
 
 My 
 
 •ii !*".' /? O f'» ^ 
 
F" 
 
 The Dedication. 
 
 My Lord, 
 
 May the Blejfed Angels be 
 Tour careful Guardians : Such 
 are the Prayers of 
 
 Your Lordftilfs 
 Moft Obliged 
 and Humble Servant, 
 
 JO. JilBKBt 
 
 Ai 
 .1 
 
COLLECTION 
 
 O F 
 
 Hermetic^ Fhilofophy. 
 
 NAtural Philofophy hath been exceed- 
 ingly advanced within Fifty Years 
 la ft paft ; but methinks, 'tis ftrange that 
 Hermttick^ Fhilofophy hath lain fo long un- 
 toucht. It is a SubjeQ: worthy of ferious 
 Confideration : I have here, for my owa 
 diverfion, Collefted fome few Remarques 
 within my own Remembrance, or within 
 the Remembrance of fome Perfons worthy 
 of Belief in the Age before me. Thofewho 
 have a defire to know mere of Things of 
 this Nature, may be pleafed to perufe 
 Hijloire Prodigieufe^ Writ by Pere Arnault : 
 As alio a Book intituled , Lux e Tembrisy 
 which is a Colleftion of Modern Vifions 
 and Prophefies in Germany^ by leveral Per- 
 ftns ; Trandated into Latin by Jo. Amos 
 Comenius^ Vnni^d2,t Amfterdam^ 1^5 5f 
 
 I (hall begin with Daj^Fatalityy of which 
 Mr. John Gibbon [Blew-mantle] made z 
 Colleftion Printed in Two Sheets in Folio 
 1678, which I here Reprint with foma 
 Additions Collefted by my felf, 
 
 B Oap. 
 
f «; 
 
 Or, Some 
 
 OBSERVATIONS 
 
 O F 
 
 Days Lucky and Unlucky. ] 
 
 CHAP. I. 
 
 Luc. XIX. xlii. 
 In hoc Die tuo : In this thy Day. 
 
 THAT there be Good and Evil 
 Times, not only the Sacred Scrip- 
 tures, but Prophane Authors men- 
 tion: See i Sam, 25. 8. Efther 8. 17. and 
 9. 19, 22. Ecclus 14. 14. 
 t^ The Fourteenth day of theFirft Month 
 was a Memorable and BleffedDay amongft 
 the Children of Ifrael : See Exod. 12. 18 , 
 40^ 41, 42, 51. Levit, 25. 5. Nnmb. 28. 16. 
 Four hundred and thirty Years being expi- 
 
 ^red 
 
red of their dwelling in Egypt^ even in the 
 Se/f-fame Day departed they theace. 
 
 A thing fomething parallel to this, we read 
 in the Roman Hiftories : That that very- 
 day four Years, that the Civil Wars were 
 begun by Pomfey the Father, C£far made 
 an end of them with his Sons ; Cnaus Pom- 
 fetus being then flain, and it being alio the 
 iaft Battle Cafar was ever in. \_Heylyn in the 
 Kingdom of Corduba, ] The Calendar to 
 Ovtis Fajlorum fays, Jprilis erat menps 
 Greets dujpicatiffimm , a moft aufpicious 
 Month among the Grecians. 
 
 As tolivil Days and Times 5 See Amos 
 5.1^. and 6. 5. Eccle/.g. 12. Pfal. 37.19- 
 Obad. 12. Jer. 46. 21. And Job hints it, in 
 curling his Birth-day. C^p- 3. c/. i, 10, 11. 
 Sqq Weaver J p. 458. 
 
 Early in a Morning 
 In an Evil Tyming, 
 
 Went they from Dunharr. 
 Horace^ lib. 2. Ode 13. Curfing the Tree 
 that had like to have fallen upon him, fays. 
 Ilk nefaJio tepofuit die ; intimating, that it 
 was planted in an Unlucky day. 
 
 The Romans QOXknitA Fthr, 13, an Un- 
 lucky day, and therefore then never at- 
 tempted any Bufinefs of Importance ; for 
 on that day they were overthrown at AIUa 
 by the Gauls ; and the Fi^/V attacquing the 
 City of the Veii^ were all flain fave one. 
 [Hejlyn fpeaking of St. Peterh Patrimony] 
 
 B 2 And 
 
r4) 
 
 And fee the Calendar annext to Ovid's 
 FafioYum, as to the laft Circumftance. 
 
 The ^txvs accounted Augnli lO. an un- 
 fortunate day 5 for on that Day the Tem- 
 ple was deftroyed by Titus the Son of Vtf- 
 pafian 3 on which day alfo the fir ft Temple 
 was confumed with Fire hy Nebuchadnezzar. 
 [Heylyn.'] ThcTrtd/ury of the Times fays, the 
 Eighth oiLoyoji {JuguB) the very fame day 
 6^^ Years one after another. 
 
 And not only among the Romans^ and 
 Jews^ but alio among Chriftians, a like 
 Cuftom of obferving fuch days is ufed, eC- 
 pecially Childermas or Innocents- day. Comi* 
 nm tells us, that Le^is XL ufed not to 
 debate any Matter, but accounted it a fign 
 of great Misfortune towards him, if any 
 Man communed .with him of his Affairs; 
 and would be ^6ry angry with thofe about 
 him, if they troubled him with any Matter 
 whatfbever upon that day. 
 
 But I will defcend to more particular In- 
 flances of Lucky and Unlucky Days. 
 
 Upon the Sixth of Afril^ Alexander the 
 Great was born. Upon the fame day he con- 
 quered Dariusy won a great Viftory at Sea, 
 and died the fame day. 
 
 Neither was this day lefs fortunate to his 
 Father Philip ; for on the fame day he took 
 Pot idea ; Parmenio his General gave a great 
 Overthrow to the lllyrians ; and his Horfe 
 was Viftor at the Olymfick Games. There- 
 fore 
 
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 fore his Prophets foretold to him, Filittm 
 cujus Natalis^ &c. That a Son whofe Birth- 
 day was accompanied with three Viftories, 
 Ihould prove Invincible. Pezeliu^ in Mdli- 
 ficio Hiliorico. 
 
 Upon the Thirtieth oi September^ Pom^ 
 fey the Great was born : Upon that day he 
 Triumphed for his Afian Conquefl: ; and on 
 that day he died. 
 
 The Nineteenth of Jugujl was the day of 
 AuguHm his Adoption : On the fame day 
 he began his Confulfhip .• He Conquered 
 the Triumviri'^ and on the lame day he 
 died. Hitherto out of the Memoirs ofl^ing 
 Charles /. Heroes. 
 
 \{ Solomon count The day of ones death bet» 
 ter than the day of ones hirthj th'ere can be no 
 Objeflion why that alfo may not be reckon- 
 ed amongft ones Remarkable and Happy 
 days. And therefore I will infert here, that 
 the Eleventh of February was the Noted 
 day of Elizabeth Wife to Henry VII. who 
 was born and died that day. Weaver^ P«476. 
 Brooke in Henry VII. Marriage. Stow in 
 Anno 1466. 150J. 
 
 As alfo that the Twenty third oi Novem- 
 ber was the Obftrvable day oi Francis Duke 
 of Lunenburghj who was born on that day, 
 and died upon the fame 1 549, as fays the 
 French Author of the Journal Hiftory, who 
 adds, upon particular Remark and ob^rva- 
 ble Curiofity , 
 
 B 3 Jpf^ 
 
 I 
 
/ 
 
 (6) 
 
 Jpa dies vitam contulit^ ipfa nectm. 
 The fatne day Life did give ^ 
 And mAde him ceafe to Live. 
 Sir Ksnelm Digby , that Renowned 
 Knight, great Linguift, and Magazen of 
 Arts, was born and died on the Eleventh 
 ^^! oijuney and alfo fought fortunately at 
 Scanderoon the fame day. Hear his Epi- 
 taph, compofed by Mr. Farrar^ and recited 
 in the aforefaid Memoirs: 
 
 V^der this Stone the Matchltfs Digby lieSy 
 Digby ^^e Great, the Valiant , and the Wife : 
 Thi^ Age's Wonder, for his Noble Farts , 
 Skill din fix Tongues, and Learn' d in all the 
 
 Arts. 
 Born on the day he died^tV Eleventh e?/June, 
 On which he bravely fought at Scanderoon. 
 'Tis rare, that one and [elf fame dayfhould be 
 His day of Birth, of Death, of Victory. 
 I had a Maternal Uncle, that died thq 
 Third of March laft 1678, which was the 
 Anniverfary day of his Birth; and (which 
 is a Truth exceeding ftrange) many year3 
 ago he foretold the day of his Death to be 
 jthat of his Birth ; and he alfb averred the 
 fame but about the Week before his depar- 
 ture. The Third of March is the day of 
 St. Eutrofitis 5 and as to my Uncle it wa? 
 Cgnificativcj it ^«r;^'^ well to him, accord- 
 ing to that of Rev. 14. 13. Bleffed are the 
 Pead, &c. and that oWvid Metam. lib. 3. 
 
 ^ Dicique 
 
'Dicique he at us 
 
 Ante obit urn nemo fufnmaque funera debet. 
 , jyjo^e happy call 
 
 Before their Death^ and final Fuxferal. 
 
 The Sixth of January was five times au- 
 fpicious to Charles Duke oi Anjou. Ibid, in 
 the Life of the Earl q{ Sunderland. 
 
 The Twenty fourth oi February was happy 
 XoCharlesY. four times. [Jbid.']Heylyn fpeak- 
 ingofthe Temple of jferA?/4/e«/, hints three 
 of thefe four; his Birth ; his taking of Fran- 
 cis King of France Prifoner ; his receiving 
 the Imperial Crown at Bononia. And (6 
 doth alfo the Journal Hiftory before men- 
 tioned. 
 
 Of the Family of the Trevours, Six fuc- 
 cefllve principal Branches have been born 
 the Sixth of July. Same Memoirs. 
 
 Sir Humphrey Davenporp was born th« 
 Seventh of July-^ and on that day Anniver- 
 fary his Father and Mother died, within a 
 quarter of an hour one of another. Same 
 Memoirs. 
 
 I have feen an old Romifh MSS. Prayer^ 
 Book^ (and fhewed the fame to that general 
 Scholar, and great Jfirologer E.AJhmokErq',) 
 at the beginning whereof was a Calendar^ 
 wherein were inferted the Unlucky days 
 of each Month, fct out in Verfe. I will re- 
 (cite them juft as they are, fometimes in- 
 fringing the Rule of Grammar, fometimes 
 of Pro/odia ; a matter, of which the old 
 
 B 4 Monk- 
 
CO 
 
 Monkifh Rhymers were no way fcrupu- 
 Idus. It was as ancient as Henry the Sixth, 
 or Edward the Fourths time. 
 
 January. Priwa dies menfis^ & feptim^ 
 
 truncal ut en/is. 
 February, ^arta ftibit mortem^ frofiernit 
 
 tertia for tern, 
 March. Frimti^ mandentem^ difrumpit 
 
 quart x bibentem. 
 April. DeHus & undtnus efi mortis 
 
 vulnere plenus. 
 May. Tertius occidit, d^ feftitntis era 
 
 * relidit. 
 June. Denuspallefcit^ quindenmjxdt'- 
 
 ra. nefcit. 
 July. Ter^decimus mailaty Juln denta 
 
 labtfadfat, 
 Auguft. Frima necatfortem^ projiernitfe- 
 
 cunda cohortem, 
 September. Tertia Septembris, & Denus 
 
 fert mala manhris. 
 October. Tertius Cr denus ejl ficut mors 
 
 ^ alienus. 
 November. Scorpius eji quintus^ & tertim \ 
 
 ntct cinUus. 
 December. Septimus exanguu^ virofus Atnm 
 
 d^ anguis. 
 
 The Tenth Verft is intolerable, and 
 ighc be mended thus. 
 
 Ttrtia cum dena fit ficut mors aliena 
 
 If 
 
(9) 
 
 If any objeO: and fij, Dem is only the 
 Plural J I excufe my felf by that admirable 
 Chronogfam upon King Char/es the Mar'- 
 tyr. 
 
 Ter denOj Jani^ Luna^ Rex (Sole cadenfe^ 
 Carolus exutus Solio^ Sceptroque ftcure. 
 Neither will I have recourle for refuge to 
 that Old Tetraftich, 
 Intrat Avaloniam duodena. C^terva virorum 
 Flos Arimathi£ Jofephy d^c. 
 becaufe I have even now blamed the li- 
 berty of the Ancient Rhymers. He means 
 by Mors aliena^ Ibme ftrange kind of death 5 
 though altena fignifies ftrange in quite ano- 
 ther fenfe than there u(ed. 
 
 I fliall take particular notice here of the 
 Third of November^ both becaufe 'tis my 
 own Birth-day, and alfo for that I have 
 obferved fome remarkable Accidents to 
 have happened thereupon. 
 
 Conftafjtius the Emperour, Son oiCon- 
 fiantinethe Great ^ little inferiour to his Fa- 
 ther, a worthy Warriour, and good Man, 
 died the Third oi November : Ex veteri Ca- 
 kndario penes me. 
 
 - ' Thomas Mont acute Earl of Salisbury^ that 
 great Man, and Famous Commander under 
 Henry IV. V. and VI. died this day, by a 
 Wound of a Cannon-fhot he received at Or^ 
 leance^ E MSS, quodam, & G lover 0. 
 
 So alfo Cardinal Borrhomeoj famous for 
 his Sanftity of Life, and therefore Cano^ 
 
 niz'd 
 
(lo) 
 
 iiized (Heylyn in his Fr^cogniu^ fays, He 
 madeMiUn memorable, by his Refidence 
 there) died 1 584. this day, as Paffevwus in 
 his Life. > 
 
 Sir Joku Perot (Stow corruptly calls him 
 Parrat^ a Man yery remarkable in his 
 Time, I^ord Deputy of Ireland^ Son to 
 Henry VIII. and extreamly like him, died 
 in the Tower^ the Third of November 1592. 
 (as Stotv fays) Grief, and the Fatality of 
 this Day killed him. See Nanton^s Frag' 
 ptentaRegAlUj concerning this Man. 
 
 Stow in his Annds^ lays, Anno 1099, 
 November 3. as well in Scotland zs England^ 
 the Sea broke in over the Banks of many 
 Rivers, drowning divers Towns, and much 
 People, with an innumerable number of 
 Oxen and Sheep, at which time the Lands 
 in Kjnt, fometimes belonging to Earl God-^ 
 win, were covered with Sands, and drown- 
 ed, and to this day are called Godmn^i 
 Sands. 
 
 I had an Eftate left me ia IQnt^ of 
 which between thirty and forty Acres was 
 Marfh-land, very conveniently flanking its 
 Up-land 5 and in thofe days this Marfli- 
 land was ufually let for Four Nobles an A- 
 cre« My Father died 1645. Within a. 
 Year nnd half after his decafe, fuch Charges 
 and Water- fcots came upon this Marfli- 
 land, by the influence of the Sea, that it 
 was never worth one Farthing to me, but 
 
 ver 
 
i'l) 
 
 very often eat Into the Rents of the Up- 
 land: So that I often think, this day being 
 piy Birth-day, hath the fame evil influence 
 upon me, that it had 580 years fince upon 
 Earl Godwin^ and others concerned in Low 
 Lands. 
 
 The Parliament fb fatal to Romes con- 
 cerns here, in Henry Vllf. time, began the 
 IKitAoi November (26 of his Reign^ ; in 
 which the Pope^ with all his Authority, 
 was clean banifhed the Realm ; he no more 
 to be called otherwife than Biftiop of Rome 5 
 the King to be taken and reputed as Su- 
 prenie Head of the Church of England^ 
 having full Authority to reform all Errors, 
 Herefies and Abufes of the fame : Alio the 
 Firft-fruits and Tenths of all Spiritual Pro- 
 motions and Dignities were granted to the 
 King. See Stow*s Annals , and Weaver^ 
 page 80. 
 
 Not long after which followed the Vifi- 
 tation of Abbies, Priories, and Nunneries ; 
 and after that, their final Suppreffion : This 
 Parliament being the Door or Entrance 
 thereto. 
 
 The Third oi November 1640, began that 
 Parliament fo direfully fatal to England^ in 
 its Peace, its Wealth, its Religion, its Gen- 
 try, Nobility, nay, its King. So verifying 
 the former Verfe of the Calendar, 
 
 Scorpim efi quintus^ & tertius ^ nect cincfus. 
 
 A KjHi^g daj to fome or other. 
 
 The 
 
(12) 
 
 The Third of September was a remarka- 
 ble day to the EngUfh AttiU^ Oliver. 1650, 
 He obtained a memorable V^ftory at Dm* 
 ^4r ; another at W^cjrre/?er, 1^51. And thkt 
 day he died, 1658. 
 
 The firft two Occurrences wonderfully 
 accord to the precceding Verfes. 
 
 Tertia Scftembrls, & denus fert maU 
 mtmhris. 
 Being fatal to the two Members of Great 
 BritaWy Scot I And and E7:gla»d, The third, 
 as happy to them both, as the fame day, 
 1666, was difmal and unhappy to the Gity 
 of Lonion, and confequcntly to the whole 
 Kingdom, with its immediate preceeding 
 and two fucceeding days, viz. the Second, 
 Fourth, and Fifth oi September. 
 
 I come now to the Days of the Week. 1 
 
 Tuefdij (J^ies Martis) was a moft re- 1 
 markable day vv ith Thomas Becket Arch-Bp» 
 of Cdnterbury^ as Weaver 201, obferves from 
 ikf^r. Park : Marsy Secundi4m Poet as ^ Det^l 
 Belli nHfJcnpattir. Vita SanSi Thorns ( fe* 
 cundum i/ludjob^ Vita hominis militia ejlfuper 
 terram) tot a fuit contra hoftem bellicofay Src. 
 The Liko( St. Thomas ("according to that 
 of jf^^, The Life of Man is a Warfare upon 
 Earth) was a continual Confli£t againft the 
 Enemy. Upon a Tuefday he fuffired; 
 upon a Tuefday he was tranflated; upon 
 Tuefday the Peers of the Land fate againft 
 hm tit Northampton ', upoa Tuefday hie was 
 
 Banilh-- 
 
Banilhed; upon Tuefdnj the Lord appear- 
 ed to him at Pontiniac^ faying, Thomas^ 
 Thomas y My Cht4rch (hall he glorified in thy 
 Blooi\ upon Tuefday he returned from 
 Exile 5 upon Tuefday he got the Palm or 
 reward of Martyrdom; upon Tuefday 
 1210, his Venerable Body received the 
 Glory and Rjenown of Tranflation, Fifty 
 Years after his PafTion. Thus my Author. 
 One thing I make hold to glofs upon. His 
 Tranflation is here mentioned twice. 
 Note,. This is no Tautology of the Hifto' 
 riany.hutthe latter Paragraph is a more 
 partie^la^ . Reqitation of the firfi^ viz. 
 reference to the time when he tvas Tranjla" 
 'ted into the number of Saints and Mar- 
 tyrs : Quando in Divorum numerum 
 relatus, as Camden. 
 Wednefday is faid to have been the for- 
 tunate day of Sixtus Quintus^ that Pope of 
 renowned Merit, that did fo great and ex- 
 cellent things in the time of his Govern- 
 ment. See The juft weight of the Scarlet 
 Robe^ [pag. 10 1. his defired Praifes.] Oa 
 a Wednefday he was born ; on that day he 
 was made Monk ; on the fame he was 
 made General of his Order ; on that alio, 
 was he fucceflively created Cardinal, elefled 
 Pope, and alfo Inaugrated. See Heylyn^ 
 Ipeaking of the Temple oijerufalem. 
 
 Friday was obferved to be very iof tunate 
 to the Great Renowned Captain Qonfalvo^ 
 
 he 
 
he having on that day given the Fremh ma- 
 ny memorable Defeats. 
 
 Saturday was a Lucky Day to Heffry VIL 
 Upon that day he atchieved the Viftory up- 
 on Richard III. htlng Auguji 22. 148^. On 
 that day he entred theCity, being Augujl2^. 
 [Correct Stow^ who miftakes the day.] And 
 he himfelf always acknowledged, he had ex- 
 perienced it Fortunate. See Bacopi in his Life. 
 
 Thurfday w^as a fatal day to Henry VIIL 
 [asi'/fja?, 812.] andfoalfoto his Pofterity. 
 He died on Thurfday Jan. 28. King E^- 
 tvard VL on Thurfday July 6. Queen Mary 
 on Thurfday November 17. QyiQQi\ Elizabeth 
 on Thurfday March 24. 
 
 Saturday (or the Jewijb Sabbath^ was fa- 
 tal to Jerufalem Temple ; for on that day 
 'twas taken by Pompey^ Herod and Titfis 
 fucceffively. Heylyn. 
 
 Hitherto by way of Prologue. And M 
 pleasM to take notice, as to the Days of thtlj 
 Month, I have taken fuch care, that all an 
 according to the Julian or old Account 
 uftd by us here in England. [See Partridge 
 Almanack, Preface to the Reader'] Popi 
 Gregory XIIL brought in his New Stil 
 (generally ufed beyond Sea) Anno 1585.i1 
 05iober^ as afferts the Journal Hiftory be 
 fore recited. 
 
 An Old Proverb. 
 When Easier falls in our Ladies Lapy 
 Then let England beware a Rap. 
 
 Eajk 
 
C *5 ) 
 
 Eafier falls on March 25. when the 5"^^. 
 day Letter is G, and the Golden Number 5, 
 15, or 16. As in the late Years 1459, 
 1638, 1649. 
 
 1459, King Hemy VI. was Depoled and 
 Murthered. 
 
 1638, The Scotifh Troubles began, on 
 which infued the great Rebellion. 
 
 164^, King Charles I. Murthered. 
 
 I think it will not happen fo again till 
 the Year 1991. 
 
 Now for Epilogue and Remarkable Re- 
 fleftion. 
 
 Turning over our Annals, I chanced up- 
 on a two-fold Circumftance ; I will not 
 fay, that none elfe hath obferved the ftme ; 
 but I proteft, (^lu me Dens amet^ ut verum 
 loefuor') I do not know of any that have ; and 
 therefore muft juftly claim to be acquitted 
 from the leaft fufpicion of Plagiarifm, or 
 plou ing with others Heifers. 
 
 The Firft is, df William the ConqneroHr. 
 The Second, o^EdrvardllL (I need not lay 
 any thing of the Eminency of thefe two ; 
 every one knows what great things they 
 did.) And making refleftion upon the Au- 
 fpicious Birth-day of his Royal Highnefs 
 the Duke of TORf^^ I adventured upon 
 the following Compofure. [ I cannot be 
 proud of my Poetry ; but I cannot but be 
 glad of my BON HEVR, d' avoir (en 
 lifant)tombe fi fortuem}nt fttr les evemments 
 dunfi BON JOVR, Ad 
 
(i6) 
 
 AdIlluHri[/imum & CelfiJJimum Principem^ 
 JACOBUM Ducem EBOR.ACENSEM, 
 de Nxtdifuo Aufpicatiffimo Oftobris XIV. 
 Anno 1655. 
 
 Deus 
 
 Anne nefafto te fofuit die? Hor. lib. 2.od. i j. 
 
 Oflobris Dec'mo quarto Normannus Haraldum 
 
 Dux fuperavit^ & hinc Regia [ceptra tuliu 
 Tertius Edwardus, capto pernice Caleto, 
 
 fGallica quo Regnafunt refarata fiii) 
 Ire domum tentanSy dirts turbinihus aBus 
 
 Jnpelago, Fitte magna periclafubiu ,^ J 
 
 Oftobris I>ecimo quarto^ tamen appulit Oras 
 
 Nativas. ( His qiiam profperus ilk dies !) 
 Natali Utaretuo^ quam MaximeTrinceps\ 
 
 TsLudsLvebttftwt hacy Ominz fe?nper haie. 
 
 0£loberV fourteenth gave the Norman Duke 
 A^^ '55 '^^^^ ^i^ory^rvhence he Englands Scepter took* 
 ' Third Edward, after he had Calais won, 
 (The Mean whereby he Frarice did over-run^ 
 Returning home, by ragingTempefts toBy 
 (^And near his Life (fo fortunes^ to have loff) ' 
 Mem in Arrived fafe on Shore the felf fame Date. *l 
 
 An. i?47. (This day tothem afforded jo fair Fate.) 
 
 Great Duke, rejoyce in this your day of Eivth ;| 
 Andmayfuch OaiQtis fii/l encreafeyour Mirtp* 
 
 Thcfe Verfes I prefented in Anno 1672,! 
 to a moft Honourable Peer of the Land, 
 and of great Place near his Royal HighaeG 
 
 Since 
 
 
p7) 
 
 Since which time, Old Fabian coming 
 into my hands, from him I got knowledg, 
 that that advantageous Peace, mentioned by 
 Stovp^ Anno 1560, ("concluded between 
 the forementioned King Edward III. and the 
 French King) was afted upon the Four- 
 teenth oiOBober^ with grand Solemnity. 
 
 The two former Circumftances mufl: 
 needs fall out Providentially : Whether this 
 hAoi Anno ij6o, was defigned by Edward 
 Ml. or no, (as remembring his former good 
 hap) may be fome queftion : I am of opi- 
 on not. 
 
 Where things are under a Mans peculiar 
 Concern, he may fix a time 3 but here was 
 the French King concerned equally with 
 the Engltjh^ and many other great Pcrlbn- 
 agesinterefted. To have tied them up to his 
 own Aufpicious Conceit of the Day, had 
 been an unkind Oppreffion, and would 
 have brought the Judgment of fb Wi^; a 
 Prince into queftion : We may conclude 
 - then, 'twas meerly fortuitous. And rhere- 
 foretothe former Obfervation concerning 
 this Famous Edward^ give me leave to add, 
 Infuper hoc ipfo die (fibi commoda) Grandis 
 
 Rex cum GalUgenis^ feeder a fecit tdem. 
 An advantageous Peace ^ on day Jelt-Jame^ 
 This mighty Prince did with the Frenchmen 
 
 frame. 
 A memorable Peace (foretold hy Noflreda^' 
 fnui) much conducing to the faving ofChri- 
 
 C pan 
 
(IS) 
 
 fiian Blood, was made upon the Fourteenth 
 oi O^ober it^K^"!. between Pope PW IV. 
 Henry IL of France^ and Philip II. oi Spain. 
 Nojiredamus fays, Thefe great Princes were 
 frapp}z duCiel^ moved from Heaven to make 
 this iPeace. Sec Garemitrs Comment on 
 Nojiredamus^ page 76. 
 
 A Lucky day this, not only to the Prin- 
 ces of E/sgA^^?^; but Aufpiciousto the Wel- 
 fare of Europe, John Gibbons^ 1678. 
 
 Thus far Mr. John Gibbon. The Latin 
 Verfes of the Twelve Months quoted by 
 him out of an old Manufcript, I have feen in 
 feveral Mafs- books : And they are printed 
 in the Kalendar to the Works of Venerable 
 Bede. 'Tis to be prefumed, that they were 
 grounded upon experience ; But we have 
 BO Inftances left us of the Memorables of 
 thofe Days. 
 
 As for the Thirdj and Tenth of September ^ 
 I have here fet dow fome Extraftions from 
 a little Book call'd The Hijlorians Guide j or 
 Britain's Remembrancer ; which was care- 
 fully collefted by a Club. It begins at the 
 Year i6oo, and is continued to 1690. 
 There cannot be found in all the time afore- 
 faid, the like Inftances. 
 
 Tenia Septembrisy & denusfert mala mem 
 bris. 
 
 September^, 1 641. The Parliament Ad- 
 journed to the 2oth. oiOiiober next, and the 
 
 Iri/b 
 
ri9) 
 
 Jrifh Rebellion broke out, where were 20000 
 Perfbns barbaroufly Murthered. 
 
 September 3. 1645* Biddiford, Apple ford 
 and Barnftahle furrendred to the King. 
 
 Septemb. 3. 1650. Dunbar ¥\^i. 
 
 Septemb, 3. 165 1. Worcefter Vx^t. 
 
 Septemb. 3. 165 1. EarlofD^riy defeat- 
 ed at PreHo^. 
 
 Septemb. j. 1654. A Third Parliament 
 at WtftminHer. 
 
 Septemb. 3. 1658. O/zVer Proteftor died, 
 
 Septemb. 3. 167 5. The Town oi Nor-- 
 thampton neer burnt down to the ground by 
 accidental Fire. 
 
 Septemb. 3. 1662. WillUm Lenthal Speak- 
 er of the Houfe of Commons died. 
 
 Septemb. 3.4. 1665. Four Dutch Men 
 of War, two EaH-India Ships, and feveral 
 Merchantmen taken by the Earl of Sand- 
 wich^ with the lofs only of the HeBor. 
 
 Septemb. 2. 1644. The Earl of E/T^jc fled 
 to Plymouth, and the Army fubmitted to 
 the King. 
 
 Septemb. 2. 1645. The Scots raifed the 
 Siege from before Hereford. 
 
 Septemb. 2. 1653. The L^Wd?;^erj petiti- 
 on the Parliament to continue Tythes. 
 
 Septemb. 2. 1685. The Lady X//7e be- 
 headed at WincheHer for harbouring Hicks 2, 
 Rebel. 
 
 Septemb, 4. 1 643. Exeter taken by Prince 
 Mdurice. 
 
 C 2 Septemb^ 
 
Septemb, 4. 1653. General Blake buried 
 at Wejlminfler. 
 
 Septemb. 5. 1652. The Fre/^r^ Fleet beat- 
 en by the Efjglijh. 
 
 Memorables on September the Tenth, 
 
 Seftemb. 10. 1643. The Siege of Glou- 
 cefter railed. I remember over that Gate 
 which leads to Nimphs-field was this follow- 
 ing Infcription in Free-ftone : The Walls 
 are now pulled down. 
 Always remember 
 The Tenth of September 
 One thou f and ft X hundred forty three y 
 And give God the Glorie. 
 
 Septemb. 10. 1645. B^^^^/furrendred to 
 the Parliament. 
 
 Septemb. 10. 1649. Drogheda taken as 
 appears by Cromwell's Letter to the Speaker 
 Lenthal. 
 
 Septemb. 10. 1660. Peace with Spain 
 cprociaimed. 
 
 Septemb. 10. 1670. Peace concluded be- 
 tween England and Spain in America, was 
 this day ratified at Madrid. 
 
 Septemb. 10. 167J. Thisday hisMajefty- 
 commanded the Earl of Ojfory to take the 
 Command of the Fleet at the Buoy in the 
 Nore, in the abfence of Prince Rupert. 
 
 Septemb. 12. 1679. The King takes from 
 the Duke of Monmouth his Commiffion of 
 General. 
 
 Septemb, 
 
Septemb, ii. 1680. Mrs. Ce//er tryed at 
 the Old'Bailey^ forPublifhinga Book called, 
 Malice Defeated^ Src. and found Guilty- 
 
 Septemk 12. 1683. The Siege of ^/>;;«/i 
 raifed (after the Befieged had loft looco 
 Men, and the Befiegers 70000) by the King 
 oi Poland, andtheDukeofL^rr/i//;. 
 
 May 29. 1650. King Charles II. born. 
 
 May 29. 1660. Reftored. 
 
 May 29. 1672. The Fleet beaten by the 
 Dutch. 
 
 May 29. 1679. A Rebellion broke out 
 in the Weft of Scotland, where they Pro- 
 claimed the Covenant, and put forth a De- 
 claration. 
 
 The Emperor Charles V. was born on 
 February 24. i 5CO. 
 
 He won the Battle of P^-z/i^, February 24. 
 1525. 
 
 Clement VII. Crowned him Emperor, 
 February 24. 1550. 
 
 Raphael di Vrbin [the famous Painter ] 
 was born on a Good Friday^ and died on a 
 Good Friday. 
 
 kx. Feltwell in Norfolk^ [which lies Eaft 
 and Weft] a Fire happened to break out 
 at the Weft end, which the Weft Wind 
 blew and burned all the Street: On that 
 day Twenty Years, another Fire happened 
 there, which began at the Eaft end 3 and 
 burned it to the ground again. This I had 
 from a Reverend Divine. Qu^re^dehoc. 
 
 C 3 Colonel 
 
Colonel M^gh Grove of Wiltjhire was be- 
 headed at Exeter [togecher with Colonel 
 John Pe^rudock'] on the Ninth day of May 
 1655. On that very day Three Years, his 
 Son and Heir 6\QAd^t London of a Malignant 
 JFever, and about the fame hour of the day, 
 
 A very good Friend of mine and Old ac- 
 gur^intan'-e was born on the 1 5th of No* 
 fu^mhtr : his Eldeft Son was born on the 1 5th 
 oi' Novtmi?er, and his Second Son's Firft Son 
 on the 1 5 th of November. 
 
 Day Fatality of Eome^ Written by John 
 Telly D. D. from whom I had it. 
 
 They 1 hat called the City ofRome^ Vrh 
 jEttrna, feemtd to bislieve, that Rome could 
 never be deftroyed. But there have been 
 great numbers of Mpn, that did verily be- 
 lieve, that it fhall have an irrecoverable 
 pyerthrovv. Writers have proceeded fb far, 
 as to fort'tel the time o{ Rornes final Ruine. 
 Some faid that Rome*$ Perdition lliould 
 happen in the Year of Chrift 1670. They 
 liaise now been decry ed Nine whole Years: 
 So that few take care to know what Reafbns 
 fnoved them to pitch upon that Number. 
 
 A LutheranHidorianj A»m i6'y6 wrotQ 
 Xhus: Fimmjnhiltorum Ecckfiafticorum am-' 
 niumque temporum in Scriptura revelatorum^ 
 dtfinere in iAnnum ChriHi Miilefimum fex' 
 ttntj^fimupt c^ feptuagefimum , antthac obfer" 
 vai/it BeatmG€rbar4us cum Philippo N^colao. 
 
 But 
 
But all Men are not of Dr. GerharcTs Opini- 
 on. Many Men believe, that fbmeofthe 
 Prophefies in the Revelation do reach far 
 beyond our times , and that the events 
 of future times will unclafp and unfeal a 
 confiderable portion of the Apocalypfe. 
 
 One of the Reafons that recommended 
 the Number of 1670, was becaufe it is the 
 Sumof 4T0, and 1260. 
 
 Hiftorians agree, that in the Year of 
 Chrift 410, in the Month of Augufi Rome 
 was trampled under foot, and her Hea- 
 then Inhabitants were miferably flaughter- 
 ed by the Viftorious Army oi\^laric, a 
 Chriftian King of the G^^Aj. Paulus DU- 
 corns faith, Auguji the 24th was the day of 
 King AUrics taking Rome. Kjdrems faith, 
 it was AuguftihQ 26th, perhaps the Army 
 firft entred the 24th, and the King follow- 
 ed not till two days after. 
 
 As for the other Number 1260. It is 
 twice found in the Revelation of St. John 
 Chap. II. 5. My tm witnejfes jh all Prof hefie 
 axhoufand two hnndred and jixty days. And 
 chap. 12. 6. Should feed the Woman in the 
 Wilder nefs a thoufand two htmdred and three^ 
 [core days. And it is there expreffcd in ano- 
 ther form [42 times 303 chap. 11. 2. The 
 Gentiles /ball tread the holy City under foot 
 forty and two Months, chap. 15. <;. Power 
 was given to the Blafphemous Beasf to continue 
 forty and tm months, chap. 12. 14. The 
 
 C 4 vpoman 
 
(h) 
 
 mman is nourijhedw the Wildernefsfor [Ka/fSir 
 :^ Kcuf^f Kcu ntJLiov xfluf a ] a feafoft and ftafonSy 
 and halfaftafon. See J^- i. 7. 360 and 720 
 and 180 are equal to \i6o. Soitfeemsevery 
 iLtu^li hath 960 days, or twelve Months at 
 thirty days to a Month. No doubt Daniel hsid 
 given occafion to this expreflion. chap.7.25. 
 A time, and timtSy and the dividing of time. 
 No Man can ground any diftinft reafbning 
 upon fuch general words. But at the end of 
 the Chapter, he left off his ChaldeanTongwt^ 
 and wrote Hebrew in the reft of hisBook;and 
 chap. 12.7. he fpeaks more diftinftly {_For 
 A feafonyfeafons^and a half his word [^Moyed 
 ( "ly^Q ) from nyi condixit^ indixit , con' 
 jlituit'} is not fo large a word, as the other 
 Hebrew words which we Tranflate Time. 
 But yet it is not tyed to a juft number of 
 days (as 360) but is capable of various in- 
 ttrpretations in (everal Prophefies. Daniel 
 ufeth a Plural in both places, and not a Dual 
 {Two times, and two feaf ens'} Nor doth jft))&/> 
 fay, Twofeafons: But by his Numeral lU 
 luftration, he teacheth us tounderftandhim, 
 as if he had faid (chap. 12.14.) For three 
 feafons and half a feafon : I fay Numeral 
 llluFf ration. For I take it to be no other 
 than an eafie example (12 and 24 and 6 
 are 42) to dire £1: the Sons of the Prophets 
 not yet arrived to the skill of dealing with 
 difficult fupputations of Numbers not then 
 d if cover dk. As ReveLi'^.i^, Here is )^//- 
 • - • (/(?♦»«. 
 
^25) 
 
 ^om^ Let him that hath Vnderftandwg count 
 the number of the Beaft. 
 
 By 1260 days almoft all the Interpreters 
 underftand fo many Years, but not a Year 
 of 560 days ^ becaufe they find no Nation 
 that hath fo fhort a Year. The EgyftUns 
 had a year of juft 365 days; but before 
 St. John was born, the Romdms had forced 
 them to allow 3654 as we uie now in Eng- 
 land. 
 
 In an enquiry concerning Rome it is fit 
 to confider the length of a Roman Year. (I 
 may juftly fay a Roman Moyed ; for no City 
 ever had their Years length and form of a 
 Calender Determimd, Setkdy and Command^ 
 id with fo much abfolute Authority as 
 Rome had) Julius C<efar by an Edifl: com- 
 manded that Number of ^65^ tobeobfer- 
 ved, and therefore it is called a Julian year. 
 Three Julians and an half have days 1278I 
 But "Julian Years 1378I are 1278 Julian 
 Years, and days 136IJ; or almoft 137 days. 
 
 Almoft 100 years ago. Pope Gregory the 
 XIII. by a Papal Bull introduced a Calen- 
 dar wherein the Years length is fuppofed to 
 have days 365^7^. Then three Gregorian 
 Years and an half have days 1 278 J^^. But 
 Gregorian Years 1278^^^ are 127S Julian 
 Yearsand days alro.oft 118. Wherefore in- 
 fteadof adding 1260, add 1278, add 137 
 days to the Year of our Lord 410, Augujl 26. 
 
 The 
 
The fumflbews the Year of our Lord 1688 
 Au^uH 16 J, that Is, Ten days after the end 
 of December 1688 Old ftile. This is the ut- 
 moft, or fartheft day, beyond which no 
 Jpocdfypfe account (reckoning fromJUrlc) 
 can point out a time, for the final Deftrufti- 
 on of the City of i?(3«/e. 
 
 Again (inftead of adding 1260) add 
 1278 Years, and days 118 to the Year of 
 our Lord 410 Juguji 24. The fum fhews 
 the Year of our Lord 1688 Augtifi 142, 
 that is, Eleven days before the end of De- 
 cemkr 1688 Old ftile. This (^December 20) is 
 the neareft or fooneft day that can be ga- 
 thered by -^p^^^^^/^/VaccountCreckoningfrom 
 Jlaric) to point out the time of Romes final 
 Ruin. But if it happens not before the 
 Eleventh of jAmary^ Men will make no 
 more reckoning of Alaric ^ but begin a new 
 account from AttiU in the Year of Chrift, 
 
 453- 
 
 Calculation to a day (when we can do 
 
 it) may be defended by a great example. 
 Exod, 12. 41. at the end of 430 Years, even 
 the felf fame day, &c. Jo, PelL 
 
 Dr. Pell told me, that St. Augufiin writes 
 fbmewhere, to this purpofe, viz> That it 
 were to be wiQied, that Ibme skilful Ma- 
 thematitian would take the pains to exa- 
 mine and confider the Mathematical parts 
 ef thq Holy Scripture. 
 
 CHAP. 
 
(27; 
 
 CHAP. II. 
 
 Of Fatalities of Families^ and Places. 
 
 THE L. Chancellor B^r^/? fays, ^' As for ^fi^^?^' 
 " Nobility in particular Perfonsjt is a Jity. ° '" 
 " reverend thing to fte an Ancient Caftle or 
 ** Building not in decay ; or to fee a fair 
 "Timber Tree found and perfeft; how 
 •^ much more to behold an Ancient Ncble 
 " Familv, which hath ftood againft the 
 " Waves and Weathers of Time: For new 
 ^'Nobility is but the Adt of Power; but 
 ^* Ancient Nobility is the Aft of Time. 
 
 But Omnium rerum eji vicffjittido : Fami- 
 lies, and Places have their Fatalities, accord- 
 ing to that of Ovid 
 
 Forsfua, cuique loco eJi 
 
 This piece of a Verfe puts me in mind oi Fnporum 
 (everal Places in Wiltjbire^ and elfewhere Lib. IVl 
 that are, or have been fortunate to their 
 Owners; and e contra. 
 
 Sturton [ the Seat of the Lord Sturton ] 
 was belonging to this Family before the 
 Conquelh They fay, that after the Vifto- 
 ry at Batuikj WiUiam the Conquerour 
 came in Perfbn into the Weft, to receive 
 their Rendition ; that the Lord Abbot of 
 Glajlenbury^ and the reft of the Lords and 
 Grandees of the Weftern parts waited up- 
 on 
 
( 28 ; 
 
 on the Conquerour at Sfourton'houk;whQ['C 
 the Family continues to this day. 
 
 The Honourable Family of the Hunger^ 
 fa is is probably of as great Antiquity as 
 any in the County of Wilts. Hmgtrford 
 [the place of the Barony^ was fold but late- 
 ly by Sir EJivard Hungtrford Knight of the 
 Bath; as alfo the Noble and Ancient Seat 
 of F:irltigh'Caftle^ about An, 167. .. But that 
 this Eftate fhould fo long continue is not 
 very ftrange ; for it being (b vaft, 'twas a- 
 ble to make feveral with-ftandings againft 
 the Shock of Fortune. 
 
 The Family oiGawen have been long at 
 Norringion in the Parifh of AlvidtHon in 
 
 Wiltfbire. It was fold by Gawen Efq ; 
 
 to Sir Wadham Windham one of the Judges 
 of the Kings Bench about 166^. They 
 continued in this place Four hundred fifty 
 and odd Years. Then alfo was fold their 
 Eftate in BroadXha/k, which they had as 
 long, or perhaps longer. Oa the South 
 Down of the Farm o^BroddXhalkSs a littlp 
 Barrow called G^rre;?*s Barrow; f which 
 muft be before Ecclefiaflical Canons were 
 conflituted ; for fince. Burials are only in 
 Confecrated ground.] King Edgar gave 
 the Mannor and Farm of Broad-Chalk to the 
 Nunns oi Wilton- Abby^ which is 900 Years 
 ago. 
 
 Mr. Thinne in his Explanation of the hard 
 ^V'ords in Charfcer, writes thus, ©aftipn, 
 
 fol. 23. 
 
fol 23. p. I. This Gawjfn was Sifters Son to 
 Jrthur the Great, King of the Britaim^ a 
 moft famous Man in War, and in all man- 
 ner of Civility ; as in the AQs of the Br/- 
 tains we may read. In the Year 1082 in a 
 Province of Wales called Rofe was his Se- 
 pulchre found. Chancer in the Squires Tale. 
 
 'Uli^ ffraunp l&m'd^t tfiat came tfius Coucnlp 
 iail armeti, fate W fi^atr, full tojall^ 
 feuluEtitlje l^ing, anti -aDu0£U,anti HojtijaJall 
 aB? ojtier aiB! t^ep Otten in t!)e ^all 
 aaiitl) Co Jiglj Eetiertnct and £)fieiTaunce 
 530 toell in fe)peec!j a0 in Countenance, 
 ^l)at (Batoain toitj 610 old CourteCe, 
 '2ri)0ug:f) |e came again outef iFairie, 
 |5e could l)im not amend of no toojd.- — - 
 
 Sir William BattOH of TocJ{enham Baronet 
 [the Father] told me, that his Anceftors 
 had the Leafe of Jlton-hrm [400/. fer 
 Anmm\ in Wilts (which anciently belong- 
 ed to /i^^e-Abby ]uxta Winton) four Hun- 
 dred Years. Sir William's Leafe expired a- 
 bout 1652, and fo fell into the hands of the 
 Earl of Pembroke, 
 
 Clavel of- ^in the Ifle of Purkc in the 
 
 County o( Dorfetw^s in that place before 
 theConqueft, as appears by Dooms-day Book^ 
 The like is faid of Hamdeny of Hamden in 
 Bucks : Their Pedigree fays, that one of that 
 Family had the ConduQ: of that County in 
 two Invafions of the Danes. Alfo Pen of 
 
 Pen 
 
( 50 ; 
 
 Pef$ in that County was before the CoH- 
 queHy as by Dooms-day Book, 
 
 Contrary wife,there are feveral places un- 
 lucky to their Pofleffors. e. g. Chmer-houft 
 on ^ Mindip in Somerfet(hire never pafs'd 
 yet, to the Third Generation. The Man- 
 nor of Butkigh near Glaflonhury^ never 
 went, yet, to the Third Generation. 
 
 Bletchington in Oxfordfbire continued in 
 th6 Family of the Pauures^ for about 300 
 
 Years : It was ahenated by Paunre to 
 
 Sir John LenthAll about the Year 1 630, who 
 fold it again to Sir Thomas Coghtll about 
 1635. He fold it to IVilliam Lewis Efq ; 
 whofe Relift made it over to the Duke of 
 Richmond and Lenox^ about the Year 166..., 
 His Grace fold it to Arthur Earl of Anglefit 
 about 166.... 
 
 Fatality of Proper Names of Princes, e.g. 
 Auguflus the firft Roman Emperor and Au* 
 guflulus the laft. Conjiantine the firft Greci- 
 an Emperor and Confiantine the laft. The 
 like is obferved of the firft and laft Mexican 
 Experors: And the Turks have a Prophefie 
 that the laft Emperor will be a Mahomet, 
 
 John hath been an untortunate Name to 
 Kings. All the Second Kings fince the 
 Conqueft have been unfortunate. 
 
 London-Derry was the firft Town in Ire* 
 land that declared for the Parliament againft 
 King Charles the I. and for the Prince of 
 Orange againft King James the 11. It was 
 
 clofely 
 
clofely Befieged both times without efFea. 
 The Kings Party were once Matter of all 
 theKingdom except London-Derry and Duh^ 
 liny and King James had all in his power 
 hut London- Deny and Iniskilling. One Taylor 
 a Minifter was as famous for his Martial 
 feats in the firft Siege, as Walker in the laft. 
 
 'Tis certain, that there are fome Houfes 
 unlucky to their Inhabitants, which the 
 Reverend and Pious Dr. tleptr could ac- 
 knowledge. See Tohit chap. 3. v. 8. That 
 Jhe had been married to (even Husbands^ whom 
 Afmodeus the evil ffirit had killed^ before they 
 had lien with her. 
 
 The Fleece-Tavern in Covent-garden [in 
 Torkfireet'] was very unfortunate for Homi^ 
 cides : ther€ have been feveral killed, three 
 in my time ; It is now (1692) a private 
 Houfe. 
 
 A handfbm Brick-houfe on the South 
 Gidcof Clerkenwell Church-yard hath been 
 fo unlucky for at leaft Forty Years that it 
 was feldom Tenanted ; and at laft, no body- 
 would adventure to take it. AlCo a hand- 
 Ibme Houfe in Holbourn that looked toward 
 the Fields ; the Tenants of it did not prol^ 
 per, feveral, about fix. 
 
 At the Sign of over againft Nor- 
 
 thumherUnd Houfe near ChearingXrofs died 
 the Lady Baynton [Eldeft Daughter of Sir 
 John Danvers o( Dante/ey.'] Some years after 
 in the fame Houfe died my Lady Hoby [her 
 
 Sifter 
 
sifter] of the Small-Pox, and about twenty 
 years after died their Nephew Henry Dan^ 
 ^erjEfq; of the Small- Pox, aged Twenty 
 one, wanting two Weeks. He was Nephew 
 ^, and Heir to the Right Honourable Henry 
 Ddnvers Earl of Danby, 
 
 Edmund Wyld Efq ; hath had more Dea- 
 
 dands from his Mannour oiTotham in Ejfex, 
 
 than from all his Eftate befides : Two Mif- 
 
 chiefs happened in one Ground there. 
 
 Difinheriting the Eldeft Son is forbid in 
 
 i the Holy Scripture, and Eftates difinherited 
 
 r are obferved to be unfortunate , of which 
 
 one might make a large Catalogue. See 
 
 Dr. Saunderfon^s Sermon- -where he dift 
 
 courles of this Subjeft. ^ 
 
 Periodical Small- Poxes. 
 
 This Ac- The Small- Pox is ufually in all great 
 
 count I Towns : But it is obferved at Taunton in 
 
 Mr.^riT Corner [etjlire, dinAdLiShirhurnemDorfetjbire, 
 
 Ax' that at one of them at every Seventh Year, 
 
 and at the other at every Ninth Year comes 
 
 a Small'Pox^ which the Phyfitians cannot 
 
 mafter, e.g. 
 
 Extrafted Small'pxmShirhHrn^^^x\x\^^h!^'^^^'t 1626 
 
 S** And during the year 1634 
 
 Book. From Michaelmas 1642 to Mich. 1645 
 
 From Michaelmas 1649 to Mich. 16 $0 
 
 From Michaelmas 1657 to Mich. 1658 
 
 In the Year 1667 from^f^;;. to Sepf. i66j 
 
 Mr.-4:v promifed me to enquire the Years it 
 
 happened there after 1670, and 1680; but 
 
 Death prevented him. SmaS- 
 
(n) 
 
 Small' Pox in Tamton all the Year i <5 5 8 Out of the 
 Like wife in the Year 1670 ^''^f^^' 
 
 y\gain in the Year 1677 
 
 Again Vtry mortal in the Year 1684 
 Mr. Ax alfo promifed me to enquire at 
 Taunton the Years it happened there after 
 1660. 
 
 It were to be wifhed that more fuch Ob* 
 (ervations were made in other great Towns. 
 P/ateruj makes the like Obfervations in 
 the ftcond Book of his Fragile, pag 5^5. 
 He praclifed at Bajil 56 Years, and did ob- 
 ftrve, that every Tenth Year they died of 
 the Plague there. 
 
 See Captain J, Graunts Obfervations of 
 the Bills of Mortality at London [indeed, 
 written by Sir WilltAm Petty^ which in a ' 
 late Tranf Action he confclTcd] for the iV/- ^ 
 
 odtcal Phgues 2Lt London^ which (as I re-, 
 member) are every Twenty filth Year. 
 
 CHAP. III. 
 
 OJlentaj or Portents. 
 
 "i 
 
 ^'T TOW it comes to pafs, I know not; DiTcourft 
 Xi " but by Ancient and Modern Ey^-d Nich. 
 *' ample it is evident, that no great Accident ^"^f'^J^'^" 
 ** befalls a City or Province, but it is pre- chap.LVL 
 V faged by Divination, or Prodigy, or 
 
 D '' Aftrolo' 
 
 A 
 
r34) 
 
 '* Aftrologie, or (bme way or other. I 
 (ball here fet down a few Inftances. 
 
 A Rainbow appeared about the Sun before 
 the Battel of P bar f alia. See Jppian', and 
 Mr. T. May^ V. Book of his Continuation 
 of Lucan, 
 
 '' Ex Cf^ronico Saxonico^ p. 112. Anno 
 " MCIV. fuit primus Pentecofles Aits Nonis \ 
 *^ 3^«/;//, c^ <i/e Martis fequente^ conjuncii funt 
 *' quAtuor Circtili circa Solem^ alhi color is ^ & 
 '' qtiifqnt fub alio collocatus, quafi picii ejfent. 
 ^' Omnes qui videbant obftupueruntj propterea 
 " quod nunquam ante tales meminerant. PoH 
 *' haec faSa eji Pax inter Comitem Robertum 
 *^ de Normannia, d^ Robert urn de B<iUfme — 
 
 Our Chronicles tell us, that ^^nno Se- 
 
 ^ ^cundo Rtgin£ Marias 15 Feb, two Suns ap- 
 
 *^^^^' . peared, and a Rainbow reverfed : See the 
 ' m , y'Eow turned downwards, and the two ends 
 f f ftanding upwards ; before the coming in 
 
 of King Philip, 
 
 ^^^ ^ ^ This following Phsenomenon was feen at 
 Eroad-Chalk^ in Wiltjhtre, on the fir ft 
 
fas; 
 
 of May, 1647. ft continued from^ about 
 Eleven a Clock [or before] till XIT. It 
 was a very clear day; bur few did take 
 notice ofir, bcxaufe it was fo near the Sun- 
 beams. My Mother happened to eipy it, 
 going to fee what a Clock it a as by an Ho- 
 rizontal Dial; and then all the Servants 
 fau it. Upon the like occafion Mr. Jo. 
 Sloper B. D. Vicar there, fa w it, and all his 
 .Family : and Ser\/ants of Sir George Faifg- 
 ham [then of Fdfioul who were Hunting 
 on the Downs, faw it. The Circles were 
 of Rainbow colour ; the tj\^o Pilots, which 
 Cfofs the greater Circle [1 prefiime they 
 were Segments of a Third Circle] were of 
 a pale Colour. The Sun was within the 
 Interfeclions of the Circles. The next re- ^^g ^-^^ ^ 
 markable thing that followed u as, that on DnzdaU\ 
 the Third ot '^unt following, Cornet 'Joyce ^^^ 
 carried King C^.arks I. Prifoner from HoU 
 denby to the Ifle oi Wight. The Ule oi Wight 
 Jieth direflly from Broad-Cha.'k^ at the X 
 a Clock point. 
 
 This following Phsenomenon was feen in 
 the North Gdc of the Church-yard of 5/- 
 fljopS'LAvi/igton'm Wiltfljire, about the lat- 
 ter end of vbf/^few^ier i688, about Three a 
 Clock in the Afternoon. 
 
 D 2 Tim 
 
This was more than a Semicircle- 
 
 B 
 
 Horizon. ^ 
 
 B B Two Balls of light. They were 
 about Eleven degrees above the Horizon by 
 the Quadrant; obferved by Mr. Robert 
 BkajOtiQ of the Earl oi Abingdon sGentlemen. 
 
 ^' Cicero de Natura Deorum Lib. II. Mul- 
 ^' t a prater ea Ojlentis, mult a ex eis admonemur, 
 *' muUifque rebus aliiSy quas diuturnus ufus iu 
 ** notarity ut artem Divinationis efficeret. 
 
 CHAP. IV. 
 Omens. 
 
 BEfore the Battel at Philippibegditiy two 
 Eagles fought in the Air between the 
 two Armies: Both the Armies flood flill 
 and beheld them, and the Army was bea- 
 ten. 
 
in) 
 
 ten, that was under the vanquifhed Eagle. 
 S^Q Appia;^^s Hi/l,F2LVt. 11, Lib. 4. jf . 2. 
 
 The Silver Croft that was wont to be 
 carried before Cardinal Wolfey^ fell out of 
 its Socket, and was like to have knock'd 
 one of the Bifhop's Brains out. A very lit* 
 tie while after, came in a Meflenger, and 
 arretted the Cardinal, before he could get 
 out of the Houfe. See Stow's Chronicle. 
 
 Tis commonly reported, that before an 
 Heir ofthe Cltftons oi Clifton in Nottingham- 
 (hire dies, that a Sturgeon is taken in the 
 River Trent by that place. 
 
 Thomas Fludd oi Kjnt^ Efq; told me, that 
 it is an old Obfervation, which was prefTed 
 earneftly to King "James I, that he fhould 
 not remove the Queen of Spots Body from 
 Northamftonfhire \\ here flie was beheaded, 
 and interred : For that, it always bodes ill 
 to the Family, when Bodies are removed 
 from their Graves. For fome ofthe Fami- 
 ly will die fhortly after,as did Prince Henryy 
 and, I think Queen, Anne. 
 
 A little before the Death of Oliver Pro- 
 teftor, a Whakcsitnc into the River Thames 
 
 and was taken at Greenwich foot long. 
 
 Tis faid, Oliver was troubled at it. 
 
 When I was a Frefhman at Oxford 16^2^ 
 I was wont to go to Chrift-Church to fee 
 King Charles I. at Supper : Where I once 
 heard him fay, " That as he was Hawking 
 *' in Scotland^ he rode into the Quarry, and 
 D 3 •' found 
 
'X 
 
 t 
 
 ('38) 
 
 ^* foddd the Covey of Partridges falling Dp- 
 ^' on the Hawk ; and 1 do remember this 
 ** expreffion farther, viz, and I will fwear 
 " upon the Book 'tis true. When I came 
 rtb my Chamber, I toM this Story to my 
 Ttitr^ ; raid he, Th^tCoveywniLotiAot). 
 
 f htr^Uft df King Charles I. carv'd by 
 Bii^'^fyi^ as it Wjs brought in a Boat Upon 
 the Itlj^m^, a ftratlge Bird [the like where- 
 6ithe Bargemen h^d never fcen] dropM a 
 drop of Blood, or Bteod-like Upon it , which 
 left a ftain not to be wiped off. This Buft 
 was carved fiom a Pifture of Sir JnthoHy 
 Van Dykth Drawing ; the Sculptor found 
 great fault with the For^^head, as moft un- 
 fortunate. There was a Seam in the middle 
 6f his Fere- head (downwards) which is a 
 very ill fign ill Metopofcopie. 
 /Colonel t^harington Talhot was zt Netting- 
 ham\ when Kir»g Charles I. did ftt up his 
 StafjJard upon the top of the Tower there. 
 He told mc, that the firil night, the Wind 
 ble V itfo, rhatit hung down almofl: hori- 
 zontal ; which fome did take to be an ill 
 Omen. n^>^^ ^':,(^'.^^* ■ 
 
 The day that the Long Parliament began 
 1 64 1, the Scepter fell out of the Figure of 
 King Charles in Wood in Sir-- — Trenchard^ 
 Hall at Wullicb in Dorftt^ as they were at 
 dinner in the Parlour: Juftice Hum theii 
 dined there. 
 
 ■^ThePidure of Apch-Eilhop Lawd'mKi^ 
 ' ' ' Ciofet 
 
r39) 
 
 Clofet fell down [the ftring brake] the day of 
 the fitting of that Parliament. This is men- 
 tioned in Cdfiterhrfs Doom by W. Pryrtn. 
 
 The Pfalms for the Eleventh D^y of the 
 Month are 56, 57, 58, &c. On the nth. 
 day of one of the Months in the Summer 
 time, the Citizens came tumultuoufly in 
 great Numbers in Boats and Bardgesover a- 
 gainft White- hall^ to fhew, they would tal^e 
 the Parliaments part. The Pfalms afore- 
 laid, both for Morning and Evening Service 
 are as Prophecies of the Troubles that did 
 enfue. 
 
 When the High-Court of Juftice was 
 voted in the Parliamenc-Houfe, as Berken- 
 hend [the Mace-bearer] took up the Mace 
 to carry it before the Speaker^ the top of the 
 Mace fell off. This was avowed to me by 
 an Eye-witnefs then in the Houfe. 
 
 The Head of King Charles p- StafFdId fail, 
 ', ofFat his Tryal ; that is commonly known. 
 j The Second Ledbn for the 30rh. of Ja^u- 
 \ary in the Kalendar before the Common- 1 
 Prayer, is concerning the Tryal of Chrifc: 
 which when'Bifhop Duffe read, the King 
 was difpleafed with him, thinking he had 
 done it of choice: but the Bifliop cleared 
 himfelf by the Kalendar, as i:* ro be {c^x\, 
 
 Kin2 Charles IL v^asCrowned at the very 
 conjunftion of the Sun and Macnrj^ Mercury 
 being then in Ccrde Solis. As the King v/as 
 at Dinner in Wejiminjler-Hdl^lt Thundred 
 
 D 4 and 
 
(40) 
 
 and Lightned extreamly. The Cannons and 
 the Thunder played together. 
 
 King Charles W, went by long Sea to 
 Vorifmouth^ or Plymouth^ or botli : an ex- 
 traordinary Siorni arofe, which carried 
 himalmoft to France, Sir Joms Moor (who 
 was then with his Majefty) gave me this 
 Account, and faid, that when they came 
 %o Porifmouth to refrefh themfel ves, they had 
 not been there above half an Hour, but the 
 Weather was Calm and the Sun fhone: 
 His Majefty put to Sea again, and in a lit- 
 tle time they had the like TempeftuoUs 
 Weather as before. 
 
 The G/ouceJler-Frigot caft away at the 
 Lemdrdore, and moft of the Men in it, the 
 Duke of Tork efcaping in a Cock-boat Ait- 
 no 1682. yi% the fifth) on a Fryday. 
 
 When King 'jamts II was Crowned [ac- 
 cording to the Ancient Cuflom, the Peers 
 I go to the Throne, and kifs the King] the 
 I Crown was almoft kifs'd off his Head. An 
 Earl did ftt it right : And as he came from 
 the Abbey to Wtlimtnjltr-HAll^ the Crown 
 totter'd extreamly. 
 
 The Canopy [of Cloathof Gold] carried 
 
 over King '^amts lis. Head by the Warden^ 
 
 h of the Cinque Ports, was torn by a puff of 
 
 Wind as he came to Wtftminfttr^hall: It 
 
 hung down very lamentably : I fawit. 
 
 The top of his Scepcer [Flower de Lis'] did 
 i then fall^which the Earlol reurkorongh took 
 
. (40 
 
 Updn Saint Mark's day, after the Coro- 
 nation of King James II. were prepared 
 ftately Fire- works on the Thames: It hap- 
 pened, that they took fire all together, and 
 it was fo dreadful, that (everal Speftaiors 
 leap'd into the River, choofing rather to be 
 drownd than burnd. In a Yard by the 
 Thames was my Lord Potvys\ Coach and 
 Horfcs; the Horfes were fo frighted by the 
 Fire works, that the Coachman was not 
 able to ftop them, but ran away over one 
 who with great difficulty recovered. 
 
 When King James II. was at Salisbury^ 
 Anno 16885 the Iron Crown upon the Tur- 
 ret of theCouncelhoufe was blown off. 
 
 In February^ Manh, 2ind i4^r/7,t wo Ravens 
 built their Neflson the Weather- cock of the 
 high Steeple at Bakwell in Darbyfbire. 
 
 I did fee Mr. Chr, Love beheaded on 
 Tower-hsll^ in a delicate clear day : About , 
 Jialf an hour after his Head was ft ruck off, 
 the Clouds gathered blacker and blacker : 
 and fuch terrible Claps of Thunder came, 
 that I never heard greater. 
 
 'Tis reported, that the like happened af-, 
 ter the Execution of Alderman Cornijb \n 
 Cheap'fiae, OS oh. 23. 168 5. 
 
 Anno 1645, as Major John Morgan of 
 Wells was marching with the Kings Army 
 into the Vv^eft, ftU fick of a Malignant Fe- 
 ver at Salisbury^ and was brought dange- 
 roufly ilJ to my Father's at Broad-Chalk^^htrQ 
 
 hs 
 
/ 
 
 (42 J) 
 he was lodged, fecretly, in a Garret. There 
 came 2l Sparrotp to the Chamber Window, 
 which peck'd the Lead of a certain Pannel 
 only, and only one fide of the Lead of the 
 Lozenge, and made one fmall hole in it. 
 He continued this pecking and biting the 
 Lead, during the whole time of hisfickneft 
 (which was not lefs than a Month) when 
 the Major went away the Sparrow defifted: 
 and came thither ho more. Two of the 
 Servants that attended the Major, andfober 
 Perfons, declared this for a certainty. 
 
 Sir Walter Longs [of Dorfet in Wilts'\ 
 Widow did make a folemn promife to him, 
 on his Deathbed, that (he would not marry 
 after his Deceafe. But not long after one 
 Sir — '^Fox, a very Beautiful young Gen- 
 tleman did win her Love: fo that notwith- 
 ftanding her Promife aforefaid, flie married 
 him .- She married at South-wrax-ba//^ where 
 the Pifture of Sir Walter hung over the Par- 
 lour door, as it doth now at Dracot, As 
 
 Sir . Fox led bis Bride by the hand 
 
 from the Church (which is near to the 
 Houfe) into the Parlour, the ftringofthe 
 PiQure brake, and the Pifture fell on her 
 fhoulder, and crack'd in the fall : [it was 
 painted on wood as thefafliion was in thofe 
 days.] This made her Ladyfhip refleft on 
 her Promife, and drew fome Tears from her 
 Eyes. 
 
 See 
 
r4?) 
 
 See Sir Wa/fer Raleigh's Hiftory Book IV. 
 chap. 2. §. 7. p... The Dogs of the Frf/fcA 
 Army, the night before the Battle of No- , 
 t/ara^ ran all to the Swijfes Army : the next 
 day the Stvtjfes obtained a glorious Viftory 
 of the Frtmh, Sir Wdttr Raleigh affirms it 
 to be certainly true 
 
 The laft flattie fought in the North of 
 Ireland between the Pioteftants and the Pa- 
 p^fts was in Glinfrdy near Ittterktnny in the 
 County of Done.gall. Vtntras was the Po- 
 pifh Bifhop oiClogher. and th^^t of the Par- 
 liament Army liir Charles Coot. They 
 pitch'd their Tents on each fide the River 
 Suly. And the Papilis conftantly perfift in 
 it to this very day, that the Night before 
 the Aftion , a Woman of uncommon 
 ftature all in white appearing to the (aid 
 Biftiop, admonifhed him not to crofsthe 
 River lirfl: to affault the Enemy, but fuf- 
 fer them to do it, whereby he ftiould ob- 
 tain the Viftory. That if the Irijh took 
 the water firft to move towards the Erjg-^ 
 lijhy they fiiould be put to a total rout, 
 which came to pafs. Ocahan^ and Sir Henry 
 Neil who were both kill'd there, faw fe- 
 verally the fame Apparition, and diffwaded 
 the Bifhop from giving the firft onfet, but 
 could not prevail upon him In the mean 
 time I find nothing in this Revelation, that 
 any common Soldier might not conclude 
 without extraordinary means. 
 '' ' Near 
 
r44; 
 
 Near the fame place a party of the Pro- 
 teftants had been iTurpriz d fleeping by the 
 J Popifh Irijhy were it not for feveral Wrens 
 f that juft wakned them by dancing and 
 pecking on the Drums as the Enemy were 
 approaching. For this reafon the wild 
 Jrifb mortally hate thefe Birds to this day, 
 calling them the Devils Servants, and kill- 
 ing them where ever they catch them ; 
 They teach their Children to thruft them 
 full of Thorns: You'll fee fometimes on Ho- 
 lidays a whole Parifh running like mad- 
 men from Hedg to Hedg a Wren-hunting. 
 Anno 1679, After the Difcovery of the 
 Popilh Plot, the Penal Laws were put in 
 execution againft the Roman Catholicks : So, 
 that if they did not receive the Sacrament 
 according to the Church of England in their 
 Parifh Church, they were to be feverely 
 proceeded againft according to Law; Mr. 
 Ployden^ to avoid the Penalty, went to his 
 Parifh Church at Lajham near Alton in 
 Hamf(birt : when Mr. Laurence [ the 
 Minifter ] had put the Chalice into Mr. 
 Plojdenh hand, the Cup of it (wherein the 
 Wine was) fell ofti Tis true. It was out 
 of order before ; and he had a Tremor in 
 his hand. The Communion was ftopt by 
 this accident. This was attefted to me by 
 two of the Neighbouring Minifters, as alfo 
 feveral Gentlemen of the Neighbourhood, 
 
 When 
 
f45j) ,, 
 
 When King James II. firft entred Dd/m 
 after his Arrival from France 1689, one of 
 the Gentlemen that bore the Mace before 
 him ftumbled without any rub in his way, 
 or other vifible occafion. The Mace fell 
 out of his hands, and the little Croft upon 
 the Crown thereof ftuck faft between two 
 ftones in the ftreet. This is very well 
 known all over IreUnd^ and did much 
 trouble King James himfelf with many of 
 his chief Attendants. 
 
 C H A P. V. 
 
 Dreams. 
 
 — >*6i/itf &JC A/or ir/. Homer Iliad A. 
 
 HE that has a mind to read of Dreams, 
 may perufe Cicero de Divinatione^ 
 Hier. Cardanl Somniorum Synefiorum Lib. 
 IV. and Moldinarius de InfomniU^ &c. I 
 Ihall here mention but little out of them, 
 my purpofe being chitfly to fet down fome 
 remarkable, and Divine Dreams of fbme, 
 that I have had the honour to be intimate- 
 ly acquainted with, perfons worthy of Be- 
 lief. 
 
 CtceYO de Divinatione Lib. T. Hann'ihakm^ 
 Coelius fcrihit^ C7im Columnam auream^ cjU£ ef- 
 fet in fano Junonis Lacinia^ auferre ve/kt, du- 
 
 bitarei' 
 
X 
 
 f 4« ; 
 
 Utaretque utrum en folida. efjet^ an extrinfecui 
 incLUYAtAy perterehavijje : cumque folidam in* 
 venijjetj ftAtuiffetque toUere^ femndum quitttTH 
 ^vifam effe ei Junonem pr£dicere^ m id facer et:^ 
 minitarique^ ft id fecijfet^ ft ctiraturAm^ ut turn 
 quoqut oculum^ quo htnt videret^ amitteret : 
 idque ah homine acuto non ejfe negk&um : itd- 
 que ex eo auro, quod exterehratum ejfety bucu- 
 lam curajfe faciendamy & earn in fumma co* 
 lumna collocavijfe, 
 
 • j^Cum duo quidam Arcades familiar es 
 
 iter una, facer enty & Megaram veniffent^ alte- 
 rum ad cauponem divertijje ; ad hofpitem al- 
 terum. Qui^ ut c(Bnati quiefcerenty concuhiA 
 noBe vifum effe infomnis ei qui erat in hofpi* 
 tioy ilium alter um or are ut fubveniret^ quod fi^ 
 hi a caupont inter itus pararetur : eum primi 
 perttrritum [omnia furrexiffe : deinde^ cum fe 
 collegiffet^ idque vifum pro nihilo habendum ejfe 
 duxfjjetj recubuiffe : turn ei dormienti eundem 
 ilium vifum effe rogare^ ut quoniam fihi vivo 
 non fuhvenifftt^ mortem fuam ne inultam effe 
 pateretur : fe interfeSum in plauHrum a caupo- 
 ne effe con]eBum. & fupra Jiercus injeBum : 
 petere, ut mane ad portam adeffet^ priufqudm 
 plaujlrum ex oppido exiret. Hoc vero fom- 
 nio commotum mam bubulco pr£(lo ad por* 
 ramfuiffe^ quafiffe ex eo^ quidejjet in plaufiro'. 
 illtrm pcrterritum f^gifj^t mortuum erutum effe^ 
 ccUfponcrn re patefacla pxnas dediffe, Qj^id hoc 
 fmnio did divinius potefi } 
 
 Som- 
 
« - ^ ■ Somntum de Simonidey qui cum 
 ignotum qutndam frojeHum mortnum vidijjet^ 
 eumque htimavijjet^ haheretque in ammo navtm 
 confcendtre^ montri vi[tu efi^ nt id factretj 
 ah €0^ qnem ftfultum afftctrtnt : (i ^avigajfet 
 earn naufragio ejje perisuram : itaque Simon- 
 dem redijje ; periffe ateros^ qui turn ndvigajfent. 
 
 Cicero de Divinatiom^ Lib. II. Somnium 
 Alexandri, ^//, cfim Ptolomat^ familiaris 
 ejffs in pr^lio telo 'venenato tBiis ejfet^ eoque 
 njulntrtfummo cum dolor t moreretur^ Alexan- 
 der afjidens fomno esi confvpitHs ; turn ftcundum 
 quietem vifus ei dicitur draco is^ quern mater 
 Olympias alehat^ r adieu lam ore ftrre^ C^ fimul 
 dicer e quo ilia loci nafceretur (neque is longe ah» 
 erat ah eo loco ;) e]us auiem eJJe "vim tantam^ 
 ut Ptolem£um facile fanaret. Cum Alexander 
 experrecfus narraffet amicu fomnium^ emifijfe 
 qui illam radiculam qudrtrent. ^ua invent a^ 
 & Ptolem^m fanatm dicitur^ d^ mtilti mili- 
 tes, qui erant eodtm gentre teli vulnerati, 
 
 CardanfiS Somniorum Synefiorum. Lib. IIII. 
 Cap. 2. N<zrrat Plinius 25 Lib. Nat, HiFL 
 vir ah omni fuperfiitione alien i^Jimm ^ Hiflo- 
 riam hujufmodt, *' Nuper cujufdam mili- 
 " tantis in Paetorio mater vidit in quiete, 
 '*' ut radicem fylveftiis Rofis (quam cynor- 
 ** rhodon vocant ) bhnditam iibi afpeftii 
 *^ pridie in fniteto, mitteret filio bibendam : 
 " In Lacetania res gerei:)atur , Hifpaniae 
 *' proxima parte : cafuquc pxcidit, uc nii- 
 " lite a morlu canis incipiente aquas ex- 
 
 ** pavefccre 
 
** pavefcere, fuperveniret epiftola orantisut 
 *' pareret religioni : fervatufque eft ex in- 
 *' fperato, & poftea quifquis auxilium fimi- 
 «* le tcntavit. 
 
 Ibid. Galeni trsa SomnU. Tertium 
 
 magis dignum miraculo, cum bis fer /omnium 
 admonitusHt arteriam fecsret quA inttr folltcem 
 d^ indicem efiy idque agens liberate ft a diu* 
 turno dolorty quo infeftabatur ea in parte^ qua 
 fefto trunfverfo jecf4r jungitur, idque in libri ; 
 dt fe^iione ven£fint teftatus e[l, Magno cerfe I 
 exemplo^ quod tantuf vir in mtdicina earn dd* 
 
 Nhibuerit fomnio fidem^ ut in feipfo pericuUm 
 vitxfubierit^ in arte profria. Deinde probi* 
 tatem admirer^ ut quo potuerit fo/ertu ingenii 
 fibi inventum afcribere^ Deo cui dtbebatur^ red* 
 diderit. Dignua vel hoc Job vir immortAli* 
 tate nominis^ d^ librorum fuorum. 
 
 In his fourth Book, chap. 4. De exem* 
 
 I plispropriis^ he owns the Solution of fbme 
 
 difficult Problems in Algebra to his Dreams. 
 
 Plinii Nat. Hift. Uh. XXIL cap. 17. 
 '^ Vernulacharus Pericli AthenienfiumPrin- 
 " pi, cum is in arce templum xdificaret, 
 *' repfifletque fuper altitudinem faftigii, & 
 ** inde cecidiffet, hac herba \_Parthenio'] di- 
 *' citur fanatus, moftrata i ericli fomnio a 
 *' Minerva. Quare Parthenium vocari 
 '' ccepta eft, afllgnaturque ei Deas. 
 
 Aiiguflinm^ Cui ttiam pr£ter fanBitatem^ 
 plena fidej adhiberi poteji^ duo narrat inter 
 relijuay /omnia admiranda, Primnmy quod 
 
 cum 
 
(a9) 
 
 cum quidam mortuo nuper patre venaretur tAn- 
 
 quAm de pecunu quum pater illi ex chirograpbo * 
 
 debuiffet, dum incaflm viveret^ ex hac cmU 
 
 po^e quadam umbram patm videt^ qudt ilium 
 
 Admontiit de perfoluta pemnia & ubi chircgra^ 
 
 phum e([et repofitum. Cum furrexijjet^ invtnit 
 
 chirographum loco eo quern umbra paterna. docu- 
 
 eraf, liber atuf que ejl ab in'yillo petitore. 
 
 A Iter urn ad h tic magis mirum. 
 
 Pr^ftantiuSyVir quidam^ a Philofopho peti- 
 
 erat dubitatiomm quandamfolvi : quod ilk per- 
 
 negavit. NoUe fequenie, tametfi vigiUret 
 
 Praftantius^ *uidit fibi Philofophum affijlere^ 
 
 ac dubitationem folvtre^ tnoxque abire, Cnm 
 
 die fequenii obviam Pr^eftantjus eundem habu^ 
 
 ijfet Philofophum^ ^ogat^ Cnr cum pridie ro- 
 
 gattis noluijfet folpere illxm qu^flionem^ in- 
 
 temp ejl a noUe non rcgalm^ d^ venijfet ad fe 
 
 €^ dubitationem aperuijfet. Cui Philofophi44. 
 
 Non quidem ego advent^ fed fomnians vifus 
 
 fum tibi hoc officium pr^Jlare, 
 
 The Plague raging in the Army of the 
 Emperor Charles Vth, he Dreamt, that the 
 Decoftion of the Root of the Dwarfe-Thifile 
 [a Mountain Plant fince called the Caro- 
 line Thiflle'] would Cure that Difeafe. See 
 Qerards Herbal, who tells us this. 
 
 In Queen Mary's time, there was only 
 one Congregation oi ProteHants in London^ 
 
 to the number of about 5C0. One 
 
 was the Deacon to them, and kept the Lift 
 of their Names : One — -- of that Congre- 
 
 E gation 
 
gation did Dream, that a MefTenger [Queens 
 Officer] had feized on this Deacon, and 
 taken his Lift ; the Fright of the Dream ar* 
 waked him : He fell alleep and dreamt the 
 fame perfeft Dream again. In the Moril^ 
 ing before he went out of his Chamber, the 
 Deacon came to him and told him his 
 Dream, and laid, it was a Warning from 
 God 5 tlie Deacon 'flighted his advice as 
 
 favouring of Superftition ; but wasfb 
 
 urgent with him, that he prevailed with him 
 to depofite the Lift in Ibme other Hand, 
 which he did that Day. The next Day the 
 Queens Officer attacqued him, and fearch'd 
 (in vain) for the Lift, which had it been 
 found, would have brought them all to the 
 Flame. Fox*s Martyrology. 
 
 When Arch-Bifhop Abbois Mother (a 
 poor Clothworker s Wife in Gilford) was 
 with Child of him, fhe did longioxdijack,^ 
 and fhe dreamt that if (he fhould Eat a 
 Jack, her Son in her Belly fhould be a great 
 Mart. She arofe early the next Morning 
 and went wi h her Pail to the River- fide 
 (which runneth by the Houfe, now an Ale- 
 houle, the Sign of the 3 Mariners^ to take 
 up fome Water, and in the Water in the 
 Pail fhe found a good Jack, which fhe 
 dreffed, and eat it all, or very near. Seve- 
 ral of the beft Inhabitants of Gilford were 
 invited (or invited themfelves) to the 
 Chriftning of the Child 3 it was Bred up a 
 
 Scholar 
 
Scholar in the Town, and by degrees, came 
 to be Arch'Biihop of Ca^tedury, 
 
 In the Life of Mor^fteur Peiresky Writ by 
 Gaffe/ides^ it is faid, that Monfieur Peiresk^ 
 who had never been at London^ did Dream, 
 that he was there, and as he was walking 
 in a great Street there,erpied inaGoldfmiths 
 Glafs-Desk, an Antique Coin, he could 
 never meet with (I think an Qtho^ When 
 he came to London^ walking in (I think) 
 Chedpftde he faw fuch a Shop, and remerU'^ 
 bred the Countenance of the Goldfmith in 
 his Dream, and found the Coin defir'd, 
 in his Desk. See his Life. 
 
 When Doftor Harvey fone of the Phyfi- 
 tians College in London) being a Young 
 Man, went to Travel towards Padoa^ he 
 went to Dover (with feveral others) and 
 Oiewed his Pals, as the reft did, to the Go- 
 vernor there. The Governor to!d him, , 
 that hemuft not go, but he muft keep him 
 Prifoner. The Doflor defired to know for 
 what reafbn? how he had tranf^reft. Well it 
 was his Will to have it fo. The Pacquei-Boat 
 Hoifed Sail in the Evening (, which w as ve- 
 ry clearj and the Doftcr's Companions ia 
 it. There enfued a terrible Storm, and the 
 Pacquet-Boat and all the Pallengers were 
 Drovvn'd : The next day the fad News 
 was brought to Dover. The DoSor was 
 unknown to the Governor, but by Name 
 and Face ^ but the Night before, the Go- 
 E 2 vernor 
 
Iv^vernor had a perfeft Vifion in a Dream of 
 ' Dodor Harvey^ who came to pafs over 
 to Calais ; and that he had a Warning to 
 ftop him. This the Governor told to the 
 Doftor the next day. The Doftor was a 
 pious good Man, and has feveral times di- 
 refted this Story to fome of my Acquain- 
 tance. 
 
 My Lady Seymer dreamt, that fhe found 
 I a Nell, with Nine Finches in it. And fb 
 * many Children fhe had by the Earl oiWin" 
 chelfey^ whole name is fm^. 
 
 The Countefs of Cork (now Burlington) 
 I being at Duklin, dreamt that her Father 
 (the Earl of Cumkrland) who was then at 
 Tork^ was Dead. He died at that time. 
 
 'Tis certain, that feveral had monitory 
 Dreams of the Conflagration oiLo?idon, 
 Sir Chrijlopher Wren^ being at his Father's 
 ^0^ Houfe Jnno. 165 1. at Kpahil in WiltSy 
 (a young Oxford Scholar) dreamt, that he 
 faw a Fight in a great Market-place, which 
 he knew not, where fbme were flying, and 
 others purfuing ; and among thofe that 
 fled, he faw a Kinfmanof his who went in- 
 to Scotland to the King's Army. They 
 heard in the Country, that the King was 
 come into England , but whereabout he 
 - was they could not tell. The next Night 
 T his Kinfman came to his Father at Kjnahill^ 
 and was the firft that brought the News 
 of the Fight at Worcefter. 
 
 When 
 
When Sir ChriHophr Wren was at Parts 
 about 167 1, he was 111 and Feverifli, made 
 but little Water, had a pain in his Reins. 
 He lent for a Phyfitian, who advisM him 
 to be let Blood, thinking he had a Pleurify: 
 But Bleeding much difagreelng with his 
 Conftitution, he would defer it a Day lon- 
 ger : That Night he dreamt, that he was 
 in a place where Palm-Trees grew, (fup- 
 pofe Egypt) and that a Woman in a Ro- 
 mantick Habit, reach'd him Dates. The ' 
 next Day he fent for Dates, which Cured 
 him of the pain in his Reins. 
 
 Since, 1 have learnM that Dates are an 
 admirable Medicine for the Stone, from 
 old Capt. Took of ^. Take 6 or 10 Date- 
 ftones, dry them in an Oven, pulverize and 
 fearce them ; take as much as will lie on 
 a 6^. in a quarter of a Pint of White-wine 
 Farting; and at Four in the Afternoon: 
 Walk or Ride an Hour after : In a Weeks 
 time it will give eafe, and in a Month 
 Cure. If you are at the Bath, the Bath 
 Water is better than White^wine to take it 
 in. 
 
 Sir John Hoskins Lady, when fhe lay in 
 of her Eldeft Son had a Swelling on one 
 fide of her Belly the 2d. day when the Milk 
 came, and Obftruftions : She dreamt that 
 Syrup of Elderberries and Diftiird water of 
 Woofmwood would do her good ; and it 
 did fo : (he found cafe in a quarter of an 
 
 E 3 Hour 
 
Hour after fhe had taken it. I had this Ac- 
 count from her Ladyfhip's own Mouth. 
 
 Captain Whgate told me, that Mr. 
 
 Edmtwd Gunter of Grefbam College did caft 
 his Nativity, whenhe was about 17, or 18 
 Years old; by which he did Prognofticate 
 that he fhould be in danger to lofe his Life 
 for Treafon. Several Years before the Ci- 
 vil Wars broke out, he had dreamt that he 
 was to be put to Death, before a great Ca- 
 'ftle, which he had never leen; which made 
 a iirong impreflion in his Memory. In 
 J/7PJ0 1642, he did oppofe the Church Ce^ 
 remonies, and was cholen a Member of Par- 
 liament, then was made a Captain, and 
 was raken Prifc^ner at Edge-hill by Prince 
 :-sgt^ Rupert^ and carried to K.enelivorth Caftle, 
 where he was Tryed by a Council of 
 War, and Condemned to Die : But they 
 did better confider of it, and fpared his 
 Life ; for that he being (b confiderable 
 a Perfbn, might make an exchange for fbme 
 of the King's Party ; And he wasexchang'd 
 for the Right Honourable Montague Earl of 
 Lindfty (Heir of the General). Since the 
 Reftauration he was made one of the Com- 
 eapt. — rniffioners of the Excife-Office in London, 
 vta^Pri- ^^ ^^^ ^r^^t^ that IQmlwortb Caftle was 
 foner ia the vcry Caftle that he faw in his Dream. 
 Oxford 5ij. Rpncr VEfiranqe was wont to diver- 
 
 Figi.r^ti^ himfelf with Cocking in his Father's 
 '^'g0 (Sir HAmmoi^d UEIfra^^ge's) Park ; he dreamt 
 
 m 
 
 that 
 
^S5) 
 
 that there came to him in fuch a place of the 
 Park a Servant, who brought him Nevvs^ 
 that his Father (who had been Sick a good 
 while) was departed. The next day go- 
 ing tohisufual Recreation, he wasrefolv'd 
 forjhis Dream fake to avoid that way ; but 
 his Game led him to it, and in that very 
 place, the Servant came and brought him 
 the 111 News according to his Dream. 
 
 Mx^Edmimd Halley K, S. S. was carried on 
 with a ftrong Impulfe to take a Voyage to 
 St. Helkm, to make Obfervations of the 
 Southern Cofjflellxtions^ being then about 24 
 Years Old. Before he undertook his Voy- 
 age, he dreamed that he was at Sea Sailing 
 towards that place, and faw the Profpeft 
 of it from the Ship in his Dream, which 
 he declared in the R. Society that it was the 
 perfeQ: Reprefentation of that Ifland, even 
 as he had it really when he approach'd to 
 it. 
 
 A Gentlewoman dream'd that a Puhefs 
 I of Blew Cor ansy would Cure her (ore 
 ! Throat 3 and it did fb : She was a pious 
 Woman, and affirmed it to be true. 
 
 Anm 1690 one in Ireland dream'd of a ^ > , 
 Brother, or near Relation of his, (w ho ^l^ii^ 
 lived at Amesbery in Wilt(hire ) that he (aw 
 him riding on the Downs, and that two 
 Thieves Robb'd him and Nlurther'd him : 
 The Dream awaked him, he fell afleep a- ^^:f^^ 
 gain and had the hke Dream. He Writ to 
 
 E 4 his 
 
hi^s Relation an account ofit, and de(crib'd 
 the Thieves Complexion, Stature and 
 Cloths; and advisM him to take care of 
 himfelf. Not long after he had receivM 
 this Monitory Letter, he Rode towards 
 Stlisburyj and was Robb'd and Murther'd : 
 And the Murtherers were difcovered by 
 this Letter, and were Executed : They 
 hang in Chains on the Road to London, 
 
 'T^vas reveal'd to a KmgoiScots^ that if 
 he drank of the Water oiMufvpell, he fhould 
 
 be Cured After great enquiry, they 
 
 heard of fuch a place, not far from Homfey 
 in Middlcfex. See Weavers Funtrd Monu^ 
 tntnts ot the Well : And 'jo. Nordtns De- 
 fcription of Middleftx. Here was afterwards 
 founded a Religious Houfc for Aujlin 
 Monks : Since it belonged to ^ixTho. Row : 
 and in 1677, was pull'd down, and the Ma- 
 terials fold. Anciently the King's of Scot- 
 Und were Feudatory to the King's of Eng^ 
 land^ and did their Homage every Chri(i* 
 
 <^^ «?^ Day. They had feveral Lodges be- 
 longing to them for their Reception m their 
 Journey ; as at Huntingdon &c. See Caxtons 
 ^ ^^^ Ghronicle concerning this. 
 
 <ii^|P : The Water oi this Spring is drank for 
 fome Diftempers liill. 
 
 Somnmm ex Euburnea port A. 
 . Mrs. CL of 5. in the County of S. had a 
 
 pp^ beloved Daughter, who had been a long 
 time 111, and received no benefit from her 
 
(57) 
 
 Fhyfitians. She dream'd that a Friend of 
 hers deceafed, told her, that if fhe gave her 
 Daughter a Drench of Ye wgh pounded, that 
 (he would recover, (he ^ave her the Drench 
 and it Killed her. Whereupon fhe grew 
 almoft diftrafted : Her Chamber Maid to 
 Complement her, and mitigate her Grief, 
 laid furely that could not Kill her, fhe 
 would adventure to take the fame her felf ; 
 fhe did fo, and died alfo. This was about 
 the Year 1670, or 1671. 1 knew the Fa- 
 mily. 
 
 A Gentlewoman of my acquaintance 
 dream'd, that if ihe flept again, the Houfe 
 would be in danger to be Robb'd : She kept 
 awake, and anon Thieves came to break 
 open the Houfe ; but were prevented. 
 
 Mr. Winftunly (Surveyor of the King's 
 Works) hath built a handfbme Houfe at 
 hiitkhury in Cambridgfhire near Audely-lnn 
 where are to be feen feveral Ingenious Ma- 
 chines ; one whereof is thus : A Wooden 
 Shpper finely Carved Hethon the Floor of a 
 Chamber about a Yard and an half within 
 the Door, which the Stranger is to take up 
 ^it comes up pretty ftifF) and up ftarts a 
 Skeleton. J. if.Efq, had been there : And 
 being at WeB-Lavington with the Earl of 
 Abbington.Aitdim'A December thegth, that he 
 wasat Mr. ^Fi^?/?4;;^*sHoufe, and took up 
 the Sli"pper, and up rofe his Mother in 
 Mourning : And anon the Queen appeared 
 
 ia 
 
(58; 
 
 in Mourning. He told his Dream the next 
 Morning to my Lord, and his Lordfliip im- 
 parted It to me (then there). Tuefday Dec. 1 1. 
 in the Evening, came a MeffengerPoftfroni 
 London to acquaint Mr. H. that his Mother 
 was dangeroufly 111 : He went to London 
 the next Day : his Mother lived but a- 
 bout 8 Days longer. On Saturday Dec. 1 5. 
 the Queen was taken III, which turned to 
 the Small- Pox, ofwhichfhedied Decern. 2% 
 about two a Clock in the Morning. 
 
 There are Millions of fuch Dreams too 
 little taken notice of;but they have the trueft 
 DreamSjWhofe IX^^ Houfe is well dignifieds 
 which mine is not : But moft have fome 
 Monitory Dreams. The Germans are great 
 Obftrvers of them. It is faid, in the Life 
 oiVavafor Powtll^ that he was a great Ob- 
 server of Dreams, (P. 17 and 114 of his 
 Lifej that he had many Warnings from 
 them ; that God had fpoken to himftlf and 
 others by them; for Warning, Inftruftion, 
 or Reproof: And it isalfo there averred, 
 that Angels had appeard to him. See P. 8. 
 of his Life. 
 
 In Mr. Walton's Life of Sir Hen. Wotton^ 
 there is a Remarkable flory of the difcove- 
 ry of ftoln Plate in Oxford by a Dream 
 which his Father had at Borton Mulharh in 
 Kpnt. See in Ath. et Fafii Oxon, Vol. i. 
 P.5SI. 
 
 CHAP, 
 
(S9) 
 
 CHAP. VL 
 
 Jpparitions. 
 
 CTnthU [_Propertius's Miftrefs] did ap- 
 pear to him after her death with the 
 Beril-Ring on her Finger. See Properties 
 E/eg. ' 
 
 St. Atigyfiin [in "] affirms, that he 
 
 did once fee a Satyr or Demon. 
 
 The Antiquities of Oxford tell us, that 
 St. Edmtmd Arch-Bifhop of Canterbury did 
 fbmetimes converfe with an Angel, [ or 
 Nymph] at a Spring without St. Clements 
 Parifh near Oxford : as A'nma Pompilius did 
 with the Nymph Egeria, This Well was 
 flopped up (ince Oxford was a Garrifon. 
 
 Charles the Simple, King of Trance^ as he 
 I was huntiflg in a Foreft, and loft his Com- 
 ! pany ,was frighted to fimplicity by an Appa- 
 rition. 
 
 Philip MeUncthon^ writes, that the Ap- 
 parition of a Venerable Perfon came to him 
 in his Study, and bade him to warn his 
 Friend Gryn<em to depart from him as fbon 
 as he could, or elfe the Inquifitors would^ 
 feize on him : which monitory Dream 
 faved GrynAH6 life. 
 
 Mr. Fiennes Morifon in his Travels, faith, 
 that when he was at Prague^ the Appariti- 
 
 of 
 
I 
 
 (60) 
 
 of his Father came to him ; and at that ve- 
 ry time his Father died. 
 
 See the Life of John Donn D. D. Dean 
 of St. Pauh writ by Mr. Ifaac Walton^ 
 where it is affirmed, that the Dean did fee 
 the Apparition of his Wife. 
 
 Henry IV King of France^ not long be- 
 fore he was ftabbed by Rave/Uc^ as he was 
 hunting in the Foreft ( I think of Fon- 
 tain Bkau) met in a Thicket the Gros Ve- 
 mur^ who faid to him, Demandez, vous ? 
 [ or Entendez, vous ? ] he could not tell whe- 
 ther of the two. 
 
 There is a Tradition ( which I have 
 heard from Perfons of Honour) that as the 
 ProteSor Seymor and his Duchefs were 
 walking in the Gallery at Sheen \inSf4rrey~\ 
 both of them did fee a Hand with a bloody 
 Sword come out of the Wall. He was af- 
 terwards beheaded. 
 
 Mr. C^ijbo Burroughs was one of the mofl 
 
 (beautiful Men in England^ and very Vali- 
 ant, but very proud and blood-thirfty : 
 There was then iu London a very Beautiful 
 ItalUn Lady, who fell fb extreamly in Love 
 with him, that fhe did let him enjoy her, 
 which (he had never let any Man do before: 
 Wherefore, faid fhe, I fhall requeft this fa- 
 vour of you, never to tell any one of it. 
 The Gentlewoman died : and afterwards 
 ^ti'^D ^^ ^ Tavern in London he fpake of it : and 
 there going to make water, the Ghoftof 
 
 the 
 
C6i) 
 
 the Gentlewoman did appear to him. He 
 was afterwards troubled with the Appari- 
 tion of her, even fbmetimes in company 
 when he was drinking; but he only per- 
 cieved it: Before (he did appear he did 
 find a kind of Chilnefs upon his Spirits ; (he 
 did appear to him in the Morning before 
 he was killed in a Duel. This account I have 
 from an intimate Friend of mine, who was 
 an acquaintance of his. 
 
 J»?io 1647, the Lord Mohtm'^s Son and 
 Heir (a gallant Gentleman, Valiant, and a 
 great Mafter of Fencing and Horfemanfhip) 
 had a Quarrel with Prince Griffin ; there 
 was a Challenge, and they were to Fight 
 onHorfe-backin C^elfey ■ fields \n the Morn- 
 ing : Mr. Mohun went accordingly to meet 
 him ; but about Ebery-Farm he was met 
 by fome who quarrell'd with him and Pi- 
 ftord him ; it was believed, by the Order 
 of Prince Griffin ; for he was fure, that Mr. 
 Mohun being fo much the better Horfe- 
 m^in&c, would have Killed him, had they 
 Fought. In JameS'ftreet in Covent-Garden 
 did then Lodge a Gentlewoman aHand- 
 fome Woman but Common, who was Mr. 
 Mohun^s Sweet-heart. Mr, Mohun was 
 Murthered about Ten a clock in the Morn- 
 ing ; and at that very -time, his Miftrefs 
 being in Bed, faw Mr. Mohun come to her 
 Bed-fide, drew the Curtain, looked upon 
 her and went away : She called after him 
 
 but 
 
V 
 
 I 
 
 (62) 
 
 butnoanfwer : She knocks for her Maid, 
 ask'd her for Mr. Mohun; fhe faid, (he didi 
 not fee him, and had the Key of her Cham- 
 ber door in her Pocket. This Account my 
 Friend aforefaid, had from the Gentle wo- 
 mans own Mouth, and her Maids. 
 
 A parallel Story to this, is, that Mv.BrowH^ 
 (Brother-in-law to the Lord Connmgshji)Ai{r 
 covered his being Murthered to feveral. 
 His Phantome appear d to his Sifter and her 
 Maid in Fket-Jlreet about the time he was! 
 Killed in Herefordfljirej which was about a 
 Year fince, 169^. 
 
 Svc Walter Long o^DrAycot (Grandfather 
 of Sir James Long) had two Wives ; the 
 
 firft a Daughter of Sir Packinton in 
 
 Worcefterlbire i, by whom he had a Son: 
 His fecond Wife was a Daugter of Sir John 
 Thinne of Longleat ; by whom he Iiad feve- 
 ral Sons and Daughters. The fecond Wife 
 did ufe much Artifice to render the Son by 
 the firfl Wife (who had not much Prome- 
 thean Fire) Odious to his Father; (he 
 would get her Acquaintance to make him 
 Drunk ; and then expole him in that Con- 
 dition to his Father ; in fine (be never left off 
 her attempts, till fhe had got Sir fVa/ter to 
 difinherit him. She laid the Scene for the 
 doing this, at Bath at the Affizes, where 
 was her Brother Sir Egrimond Thinne an E- 
 minent Serjeant at Law, who drew the 
 Writing 3 and his Clerk was to fit up all 
 
 Night 
 
 2? 
 
 CO/ 
 Eff; 
 A: 
 im 
 the 
 1 
 Cot 
 
C^3) 
 
 Night to Engrofs it ; as he was Writing, he 
 perceived a fliadow on the Parchment, from 
 the Candle ; he look'd up, and there ap- 
 peared a Hand, which immediately va- 
 nifh'd; he was ftartled at it, but thought it 
 might be only his Fancy, being fleepy ; fb 
 he Writ on; by and by a fine White-hand 
 interpofed between the Writing and theCan- 
 dle (he could dilcern it was a Womans 
 Hand^ but vanifh'd as before ; I have forgot 
 it appeared a Third time. But with that, 
 the Clerk threw down his Pen, and would 
 Engrofs no more, but goes and tells his 
 Matter of it, and abfolutely refufed to do it. 
 But it was done by fbme body, and Sir H^al-^ 
 ter Lo^g was prevailed with to Seal and 
 Sign ir. He lived not long after ; and his 
 Body did not go quiet to the Grave, it being 
 Arrcfted at the Church- porch by the Tru- 
 ftees of the firft Lady. The Heir's Relati- 
 ons took his part, and Commenc'd a Suit 
 againft Sir Walter (the fecond Son) and 
 compeU'd him to accept of a Moiety of the 
 Eftate ; fothe Eldeft Son kept South-Wran- 
 chejiery and Sir fT^Z/er the fecond Son Dracot 
 Cernes^ &c. This was about the middle of 
 the Reign of King Jamts the Firft. 
 
 I murt not forget an Apparition in my 
 Country, which appeared feveral times to 
 Doflor Turbervile's Sifter, at Salisbury i 
 which is much talk'd of. One Marry'd a 
 fecond Wife, and contrary to the Agree- 
 ment 
 
/ 
 
 (6t) 
 
 ment and Settlement at th^ firfl: Wife's 
 Marriage, did wrong the Children by the 
 firft Venter. The Settlement was hid he 
 hind a Wain(cot in the Chamber where the 
 Dolor's Sifter did lie ; And the Appari-| 
 tion of the firft Wife did difcover it to her 
 By which means Right was done to the 
 firft Wife's Children. The Apparition told 
 her that llie Wandred in the Air, and was 
 now going to God. Dr. Turbervile (Ocu- 
 lift) did affirm this to be true. See Mr. 
 GUnvilPs Sadducifmus Trmmphatu^, 
 
 One Mr. Towes who had been School- fel ■ 
 low with Sir George Villers^ the Father of 
 the firft Duke of Buckingham^ (and was his 
 Friend and Neighbour jas he lay in his Bed a- 
 wake,(and it was Day-light,) came into his 
 Chamber the Phantome of his dear Friend 
 Sir George Fillers : Said Mr. Towes to him. 
 Why, you are Dead, what make you here? 
 aid the Knight, I am Dead, but cannot 
 reft in peace for the Wickednefs and Abo- 
 mination of my Son George at Court, I do 
 appear £0 you, to rell him of it, 'and toad- 
 vife and dehort him from his Evil ways 
 Said Mr. Torvs^ the Duke will not believe 
 me, but will fay, that I am Mad, or Doat. 
 Said Sir George, Go to him from me, and 
 tell him bv fuch a Token [fome Mole] that 
 he had in fome (ecret place, which none but 
 himfelf knew of. Accordingly Mr. Towes 
 went to the Duke, who Laugh 'd at his Mef- 
 
 faga 
 
fage. Athis return hon:e, the Phantoms ap- 
 peared again ; and told hiQi, that the Duke 
 would be Stab'd v^hcdrew out a Daj^ger> a 
 quarter of a Year after : And ou (ball oat- 
 
 iJive him h »lf a Year ;and the Warning that 
 you fhall have ot vour Death will be, 1 hat 
 your Nole will tall a-bleeding : All which 
 accordingly fell out fo. This Accounc 1 have 
 had (in the main) from two> or three; 
 but Sir iVilltam Du^dak affirms whatlhave 
 here taken from him to be true, and that 
 the Apparition told him of leveral things to 
 come, which proved true, e. g. of aPri- 
 foner in the Toiver^ that fliould be honoura- 
 bly delivered. This Mr. Towes had (b of- 
 ten the Ghoft of his old Friend appear to 
 faim, that it was not at all terriole tu him* 
 He was Surveyor of the V^ orks at lUndfor 
 (by the tavour of the Dak«.^: ) Being i\ ea 
 fitting in the Hall, he cried out The Duke 
 o{ Buckingham is ftabb'd : He WaS ftabb'd 
 that very moment. 
 
 This Relation Sir Williitm Du^^daM had 
 from Mr. Phcy f' Neighbour to Mr. Towes 
 without Bifbop'gate) they we'C both great 
 lovers of Mufick, andfworn Brothers, Mr. 
 William Lilly Aftrologer, did Print thisSto« 
 ry falfe, which made hix Edmund i^Vyndarn 
 (who Married Mr. Pm/ Daughter) give to 
 Sir George Mollis this true Account contrary 
 to Mr. Lilly. 
 
 ¥ Mr- 
 
Mr. Thomas Blyoty Groom of the Bed- 
 Chamber, Married Sir Edmund WyndhanPs 
 Daughter, and had the Roll ( of near a 
 Quire of Paper) of the Conferences of the 
 App-rition and Mr. Toms. Mr. Elyot was 
 wont to fay, that Mr. Torves was (not a Bi- 
 got, or did trouble himfelf much about a 
 Religion, but was) a Man of great Mo- 
 rals. 
 
 Sir William Dugdale did farther inform 
 me that iviajcr General Middlgcn (fince 
 Lord^ went into the Highlands m Scotland^ 
 to • endeavour to make a Party for King . 
 Charles th^tiv^. An Old Gentleman (that 
 was fecond-fighted) came and told him 
 that his endeavour was good; but he would 
 be unfuccefsful, and moreover, That they 
 would fut the Kjng to Death: and that fever al 
 ether Attempts would he made^ but alt in vain : 
 But that his Son would come in^ hut not Reign ; 
 but at lali would he Refiored. This Lord 
 Middleton had a great Friendfhip with the 
 Laird Bocconi^ and they had made an Agree- 
 ment, That the firft of them that Died, 
 Jhould appear to the other in extremity. 
 The Lord Middleton was taken Prifoner at 
 Worcefier Fight, and was Prifoner in the 
 Tower o{ London under Three Locks. Ly- 
 ing in his Bed penlive, Bocconi appeared 
 to him ; my Lord Middleton asked him if 
 he were dead or alive ? he (aid, Dead, and 
 that he was a Ghofl: ; and told him, that 
 
 with- 
 
(^7) 
 
 within Three Days he Ihouldeftape, and he 
 did fb, in his Wives Cloattis. When he 
 had done his Meflage, he gave a Frisk, and 
 iaid, 
 
 Givenni givanni 'tis very firaf^ge^ 
 In the World to fee fo fudden a Change. 
 And then gathered up and vanifhed. This 
 Account Sir William Dugdale had from the 
 Bifhop of Edenborougb. And this, and the 
 former Account he bath Writ in a Book of 
 Mifcellanies, which I have feen, [and is 
 nowrepofited (with other Books of his^ in 
 the Mfifdum at Oxford,'] 
 
 K^nno. 1670, not far from Cyre^cefler^ 
 was an Apparition: Being demanded, whe- 
 ther a good Spirit, or a bad ? returned no 
 anfwer, but difappeared with a curious 
 Perfume and mott melodious Twang, Mv. 
 W. Lilly believes it was a Farie. 
 So Propertim — — 
 
 Omnia finkret ; tenues fecefjtt .in at{ras : 
 
 Man(itodor\ poffcs fcire fmlJe Dtam. 
 
 The Learned Hen, Jacoh^Vdlow of Merton 
 College in Oxford, died at Dr. Jacob's M. D. 
 Houfe in Canterbury. About a Week after his 
 Death, the Doftor being in Bed and a-vake, 
 and the Moon fhiningbrightJaw riisCoufin 
 Henry ftanding by hisBed, in his Shirr, with 
 a white Cap on his Head, and his Beard 
 Muftaches turning up, as when he was ^ live. 
 The Doctor pinched himfelf and was (ixi e he 
 iWas awaked : He turned to the other llde, 
 F 2 from 
 
r^8) 
 
 from him; and after fome time took courage 
 to turn the other way again towards him;and 
 Htnry Jacob flood there ftill, he fhould have 
 / fpoken to him, but he did not ; for which 
 ^ he has been ever fince forry. About half 
 an Hour after, he vanilhed. Not long after 
 this, the Cook Maid, going to the Wood- 
 pile to fetch Wood to drefs Supper, faw . 
 him ftanding in his Ihirt upon the Wood- 
 v^oie SCO- pil^* This Account I had in a Letter from 
 TjinAth.Xix. Jacob 1675, relating to his Life, for 
 o]c« Parr. ^^' Anthony IVorJi 5 which is now in his 
 %. p. 91. ' Hands. 
 
 This very y^hcn Utmy Jacob died, he would fain 
 'jlllh told have fpoken to the DoQor but could not, 
 mehimfcifhis Tongue faltered. *Tis imagined, be 
 ^my'td! would have told IdoQiOX Jacob, with what 
 Tonhi^ms ' Perfon he had depofited his Manufcripts of 
 wherriio his owu Writing : (they were all the Ri- 
 wJthen ches he had) 'tis fufpeQ'd that one had them 
 ''^^^^"^Ei- ^"^^ Printed them under his own Name. 
 ?eft^Son ;' — - See there in the faid Athens Vol. or 
 
 whom he Part 2 P. 90. 
 
 ftom"a^ Mr. r. M. an old Acquaintance of mine 
 Fever. hath afiTurcd me, that about a quarter of a 
 
 <Year after his fir ft Wives death, as he lay 
 in Bed awake with his little Grand-child, his 
 Wife opened the Glofet-door, and came id 
 to the Chamber to the Bed-fide, and looked 
 upon ■ loi, and ftooped down and Kifled 
 him ; her Lips were warm, he fancied they 
 would have been cold. He was about to 
 
 have 
 
(€9) 
 
 haveembraced her, but was afraid it might 
 have done him hurt. When fhe went 
 from him, he asked her when he fliould 
 lee her again? (he turned about and f'nil'd, 
 but faid nothing. The Ciofet-door rtriked, 
 as it ufes to do, both at h^r coming in and 
 going out. He had every Night a great 
 Goal-fire in his Chamber, which gave a 
 light as clear almoft as a Candle. (He was 
 Hypocondrical. ) He Marry'd two Wives 
 fince; the later end of his Life wasuneafie. 
 
 Anno. 165.... At in the Moorlands in 
 
 Stafford/hirey lived a poor Old Man, who 
 had been a long time Lame. One Sunday 
 in the Afternoon he being aIone,one knock'd 
 at his Door : He bade him open it, and 
 come in. The Stranger defir'd a Cup of 
 Beer : The Lame Man defir'd him to take a 
 Difhand draw fome, for he was not able to 
 do it himfelf. The Stranger ask'd the poor 
 Old Man, how longhe had been 111 ? The 
 [poor Man told him. Said the Stranger I can 
 Cure you. Take two or Three Balm-leaves 
 fteepM in your Beer for a Fortnight, or three 
 Weeks, and you will be refl:or'd to your 
 Health: But Conftantly and Zealoully 
 lerveGod The poor Man did fo,and Lecame 
 perfeftly well.This Stranger was in a Purple 
 fliag-gown, fuch as was not feen or known 
 in thofe parts : And no body in the ftreet 
 (atter Even-fong) did fee any one in fuch a 
 coloured Habit. Dr. Gilbert Sheldon, (fince 
 F 5 Arch- 
 
(10) 
 
 Arch-bi(hopofO;i^/er^«7) was then in the 
 Moorhnis^ and juftified the truth of this, to 
 Eli^ Ajhmole Efq; from whom I had this 
 Account : And he hath inftrted it in fome 
 of his Memoirs, which are in the Muf^am 
 at Oxford. 
 
 Mr. Jo Lydill of Trin. College Soc. Oxon. 
 March ii 1649, 5^- Attefts the enfu- 
 ing Relation, in a Letter to Mr. Aubrey^ 
 thus, 
 
 Mr Aubrey^ 
 
 Concerning that which happen d at Wood- 
 ftock^ / was told by Mr. W. Haws 
 (who now lives with Sir William Fleetwood 
 in the Park^ That the Committee which fate in 
 the Mannor-hottfe^ for Selling the KJn£s 
 hands, were frighted by f range Jfparitions\ 
 ayjdthat the Four Surveyors which werefent 
 to Meafure the ' Pari% and Lodged themfelves 
 voithfomt other Companions in the Mannor^ were 
 feittd out of their Chambers by Stones thrown 
 in at the Windows (but from what Hands th^ 
 Stones c^^mc: they could not fe) that their Can' 
 dies niereconinfiullyputout.asfaflas they lighted 
 them 3 and that one with his Sword drawn to deh 
 fend a Candle^ was with his own Scjibbard in ihf 
 mean time well CudgelPd y fo that for the hlow^ 
 crfor fear, he fell Sick ^ and the otijers forc'^d to 
 remove : fome of them to Sir William Fleet- 
 wood's Houfe^ and the reft to fome othet 
 
 placesi 
 
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 places. But concerning the cutting of the Oal{y 
 in particular I have nothing. 
 
 Your Friend, 
 to be commanded to my power, 
 
 '^ohn LydalL 
 
 One Lambert a Gun- Smith at Here for d^ 
 was at Carmarthen^ to mend and put in or- 
 der the Ammunition of that County before 
 thefirfl: Expedition to Scotland^ which was 
 1639. He was then a Young Man, and 
 walking on the Sand by the Sea- fide, a Man 
 comes to him (he did verily believe it was a 
 Man) and ask'd him, if he knew Hereford'^. 
 Yes, quoth he, I am a Hereford Man. Do 
 you know it well, quoth the other ? Per- 
 fedly well, quoth Lambert. " That City 
 *^ fhall be begirt [he told me he did not 
 *' know what the word begirt meant then] 
 " by a Foreign Nation, that will come 
 " and pitch their Camp in the Hay-woody 
 ''and they fhall batter fuch a Gate, 
 " which they did, (I have forgot the name 
 " of it) and fhall go away, and not take it. 
 ThQ Scots came in 1645, and Encamped 
 before Hereford in the Hay- wood ^ and 
 
 Storm'd the Gate , and railed the 
 
 Siege. Lambert did well remember this 
 Difcourfe, but did not heed it till they 
 came to the Hay-mod : Many of the City 
 had heard of this ftory, but when the —^ 
 Gate was Storm'd, Lambert went to all the 
 F 4 con- 
 
Guards of the Town, and encouraged them 
 with more than ordinary Confidence: And, 
 contrary to all humane expcftation, v^hea 
 the befieg'd had no hopt ot Kchef, the cots 
 raifed the Siege, Sept. 2. 1645, and went 
 back into Scotlmd, re infe&a. I knew this 
 Lambert^ and took this Account from his 
 own Mouth ; he is a modeit poor Man, of 
 a very Innoceuc Life, lives Poor, and cares 
 nottjIePich. 
 
 A Miniftcr, who lived by vSir "John 
 
 Wane in Somer(ct[hirt about 1665, walk- 
 
 I ing over the Park to give Sir John a Vifit, 
 
 I was rencountred by a Venerable Old 
 
 ^ Man, who faid to him, " Prepare your 
 
 '•fclf for fuch a Day (which was about 
 
 m '' three Days after) You fhall die. The 
 
 Minifter told Sir Johf^ Wane and my Lady 
 
 this Story, who heeded it not : On the 
 
 Morning fore-warn'd ^ir John calls upon the 
 
 Parfon early to Ride a Hunting, and to 
 
 Laugh at his prediftion : His Maid went 
 
 up to call him and found him ftark Dead. 
 
 This from my L^dy Kaiharwe He/t/tyy who 
 
 had it from my Lady Wane. Bdt Dr. Bur^ 
 
 net in the Life of the Earl of Rochtfter^ 
 
 makes it a Dream. 
 
 This put me in mind of a Story in the 
 Legend, &c. of King Edward the Confeflbr 
 bein(^ forewarned oi his Death by a Pilgrim, 
 to whom St, John the Evangeliftreveardit: 
 for which the King gave the Pilgrim a rich 
 
 Ring 
 
Ring from ofF his Finger : And the event 
 anfwered. The Story is well Painted in 
 Giar, in a Window of the South Iflc of 
 \') eJlmtmHer- Abbey /"the next Window from 
 that over the Door that opens into the Wefi 
 walk of theCloyfter) it is the beft Window 
 in the Church: Underneath the Two Fi- 
 gures, viz. of the King and the Pilgrim 
 are thefe following Verfes, Viz. 
 
 *^ Rex ci4i nil altud frfefiofuit^accife, dixif, 
 
 *^ Anndum^ ^ ex digito detrahit illefuo. 
 
 ^' 'Evangtlift^t'-^'^^^iila Johanms. 
 
 " ' — ' — :-■ 'gratia petit. 
 
 The Verles under the Filgrim are not 
 legible. This ftory is in C^tom Chroni- 
 cle- 
 
 Dr. Twifs Minifter of the New 
 
 Church at Wefiminjler told me that his Fa- 
 ther [Dr. Txptfs Prolocutor of the Aflembly 
 of Divines, and Author of Vindicia] when 
 he was a School-boy at Wincheftery faw the 
 Fhantome of a Schoolfellow of his deceafed 
 [a Rakebell] who faid to him, lam damned. 
 This was the occafion or Dr. Twifs [the Fa- 
 thers] Converfion, who had been before 
 th t time (as he told his Son) a very wick- 
 ed Bv)y, [He was Hypochondriacal], There 
 is a ftory like this, of the Converfion of St. 
 Bruno ^ by an Apparition : Upon which he 
 became mighty devout, and founded the 
 Order of the Carthufians. 
 
 'John Eveljn Efq; iJ. S. S. (hewed us at 
 
 the 
 
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 (74) 
 
 the Royal'Sockty^ a Note under Mr, Smyth'% 
 Hand [the Curate of Dep^/(?r^] that in N>- 
 'vcmber 1679, as he was in bed fick of an 
 Ague, came to him the Vifion of a Mafter 
 of Arts, with a white Wand in his Hand : 
 And told him, that, if he did lie on his 
 back three Hours, viz. from ten to one, 
 that he fhould be rid of his Ague. He lay 
 a good while on his back ; but at laft being 
 weary he turned, and immediately the A- 
 gue attacqued him afterwards, he ftriftly 
 followed the Direftion, and was perfeSly 
 cured. He was awake, and it was in the 
 day-time. 
 
 This puts me in mind of a Dream of old 
 Farmer Goody a Neighbour of mine at Broad- 
 Chalky who being ill, dreamt shat he met 
 with an old Friend of his(longfirice deceaC- 
 cd) by Eimghfo^'JJhes (in that Parilh) 
 who told liim that if he rofe out of his Bed, 
 that he would die. He awaked vmd role 
 to make VVater^ and was immediaceiy feiz- 
 ed with a fhiv^ing Fit, and died of an A- 
 ^ue, aged,S4.r; 
 . The Lady; ViTcpuntefs MaidHpn told me, 
 
 flip faw (asit'wexe) a Fly ofFire,flj round 
 aboqt her in thpdark, half an hour before 
 
 herJLord died ; He was killed at Sea : and 
 jthQ^^jike before her Mother in Law [the 
 .jfflovintersof (ffW^e/y'e^jdied^ [She was then 
 
 with Child.] * 
 
 r. A Dutch^Prifoner at Wood- Mdge in Suf- 
 folk, 
 
(75) 
 
 folk^ in the Reign of Charles IL could dit 
 cern Spirits ; but others that ftood by could 
 not. The Bell tolled for a Man newly de- 
 ceafed. The Prifoner law his Phantome^ 
 and did defcribe him to the Parfon of the 
 Parifh, who wa^ with him; exaftly agree- ^^ ^'^^^^^ 
 ing with the Man for whom the Bell tolled, of thrPa- 
 Says the Prifoner, now he is coming near ^'^^' ^^\, 
 
 ^ ^ J 1-1 ° » often told 
 
 to you, and now he is between yqu and this Story; 
 the Wall, the Parfon was refblved to try of which 
 it, and went to take the Wall of him, and ^^^^^ 
 was thrown down ; but could fee nothing, more Pat- 
 This ftory is credibly told by feveral Per- '^^"^'"• 
 Ions of Belief. 
 
 l^Avafor Powell faw leveral Apparitions. 
 See page 8. of his Life. 
 
 There is a very remarkable fl:ory of an v 
 Apparition, which Martin Luther did fee. 
 Mentioned in his Qommenfdiafit Table-talk, 
 which fee. 
 
 Thofe that are delirous in high Fevers, 
 fee ^waking] Men and things that are not 
 there. I knew one Mr. M L. that took 
 Opium^ and he did fee (being awake) Men 
 and things that were not prefent (or per- 
 haps) nor in being. Thofe whofe Spleens 
 are ill-affeded have the like Phantafies. 
 The Power of Imagination is Wonderful. 
 
 Be 
 
 
Defeiffo duplicator 
 Cardantis. Sjmf, ^omniorutn. Lib. \\\ 
 Cap \7.1n fomniU mortis eft ftgnum^ quU 
 duo Hunt, cum antmu feparatur i, cor fore, EH 
 et fi:^num morbi in ipfit agrontantihttfj nee turn 
 aliudcjutcquiimfigrtificat^ 
 
 As concerning Apparitions of a Man's 
 own felf, there are fundry Inftances, fbme 
 whereof I fhall here fet down. 
 
 The Countefs of Thantt (Earl Johns La- 
 
 dvj faw as fhe was in Bed with her Lord 
 
 in London, her Daughter my Lady Hatton^ 
 
 who was then in Northamponfhire at tiorton 
 
 See Mr ^^^h^ the Candle was burning in her Cham- 
 
 Baxrers ber. SmcQ vlz. Jnno. 167 ... this Lady Z/^/- 
 
 h& Book, fon was Blown up with Gun-powder fet on 
 
 Fire by Lightning, in the Caftle at Garnfej^, 
 
 where her Lord was Governor. 
 
 The Beautiful Lady Diana Rich^ Daugh- 
 
 /ter of the Earl of Holland, as (he was walk- 
 ing in her Father's Garden at Kjnpngtony to 
 take the frefh Air before Dinner, about 
 Eleven a Clock, being then very well, met 
 with her own Apparition, Habit and every 
 thing, as in a Looking glafs. About a 
 ^ Month after (he died of the Small-pox. 
 And 'tis laid, that her Sifter the Lady IfabellA 
 (Thinne) faw the like of her felf alfb be- 
 fore fhe died. This Account I had from 
 aPerfonofHonour. 
 
 Mrs. £. m Daughter of Sir W. JV. af- 
 firms that Mrs. jf. (her Father's Sifter) (aw 
 
 her 
 
Cfi) 
 
 her felf (i. e.)her Phantomehalf a Year be- 
 fore (he died, for a quater of an Hour to^e- 
 tKer.She faid further that her Aunt was fick* 
 ly Fourteen Years before Ihe died, and that 
 fhe walked Living, (/.€.) her Apparition, 
 and thatfhe wasfeenby (everalat the lame 
 time. The like is reported of others. 
 
 Mr Trehtrn B. D. (Chaplain to Sir Or- 
 Undo Brid^man'Lord Keeper) a Learned and 
 fbber Perlon, was the Son of a Shoe-maker 
 in Hereford : Gne Night as he lay in Bed, 
 the Moon fhining very bright, he faw the 
 Phantomeof oneof the Apprentices fitting 
 in a Chair in his red Waftcoat, and Head- 
 band about his Head, and Strap upon his 
 Knee ; which Apprentice was really abed 
 and afleep with another Fellow-apprentic© 
 in the^fame Chamber, and (aw him. The 
 Fellow was Living 1671. Another time, 
 as he was in Bed he faw a Basket come Sail- 
 ing in the Air along by the Valence of his 
 Bed 5 I think he faid there was Fruit in the 
 Basket : It was a Phantome. From him- 
 felf. 
 
 When Sir Richard Neper M. D. of Lorh^ 
 don^ was upon the Road, coming from Be^- 
 fordfljire^ the Chamberlain of the Inn, 
 fhewed him his Chamber^ the DoQor faw 
 a dead Man lying upon the Bed : He lookM 
 moreuiftly, and law it was himfelf : He 
 was then well enough in Health. He goes 
 forward in his Journey -^ — - to Mr. Ste- 
 
 wards 
 
r78; : 
 
 war'cPs in Berk/hire^ and there died. This 
 
 Account I have in a Letter from Elias Afb- 
 
 mole Efquire. They were intimate Friends. 
 
 Plinfsl^i' *' In the Deferts of Jfrickj you fhali 
 
 Lb^vii^' '^ ^^^^ oftentimes with Fairies appearing 
 
 cLap. IL " in the fhape of Men and Women : But 
 
 ^^ they vaniQi quite away like phantaftical 
 
 " Delufions. 
 
 I Captain He/^ry Bell do hereby declare 
 both to the prefent Age and alfo to Pofte- 
 rity, that being employed beyond the Seas 
 in State-ajfairs divers Years together, both 
 by King James^ and alfo by the late King 
 Charlds in Germany. I did hear and under- 
 ftand in all places great Bewailing and La- 
 mentation made, by reafonof deftroying 
 and burning of above Four [core Tboufmd of 
 Martin Luther'*s Books : Entitled, His lafi 
 Divine Difcourfes. 
 
 Upon which Divine Work or Difcourfes 
 the Reformation, begun before in Germany y 
 was wonderfully promoted and fpjctjl in 
 other Countrys. 
 
 But afterward it fb fell out, that the 
 Pope then living, viz, Gregory XIIL un- 
 derftanding what great hurt and prejudice 
 he, and his Religion had already received 
 by reafbn of the laid Luthers Difcourfes, 
 and alfb fearing that the fame might 
 bring further contempt and mifchief upon 
 himftlf and his Church, he therefore to 
 prevent the fame, did fiercely ftir up and 
 
 infiigate 
 
 
inftigate the Emperor then in being, viz. 
 Rodolphus III. to make an Edift through 
 the whole Empire, that all the forefaid 
 Printed Books fhould be burned, and al- 
 io that it fliould be Death for any Perfon 
 to have or keep a Copy thereof, but to 
 burn the fame : Which EdiS was fpeedi- 
 ly put in Execution accordingly ; infomuch 
 that not one of all the faid Printed Books, 
 nor any one Copy of the fame, could be 
 found out, or heard of in anyplace. 
 
 Yet it pleafed God, that in Amo 1626, a 
 German Gentleman named Cafparus Van 
 Sparr^ with whom in my ftay in Germany 
 about King Jameses bufmefs I became fa- 
 miliarly known and acquainted, having oc- 
 cafion to build upon an old Foundation of 
 aHoufe, wherein his Grand-father dwelt at 
 that time, when the faid EdiSi w^as Publifli- 
 t&inGermany^ for the Burning of the faid 
 Books, and digging deep into the ground 
 under the faid old Foundation, one of the 
 laid Original Printed Books was there hap- 
 'pily found, lying in a deep obfcure hole, 
 being wrapped in a ftrong Linnen Cloth, 
 which was waxed all over with Bees-wax 
 within and without: whereby the laid 
 Book was perlerved fair without any ble- 
 mi(h. 
 
 And at the fame time Eerdinandm II. be- 
 ing Emperor oi Germany^ who was a fevere 
 Enemy and Perfecutor of the Proteftant 
 
 Reli- 
 
1^ 
 
 c 80 ; 
 
 Religion, the forefaid Gentleman, and 
 Grand-child to him that had hidden the (aid 
 Book in that obfcure hole, fearing that if j 
 the faid Emperor (hould get knowledge! 
 that one of the faid Books were yet forth- 
 coming, and in his cuftody, whereby not 
 only himfelf might be brought into trouble, 
 but alfb the Book be in danger to be deftroy'd, 
 as all the reft were long before ; and alio 
 calling to mind that I had the high Dutch 
 Tongue very perfeft, did fend the faid Ori. 
 ginal Book over hither into Englandnnto me: 
 Related to me the paflages of the prefcr- 
 ving and finding the faid Book ; and ear- 
 neftly moved me in his Letter, toTranflate 
 the laid Book inte Englifh. 
 
 Whereupon I took the faid Book before 
 me, and many times began to Tranflate the 
 lame,but always I was hindred therein,being 
 called upon about other Bufinefs ; in fb much 
 that by no pofTible means I could remain by 
 that work. Then about fix Weeks after 
 I had received the faid Book, it fell out, that 
 being in Bed with my Wife, one Night be- 
 tween Twelve and one of the Clock, fhe be- 
 ing afleep, but my felf yet awake, there ap- 
 pearM unto me an Ancient Man,ftanding at 
 my Bed-fide array 'd all in White, having a 
 long and broad white Beard, hanging down 
 to his Girdle fteed, who taking nte by the 
 right Ear, fpake thefe words following un- 
 to me ; Sirrah^ Will notyot^ take time td 
 
 Tra»Jl4te 
 
Tmnjlate thdt Book which is fent tmtn you out 
 o/Germany ^ I will provide for you both place 
 and time to do it: And then he Vanifh'd a- 
 way out of my fighte 
 
 Whereupon being much affrighted, I fell 
 into an extream Sweat, infomuch that my 
 Wife awaking, and finding me all over wer, 
 file ask'd me what I ailed > I told her what 
 I had feen and heard ^ but I never did heed 
 or regard Vifions nor Dreams. And fo the 
 fame fell (bon out of my mind. 
 
 Then about a Fortnight after I had feen 
 the Vifion, on a Smday I went to Whitehall 
 to hear the Sermon, after which ended, I 
 return d to my Lodging which was then in 
 KJngftreet at Wejlwinfltr^ and fitting down 
 to Dinner with my Wife, two Meffengers 
 were fent from the Council-board with a 
 Warrant to carry me to tlie Keeper of the 
 Gate-hotffe at lVe(imi;'2Jltr^ there to be fafely 
 kept, until further Order from the Lords of 
 the Council:, which was dons without 
 fhewingany Caufe * at all, where- 
 
 which laid Warrant I was kept true caufe of iht- Cap- 
 there Ten whole Years clofe Pri- "^"^ , Commitment 
 
 f^ , ^ r r ' \T ^^^' becaule he was 
 
 loner; where I Ipent Five Years urgent with the Ld, 
 
 thereof about? Tranflating of the Tre^urerjot hisAr- 
 
 faidBook: Infomuch as I found the '^^l^^^^^Z', 
 
 words very true which the Old he was not willing 
 
 to pay, and to bs 
 freed from his clamours dipt Hm rp into PrTon. 
 
 G Man 
 
rs2) 
 
 Man in the aforefaid Vifion faid unto me, / 
 will fbortly provide yoK both place dnd time to 
 Tranjlate it. 
 
 Then after I hadfinifh'd the Tranflation, 
 Dr. Laud Arch-bifliop of Canterbury, fent to 
 me in the Prifon by Dr. Bray his Chaplain 
 Ten Pounds, and defir'd to perufe the Book ^ 
 he afterwards fent him by Dr. Bray Forty 
 Pounds. There was a Committee of the 
 Houfe of Commons for the Printing of this 
 Tranflation, which was in 1652. 
 
 ^ CHAP. VII. 
 
 Voices. 
 
 Cicero de Divinatione. Lib. I. " 
 
 SjEpe etiam & in praliis Fauni auditi^ & 
 in rebus turbidis vtridica voces ex occftlto 
 7nijf<B ejfe dicuntur. Cujus generis duo funt ex 
 mult is exempla, fed maxima. Nam non muU 
 to ante Vrbem captam exaudita vox efi ^ Luco 
 Vefta^ qui a Palatii radice in novam viam de^ 
 vexus elf J ut muri & port£ reficerentur : fu* 
 turum ejfe^ nifi provifum ejfet, ut Roma cape- 
 retur. Quod negkElum cnm caveri poterat^ 
 pofl accept am illam maximam cladem explica* 
 turn eft, Ara enim Aio loquentiy quam fep* 
 tarn videmus, C adverfus turn locum confer- 
 crata eft, ^^_^ Neque 
 
• Neque folum deorum voces Fythagorci 
 
 ohftrvAVtYunt^ fed etiam hom'tnutn^ qux vo- 
 
 cant omnin— 
 
 Taciti Annales. Lib. XIV. 
 
 *' Nero — " C^ Ion dit qnon entendoit uri 
 ^^ fon de trumpette dans les collines d^dentouTy 
 ** ies gemijjemens fur k tombem defd mere. 
 
 In the Life of King Htnry IV of France^ 
 writ by the Arch-Bifliop of P^m, It is re- 
 corded, That Charles IX (who caufed the 
 Maffacre) was wont to hear Screaches , 
 like thofe of the PerfonsMafTacred. 
 
 St. Auguftin heard a Voice, faying, Tolkj 
 lege. He took up his Bible, and dipt on 
 Rom, I J. 15. Not in rioting anddrnkennefs^ 
 not in chambering and wantonncfs^ &c. and 
 reformed his Manners upon it. 
 
 One Mr. Smith a Praftitioner of Phyficic 
 at Tamivorth in iVarwickjhire^ an underftand- 
 
 ing foberPerfbn, reading HoUinfhead'^s 
 
 Chronicle, found a relation of a great tight 
 between Fortigem and Htngefi^ about thofe 
 parts,at a place calfd Colemore: A little time 
 after, as he lay awake in his Bed, he heard a 
 Voice, that (aid unto him, Ton jballfhortly ^ 
 fee fame of the Bones of thofe Men and Horfes 
 flain^ that you read of: He was furprized at 
 the Voice, and ask'tin the Name of God, 
 who 'twas tliit fpoke ro him. The Voice 
 made anfwer, that he fhould not trouble 
 himfclf about thar^ but whuhetold himi 
 fhould eomc to pafs. Shortly after, as he 
 
 S a ' went 
 
f 
 
 (H) 
 
 went to fee Colonel Archer (whole Servants 
 were digging for Marie) he faw a great 
 many Bones of Men and Horles ; and alfo 
 Pot- (herds 5 and upon the view it appear- 
 ed to be according to thedefcription in Hoi- 
 Iwfljead^s Chronicle ; and it was the place 
 where the Fight was ; but it is now called 
 BUcl{more. 
 
 This was about the Year 1685. and I 
 had the Account from my worthy Friend 
 and old Acquaintance Tho, Marktt of War- 
 vptckfljire Efq; who is very well acquainted 
 with Mr. Smith aforefaid. 
 
 It was fince the Reftauration of King 
 Charles 11. th^it Mart m Luther^ s Table-Talk 
 
 was Tranflated into Englifh, by — 
 
 but about half a Year before as he lay in his 
 Bed awake, he heard a voice, which did bid 
 him Tranflate that Book ; but by realbn of 
 fbme bufinefs he neglefted it. The Voice 
 demanded^why he had not done it;he reply- 
 ed he had not leifure : Said the Voice, Tot^ 
 /ball have leifure enough [hortly : And fhor tly 
 after, he was Arrefted and put in the Gate- 
 boufe at Wefiminfter ; where he remained 
 many Months : and there was the Tranfla- 
 tion finifhed. See the Preface before the 
 Book. 
 
 Extrafl:soutoftheBook, Entituled, Re^ 
 fat ion de la Noiieille France y 1662^ andj 
 1665. 21. 
 
 " Les Salvages avoitnt en de frejentiments 
 
*^ auffi bien que Its Tranqois^ de cet horrible 
 *^Trembk't€rr€,Foicy la defofition d^untfaiivagt 
 " age 26. fort innoctnte^ ftmple^ C^ fi^cere, 
 ^^ Lanui^ dti ^ou 5 de Febr, 1663 eft ant en^ 
 *' tlrement eveillee^ d^ en flein jUgeme?Jt^ af- 
 ^^ .fife comme fur won feant^ fay tntender une 
 '' 'uoix diU'tnHe & intelligible, qui nPa, dit^ 
 " 11 doit arrive aupurdhuy de chofes efirangees^ 
 " laTerre doit tremble, Je me trouveraypour 
 '*' lors faifte d'ane grand frageur^ farce que je 
 '* ne voyois perfonne d'ou peut provinir cette 
 *' voix : Remplie de crainte^ ja tafchay a men- 
 dormir auec ajfez. de peine : Et lejour eft ant 
 venu^ je dis a mon mary ceqni inejloit arri- 
 ve. Sur le 9, on le 10 heure de mefme 
 jour^ allant au hois pour bufcber^ a peine 
 ' *' j'eftois entree en la Foreft que la mefme voix 
 
 ^'fe fit- entendre^ me difent mefme chofey 
 
 *' C^ de la mefme fa^on que la nuiS precedente: 
 '* La peur fuit bien plus grande^ moy ejiant 
 *^ toutjeale. She got her burden of Wood, 
 *' and nnet her Sifter who comforted her, to 
 " whom (he told this Story, and when {lie 
 *' came to her Fathers Caban, (he told the 
 ** fame Story there ; but ihey heard it 
 
 *' without any reflexions. • La chofe 
 
 *^ en dtmeure la^ jufquez ^ 5 , ou 6 heiires d/4 
 ^*foir du mefme jour^ oh un iremhkment de 
 *^ Terre furvenanty ils ytconnurent pur expe- 
 ^^ riencey que cequils niauoient intendt^ dire 
 *' Avant Midy^ neUoit que trap uray, 
 
 *^ Envoy ee au R. P, Andre Caflillon Pro- 
 G 3 ''vi/9- 
 
($6) 
 
 f^ vincial de U Province de France par les 
 f' MiJJtomrs de Pens de U Camfagnie dejefu, 
 ^^ Iwprimie a PariSj 1664. 
 
 ^' L/t// makes mention, that before the 
 *^ coming of the Gauls to Roine^ Marcus Ce- \ 
 ^^ ditiu^ a VltheUn acquainted the Senate, ' 
 ^' that paffing one Night about Twelve'a 
 *' Clock through the VU Nova^ he heard 4 
 I *' Voice (bigger than a Mans) which ad-| 
 I ^'-vifed him to let the Senate know the 
 ^^ Gauls were on their March to Rome, 
 *' How thofe things could be, it is to be 
 ." difcourfed by Perfcns well verfed in the j 
 ••^ *^ Caufes of Natural and Supernatural 
 *' Events: For my fart I will not pretend} 
 ** to underftand them, unlefs (according to 
 ^' the Opinion of Some Philofbphers) we 
 •^ 'f may believe, that the Air being full of 
 '- Intrlligences and Spirits, who foreleee- 
 A *'' ing future Events, and commiferating 
 m " the Condition of Mankind, gives the^n 
 ^ *' warning by thefe kind of Intimations, 
 ^' that chey may the more timely provide 
 *' and defend themlelves againfl: their Ca^ 
 ^Mamities. But what ever is the Caufe, 
 " Experience affures us, that after (uch De- 
 ^' nuntiations, fome extraordinary thing o,r 
 " other does conliantly happen. 
 
 CHAP. 
 
(^7) 
 
 CHAP. VIII. 
 
 Cicero de Natur^ Deorum. Lib. II. 
 
 PRaeterea ipforum Deorum faepe pracftn- 
 tice, quales fupra commemoravi, 
 
 declarantoUt ab his,& Civitatibus, & fingulis 
 hominibus confuli. Quod quidemintelli- 
 gitur etiam fignificationih*is rerutn futu- 
 rarum, qua turn dormientibus, turn vigi- 
 
 lantibus portentantur. Nemo vir mag- 
 
 nus fine aliquo afflatu divino unquam fu- 
 it. 
 
 Oliver Cromwel\i2iA certainly this Afflatus. 
 One that I knew, that was at the Battle of 
 Dunbar^ told me that Oliver was carried on 
 with a Divine ImpuKe ; he did Laugh lo 
 exceffively as if he had been drunk ; his 
 Eyes fparkled with Spirits. He obtained a 
 great Viciory ; but the Aftion was faid to 
 be contr^ary to Human Prudence. The 
 fame fit of Laughter feiz d Oliver Cromxvd^ 
 juft before the Battle of Naftby 5 as a Kinf« 
 man of mine, and a great Favourite of his, 
 Colonel y. P. then prefent, teftifi'd. Car- 
 dinal Mazjerine faid, That he ms a lucky 
 Fool. 
 
 In one of the geat Fields at Warminfter 
 in Wilfjhire^ in the Harveft, at the very 
 
 G 4 time 
 
 f 
 
time of the Fight at Bofworth Field, between 
 King Richtrd III, and Henry VII, there 
 
 was one of the PariQi took two Sheaves^cry- 
 I ina; (with fome intervals) Now for Richard, 
 I . Now for Henry : atlaft, lets fall the Sheaf 
 that did reprefent Richard; and cryed, AW 
 for J\ing Henry, Richard h Jlain : This 
 Aftion did agree with the very Time, Day 
 and Hour. When I was a School-boy, I 
 have heard this confidently delivered by 
 mi Traditioa, by lomc Old Men of our Coun- 
 try. • 
 
 Monfttur de Scudery in his Poem, Entitu-^ 
 ^^^ led llomeVaincH^^ fancies an Angel to be- 
 fent to -^/^w to impel him to over-run the 
 Rowan Empire with his fwarms of Nor- 
 thern People. The like may be fancied 
 /upon all Changes of Government; when 
 Providence deftines the Ends^ it orders the 
 Means. 
 
 By way ofparallel tothis, Pope by 
 
 the like inftinft, being at Rowe'm theCon- 
 fiiiory, did fpeak of the Engagement in the 
 I Famous Battle of Lepanto^ and that the 
 iP jGhiiftians were Victors. The Fight at Sea 
 being 200 Miles or mere diftant from 
 ^hem. 
 
 King Charles the Firll, after he was Con - 
 
 \dcmned, did tell Colond Thorn/in f on ^ that 
 he believed, That the Englifh Monarchy was 
 mw at an end- : About half an Hour after, he 
 told the Cglonel, T^hat miv be had an ajfui- 
 
 ranc^ 
 
(8p; 
 
 rd^ice by a flrong Imptdfe on his Spirit^ that his 
 SoH Jbould Reign after him. This Informa- 
 tion I had from Fabian Philips Efq: of the 
 Inner-Temple, who had good authority for 
 the truth of it: I have forgot who it was- 
 
 The Lord Rofcomon^ being a Boy of Ten 
 Years of age at Caen in Normandy^ one day 
 was (as it were) madly extravagant in 
 Playing, Leaping, getting over the Table- 
 boards, &c. He was wont to be fober e- 
 nocrgh : They faid, God grant this bodes 
 no ill Luck to him : In the heat of this Ex- 
 travagant Fit, he cries out, My Father is 
 Dead. A Fortnight after, Newscamefrom , 
 Ir^and^ that his Father was Dead. This ^ 
 Account I had from Mr. Kjiolls, who was 
 his Governor, and then with him ; fince 
 Secretary totheEarlof 5/Mj/fi?r^, and I have 
 heard his Lordfliips Relations confirm the % 
 lame. ^ 
 
 A very good Friend of mine and old Ac- 
 quaintance, hath had frequent Impulfes: 
 When he was a Commoner at Trin, College 
 Oxford^ he had feveral. When he rode to- 
 wards the ff^e/? one time in the Stage-Coach, 
 he told the Company, We fliall certainly 
 be Robbed, and they were fb. When a 
 JBrother of his a Merchant died, he left him 
 ^ith other Effefts, a fhareof aShip, which 
 tvas returning from Spain^ and of which 
 News was brought to the Exchange at Lon- 
 don of her good Conditions hehadfuchan 
 
 Impulfe 
 
/ 
 
 / 
 
 (9o) 
 
 Impulfe upon his Spirit, that he muft needs 
 Sell his Qiare, though to lofs ; and he did 
 Sell it. The Ship came fafe to Cornwd (or 
 Devon) and fomewhere afterwards fell up- 
 on the Rocks and funk ; Not a Man Pe- 
 rifhed ; but all the Goods were loft except 
 fome Parrets, which were brought for 
 Queen Kjtherine. 
 
 The good Genius of Socrates is much re- 
 membred which gave him Warning. The 
 Ethnick Genii are Painted like our Angels ; 
 ftrong Impulles are to be referred to them. 
 
 The Learned Dr. "John PeS, hath told 
 me, that he did verily believe, thatlbmeof 
 his Solutions of difficult Problems were^not 
 done Sine Divim auxilio. 
 
 Mr. jf. N. a very underftanding Gentle- 
 man, and not Super ftitious, Frotefted to 
 me, That when he hath been over-per- 
 fwaded by Friends to Aft contrary to a 
 ftronglmpulfe, that he never fucceeded. 
 
 C HAP. IX. 
 
 Knockjngs. 
 
 MR. Baxter's Certainty of the Worlds of \ 
 Spirits. *'A Gentleman formerly 
 ^' feeming Pious, of late Years hath fallen 
 '' into the fm of Drunkennefs ; and when he 
 
 ^' has 
 
 i 
 
(9i) 
 
 *^ has been Drunk, and flept himfelf Sober, 
 '' fomething Knocks at his Beds-head, as if 
 *' one knocked on a Wainfcot 5 when they 
 " remove the Bed, it follows him 5 befides 
 *' loud NoKes on other parts where he is, 
 " that all the Houfe heareth. 
 
 ^' It pofeth me to think what Kind of 
 *' Spirit this is, that hath fuch a care of this 
 *^ Man's Soul, (which makes me hope he 
 *' v\ ill recover.) Do good ^irits dwell fb 
 ^^near us ? Or, are they lent on fuch Mef- 
 *' fages ? Or, is it his Guardian Angel ? Or, 
 *' Is it the Soul of fome Dead Friend, that 
 ^' fuflereth, and yet retaining Love to him, 
 *^ as Dives did to his Brethren, would have 
 ^^ him Saved ? God keepeth yet fuch things 
 " from us in the Dark. 
 
 Major 'John Morgan of Wells did aver, 
 That as he lay in Bed with Mr. Bar- 
 low (Son of the Dean of Udells) they heard 
 Three diftinO: Knockson the Bed: Mr. Bar- 
 low fhortly after fell fick, and died. 
 
 Three or four Days before my Father 
 died, as I was in my Bed about Nine a 
 Clock in the Morning perfeGly awake, I 
 did hear three diftinft Knocks on the Beds- 
 head, as if it had been with a Ruler or Fe- 
 rula. 
 
 Mr. Hierome Banks as he lay on his Death 
 Bed in Bell-yardy faid Three Days before he 
 died, that Mr. Jennings of the Inner-Temple 
 (his great 4cquaintance, Dead a Year or 
 
 two 
 
\ 
 
 cc 
 
 A 
 
 two before) gave Three Knoelfs, looked 
 in, and faid, Come away. He was as far 
 from believing fuch things as any Man. 
 
 Mr. George Ent of thQMiddk'Tempkj told 
 me fbme Days before he died, that he had 
 fuch a deceptio Vifm^ as he called it. 
 
 " In Germmy when one is to Dye out of 
 
 ^' ones Family, or fbme Friends, there will 
 
 *' fometimes likewife happen feme Token, 
 
 that Cgnifieth the Death of one, e.^. fjme 
 
 (or one) in the Houfe heareth the Noife^ 
 
 " as if a Meal-fack fell down from on high 
 
 upon the Boards of the Chamber; they pre- 
 
 fently go up thither, where they thought 
 
 it was done, and find nothing ; but all 
 
 things in order. 
 
 " Alfo at Berlin^ when one fhall Die out 
 *' of the Eledoral Houfe of Brandenhurgh^ a. 
 *^ Woman Dreft in white Linen appears 
 ^' always to feveral, without fpeaking, or 
 *' doing any harm, for feveral Weeks be- 
 '* fore. This from Jafper Belfbaz^r Cranmer, 
 a tS^jfc?;^ Gentleman. 
 
 C H A^ X. 
 
 Blows m\)ifthle. 
 
 Brograve ^ of near 
 
 Pnckridge in Hertfordjjjire when he 
 was a young Maaj Eliding in a Lane in that 
 
 Country, 
 
Country, had a Blow given him on his 
 Cheek (^orHead) : HelookM back, and faw 
 that no body was near, behind him ; anon, 
 he had fuch another Blow ; I have forgot if 
 a Third . He turn'd back and fell to the 
 Study of the Law ; and was afterwards a 
 Judge. This Account I had from Sir John 
 Penrndock of Compton-ChamberUin (our 
 Neighbour) whole Lady was Judge Bro- 
 gravels Niece. 
 
 Newark (SirG. Vs. ) hasKnockings be- 
 fore Death. And there is a Houfe near Co- 
 vent Garden that has Warnings. The Pa- 
 pifts are full of thefe Obfervations. 
 
 The like Stories are reported of others. 
 
 C H A P. XL 
 
 Prophejtes. 
 
 Cicero de Divimtione Lib. I. *gentem 
 quidem nulUm video, neq tarn hwnanam 
 atq'-y do5lam ; neq; tarn immanem tAmq\ bArba- 
 ram^ qu<e non figmficari futura^& a quibttfdam 
 intelligi^ pr^diciq\ pojfe cenfeat. 
 
 Topafs by the Prophecies of Holy-wrir, 
 the Prophecies of A^(9//r^^4;%f/^.' do foretel ve- 
 ry ftrangely ; but noteafily underftood till 
 they are fulfilled . The Book is now com- 
 mon. Perer 
 
Peter Martyr in his Decads, tells us, That 
 there was a Prophet among the Salvages in 
 America , that did tbretel the comingin 
 of Strangers in Ships, which they had not 
 known. 
 
 The Prophecies of St. Malachi, are ex- 
 ceeding ftrange. He defcribes the Popes 
 by their Coats of Arms, or their Names, or 
 their Manners : If his Prohecies be true, 
 there will be but 1 5 Popes more. It is 
 Printed in a Book in 0^. Entituled Bucelini 
 Hifioru Nucleus, 1654. in calce Lihri^ thus. 
 Prophet i a Mdachis Monachi Bangorenfis^ et 
 A. Epifcopi ArdinenfiSy Hiberm^ Primatis. 
 1655. in two Leaves. 
 
 Mr. Lancelot Moreboufe in the time of the 
 Civil Wars, refcued a fhcet of Parchment 
 in Quarto moft delicately Writ, from a Tay- 
 lor's Sheers. It was part of a Book, and 
 'was a Prophecy concerning England in La-- 
 tin Hexameters ; I faw it 1 649. It pointed 
 at our late Troubles : He gave it to Seth 
 Ward^ Biftiopof ^S^/z/W^jand isloft among 
 other good Papers. 
 
 In a Book of Mr. William Lillfs are Hie- 
 roglyphick Prophecies, viz. of the great 
 Plague of LW^/?, ex prefTed by Graves and 
 dead Corps ; and a Scheme with n amend- 
 ing [the Sign of London'] and no Planets in 
 the XII Houfes. Alfb there is the Pifiure 
 of London all on Fire, alfb Moles creep- 
 ing &c, perhaps Mr. Lilly might be conten- 
 ted 
 
(9%) 
 
 Jed to hav# People believe that this was 
 from him(el£ But Mr. Thomas FUtman 
 (Poet) did affirm, that he had fcen thofe 
 Hieroglyphicks in an old Parchment Manu- 
 fcript Writ in the time of the Monks. 
 
 In the Nave of the Cathedral Church at 
 \Wellsy abovethe Capitals of two Pillars, are 
 the Head of the King, and the Head of a 
 Bifhop : It was fore-told, that when a 
 King fliould be like that King, and a Bifhop 
 like that Bifhop; that Abbots fhould be 
 put down, andNuns fhould Marry : Above 
 the Arch, is an Abbot or Monk with his 
 Head hanging downwards ; and a Nun with 
 jChildrenabout her. The infide of the Arch 
 is Painted Blew, and adorned with Stars, 
 to fignifie the Power and Influence of the 
 Stars. This Prophecy was Writ in Parch- 
 ment, and hung in a Table on one of thofe 
 Pillars, before the Civil- Wars. D*-. Ducli 
 l(who was Chancellor of Wells) faid, that 
 I h: had feen a Copy of it among tlie Records 
 I of the Tower at London. It u as Prophecy'd 
 1 300 Years before the Reformation. Bi- 
 ihopKjTighty was Bifhop here at the Refor- 
 mation, and the Pifture (they fay) did re- 
 femble him. 
 
 In the Spanifh Hiflory it is mentioned, 
 that a Vault being open'd in Spain, they 
 found there Moors Heads, and fbme Writ- 
 ings that did exprefs, When People refeos- 
 bling thofe Heads fhould come into Sf/i'm^ 
 
 ihev 
 
they would Conquer that Country : And It' 
 "^2^^ was fo. See this Story more at large in 
 ^amts Howdl\ Letters. 
 
 There is a Prophecy of William Tyndaly 
 
 tpoor Vicar of Wellmg in the County of 
 Htrtfordy made in the beginning of Queen 
 **vf- Elizdeth\ Ktign. I have feen it : It is in 
 EfjglifhVevih, two Pages and an half in Fo- 
 lio. It fore-told our late Wars. I know 
 one that read it Forty Years fince. 
 A Prophecy 
 Sexte verere Deos : viu tiki terminui it$- 
 
 ft at. 
 Cum tutu in medio ardebit Carbumultis 
 
 igm. 
 
 Thefe Verfes were made by Georgt 
 
 I Buchamn, but (perhaps) the Predidion 
 
 ( was made by fome fecond -fighted Perfon. 
 
 King James of Scotland the Sixth was taken 
 
 with an Ague, at Trinity College in Cam^ 
 
 bridge ; he rcmov'd to Theobalds (where he 
 
 died) ; fitting by the Fire, the Carbuncle 
 
 fell out of his Ring into the Fire, according 
 
 to the Prediftion. This Diftick is Printed 
 
 in the Life of King ^ames by 
 
 Before the Civil- Wars there was much 
 
 I talk of the Lady Anne Davys^s Propliecies; 
 for which (lie was kept Prifoner in the To- 
 rveroi London. She was Sifter to the Earl 
 ofCaftlehavenj and Wife to Sir John Davys^ 
 Lord Chief Juftice in Ireland^ I have heard 
 his Kinfman (Counfellor D^z/// of i?^^^//'/«* 
 
 ryy 
 
 ..-C!** 
 
(97) 
 
 ry) (ay, that fhe being in Lonion (I think 
 
 in the Tower ^ did tell the very time of her Fajii oxon, 
 
 Husbands Death in Ireland. P- -tJ^- 
 
 CHAP. xir. 
 
 Miranda. 
 
 OUR Englifb Chronicles do Record, 
 That in the Reign of King Henry 
 III. a Child was Born in Kjnty that at Two 
 Years old Cured allDifeafes. Several Perfbns 
 have been Cured of the Kjngs Evil by the 
 touching, or handling of a Seventh Son. 
 ^It muft be a feventh Son, and no Daughter 
 between, and in pure Wedlock.) 
 
 Samt4elScot^{k\^nx.\i^on of Mr. William 
 Scot of Hedington in Wiltjhtre, did when a 
 Child, wonderful Cures by touching only, 
 viz,, as to the KjngS'tvil^ Wenns, &c. but 
 as he grew to be a Man the Vertue did de- 
 creafe, and had he Lived longer, perhaps 
 might have been fpent. A fervant Boy of 
 his Fathers was alfb a feventh Son 5 but he 
 could do no Cures at all. I am very well 
 fatisfied of the truth of this Relation, fori 
 knew him very well, and his Mother was 
 my Kinfwoman. 
 
 'Tis certain, the Touch of a dead Hand, 
 
 hath wrought Wonderful Effefts, e.gr- 
 
 H one 
 
one (a Painter) ofSfowelmSomerfetJbire n^div 
 Bridgewaur^ had a Wenn in the infide of 
 his Cheek, as big as a Pullets Egg, which 
 by the advice of one was Cur'd by once or 
 twice Touching or Rubbing with a dead 
 Womans Hand, Qe contra, to Cure a Wo- 
 man, a dead Man's Hand) He was direSed 
 firft to fay the Lord's Prayer, and to beg a 
 Eleffing. He was perfeftiy Cured in^afew 
 Weeks. I was at the Man s Houfe whoat- 
 tefted it to me, as alfo to the Reverend Mr. 
 Andrew Pafchal^ who went with me. 
 
 Mr. Davys Mell (the famous Violinift, 
 and Clock-maker; had a Child Crook- 
 back'd, that was Cured after the manner 
 aforefaid, which Dr. Ridgely M. D. of the 
 College of Phyfitians , averr'd in my 
 hearing. 
 
 The Curing of the Kjngs-evil by the 
 Touch of the King, does much puzzelour 
 Philofophers : For whether our Kings were 
 of the Houfe of Toi-k^ or LamaHer^ it did the 
 Cure (/. e.) for the moft part. (Tis true 
 indeed at the Touching there are Prayers 
 Read, but perhaps, neither the King attends 
 them nor his Chaplains.) 
 
 In Somerfttfhire^ 'tisconfidently reported, 
 that fbme were Cured of the Kjngs-tvil^ by 
 the Touch of the ^^Vi^^di Monmouth \ The 
 Lord Chancellor B^.c^A? faith, *' That Imagi- 
 nation is ne;s.t Kia to Miracle-working 
 Failh. 
 
 When 
 
(99) 
 
 When King Charles I. was Prifoner at 
 Carishrook Caftle, there was a Woman 
 Touched by him, v/ho had the KjngS'tvil 
 in her Eye, and had not feen in a Fortnight 
 before, her Eye-hds being glued together : 
 As they were at Prayers (alter the Touch- 
 ing) the Womans ]Eyes opened. Mr. Sey^ 
 tner Bowman^ with many others were Eye- 
 witneffes of this. 
 
 At Stretton in Hereford[hire in Anno, 1648. 
 when King Charles I. was Prifoner, die 
 Tenant of the Mannor-houfe there, fold 
 excellent Cider to Gentlemen of the Neigh- 
 bourhood ; where they met privately, and 
 could Difcourfe freely, and be merry, ia 
 thole Days fb troublefome to the Loyal Par- 
 ty. Among others that met, there was 
 old Mr. Hill B. D. Parfon of the Parifli, 
 Quondam Fellow of Brafm-nofe College in 
 Oxford: This Venerable good old Man, one 
 Day (after his accuftomed fafliion) (land- 
 ing up, with his Head uncovered to Drink 
 his Majefties Health, faying, God blefs our 
 gracious Sovereign^ as he was going to put 
 the Cup to his Lips, a Swallow flew in at 
 the Window, and pitched on the brim of 
 the little Earthen-cup (nothalfa FiniJ and 
 fipt, and fo uGw out agai^^ This was in the 
 prelenceot the aforcfaid Parfon Hill, Major 
 Gwillim^ and two or three inore^that I knew 
 very well then, my Neighbour?, and whofe 
 joint Tefiimony of it I have had more 
 
 H 2 than 
 
f lOO J 
 
 than once, in that very Room. It was in the 
 Bay-window in the Parlour there; Mr. Hill's 
 Back was next to the Window. I cannot 
 doubt of the veracity of the Witneffes. This 
 is Printed in fome Book that I have feen, I 
 think in Dr. Fullers Worthies. The Cup 
 is preferved there ftiil, as a Rarity. 
 
 In Dr. Bolton's Sermons is an Account of 
 the Lady Honjvpoody who defpaired of her 
 Salvation, Dr. Bolton endeavoured to com- 
 fort her: Saidfhe, (holding a /^e/^/Ve-glafs in 
 her Hand) I fhall as certainly be Damned, 
 as this Glafs will be broken : And at that 
 word, threw it hard on the Ground ; and 
 the Glafs remained found; which did give 
 her great comfort. The Glafs is yet pre- 
 ferved among the CimelU of the Family. 
 This Lady lived to fee Defcended from her 
 (I think) Ninety, which is mentioned by 
 Ht. Bolton, 
 
 William Backhoufe oi Swallowfidd in Berk* 
 fbire Efq; had an ugly Scab that grew on 
 the middleof his Forehead, which had been 
 there for fome Years, and he could not be 
 Cured, it became fo naufeous, that he 
 would fee none but his intimate Friends; 
 He was a Learned Gentleman, a Chimift 
 and Antiquary : His cuftom was, once eve- 
 ry Summer to Travel to fee Cathedrals, Ab- 
 beys, Caftles, &c. In his Journey, being 
 come to Peterborough^ he dreamt there, that 
 he was in a Church and faw aHearfe, and 
 
 that 
 
that one did bid him wet his Scab, with the 
 drops of the Marble. The next Day he 
 went to Morning-Service, and afterwards 
 going about the Church, faw the very 
 Hearfe (which was of Black Say, for Queea 
 Kjthartm^ Wife to King //e/;^ VIII.) and 
 the Marble Grave-Stone by. He found drops 
 on the Marble, and there were fome Cavi- 
 ties wherein he dip'd his Finger, and wet- 
 ted the Scab ; In Seven Days it was per- 
 feftly Cured. This accurate and certain 
 Information, I had from my worthy Friend 
 Elias Afljmok Efq; who called Mr. Backhoufe 
 Father , and had this Account from his 
 own Mouth. (JMlay Dew is a great DiP. 
 Iblvent. ) 
 
 Art ft Evans had a fungous Nofe,'and (aid, 
 it was reveal'd to him, that the King's 
 Hand would Cure him : And at the firfl: 
 coming of King Charks II. into St. James's 
 Park he Kifs'd the King's Hand, and rubb'd 
 his Nofe vi^'ith it ; which difturb'd the King, 
 but Cured him. Mr. Jjhmole told me. 
 K^n Advert ifement* 
 
 A true Relation of the Wonderful Cure 
 of Mary MailUrd (Lame almoft ever fince 
 fhe was Born) on Sunday the 26th of No- 
 vember 1695. 
 
 With the Affidavits and Certificats of the 
 Girle, and (everal other credible and worthy 
 Per(6ns,who knew her both before and fince 
 her being Cured. To which is added, A 
 
 H 3 Let- 
 
( ^02^ 
 
 Letterfrom Dr.Wel/wood^ to the Right Ho- 
 nourable the Lady Mayorels, upon thatSub- 
 jeft. Lofidon^ Printed for Richard Baldwrfx, 
 near thQOxford'Arms in Warwick Une. 1 694. 
 
 A Narrative of the late extraordinary 
 Cure, wrought in an inftant upon Mrs. • 
 E//2i. SavAge (Lame from her Birth) with- 
 out the ufing of any Natural means. 
 
 With the Affidavits which were made be- 
 fore the Right Honourable the Lord Major; 
 and the Ctrtificates of feveral Credible Per- 
 fons, who knew her both before and fince 
 her Cure. 
 
 Enquired into with all its Circura- 
 ftances, by Noted Divines, both of the 
 Church of England^ and others : And by 
 Eminent Phyfitiansof the College : And* 
 rnany Perfons of Quality, who have ex- 
 preiTed their full fatistaftion. 
 
 With an Appendix, attempting to prove, 
 that Miracles are not ceafed. London^ fna-- 
 itAior Joh?i Duntoft at the Raven^ and Johm 
 Harris at the Harrow in the Poultry » 1694. 
 
 CHAP. XIIL 
 
 Magick. 
 
 IN Barhry are Wizards, iivho do fmear 
 their Hands with fbme black Ointment, 
 and thep do hold them up to the Sun, and 
 
 ' '^ ■ • ■ in 
 
in a fliort time you fhall fee Delineated in 
 that black Stuff, thelikenefs of what you de- 
 fire to have an anfwer of. It was defirM to 
 know, whether a Ship was in fafety, or no ? 
 There appearM in the Womans Hand the 
 perfefl: Lineaments of a Ship under Sail, 
 This Mr. ^F. CL a Merchant of /.<?W<?/?, who 
 was Faftor there feveral Years, protefted 
 to me, that he did fee. He is a Pepfon wor- 
 thy of beliefe. 
 
 There are wonderful Stories of the Ban^ 
 mans in India^ viz, of their Prediftions, 
 Cures, &c, of their Charming Crocodiles, 
 and Serpents : And that one of them walkt 
 over an Arm of the Sea ; he was feen in the 
 middle, and never heard of afterwards. 
 
 The laft Summer, on the Day of St. John 
 Baptift [1694] laccidentally was walking 
 in the Pafture behind Montague HouCo , it 
 was XII a Clock. I faw there about two 
 or three and twenty young Women, mod 
 of them well Habited, on their Knees very 
 bufie, as if they had been Weeding. I 
 could not prefently learn what the mat- 
 terwas; at laft a young Man told me, that 
 they were looking for a Coal under the Root 
 of a Plantain, to put under their Heads that 
 Night, and they fhould Dream who would 
 be their Husbands: It. was to be found 
 that ^.^y, and Honr. 
 
 H 4 The 
 
The Women have feveral Magical Se- 
 crets [landed down to them by Tradition, 
 for this purpofe, as, on St. o^/zex Night, 
 2 1 Day of Jamary^ Take a row of Pins, 
 and pull out every one, one after another, 
 &yi\)g2L Pafer NoJieTj or Our Father, flick- 
 ing a Pin in your Sleeve, and you will Dream 
 of him or her you fhall Marry. Be/f. John- 
 fen in one of his Mafques, makes fome men- 
 tion of this. 
 Tis Print- j„^ onfweet Saint Agnes Night 
 
 Night, rltaft you with the promts djightj 
 
 ely. Some of Husbands^ fome of Lovers^ 
 
 Which an empty Dream dif covers. 
 Another. To know whom one {hall Marry. 
 You muft lie in another County, and 
 knit the left Garter about the Right Legg'd 
 Stockin ( let the other Garter and Stock- 
 in alone) and as you rehearfe theft fol- 
 lowing Verfes, at every Comma, knit a 
 Knot. 
 
 Thi6 Kjtot I knit J 
 
 To know the thing I know mt yet , 
 
 That I may fee 
 
 The Man (IVontan^ that fhallmy Hus^ 
 
 hand (Wife) be. 
 How he goes and what he wears 
 And what he does all the Days. 
 Accordingly in your Dream you will fee 
 him ; if a Mufitian, with a Lute or other 
 Inftrumcnt; if a Scholar, with a Book,^^^ . 
 A Gentlewon^an that I knew, confeflTed 
 
 iu 
 
( loy ; 
 
 in my hearing, that (he ufed this Method, 
 and dreamt of her Husband whom fhe had 
 never feen : About Two or three Years 
 after, as (he was on Sunday at Church, up 
 pops a young Oxonian in the Pulpit : She 
 cries out prcfently to her Sifter, This is the 
 very Face of the Man that I faw in my 
 Dream. Sir William Somes Lady did the 
 like. 
 
 Another way is, to Charm the Moon Some fay 
 thus 5 At the firft appearance of the newi?y°**^ 
 Moon after New-years Day, go out m the is as good. 
 Evening, and ftand over the Sparrs of a 
 Gate, or Stile, looking on the Moon and 
 fay, 
 
 JU Hail to the Moon, all Hail to thee. In nrl. 
 / prithee good Moon reveal to me^ ^^' {^^ 
 
 Thi4 Night who my Husband (^fVife') mujl he. ground- 
 
 You muft prefently after go to Bed. ^*^ ^^°"*' 
 
 I knew two Gentlewomen, that did thus 
 when they were young Maids, and they 
 had Dreams of thofc that Married them. 
 
 Alexander Tr alliens ^ Of Curing Difeafes 
 by Spells, Charms, &c. is cited by Cafauhon^ 
 before John Dee's Book oi Spirit is: It is now 
 Tranflated out of the Greek into Englifb. 
 
 The Great Hiftorical, Geographical, 
 and Poetical Diftionary. Abracadabra^ a 
 Myfterious Word, to which the Superfti- 
 ous in former times attributed a Magical 
 power to expel Difeafes, efpecially the Ter- 
 tian-Ague, worn about their Neck in this 
 
 lanner. Some. 
 
 f 
 
( .0^ ; 
 
 Some think, thsit B^filides the Inventor, 
 intends the Name of GO D by it. The 
 method of the Cure was prefcrib'd in thefe 
 Verfes, 
 
 Infcribes CharU quod dicitHr AbracadAbr^ 
 S£pi(4S^ etfubterrepetes^fed detrahe fuwmam 
 Et magis atqi^ magis defmt element a figur is 
 SinguU qtidifemptrcApies ^ c^eterafiges^ 
 Donee in angHJium redigatur Liter a. Conum^ 
 His Una. nexis collo redimire memento, 
 T^lia Unguentis conducent VincuU collo, 
 Lethale/q; abigent(mirandapotentia) morbos. 
 
 Mr. ' Scoot a German hath Writ an 
 
 excellent Book of Magick : It is Prohibited 
 in that Country. I have here fet down 
 Three Spells, which are much approved. 
 To Cure an Ague^ 
 Write this following Spell in Parchment, 
 and wear it about your Neck. It muft be 
 Writ Triangularly. 
 
 ABRACADABRA 
 
 ABRACADABR 
 
 ABRACADAB 
 
 ABRACADA 
 
 ABRACAD 
 
 ABRACA 
 
 ABRAC 
 
 ABRA 
 
 ABR 
 
 AB 
 
 A 
 
 With this Spell, one of Wells hathCur'd 
 
 above an Hundred of the Ague. To 
 
( \07) 
 
 To Cure the Biting of a Mad Dog, 
 Write thefe Words in Paper, Viz., 
 P.ebus Rfdifs Epitep/cu/^^ and give it to 
 the Party, or Beaft Bit, to Eat in Bread, 
 or&c. A Gentleman of good Quality, and 
 a fober grave Perfbn, did affirm, that this 
 Receipt never fails, 
 
 To Cure the Tooth-ach, out of Mr, AJhmole's ' 
 Manufcript Writ with his own Hand. 
 Mars^ htsr^ ahurfa, aburfe. 
 Jefu Chrifi for Marys fake j 
 Take away this Tooth- ach* 
 Write the words Three times; and as 
 you fay the Words, let the Party burn one 
 Paper, then another, and then the laft. 
 " He favs, he faw it experimented, and the 
 " Party immediately Cured- 
 
 Mr. Jjhmole told me, that a Woman 
 made ule of a Spell to Cure an Ague, by the 
 Advice of — — A Minifter came to her, 
 and feverely repremanded her, for making 
 u(e of i Diabolical help, and to!d her, flie ' 
 was in danger of Damnation for it, and 
 commanded her to burn it. She did fb, and 
 her Diftemper returned feverely ; info- 
 much, that file was importunate with the 
 Doflor to ufe the fame again : She ufed 
 it, and had eafe. But the Parfon hearing of 
 it, came to her again, and thundred Hell 
 and Damnation, and frighted her fo, that 
 fhe burnt it again. Whereupon fhe fell 
 extremely 111, and would have had it a 
 
 Third 
 
Third time ; but the DoQor rcfufed, fay- 
 ing, That fhe had contemned and flighted 
 the power and goodnefs of the Bleffed Spi- 
 rits (or Angels) and lb fhe died, The 
 caufeofthe Lady Honytvoods Defparation, 
 was that (he had ufed a Spell to Cure her. 
 
 Jamblicus de Myfteriis de nominibus 
 divinis. 
 
 Frofhyrius qMrit^ cur Sdcer dotes utantur no^ 
 mimbus quibufdam fiihil fignificantibus ? Jam- 
 blicus reffondety omma ejufmodi nomina figni" 
 fie are aliquid afud deos: quamvis in quihuf-* 
 damfignifcata, nobis fi»t ignota^ effe tamen no^ 
 tA qu<ediim^ quorum intefretationem divinitus 
 accefimus^ omnino vero modum in eh fignifi' 
 candi ineffabilem effe. Neque fecundum ima- 
 ginationes humanaSy fed fecundum intelleBum 
 qui in nobis ejl^ divinm^ vel potius fimpliciorey 
 fr^ftantioreque modo fecundum intelleSum dtis 
 unitum, Auferendum igitur omnes excogitati" 
 oneSy & rationales difcurfus^ atque affimulati- 
 "ones naturalis vocis ipfius congenitas^ ad respo^ 
 fit as in natum. Et quemadmodum chara&er 
 fymbolieus divin£ fimilitudinis in fe intelle6lu- 
 alts ef/, atque divinus, it a hunc ipfum in cm- 
 nibm fupponere^ accipereque dtbemusy &c. 
 To Lure an Ague^ Tertian or Quartan. 
 Gather Cinquefoilva a good Afpe£l of U to 
 the ^ , and let the Moon be in the Mid- 
 heaven, if you can: and take of the 
 
 Powder of it in White- wine : If it be not 
 thus gathered according to the Rules of A- 
 
 ftrology, 
 
ftrology, it hath little or no Vertue in it. 
 
 With this Receipt Bradefy, a Quaker 
 
 ditKwgflon upon Thames j (near the Bridge- 
 end) hath Cured above an Hundred. 
 To Cure the ThruJJj. 
 There a is certain piece in the Beef,caIIed 
 the Moujfe-piece, which given to the Child, 
 or Party fb affefted, to Eat, doth certain- 
 ly Cure the Thru/b. From an experienced 
 Midwife. 
 
 Another to Cure a Thrufh. 
 Take a living Frog, and hold it in a 
 Cloth, that it does not go down into the 
 Childs Mouth ; and put the Head into the 
 Childs Mouth till it is dead ; and then take 
 another Frog. 
 
 To Cure the Tooth- ach. 
 Take a new Nail, and make the Gum 
 bleed with it, and then drive it into an Oak: 
 This did Cure William Neal, Sir fVilliam 
 Neal's Son, a very (tout Gentleman, when 
 he was almoftMad with the Pain, and had 
 a mind to have PiftoU'd himfelf. 
 For the Jaundife. 
 The Jaundi/e is Cured, by putting the 
 Urine after the firft Sleep, to the Aihes of 
 the Jjh'tree^ Bark oi Barberries. 
 
 To Cure a Bullock^ that hath the Wifpy 
 (that is^ Lame between the Clees, 
 Take the impreffion of the Bullock's Foot 
 in the Earth, where hehath trod; then dig 
 it up, and ftick therein five qx feven Thorns 
 
 on 
 
fiio; 
 
 on the wrong fide, and ihqn hang it on i 
 Bufh to dry : And as that dries, Co the 
 BuIIoek heals. This never fails for Wifps. 
 From Mr. Pacy a Yeoman in Surrey. 
 
 To Cure a Beaji that is Sprmg^ that is 
 Poyfoned. It lights moftly upon Sheep. 
 
 Take the little red Spider, called a Tent' 
 bob ^not fo big as a great Pins-head) the 
 firft you light uponin the fpring of the Year, 
 and rub it in the palm of your Hand all toi 
 pieces; and having fo done, pifsonit, and| 
 rub it in, and let it dry ; then come to the 
 Bead and make water in your Hand, andj 
 throw it in his Mouth. It Cures in a mat- 
 ter of an Hours time. This rubbing ferves 
 for a whole Year, and it is no danger to the 
 Hand. The chiefeft Skill is to know whe- 
 ther the Beaft be Poifbned, or no. From 
 Mr. Pacy. 
 
 To Hanch Bleeding. 
 
 Cut an Afh of One, two or three Yearn 
 Growth,, at the very Hour and Minute of 
 the Sun's entring into Taurm : a Chip of this 
 apply ed will flop it. If it is a Shoot, ic muft 
 be cut from the Ground. Mr. Nicholas Mer- 
 catoTj Aftronomer, told nie that he had tried 
 it with eflFeft. Mr. G. W. fays the Stick 
 muft not be bound, or holden^ but dipp'd 
 or wetted in the Blood. When King James ^^ 
 thefecond was at Salisbury 1688. his Nofe | 
 Bled near two Days ; and after many efTays * 
 in vain, was ftoppM by this Sympathetick 
 
(tu) 
 
 A/bj which Mr. IVilL Nafb a Chyrurgeon 
 in Salisbury applied. 
 
 Jgain(l an evil Tongue. 
 Take Vnguentum pofukum and Vervain^ 
 and Hypericon^ and put a red-hot Iron into 
 it5 you muft anoint the Back-bone, or wear 
 it on your Breaft. This is Printed in Mr. 
 W. Lill/s Aftrology. Mr. H C. hath try'd 
 this Receipt with good fuccefi. 
 Vervain and Dilly 
 Hinders Witches from their will. 
 A Houfe (or Chamber) fbmewherc in 
 '^ndon was Haunted ; the Curtains would 
 be rafhed at Night, and awake the Gentle- 
 man that lay there, who was Mufical, and 
 a familiar acquaintance o( Henry Laws. Hen- 
 ry Laws to be fatisfied did lie with him h and 
 the Curtains 'were rallied fo then : The Gen- 
 tleman grew lean and pale with the frights, 
 )One Dr. — Cured the Houfe of this diftur- 
 jbance, and Mr. Laws faid, that the princi- 
 I pal Ingredient was Hjfericon put under his 
 ^f Pillow. 
 
 In Herefordfhire^ and other parts, they 
 do put a cold Iron-bar upon their Barrels, to 
 preferve their Beer from being fowred by 
 Thunder. This is a common praftice in 
 
 To hinder the Night-mare, they hang ia 
 / I ftringa Flint with a hole in it (naturally) 
 yf the Manger ; but beft of all they fay, 
 iung about their Necks^ and a Flint will 
 
 do 
 
 . \ 
 
do It that hath not a hole in it. It is to pre- 
 vent the Night-mare (viz,!) the Hag from ri- 
 ding their Hor{es,who v«f ill fbmetimes fweat 
 all Night. The Flint thus hung does hin- 
 der it. 
 
 Mr. Sp. told me that his Horfe which was 
 Bewitch'd, would break Bridles and ftrong 
 Halters, like a Samffon. They fiU'd a Bot- 
 tle with the Horfe's Urine, ftop'd it with a 
 Gork and bound it faft in, and then bury*d 
 it under Ground : And the party fufpefted 
 to be the Witch fell ill, that he could not 
 make Water, of which he died. When 
 they took up the Bottle, the Urine was al- 
 moft gone : So, that they did believe, that 
 if the Fellow could have lived a little longer, 
 he had recovered. 
 There are ^^ ^^ a thing Very common to*' nail Horfe- 
 vcry me. fhocs on the Threfliolds of Doors : Which 
 Storfe^^of ^^ ^^ hinder the power of Witches that enter 
 Witches in into the Houfe. Moft Houfes of the Wcft^ 
 ^^-^^^^"^- endof LoWc^^have the Horfe- (hoe on the 
 mft.indil Threfhold. It fhould be a Horfe- Ihoe that 
 of his own one finds. In xhQ Bermudas j they ufe to put 
 knowiedg. ^^ j^^^ j^^^ ^j^^ Pjj.g ^j^g^ ^ Witch comes 
 
 in. 
 
 At Paris v;hen it begins to Thunder and 
 Lighten, they do prefently Ring out the 
 great Bell at the Abbey of St. Germm^ which 
 they do believe makes it ceafe. The like 
 wats wont to be done heretofore in Wiltjbire^ 
 when it Thundred and Lightned, they d* 
 
 R 
 
Ring St. Adelm\ Bell at Malmsbury Abbey. 
 The curious do fay, that the Ringing of 
 ,BelIs exceedingly difturbs Spirits* 
 
 e H A P. XIV. 
 
 Tranfportation by an Invijtble Power. 
 
 i' ^ 
 
 A Letter from the Reverend Mr. Andrew 
 Va.{ch2i\B,D,Re&orofChedzojf in Somer- 
 let. To John Aubery Efj; at Grelham 
 Col\^e London. 
 
 SIR, 
 
 ILaft Week received a Letter from a Learn- 
 ed Friend, the Minifter of Barnfiabk in 
 Devo^y which I think worthy your perufaL 
 it was Dated May 3. 1685. and is as follows; 
 [He was of my time in Qjitens College in 
 Cambridge, ] 
 
 There having been many Prodigious 
 things performed lately in a Parifh a join- 
 ing to that which Bifliop Sparrow prei'ented 
 me to, called Cheriton Bp by fome difcon- 
 tented Dsenlon, I can eafily remember that 
 I owe vou an account the-eof in lieu of that 
 which you defnedof me, and which I could 
 ferveyouin. 
 
 I iStrStit 
 
rii4) 
 
 About November laft, in the Parifh of 
 Sp'eyto/f'mthQ County oi Dtvon^ there ap- 
 peared in a Field near the Dwelling- hoqfe 
 of Fhil. Furze, to his Servant Francis Fry^ 
 being of the age of 3 1 next Auguft^ ^ an aged 
 Gentleman with a Pole in his Hand, and 
 like that he was wont to carry about with 
 him when living, to kill Moles withall, who 
 told the Young Man he fhould not be afraid 
 of him; but Ibould tell his Matter, /. e. his 
 Son, That ieveral Legacies that he had be- 
 queathed were unpaid, naming lOi. toone, 
 10 s. to anotherj^r. Fry replied,that the par- 
 ty he laft nam'd was Dead. The Spedlrum 
 replied, he knew that, butfaiditmuft be 
 
 paid to and named the next Relation, 
 
 Thefe things being performed,, he promiled 
 he would trouble him no further. Thefe 
 fmall Legacies were paid accordingly. But 
 the young Man having caried 20 s. order'd 
 by the Speftrum to his Sifter Mrs. Furze of 
 the Parifh of Staverton near Totnefs^ which 
 Money the Gentlewoman refus'd to receive, 
 being fent her, as fhe faid, from the Devil. 
 The fame Night Fry lodging there, the 
 Speftrum appeared to him again, whereup- 
 on try challenged his promifenot to trou- 
 ble him, and faid he had done all he defir'd 
 him ; but that Mrs. Furze would not re- 
 ceive the Money, The Speftrum replied, 
 that's true indeed. But bid him ride to Tot'-^ 
 mfs and buy a Ring of that value, and that 
 
 Ihe 
 
(iiS) 
 
 (he would take.-Which was provided for hcf; 
 and received by her. Then Fry rode home- 
 wards attended by a Servant of Mrs. Ft^rze, 
 But being come into Sprepon PariQi, or ra- 
 ther a httle before, he feem'd to carry an 
 old Gentlewoman behind him, that often 
 threw him off his Horfe, and hurried hiai 
 with fuch violence, as aftonith'd all that faw 
 him, or heard how horridly the Ground 
 was beaten 3 and being come into his Ma- 
 tter's Yard, Frys Horfe (a mean Beaft) 
 fprung at once 2 5 Foot. 7 he trouble front 
 the Man-Speflre ceafed from this time. 
 But the old Gentlewoman Mrs. Furze, Mr. 
 Furzes fecond Wife, v\hom the Spe£lre at 
 his firft appearance to Fry^ called, That 
 Wicked Woman my Wife, (though f knew 
 her, and took her fof a very good Woman) 
 presently after appears to feveral in the 
 Houfe, viz. to fr/, Mrs. Jhomiftn Gidley, 
 Anne LangAon born in my Par ill), and to a 
 little Child which was forced to be remov'd 
 from the Houfe; fometimes in her own 
 (hape,rometirties in Ilia pes mote horrid, as of 
 
 • a Dog belching Fire, ^:nd ot an Horfe. and 
 leeming to ride out at the Wiadow,carrying 
 only one pane ot Glafsaway, and a little 
 piece of Iron. After this Fry\ Head was 
 
 , thruft into a narrow fpace, where a Man-s 
 Fift could not enter, between a Bed and a 
 Wall 5 and forced to be taken thence by the 
 ftrcngth of Men, all bruifed and bloody i 
 
(m6) 
 
 upon this, it was thought fit to Bleed him } 
 and after that was done, the Binder wasre- 
 mov'd from his Arm, and convey 'd about his 
 Middle, and prefently was drawn fb very 
 ftraighi, it had almoft killed him, and was 
 cut afunder making an ugly uncouth noife. 
 Several other times withHandkerchiefs,Cra- 
 vatsand other things he was near ftrangled, 
 they were drawn fo clofc upon his Throat. 
 He lay one Night in his Periwig (in his Ma- 
 fter*s Chamber, for the more fafety) which 
 was torn all to pieces. His beft Periwig he 
 inclofed in a little Box on the infide with a 
 Joind-ftool, and other weight upon it ; the 
 Box was (happ'd afunder, and the Wig torn 
 all to flitters. His Mafter faw his Buckles fall 
 all to pieces on his Feet : But, firft I (hould 
 have told you the fate of his Shoe-ftrings, 
 one of which a Gentlewoman greater than all 
 exception, aiTured me that (lie faw it come 
 out of his Shoe, without any viGble Hand, 
 and fling it felf to the farther end of the 
 Room ; the other was coming out too, but 
 that a Maid prevented and helped it out, 
 which crifpy and curl'd about her Hand Hke 
 a living Eel. The Cloaths worn by Anne 
 Langdon dind Fry (if their own) were torn 
 to pieces on their backs. Thelame Gentle- 
 woman, being the Daughter of the Mini- 
 fter of the Farirti, Mr. Roger Specotty (hewed 
 meone oi Fry's Gloves, which was torn in 
 his Pocket while (lie was by. I did view it 
 
 near 
 
near and narrowly, anddoferiouflyconfefs 
 that it is torn fo very accurately in all the 
 Seams and in other places, and laid abroad 
 fo artificially,and it is fb dexteroufly tatter'd 
 (and all done in the Pocket in a Minutes 
 time) as nothing Human could have done it; 
 no Cutler could have made an Engine to do 
 it fb. Other fantaftical Freeks have been very , 
 frequent , as, the marching of a great Bar- 
 rel full of Salt out of one Room into another ; 
 an Andiron laying it lelf over a Pan of Milk 
 that was fcalding on the Fire, and two 
 Flitches of Bacon defcending from theChim- 
 ney where they hung, and laid themfelves 
 over that Andiron. The appearing of the 
 the Speftrura (when in her own (hape) in 
 the fame Cloaths, to feeming, which Mrs. 
 Furze her Daughter-in-law has on. The 
 intanglingof Fr/s Face and Legs, about his 
 Neck, and about the Frame of the Chairs, 
 fo as they have been with great difficulty 
 difengaged. 
 
 But the mod Remarkable of all happened 
 in that Day that I paffed by the Door in 
 my return hither, which was fi^/^er-eve, 
 when Fry returning from Work (that little 
 he can do) he was caught by the Woman 
 Speftre by the Skirts of his DoubIet,and car- 
 ried into the Air^ he was quickly mift by 
 his Mafter and the Workmen, and great 
 pnquiry was made for Fraft. Fry^ but no 
 hearing of him 5 but about half an Hour af- 
 
 I 3 tcr 
 
('ii8J 
 
 ter Fr; was heard Whiftlingand Singing in 
 a kind of a Quagmire. He was now afFe- 
 £led as he was wont to be in his Fits, fo that 
 none regarded what he faid ; but coming 
 to himfell an Hour after, he fblemnly prov 
 tefted, That the Demon carried him fo 
 high that hefawhis Mafter's Houfe under- 
 neath him no bigger than an Hay-cock, 
 that he was in perfcft fenfeand prayed God 
 not tofuffer the Devil to deftroy him; that 
 he wasfuddenly fet down in that Quagmire. 
 The Workmen found one Shoe on one fide 
 of the Houle, and the other Shoe on theq- 
 ther fide ; his Periwig was efpied next Morn- 
 ing hanging on the Top of a tall Tree. It 
 was foon obferv'd, that Fr/s part of his 
 Body that had laid in the Mud, was much 
 benum'd, ^nd therefore the next Saturdny^ 
 which was the Eve oi Low-Sunday^ they car- 
 ried him to CreditontohQ let Bloody which 
 being done, and the Company having left 
 him for a little while, returning they found 
 him in a Fit, with his Fore-head all bruiG 
 ed and fwoln to a great bignefs, none being 
 able to gucfshow itcame, till he recovered 
 himfeir. and then he told them, That a 
 Bird flew in at the Window with a great 
 force|^< and with a Stone in it's Mouth 
 flew direftly againfl: his Fore-head. The 
 People looked for it, and found on the 
 Ground juft under where he far, not a Stone, 
 ^ut av/eight of Brafs, or Copper/ which 
 
th6 People were breaking , and parting it 
 ' among themfelves. He was (b very ill, that 
 he could not ride but one Mile or little more 
 that Night, fince which time I have not 
 heard of him, fave that he was ill handled 
 -the next Day, being Sunday. Indeed Sir you 
 may wonder that I have not Vifited that 
 Houfe, and the poor afflifled People ; efpe- 
 cially, fincelwasfb near, and paffbdb^ the 
 very Door : But befides that, they have 
 called to their affiftance none but Noncon- 
 forming Minifters, I was not qu^lific^d to 
 be welcome there, having given Mr. Furze 
 a great deal of trouble the laft Year'about a 
 Conventicle in his Houfe, where otie of this 
 Parifh was the Preacher. But I am very 
 well affured of the truth of what I have 
 written, and (as more appears) you fliall 
 hear from me again. 
 
 I had forgot to tell you that Fr/s Mother 
 came to me, grievoufly bewailing the mife- 
 rable condition of her Son. She told me.that 
 the Day before he had five Pins thruft into 
 his Side. She ask'd,,and I gave her the beft 
 Advice I could. Particularly, that her Son 
 fhould declare all that the Speftre, efpeci- 
 ally the Woman gave him in Charge, for I 
 fufpefl:, there is ^Z/g'/z/W/^/e;?/; and thatfhe 
 fhould remove him thence by all means. 
 But i fear thatfhe will not do it. For I hear 
 that Anne Langdon is come into my Parifli 
 to her Mother, and that fhe is grievoufly 
 
 I 4 trou- 
 
troubled there. I might have writteq, as 
 much of her, as of Ffy^ for ilie hath been 
 as ill treated, faying the Atrial Journey. 
 Her Fits and Obfeffions feem to be greater, 
 for (he Scrieches in a moft Hcllilh tone. 
 Thowafin Gtdley (though removed) is in 
 (rouble, as I hear. 
 
 Sir this is all my Friend wrote, This Let- 
 ter cameinclofed in another from a Clergy- 
 Man my Friend, who lives in thofe parts. 
 He tells me, all the Relatipns he receive? 
 from diversPerfbns living in Sfteyton and the 
 Neighbouring Parifhes agree w^ith this. He 
 fpake with a Gentleman of good faChion, 
 that was at: Lrditon when F^/ was Blood- 
 ipd, and faw the Stone thatbruifed his Fore- 
 head ; but he did qot call it Copper or Brafs, 
 but faid, it uas a flrange Mineral. That 
 Gentleman promifed to make a ftrift en- 
 quiry on the place into all particulars ^nd to 
 ^ive him th$ refult; Which my JFriencj 
 alfb promifesme 5 with hopes that he flhalj 
 procure for me a piece of that Mineral fub- 
 ftancc, which hurt his Fore-head. 
 
 The occafion ofmy Friends ftnding mq 
 this Narrative, was my entreating him 
 Ibmt'time fince to enquire into a thing of 
 this nature, that happen'd in BamjiMe^ 
 where he lives. An account was given to 
 yne long fjncc, it fills ^ Sheet or two, which 
 I haye by me : And to gratifie Mr. GUnvtl 
 Whp is polkdirig Jliftorksfor \\isSaddmfm, 
 
Triumphatus, I defir'd to have it well attefted, 
 it being full of very memorable things ; but 
 it ftems he could meet only a general con- . 
 fent as to the truth of the things s the Re- 
 ports varying in the Circumftances. 
 
 Sir, yours 
 
 A Copy of a Letter from 4 Ltarne^ Fritvd cf 
 mint in ScotlapdjD^/e^ March 3 $• 169^. 
 
 Honoured Sir, 
 
 I received youps Dated Maj 24 1694. in 
 which you defire me to fend you fbme 
 inftances and examples of Tranfportaiion 
 by an invifible Power. The true caufe of 
 my delaying fo long to reply to that Letter, 
 was nor wantofKindnefs, butoffitMate- 
 terials for fpch a Reply. 
 
 As (bon as I read your Letter of May 24 
 I called to mind a Story \\ hicb I heard long 
 ago, concerning one of the Lord Dujfus (in 
 the Shire of Murray) his Predeceffors, of 
 whom it is reported, That upon a time, 
 when he was walking abroad in the Fields 
 near to his own Houfe,he was fuddenly car- 
 ped away, and found the next Day at Paris 
 in the French Kings Cellar with a SilverCup 
 in his Hand ; that being brought into the 
 King's Prefence and queltion'd by him, Who 
 he was f And how be came thither ? He 
 told his nam^, his Country, and the place of 
 bis Refidenc;^2 and that on fuch a Day of the 
 
 Month 
 
( 122 j 
 
 Month (which proved to be the Day im- 
 mediately preceeding) being in the Fields, 
 he heard thenoifeof a Whirl- wind, and of 
 Voices crying Horfe and Hattock (this is 
 the Word, which the Fairies arc faid to ufe 
 when they remove from any place) where- 
 upon he cried (Horfe and Hattock) alio, 
 and was immediately caught up, and trant 
 ported through the Air, by the Fairies to 
 that place, where after he had Drunk hear- 
 tily he fell a- fleep, and before he awoke, the 
 reft of the Company were gone, and had left 
 him in the pofture wherein he was found. 
 It's faid, the King gave him the Cup which 
 was found in his Hand , and difmifsM 
 him. 
 
 This Story (if it could be fufficiently 
 attefted) would be a noble Inftance for 
 your purpofe, for which caufe I was at Ibme 
 pains to enquire into the truth of it, and 
 found the means to get the prefent Lprd 
 Duffus^s opinion thereof; which jQiortly is, 
 That there has been, and is fuch a Traditi- 
 on, but that he thinks it fabulous ; this ac- 
 count of it, his Lordfhip had from his Fa- 
 ther, who told him, that he had it from his 
 Father, the prefent Lord's Grandfather, 
 There is yet an old Silver-Cup in his Lord- 
 ihip's PofTeflion ftill, which is called the 
 Fairy Cup 5 but has nothing Engraven up- 
 upon it except the Arms of the Family. 
 
 The 
 
The Gentleman by whofe means I 
 •ame to know the Lord Dufus his fentiment 
 oftheforegoeing ftory, being Tutor to his 
 Lordfhips eldeft Son, told me another lit- 
 tle paflage of the fame nature, whereof h« 
 was an Eye witnefi. He reports, that when 
 he was a Boy at School in the Town of Ff?r- 
 re/, yet not fo Young, but that he had 
 Years and Capacity, both to obferve and 
 remember that which fell out ; he and his 
 School-fellows were upon a time whipping 
 their Tops in the Church- yard before the 
 Door of the Church ; though the Day was 
 calm, the> heard a noife of a Wind, and 
 at fome diftance faw the fmall Duft be- 
 gin to arife and turn round, which motion 
 coutinued, advancing till it came to the 
 place where they were; whereupon they 
 began to Blefs themfelves : But one of 
 their number (being it feems a little more 
 bold and confident than his Companions) 
 faid, Horfe and Hattock with my Top.^ and 
 immediately they all (aw the Top lifted up 
 from the Ground ; but could not fee what 
 way it was carried, by reafon of a Cloud 
 of Duft which was raifed at the fame time : 
 They fought for the Top all about the place 
 where it wastaken up, but in vain; and it 
 was found afterwards in the Church-yard, 
 on the other fide of the Church. Mr. 
 Steward ({b is the Gentleman called) decla- 
 red to me that he had a perfeft remembrance 
 of this matter. ' The 
 
( ^h) 
 
 The following Account I received AV- 
 vember laft, from Mr. Alexander Mowat a 
 Perfon of great Integrity and Judgment, 
 who being Minifter at the Church at Lejly^ 
 in the Shire ofAherdene, was turned out for 
 refufing the Oath of Teft, Anno. 168 1. He 
 informs, That he heard the late Earl of 
 Cathnes who was Married to a Daughter of 
 the late Marquefs of Argyle tell the follow- 
 
 Iing Story, 1//^. That -upon a time, when 
 a Veffel which his Lordlhip kept for bring- 
 ing home Wine and other Frovifions for 
 his Houfe, was at Sea 5 a common Fellow, 
 who was reputed to have the Second- fight, 
 being occafionally at his Houfe ; the Earl 
 enquired of him, where his Men (mean- 
 ing thofe in the Ship) were at that prefent 
 time ? The Fellow replied, at fuch a place,by 
 name, within four Hours Sailing oftheiHar- 
 bour,which was not far from the place of his 
 Lordfhip's Refidence : The Earl asked, what 
 Evidence he could give for that ? The 0- 
 ther replied, that he had lately been at the 
 place, and had brought away with him 
 one of the Sea-mens Caps, which he deli- 
 vered to his Lordlhip. At the four Hours 
 ^nd the Earl went down himfelf to thp 
 Harbour, where he found the Ship newly 
 arrived, and in it one of the Seamen with* 
 out his Cap; who being queftioned, how 
 he came to lofe his Cap ? Anfwered^that 
 ?t fuch a place ('the fame the S?cond-fight'd 
 
 Man 
 
c «25 ; 
 
 Man had named before) there arofe a 
 Whirl-wind which endangered the Ship, 
 and carried away his Cap : The Earl 
 asked, if he would know his Cap u hen he 
 faw it ? He faid he would ; whereupon 
 the Earl produced the Cap, and the Seaman 
 owned it for that, which was taken from 
 him. 
 
 This is all the Information which I 
 can give at prefent concerning Tranfporta- 
 tion by an invifible Power. I am forry that 
 I am able to contribute fo little to the pub- 
 lifliing of fo curious a piece as it Teems your 
 Colledionof Hermetick Philofbphy will be. 
 I have given Inftruftions to an Acquain- 
 tance of mine now living at KjrkwAU, and 
 took him engaged when he left this place, to 
 inform him concerning the old Stone Mo- 
 numents, the Plants and Cures in the Or^ 
 caches, and to fend me an Account. But I 
 have not heard from him as yet, tho' I 
 caufed a Friend that was Writing to him, 
 to put him in mind of his prcmife ; theoc- 
 cafions of Corrcfpondence betwixt this 
 place and Orkney are very rare. 
 
 S I R, 
 
 Your Faithful AffeQionate Friend 
 and Servant, 
 
 J. G. 
 
 Sir, 
 
Sir, 
 *^TpIs very likely my Lord Keeper' 
 
 X {,North1 (if an Account of a thing 
 lb confiderable, hath not been prefented to 
 him by another Hand j will take it kindly 
 from you. I would Tranfcribe it for Dr. 
 Henry More^ to whom, as I remember, I 
 promifed fometime fince an Account of this 
 mrnJlMe Apparition , but my Hands are 
 full ot Work. May I beg of you to vifit 
 Dr, Whitchcot Minifter of St. Laurence; 
 Church, and to communicate a fight of 
 this Letter from Barnftable: Probably he 
 will be willing to make his Servant Tran- 
 fcribe it, and convey it to Dr. More. Pray 
 prefent my humble Service to him, as al(b 
 my affeftionate Service to our Friends Mr. 
 Hook and Mr. Lodwick. I^ver reft 
 
 S I R, 
 
 Your moft Faithful 
 Chedzo), 
 
 and AffeQionate Servant, 
 
 Andrenf PafchaL 
 
 There 
 
There was in Scotland one — -^ [an Ob- 
 ftflTus] carried in the Air (everal times in the 
 view of (everal Perfbns, his Fellow-Soldi- 
 ers. Major Henton hath lecn him carry'd 
 away from the Guard in S'c^^/^W fbmetimes 
 a Mile or two. Sundry Perfbns are living 
 now (167 1.) that can atteft this Story. 
 I had it from Sir Rokrt Harley (the Son) 
 who Marryed Major Henton^s Widow; 
 asalfofrom E.T. D.D. 
 
 A Gentleman of my Acquaintance Mr. 
 
 M. was in Portugal^ Aumo. 165^. 
 
 when one was Burnt by the Inquifition for 
 being brought thither from Qoa m EaU In* 
 didy in the Air, in an incredible fliort 
 time. 
 
 CHAP. 
 
I 
 
 CHAP. X\^. 
 yijions in a Berillj or CryJlalL 
 
 Dr. J.PeiL A Berill is a kind of Cry ftal that hath 
 jf\ a weak Tinftureof Red ; it is one of 
 the Twelve Stones mentioned in the Reve-^ 
 lation. I have heard *, that Speftacles 
 were firft made of this Stone , which is the 
 rcalbn that the Germans do call a Spefta- 
 cle-Glaft [or pair of Speftacles] a Br;//. 
 
 Dr. Pocock of Oxford in his Com- 
 mentary on Hofea, hath a Learned DiA 
 courle of the Vrim and Thuwmim : as alfo | 
 
 Dr. Spenfer of Cambridge , That the 
 
 Prieft had his Vifions in the Stone of the 
 Breaft- plate. 
 
 The Prophets had their Seers, viz. 
 Young Youths who were to behold thoft 
 Vifions, of whom Mr. AbrahAtn Cowly writes^ 
 thus. 
 
 With hafiy m^gs^ time prefent they out^ 
 
 And tread the doubtful Maze of Defii^ 
 
 There walk and f fort among the years to J ( 
 
 come^ 
 And with quicks Eye^ pierce every C^ufet 
 
 Womb* 
 
 The 
 
The Magicians, now, ufe a Cryftal- 
 Sphere, or Mi- 
 neral-Pearl for ^ '^-^^.^^^ 
 
 this purpofe , ^y^ ^V. 
 
 Which IS in- X:;^ ^>^ ral-Pearl. 
 
 IpeftedbyaBoy, ^ "^^^ 
 
 orfbmetimesby 
 
 the Querent himfelf. 
 
 There are certain Formula's of Prayer 
 to be ufed before they make the infpe£li- 
 on, which they term a Call. In a Ma- 
 nufcriptof Dv, For man oi Lambeth (^which 
 Mr. Ellas Jjhmole had) is a Difcourfe of 
 this, and the Prayer. Alfo there is the 
 Call which Dr. Nepkr did ufe. 
 
 James Harrington [ Author of Oceana ] 
 told me that the Earl of DenhigKi then 
 AmbafTador at Venice did tell him, that 
 one d'd fhew him there feveral times in 
 a Glafs, things paft, and to come. 
 
 When ^M Mtrmaduke Langdale was in 
 Jtaljiy he went to one of thofe Magi^ who 
 did fhew him a Glaf> where he faw him- 
 felf kneeling before a Crucifix : He was 
 then a Proteflant ; afterwards he became 
 a Roman Catholick. He told Mr. Thomas 
 Hen/haw R. S. S. this himfelf. 
 
 I have here fet down the Figure of a 
 Confecrated Berill^ now in the poileffion 
 of Sir Edward Hurley Knight of the Bath^ 
 which he keeps in his Clofct at Brampton- 
 
 K Bryan, 
 
/ 
 
 f 130) 
 
 Bryan in Herefordfhire, amongft his Cime- 
 Hay which I faw there. It came firft from 
 
 Norfolk; a Mini- 
 fter had it there, 
 and a Call was to 
 be ufed with it. 
 Afterwards a Mil- 
 ler had it, and both 
 did work great 
 Cures with it ^ 
 Curable) and in the 
 Berill they did fee, 
 either the Receipt 
 in Writing, or elfe 
 the Herb. To this 
 Minifter the Spirits 
 or Angefs would 
 appear openly, and 
 becaufe the Miller 
 (who was his fami- 
 liar Friend) one day 
 happened to fee 
 them, he gave him 
 the aforefaid Berill 
 and Call ; By thefe 
 Angels the Mini- 
 fter was forewarned of his Death. This 
 Account I had from Mr. Afhmole. After- 
 wards this Berill came into fbmebodies 
 hand in London ^ who did tell ftrange 
 things by it ; infbmuch that at laft he was 
 
 queftioned 
 
queftioned for it, and it was taken away 
 by Authority [it was about 16^3] 
 
 This Berill is a perfefl: Sphere, che Di- 
 ameter of it I guefi to be fonnething more 
 than an Inch : It is fet in a King, or Cir- 
 cle of Silver refembling the Meridian of a 
 Globe : The ftem of it is about Ten Inches 
 high, all gilt. At the Four quarters of it 
 are the Names of Four Angels^ viz. Vriel, 
 Raphae/y Michael^ GabrieL On the top is 
 a Crofs Patee* 
 
 Sam. Boi/ardiis hath writ a Book de Di- 
 njtnAtione per CYffldhm. 
 
 A Cloathier s Widow of Pembridge in 
 Hereford/hire, defired Dr. 6'^/><^//>'» QoOe of 
 the Canons of the Church of Hirefor^^and 
 Re£i:or of Pembridgt } to look over her 
 Husbands Writings after his Decease: a- 
 mong other things, he found a Call for a 
 Cryftal. The Clothier had his Clothes 
 oftentimes ftolen from his Racks ^ and at 
 laft obtainM this Trick to difcover the 
 Thieves. So when he loft his Clothes, 
 he went out about Midnight with his 
 Cryftal and Call, and a little Bfl^, or lit- 
 tle Maid with him [for they fav it muft 
 be a pure Virgin] to look in the Cryftal, 
 to fee the likenefs of the Ferfc)n that com- 
 mitted the Theft. The Dodor did burn 
 the Call, 1671. 
 
 K 2 Vifions 
 
(132) 
 
 Vifions without a Glafs, or Cryftal. 
 
 About the later end of the Reign of King 
 
 jf^«;ej the Firft, one a Taylor in 
 
 London had leveral ViGons, which he did 
 defcribe to a Painter to paint, and he writ 
 the defcription himfelf in an ill, Taylor- 
 like hand, in falfe Englifh; but legibly: 
 It was (at leaft) a Quire of Paper. I re- 
 member one Vifion is of St. Jame^s Park, 
 where isthe Pifture of an Altar and Cru- 
 cifix. Mr. Butler of the Toy-fhop by 
 Ludgdte [one of the Matters of Bridewel'] 
 had the Book in Jnno 1659 ; The then 
 Earl of Northampton gave Five Pounds 
 for a Copy of it. 
 
 i'jf. 
 
 J J 
 
 
 I'^Vi'. !.'--4;^ 
 
 CHAP. 
 
(^33) 
 
 CHAR XVI. 
 
 Conlperfe with Jngels and S fir its. 
 
 DR. Richard Nefitr was a Perfbn of 
 great Abftinence, Innocence, and 
 Piety : He fpent every day two Hours in 
 Family Prayer .• When a Patient, or Que- 
 rent came to him, he prefently went to 
 his Clo(et to Pray : and told to admira- 
 tion the Recovery, or Death of the Pati- 
 ent. It appears by his Papers, that he -^S^ 
 did converfe with the Angel Raphaely who 
 gave him the Refponfes. 
 
 Elias Ajhmok Efq; had all his Papers, 
 where is contained ail his Praflice for about 
 Fifty Years 5 which he, Mr. Jfhmoky care- 
 fully bound up, according to the Year 
 
 of our Lord, in Volumes in Folio \ 
 
 which are now repofited in the Library 
 of the Mu[<£um in Oxford. Before the Refc 
 ponfes ftands this Mark, viz. R Ptis. 
 which Mr. AJhmole (aid, was Rtffonfum 
 Raphaelis. 
 
 In thefe Papers are many excellent Me- 
 dicines, or Receipts for feveral Difeales 
 that his Patients had ; and bsfore Ibme of 
 ?hem is the aforefaid Mark. Mr^ AJhmole 
 K 3 took 
 
took the pains to Tranfcribe fairly with his 
 own hand all ihe Receipts; they areaboi^t 
 a Quire and halfof Paper in Folio ^ which 
 fi ce Lis Death were bought of his Relift 
 by £.»^.Efq;R. S.S, 
 
 The Angel told him, if the Patient were 
 curable, or incurable. 
 
 There are alio feveral other Queries to 
 the Angel, as to Religon, Tranfubftantia- 
 tion, &c. which 1 have forgot. I remem- 
 ber one is, Whether the Good Spirits, or 
 the t^ad be moft in Number? R Ris, The 
 Good. 
 
 It is to be found there, that he told John 
 Frideanx D. D. Anno 1621^ that Twenty 
 Years hence [1641] he would be a Bilhopj^ 
 and he was fo, fc. Biiliop cf Worcefier. 
 
 R ftis, did refolve him, That Mr. Booth 
 ' of.*--. — I in Chefbirt (liould have a Son that 
 fhould inherit. Three Years hence [/r. 
 Sir Gtrrge Booth^ the firft Lord Delamere ] 
 vi^' from 161 9. Sir George Booth aforefaid 
 \v^s born December 18 Anno 1622. 
 
 This I extraP.ed out of Dr. Nepiers Ori- 
 ginal D^ary, then in the poffeffion of Mr. 
 J/bmok. 
 
 When E. W. Efq ; was about Eight 
 Years old^, he was troubled with the 
 Worms : His Grand-father carried him to 
 Dr. Nepier at Ljnford. Mr. £. W. peepecj 
 in at the Clofet at the end of the Gallery, 
 
 mi 
 
and faw him upon his Knees at Prayer, 
 The Doftor told Sir Francis, that at Four- 
 teen Years old his Grandfbn would be 
 freed from that Diftemper: and he was fb. 
 The Medicine he prefcribed was, to drink 
 a little draught of Mufcadine in the Morn- 
 ing. 'Twas about 1625. 
 
 It is impoflible, that the Prediftion of 
 Sir George Booths Birth, could be found a- 
 ny other way, but by Angelical Revelati- 
 on. 
 
 This Dr. Richard Nefier was Re£l:or 
 of Lynford in Bucks, and did Praftife 
 Phyfick: but gave moft to the Poor that be 
 got by it. *Tis certain, he foretold his own 
 Death to a Day and Hour ; he dyed Pray- 
 ing upon his Knees, being of a very great 
 Age, 1634. Apriltht Firft. He was near- 
 ly related to the LearnM Lord Nepier Ba- 
 ron of M.... in Scotland ; I have forgot 
 whether his Brother. His Knees were hor- 
 ny with frequent Praying. He left his E- 
 ftate to Sir Richard Nepier M. D. of the Col- 
 lege of Phyfiaans L^;?^/?;;, from whom Mr. 
 Afhmok had the Doftor's Pifture, now in 
 the Mufdum, 
 
 Dr. Richard Nepier Re£lor o{Lynfordw2L% 
 a good Aftrologer, and fo was Mr. Marjh 
 of Dunftable\ but Mr. Marjh did ferioufly 
 confefs to a Friend of mine, that Aftrolo- 
 gy was but the Countenance ; and that he 
 K 4 did 
 
/ 
 
 didhisbufinefs by the help of the bleffed 
 Spirits; with whom only Men of great Pi- 
 ety, Humility and Charity, could be ac-^ 
 quainted: And fuch a one he wa% He was 
 an Hundred Years old when my Friend was 
 with him ; and yet, did underftand hm> 
 felf very well. 
 
 At AJhridge in Buckinghamfhire ^ near 
 Berkhamfted, was a Monaftery, (now in the 
 Poffeffion of the Earl oi Bridgwater^ ) where 
 are excellent good old Paintings ftill to be 
 feen. In this Monaftery was found an old 
 Manufbript Intituled Johannes de Rup?fdJ[ay 
 fince Printed (or part of it) a Chimical 
 Book, wherein are many Receipts 5 among 
 others. To free a Houfe Haunted with Evil 
 Spirits, by Fumes: Mr Marfl? had it, and 
 did Cure Houfesfo Haunted by it. Ovid in 
 his Feftivals hath fomething like it. See 
 Thefaurus Exorcifmorum writ by ■ ■ 
 e SocietAte Jefu. 0&. Wherein are feveral 
 highPhyfical and Medicinal things. 
 
 Good $piritsare dehghted and allured by 
 fweet Perfumes, as rich Gums, Frankin- 
 ccnfe, &c. Salt, &c. which was the reafbn 
 that the Priefts of the Gentiles^ and al- 
 fo the Chrijlia^s uikd them in their Temples, 
 and Sacrifices : And on the contrary. Evil 
 Spirits are pleafed and allured and called up 
 by Suflbmigations oiHe^shane, c^t. Sinking 
 Smells, &c. \\hich the Witches do ufe in 
 
 their 
 
 'Hi 
 
their Conjuration. Toads (Saturnine A- 
 nimals) are kill'd by putting of Salt upon 
 them ; I have feen the Experiment. Ma- 
 gical Writers fay, that Cedar-wood drives 
 away evil Spirits ; it was, and is much ufed 
 in Magnificent Temples. 
 
 PJinii Natural Hift. Lib. XII. Cap. XIV. 
 
 Alexandra Magno in pueritU fine parjimo- 
 nia thura ingf^renti aris^ p£dagogus Leonides 
 dixerat^ ut illo modo^ cum divicijjet thurife^ 
 ras gentes, fupplkuret. At ilk Arabia potitus\ 
 thure onujlam navim mi fit eiy Urge exhortatus^ 
 ut Deos adoraret. 
 
 One fays why fhould one think the In- 
 telleftual World left Peopled, than the^ 
 Material ? Pliny in his Natural Hiflory 
 
 Lib. Cap. tells us, Thatiftv-/^r/- 
 
 ca do fbmetimes appear multitudes of Aeri- 
 al Shapes, which fuddenly vanifh. Mr. i?^ 
 chard Baxter in his Certainty of the Worlds of 
 Spirits^ (the laft Book he Writ, not long 
 before his Death) hath a Difcourfeof An- 
 gels; and wonders they are fo little taken 
 notice of, he hath counted in Newmans 
 Concordance of the Bible, thp word Angel 
 in above 500 places, 
 
 Hugo Grotitd^ in his ^Annotations on jF^- 
 nah^ fpeaking of Nineve^ fays. That Hi- 
 ftory hath divers Examples , that af- 
 ter a great and hearty Humiliation, God 
 delivered Cities, &c. from their Calami- 
 ties, 
 
/ 
 
 ties. Some did obferve in the late Civil 
 Wars, that the Parliament, after a Humi- 
 liation, did (hortly obtain a Victory. And 
 as a three-fold Chord is not eafily broken ; 
 fo when a whole Nation (hall conjoin in 
 fervent Prayer and Supplication, it fhall 
 produce wonderful Effefts. William Larvd 
 (Arch-bifhop of Camtrbury) in a Sermon 
 Preached before the Parliament, about the 
 beginning of the Reign of King Charles I. 
 affirms the power of Prayer to be fo great, 
 That though there "be a Con junftion or Op- 
 pofition of Saturn or Mars (as there was 
 one of them then) it will overcome the 
 malignity of it. In the Life of Vavafor 
 Fowelis a memorable Account of the effeft 
 of fervent Prayer, after an exceeding 
 Drought : And Mr. Baxter (in his Book 
 afore- menioned) hath feveral Inftances of 
 that Kind, which fee. 
 
 St. Michael dinA all Angels. 
 The Colka. 
 Everlajiing God^ who haft Ordered md 
 Conftituted the fer vices of Men and Angels^ af- 
 ter a Wonderful manner : Mercifully grant ^that 
 US thy Holy Angels alway do thee fer vice tnHex-^ 
 ven : So hy thy Appointment j they may fuccour 
 and defend us^ through Jefm Chrijl our Lord^ 
 K^men. 
 
 CHAR 
 
CHAP. XVII. 
 
 Corp- candles in Wales. 
 
 Part of a Letter to Mr. Baxter. 
 '^O I R» I am to give you the beft fatis- Mr.B>»«. 
 ^^ *' fadion I can touching thofe Fiery ^^ry cer- 
 f " Apparitions [Corps candles, ] v\ hich do, [hlw^^fd, 
 ^ " as it were mark out the way for Corpfesto of Spirits, 
 " their »te/f/MTMe^oH, and fbmetimes before the ^''•^^ ^37« 
 *' Parties themfelves fall Sick,and fometimes 
 ^' inthe irSickr.eft.Icould never hear infi/;^- 
 "/^»^of thele, they are common in thefe 
 *' Three Counties , viz. Cardigan^ Car- p^^^ -^^ 
 ^^mcLYthm and Pembroke^ and as, I hear in Radmr. 
 " fbme other parts of Wales. 
 
 "Thefe (pe«y7«V*Tct in our Language we 
 call CanhwyllanCyrph {i, e.) Corps-can- 
 **dles; and Candles we call them, not that 
 " we fee any thing befides the Light ; but 
 ''becaufe that Light doth as much refemble 
 *'• a material Candle-light, as Eggs do Eggs, 
 *' faving, that in their Journey thefe Can- 
 dles be mods ajfparenteSj mod6 diffxrentesj 
 cfpecially , when one comes near them 3 
 and if one come in the way againft them., 
 '' unto whom they vanifh ; but prefently 
 '•* appear behind and hold on their courfe. 
 ?' If it be a little Candle pate or bluifb, 
 
 ** then 
 
 
(ho) 
 
 ^^ then follows the Corps either of an 
 •* Abortive or fbme Infant; if a big one, 
 *' then the Corps of fomeone come to Age: 
 " If there be feen 2, or 3 5 or more, fome 
 " big, fome fmall together, then fo many 
 " and fuch Corples together. If two Can- 
 *^ dies come from divers places, and be feen 
 ^' to meet, the Corpfcs will the like ; if a- 
 " ny of thefe Candles are feen to turn fome- 
 '^ times a little out of the way, or path, that 
 ''• leadeth to the Church, the following 
 *' Corps will be forced to turn in that very 
 *' place, for the avoiding fome dirty Lane, 
 *' or plafh, &c. Now let us fall to Evi* 
 *' dence. Being about the Age of Fifteen, 
 '* dwelling at L^^y^r, late at Night, fbme 
 " Neighbour faw one of thefe Candles ho- 
 *' vering up and down along the Kiver- 
 *^ Bank, until they were weary in behold- 
 *4ngit, at lafl they left it fb, and went to 
 ^- Bed. A few Weeks after came a proper 
 " Damfel from Montgomery^fhire^ to fee her 
 ^VFriends, who dwelt on the other fide of 
 " that River IBmth^ and thought to Ford 
 ** the River at that very place where the 
 *' Light was feen ; being diffuaded by fome 
 "lookers on (fbme it is moft likely of thofe 
 '* that faw the Lightj to adventure on the 
 " Water, which was high by reafbn of a 
 " Flood : She walked up and down along 
 *' the River-Bank, even where, ^nd even as 
 
 "the 
 
**theaforefaid Candle did, waiting for the 
 *^ falling of the Water; which at iaft fhe 
 " took, but too foon for her, for fhe was 
 '* Drowned therein. Of late my Sexton's 
 *' Wife, an Aged underftanding Woman, 
 *' faw from her Bed, a little bluiflh Candle 
 *'on her Tables-end, within 2, or a. Days 
 *' after came a Fellow enquiring for her 
 *' Husband, and taking fbmething from un- 
 • " der his Cloak clap'd it down upon the 
 " Tables-end; it was a Dead born Child. 
 
 " Another time, the fame Woman faw 
 " fuch another Candle upon the end of the 
 *' (elf fame Ta{)le , within a few Days after 
 ;.*' a weak Child newly Chriftned by me, 
 ''**was brought to the Sexton's Houfe, 
 *' where preftntly he died : And when the 
 *' Sexton's Wife, whowas then abroad came 
 *' home, fhe found the Child, on the other 
 " end of the Table, where fhe had k^a the 
 " Candle. 
 
 "Somego, or4oYearsfince, my Wife's 
 ^'Sifter, being Nurfe to Baronet Rudds 
 "three El deft Children, and (the Lady 
 " Miflrefs being Dead) the Lady Comp* 
 *' troller of the Houfe going late into the 
 *' Chamber where the Maid-fervants lay, 
 '' faw no lefsthan Five of thofe Lights toge- 
 ther. It happened a whileafcer, that the 
 "Chamber being newly Plaifter^d, and a 
 ^ Grate of Coal fire therein kindled to baftea 
 
 ''the 
 
 ' (( 
 
( <42 ) 
 
 ^' the drying of the Plaifter, that five of the 
 " Maid fervants went to Bed as they were 
 " wont rbut as it fell out) too foon ; for 
 *^ in the Morning they were all Dead, be- 
 '* ing Suffocated in their Sleep with the 
 *'fl:eem of the new-tempered Lime and 
 *' Coal. This was at Langathen in Carniar' 
 
 " than (hire Jo. Davis. See more 
 
 Generglyn^ March 
 1656. 
 
 To this Account of Mr Davis, I will 
 fubjoin what my worthy Friend* and 
 Neighbour Randal Caldicot D. D. hath af- 
 firmed to me many Years fince, viz. " When 
 " any Chriftian is Drowned in the River 
 " Dee, there will appear over the Water 
 "where the Corps is, a Light, by which 
 " means they do find the Body : And it is 
 therefore called the Holy Dee. The Doftor's 
 "Father was Mr. Caldicot oi Caldicot in. 
 ** Chefbire^ which lies on the Riven 
 
 CHAP. 
 
( 143 ; 
 
 CHAP. XVIII. 
 Oracles. 
 
 Hhromtnus Cardmus Lib. llf. Synefiorum 
 Somniorum^ Cap. XV. treats of this 
 Subje£t, which fee. Joha?tms Scotus Erigena^ 
 when he was in Greece ^ did go to an Ora- 
 cle to enquire for a Treatife of Ariftotle^ 
 and found it, by the Refponfe of the Ora- 
 cle. This he mentions in his Works lately 
 Printed at Oxford ; and is quoted by Mr. 
 Anthony i Wood in his Antiquities of Oxon^ 
 in his Life. He lived before the Conqueft, 
 and taught Greek at the Abby in Mukmsbury^ 
 where his Scholars ftabbed him with their 
 Pen-knives for his Severity to them. Kjland 
 mentions that his Statue was in the Choire 
 [there. 
 
 CHAP. 
 
 if 
 
CHAP. XIX. 
 Exta(ie. 
 
 Cardanus, Lib. II. SyneC Somniorurn. 
 Cap. VIII. 
 
 ' — TN Bcflafin multis modis databftntur 
 A homines : aut per Syncopen^ aut anU 
 mi deliquium^ ant etiam froprie abdu5io om^ 
 ni fenfu externo^ abfque alia caufa. Id vera 
 coHtingit confuetis pkrunque^ & nimio affeSfa 
 alicu]U6 rei labor ant ibm ; — - Ecftafis medi^ i 
 umeli inter vigiliam & [omnium y ficut fom'^ 
 nm inter mortem & vigiliam feu vitam — -Vifa 
 in Ecjia[i certiora infomniis : Clariora d^ evi' 
 
 dentiora EcHafi deprehenfi atidire pojfunt^ 
 
 qui dormiunt non pojfunt. 
 
 Anno 1670. A poor Widow's Daughter 
 in Herefordshire went to Service not far 
 from Harmod [the SQ2Lt of Sir John Hoskins] 
 Barons R. S. S ] She was aged neer about 
 twenty ; fell very ill, even to the point ofj c( 
 Death, her Mother was old and Feeble J [, 
 and her Daughter was the Comfort of her J^ 
 life ; if fhe fhould die, (he knew not what y^; 
 to do: Shebefought God upon her Kneej 
 in Prayer, that he would be pie afed tc 
 
 fpan 
 
CH5) 
 
 fpare her Daughters life, and take her to 
 him : At this very time, the Daughter fell 
 into a Trance, which continued about an 
 Hour 5 they thought fhe had been Dead: 
 When (he recovered out of it, fhe declared 
 the Vifion fhe had in this Fit, viz. That i 
 one in black Habit came to her, whole Face ▼ 
 was fo bright and glorious fhe could not be- 
 hold it ; and alfo he had fuch brightnefs up- 
 on his Breaft, and (if I forget notj upon 
 his Arms : And told her, that her Mother's 
 Prayers were heard, and that her Mother 
 (houldfhortly dye, and fhe fhould fudden- 
 ly recover : And (he did fb, and her Mo- 
 ther dyed. She hath the charafter of a 
 raodeft, humble, vertuous Maid. Had this 
 been in fbme CathoHck Country, it would 
 have made a great noife. 
 
 'Tis certain, there was one in the Strand^ 
 who lay in a Trance a few Hours before he 
 departed 9 And in his Trance had a Vif^ 
 on of the Death of King Charles the I 
 It was at the very Day of his ApopleSick 
 Fit. 
 
 There is a Sheet of Paper Printed 16 . . . 
 concerning Extafies, that James Vjber^ late 
 Lord Primate of ire/^W, once had: But I 
 have been affur'd from my Honoured Friend 
 James Tyrrel Efq; ( his Lordfhip's Grand- 
 fon) that, this was not an Extafie ; but 
 that his Lordlhipupon Reading the 1 2, 1 3, 
 ; L 14, &c. 
 
i 
 
 (146) 
 
 14, &c. Chapters of the Revelation, and 
 farther refle&ing upon the great increafe of 
 ihe Sectaries in lingUfid^ fuppofed that 
 they would let in Popery, which Confide- 
 ration put him into a great Tranfport at 
 the time when his Daughter (the Lady 
 7yml) came into the Room; when he 
 Dilcpurfed to herdivers things (tho not all) 
 coniaincd in the faid Printed Paper. 
 
 CHAP. XX. 
 
 Glances pi 
 
 'i I Malic. 
 
 A Mor ex oculo : But (as the Lord Bacon 
 j\ faith) more by Glances, than by full 
 "7 V^^iings and fo for Envy and Malice. 
 
 MT.hiack^ Tell me dearefi, what U Love ? 
 
 V in 'T is n Lightning from above:, 
 
 E"^'f !. ^Lk an Arro% .tis a Fire^ 
 
 ^Tis 4 Boy fhtyi call Deftre, 
 
 'Tis (omething Divine and Inexplicable, 
 It is ftraflge, ^hat as one walks the Streets 
 fomerim.s one Ihai! m et with an Afpeftji 
 (of Male or Female; that pleafes our Souls i 
 
 ^.evenge" 
 
( H7 ) 
 
 and whofe Natural fweetneft of Nature, 
 wc could boldly rely upon. One never 
 faw the other before, and fo could neither 
 oblige, or difoblige each other. Gaze no$ 
 on a Maid^ faith Ecclus. 9. 5. 
 
 The Glances of Envy and Malice,, do 
 fhoot alfo fubtilly^ the Eye of the Malici- 
 ous Perfon does really Infed f'and make 
 Sick) the Spirit of the other. The Lord 
 Bacon faith, it hath been obferved. That 
 after Triumphs, the Triumphants have 
 been fick in Spirit. 
 
 The Chymift can draw fubtile Spirits, 
 that will work upon one another at (bme 
 diftance, viz. Spirits of Alkalies and A- 
 cids, e. g. Spirits Coeleftial ( Sal Armoniac 
 and Spirit C. C. will work on each other 
 at half a Yard diftance, and fmoke) ; but 
 the Spirits above mentioned are more fiib- 
 tile than they. 
 
 Non amo te Sahatiy nee pojfum dicere 
 qttare. 
 
 But if an Aftrologer had their Nativities, 
 he would find a great difagreemerft in the 
 Schemes. Thefe are Hyperphyfical Opticks, 
 and drawn from the Heavens. 
 
 Infants are very fenfible of thele Irradia- 
 tions of the Eyes ; In Spain^ France^ dfc. 
 Southern Countries, the Nurfes, and Pa- 
 
 L 2 rents, 
 
048; 
 
 rents arc very Ihy to let People look upon 
 their young Children, for fear of Fafcina- 
 tion. In Spain they take it ill if one looks 
 on a Child, and make one fay, God Blefs 
 it. They talk of mul di ojos. We ufually 
 fay, Witches have evil Eyes. 
 
 An 
 
A N 
 
 Accurate Account 
 
 F 
 
 Second'Sighted-Men 
 
 SCOTLAND: 
 
 1 N 
 
 Two Letters frorh a Learned 
 Friend of mine in Scotland. 
 
 L 3 o P 
 
rrsi) 
 
 o F 
 
 Second- Sighted -Men 
 
 I N 
 
 SCOTLAND. 
 
 To Mr. John Aubrey Fellow of thi 
 Royal-Society. 
 
 SIR, 
 
 FO R your SatlsfaGion I drew up 
 fbme Queries about the Second- 
 fighted Men, and having fent them 
 to the Northern parts of this King- 
 dom, fome while ago I recieved Anlwers 
 to them from two different Hands, where- 
 ot I am now to give you an Account, 
 viz. 
 
 L 4 Query. 
 
Query. I. 
 If fame few credible rvell-attefted Inltanas 
 offuch a Kjiowledge as is commonly called the 
 Second' fight ^ can be given f 
 
 Anfwer. 
 Many Inftances of fuch Knowledge tan 
 be given, by the Confeflion offuch who are 
 skilled in that Faculty : For inftances, I re- 
 fer you the Fourth Query. 
 
 Query. 2. 
 If it confi/is in the difcovery of prefent^ or 
 pafi Events only ? Or^ if it extend to fuch as 
 are to come ? 
 
 Anfwer. 
 The Second-fight relates only to things 
 future, which will fhortly come to pals. 
 Paft Events I learn nothing of ic. 
 
 Query. 3. 
 If the Obje&s of this Kjiowhdge^ be fad and 
 difmal Events only ; fuch as Deaths and Mur* 
 ders? Or ^ joyful and profferoHs alfo^ 
 
 Anfwer, 
 Sad and difmal Events, are the Objefts 
 of this Knowledge : As fudden Deaths, 
 difmal Accidents : That they are Profpe- 
 
 ' rous. 
 
( 153) 
 
 rous, or Joyful, I cannot learn. Only 
 one inftance I have from a Perfbn worthy of 
 Credit, and thereby judge of the Joyful- 
 neft or Profperity of it, and it is this. Near 
 40 Years ago Mackfend 2ind his Lady, Sifter 
 to my Lord Seaforth^ were Walking about 
 their own Houfe, and in their return, both 
 came into the Nurfes Chamber, where 
 their young Child was on the Breaft .• At 
 their coming into the Room, the Nurfc 
 falls a Weeping ; they asked the caufe, 
 dreading the Child was Sick, or that flie 
 was fcarce of Milk: The Nurle replied, 
 the Child was well, and ihe had abundance 
 of Milk 5 yet the ftill Wept ; and being 
 preffed to tell what ailed her ; fhe at latt 
 faid, Macklend would dye, and the Lady 
 would fhortly beMarrvcd to another Man. 
 Being enquired how ihe knew that Event, 
 fhe told them plainly, that as they came 
 both into the Room, Che faw, a Man with 
 a fcarlet Cloak and a white Hat, betwixt 
 them, giving the Lady a Kifs over the 
 Shoulder ; and this was the caufe of her 
 Weeping. All which came to pafs after 
 Mackknds Death : the Tutor of LovAt 
 Marry'd the Lady in the fame Habit the 
 Woman (aw him. Now by this inftance, 
 judge if it be Profperous to one, it is as Dif- 
 mal to another. 
 
 Que- 
 
( >H ; 
 
 Query. 4. 
 
 If thefe Events, which Second-fighted Men 
 di f cover ^ or fore telly be vifihlj refrtfented to 
 them^ and acfed^ as it rvere^ before their 
 Eyes? 
 
 i^nfwer, 
 
 AflSrraatively, they fee thofe things vi- 
 fibly ; but none fees but themfelves ; for in- 
 ftance, if a Man's Fatal-end be Hanging ; 
 they*ll fee a Gibbet, or a Rope about his 
 Neck : if Beheaded, they'll fee the Man 
 without a Head ; if Drowned, they'll fee 
 Water up to his Throat; if unexpefted 
 Death, they'll fell a Winding- fheet about 
 his Head : All which are reprefented to 
 their View. One Inftance I had from a 
 Gentleman here, of a Highland Gentleman 
 of the Mackdonaldsy who having a Brother 
 that came to vifit him, faw him coming in 
 wanting a Head ; yet told not his Brother, 
 he faw any fuch thing 5 but within 24 
 Hours thereafter, his Brother was taken, 
 (being a Murderer) and his Head cut off, 
 and fent to Edenburgh. Many fuch In- 
 ftances might be given. 
 
 • 
 Query. 5. 
 If the Second^ftght be a thing that is trou^ 
 blefome and uneajie to thofe that have it ? and 
 fuch as thiy would gladly be rid of} 
 
 Anfl 
 
 i 
 
It's commonly talk'd by all Ifpoke with. 
 That it is troublefome; and they would 
 gladly be freed from it, but cannot ; Only 
 I heard lately of a Man very much troubled 
 in his Soul therewith, and by ferious beg- 
 ging of God Deliverance from it, at length 
 loft the Faculty of the Second-fight. 
 
 Query. 6. 
 If any Peyfoff^ or Ptrfons^ truly Godly ^who 
 may pftly he pre fumed to he fuch^ have heen 
 known to have had this Gift or Faculty? 
 
 Anfwer. 
 Negatively, not any Godly, but fuch as 
 are Vitious, 
 
 Query. 7. 
 J fit defcends hy fucceffion from Parents to 
 Children ? Or, if not^ Whether thofe that 
 have it J can tell how they came hy it } 
 
 Anfwer, 
 That it is by Succeffion, I cannot learn ; 
 how they came by it, is hard to know, nei- 
 ther will they tell; which if they did, they 
 are fure of their flroaks from an invifible 
 Hand. One Inftance I heard of one Allen 
 Miller^ being in company with feme Gen- 
 tlemen, 
 
 \ 
 
dsa^ 
 
 (1-56) 
 
 tlemen, having gotten a little more than 
 ordinary of that ftrong Liquor they were 
 Drinking, began to tell Stories and ftrange 
 paffages he had been at .• But the faid A/kf^ 
 was fuddenly removed to the farther end of 
 the Houfe, and was there almoft ftrangled ; 
 recovering a little and coming to the place 
 where he was before, they asked him, 
 What it was that troubled him fo? He 
 anfwered, he durft not tell; for he had told 
 too much already. 
 
 How came they by it? 
 
 Anftver. 
 
 Some lay by Compafl: with the Devil ; 
 ibme fay by Converle with thofe Demons 
 we call Fairies. I have heard, that thofe 
 that have this Faculty of the Second-fight^ 
 have offered to teach it to fuch as were 
 Curious to know it ; upon fuch and fuch 
 Conditions they would teach them 3 but 
 their proffers were rcjeftcd. 
 
 This is all I could learn by Tradition of 
 that Faculty, from Knowing and Intelli- 
 gent Men. If this fatisfie not thefe Queries 
 aforeiaid, acquaint me, and what Can be 
 known of it, fhall be Tranfmittcd. 
 
 I cannot pafs by an Inftance I have ffoni 
 a very honeft Man in the next Parifli, ^ho 
 told me it himfelf. That his Wife being 
 big with Child near her Delivery, he buys 
 
 half 
 
Haifa Dozen of Boards to make her a Bed 
 againft the time fhe lay in. The Boards 
 lying at the Door of his Houfe, there comes 
 an oJd Fifher-woman, yet alive, and asked 
 him, Whofe were thofe Boards? He told 
 her they were his own ; fhe asked again. 
 For what ufe he had them ? He replied, for 
 a Bed ; (he again (aid, intend them for what 
 ufe you pleafe, fhe (aw a dead Corps ly- 
 ing on them, and that they would be a Cof- 
 fin : Which ftruck the honeft Man to 
 the Heart, fearing the Death of his Wife. 
 But when the old Woman went off, he 
 callsprefentlyfor a Carpenter to make the 
 L Bed, which was accordingly done; but 
 I fhortly after the honeft Man had a Child 
 died, whofe Coffin was made of the ends 
 of thofe Boards. 
 
 Sir, The Original, whereof this that I 
 have Writ, is a true Copy, was fent by a 
 Minifter, living within fbme few Miles of 
 Invernefsy to a Friend of nmie whom I em- 
 ployed to get Information for me ; as I infi- 
 nuated before: I have other Anf^vers to 
 thefe Queries from another Hand, which I 
 purpofcd to have communicated to you at 
 this time ; but I find there will not be room 
 cnoughforthemin this Sheet; howbeit, in 
 cafe you think it fit, they flball be lent you 
 afterward. 
 
 In 
 
In ihe meantime, I (hall tell you what I 
 have had from one of the Matters of our 
 College here (a North Coutitry-man both | 
 by Birth and Education, in his younger -| 
 Years^ who made a Journey in the Harvefl: 
 time into the Shire of Rofsj and at my 
 defire, made fome enquiry there, concern- 
 ing the Stcond-fight. He reports, That 
 there they told him many Inftances of this 
 Knowledge, which he had forgotten, except 
 two. The firft, one of his Sifters, a young 
 Gentlewoman, flaying with a Friend at 
 fome 30 Miles diftance from her Father's 
 Houfe, and the ordinary place of her^ Re- 
 fidence; One who had the Second- fight in 
 the Family where (he was, faw a young 
 Man attending her as (be went up and down 
 the Houle, and this was about Three 
 Months before her Marriage. The fecond 
 is of a Woman in that Country who is re- 
 puted to have the Second-fight, and decla- 
 red, that Eight Days before the Death of a 
 Gentleman there, fhe faw a Bier or CoiBn 
 covered with a Cloth which file knew, car- 
 ried as it were to the place of Burial, and 
 attended with a great Company, one of 
 which told her it was the Corps of fiich a 
 Pc:rfon, naming that Gentleman, who died 
 Eight Days after; By thefe Inftances it 
 appears, that the Objefts of this Knowledge 
 arc not fad and difmal Events only, but 
 
 joyful 
 
r 159; 
 
 joyful and profperous ones alfb : He de- 
 clares farther, that he was inform'*d there, 
 k if I miftake not, by fome of thofe who had 
 ^ the Second fight, That if at any time when 
 they fet thofe ftrange Sights, they fet 
 their Foot upon tlu Foot of another who 
 hath not the Second-fight, that other will 
 for that time fee what they are feeing ; as 
 alfo that they offered, if he pleafed, to com* 
 municate the Second-fight to him. I have 
 ^ nothing more to add at prefcnt, but that 
 I am 
 
 S I R 
 
 Your Faithful Friend 
 
 and Humble Servant, 
 
 1 . - 
 
 1 
 
 d 
 
 To 
 
r ^^o ) 
 
 To Mr. John Aubery Fellow of the 
 Royal Society at Grelham College^ 
 London. 
 
 Honoured Sir, 
 
 Since my laft to you, I have had the fa.- 
 vour of two Letters from you : To 
 the firft Dated February 6. I had replied 
 fboner, but that I wanted leif ure to Tran- 
 fcribe fome farther Accounts of a Second- 
 fighted Man, fent me from the North, 
 whereof (in obedience to your defire) I 
 give here the Doubles. 
 May the 4th 
 1694. 
 
 
Ci6i) 
 
 J Cofy of an Jnfwer to jome Queries 
 concerning Second-fighted Men^ Jent by 
 a Mtnifler Imng near Invernefs^ to a 
 Friend of mine, 
 
 Qnery. i. 
 
 That there is fuch an Art, commonly 
 called the Second- fight, is certain, from theie 
 following Inftances, 
 
 Firft, in a Gentleman's Houfe, one 
 Night the Miftrefs confidering why fuch 
 Perfons whom fhe expefted, were fb late, 
 and fb long a coming, the Supper being 
 all the while delayed for them^ a Servant 
 Man about the Houfe (finding the Miftreft 
 anxious) having the Second-fight, defires 
 to cover the Table, and before all things 
 were put on, thole Perfons Ihe longed for 
 would come in : Which happened ac- 
 cordingly. 
 
 A Second Infl:ance, concerning a young 
 Lady of great Birth, whom a Rich Knight 
 fancied and came in fute of the Lady, but 
 fhe could not endure to fancy him, being a 
 harfh and unpleafant Man : But her 
 Friends importuning her dayly, fhe turned 
 melancholy and lean, Fafting and Weep- 
 
 M ing 
 
C 1^2 ) 
 
 ing continually. A common Fellow about 
 the Houfe meeting her one Day in the Fields, 
 asked her, faying, Mrs. ^<?/f, What is that 
 that troubles you and makes you look fo ill ? 
 She replied, that the caufe is known to ma- 
 ny, for my F riends would have me Marry 
 I'uch a Man by name, but I cannot fincy 
 him. Nay, (fays the Fellowj give over 
 theft Niceties, for he will be your firft Hus- 
 band, and will not Live long, and be fure 
 he will leave you a rich Dowry, w hich will 
 procure you a great Match, for I fee a Lord 
 upon each Shoulder of you : All which 
 came to pais in every Circumftance ; as 
 Eye and Ear Wicnefles declare. 
 
 A Third Inftance, of a Traveller coming 
 in to a certain Houfe, defired feme Meat : 
 The Miftrefs being fomething nice and 
 backward to give him Viftuals, you need 
 not, fays he, churle me in a piece of Meat ; 
 for before an Hour and an half be over, a 
 young Man of fuch a feature and garb will 
 come in with a great Salmon fith on his 
 Back, which I behold yonder on the Floor ; 
 And it came to pafs within the faid time. 
 
 A Fourth Inftance, of a young Womaa 
 in a certain Houfe about Supper time, re- 
 fufed to take Meat from the Steward who 
 was offering in the very time Meat to her; 
 being asked why (he would not take it > 
 replied, (he faw him full of Blood, and 
 
 there- 
 
therefore was afraid to take any thing of 
 his Hands. The next Morniog, the faid 
 Steward offering to compofe a difference 
 between two Men, at an Ale-houfe Door got 
 a ftroke of a Sword on the Forehead, and 
 came home full of Blood. This was told 
 me by an Eye Witnels. 
 
 Thofe that have this Faculty of the Se- 
 cond-fight, fee only things to come, which 
 are to happen (hortly thereafter, and fbrae- 
 times fore-tell things which fall out Three 
 or four Years after. For inftance, one told 
 his Mafter, that he faw an Arrow in fuch 
 a Man through his Body, and yet no Blood 
 came out: His Mafter told him, that it was 
 impoffible an Arrow fhould ftick in a Man's 
 Body and no Blood come out, and if that 
 came not to pafs he would be deemed an 
 Impoftor, But about <; or 6 Years after 
 the Man died, and being brought to his 
 Burial-place, there arofe a Debate anenr his 
 Grave, and it came to fuch a height, that 
 they drew Arms and bended their Bows, 
 and one letting off an Arrow, {hot through 
 the dead Body upon the Bier- trees, and fb no 
 Blood could iffue out at a dead Man's 
 Wound. Thus his Sight could not inform 
 him whether the Arrow (hould be (hot in 
 
 M 2 him 
 
him Aliveor Dead, neither could he con- 
 defcend whether nearer afar off. 
 
 They forefee Murthers, Drownings, 
 Weddings, Burials, Combates^Manflaught- 
 crs, of all which many Inftances might 
 be given. Lately (I believe in Juguji laft 
 1695.) one told there would be Drown- 
 ing in the River Bewly^ which came to pais ; 
 Two pretty Men crofRng a Ford both 
 Drowned, which fell out within a Month. 
 Another Inftance, a Man that ferved the Bi- 
 Ihop oiCatnes^ who had 5 Daughters in his 
 Houle, one of them grudged, that the bur- 
 then of the Family lay on her wholly : The 
 Fellow told her that ere long fhe fhould be 
 exonered of that Task, for he faw a tall Gen- 
 tleman in black walking on the Bifhop's 
 Right-hand whom fheftiould Marry: And 
 this fell out accordingly within a quarter of 
 a Year thereafter. He told alfb of a cover- 
 ed Table, full of Varieties of good Fare, 
 and their Garbs who fat about the Table. 
 
 Query. 4. 
 
 They fee all this vifibly a£led before their 
 Eyes; fometimes within, and fbmetimes 
 without-doors, as in a Glafs. 
 
Qutrj. ^• 
 
 It is a thing very troublefome to them 
 that have it, and would gladly be rid of it. 
 For if the ObjeQ: be a thing that is terrible, 
 they are feen to fweat and tremble, and 
 fhreek at the Apparition. At other times 
 they Laugh, and tell the thing chearfully j 
 juft according as the thing is pleafant or 
 aftoniihing. 
 
 Query. 6. 
 
 Sure it is, that the Perfons that have a 
 fenfe of God and Religion, and may be pre- 
 fumed to be Godly, are known to have this 
 Faculty. This evidently appears, in that 
 they are troubled for having it, judging it 
 a Sin, and that it came from the Devil, and 
 not from God ; earntftly defiring and witt- 
 ing to be rid of it if poffible, and to that 
 efFe£l have made application to their Mini, 
 fter, to Pray to God for them, that they 
 might be exonered of that Burthen. They 
 have fupplicated the Presbyterie, who ju- 
 dicially appointed publick Prayers to be 
 made in feveral Churches, and a Sermon 
 Preached to that purpo{e in their own Parifh 
 Church by their Minifter, and they have 
 compeired before the Pulpit, after Sermon 
 M 3 ma- 
 
(i66) 
 
 making Confeffion openly of that Sin with 
 deep fenfe on their Knees; renounced any 
 fuch Gift or Faculty which they had to God's \ 
 difhonor ; and earneftly defired the Mini- 
 fter to pray for them ; and this their Re- 
 cantation Recorded, and after this, they 
 were never troubled with fuch a fight any 
 more. 
 
 4 
 
J Copy of a Letter^ written to my [elf 
 hy a Gentleman s Son in Scrachs-pey 
 being a Student in DiDimty^ concern- 
 ing the Second'fight. 
 
 SIR, 
 
 I Am more willing than able to fatisfie 
 your defire : As for inftances of fuch a 
 Knowledge, I could iurnidi many. I (hall 
 only infert feme fe.v attefted by fevtrai 
 of good Credit yet alive. 
 
 And Firft, Andrew Machherfon of Onme 
 in Badenoch^ being in fute of the Laird of 
 Gareloch\ Daughter, as he was upon a day 
 going to G^re&f^, the Lady Gareloch was 
 going fbmewhere from her Houfe withia 
 kenning to the Road which Clunk v.^as 
 coming s the Lady perceiving him, faid to 
 her Attendants, that yonder was Clume^ 
 going to fee his Miftrefs: One that had 
 this Second-fight in her company replied 
 and faid, if yon be he, unlefi he Marry 
 within ^vk Months, he'll never Mary. The 
 Lady asked, how did he know th.^t? He 
 faid, very well ; for I fee him^^faith he, 
 all inclofed in his Winding- fheet, except 
 his Noftrils and his Mouth, which will 
 al(b dole up within Six Months; which 
 M 4 happened 
 
(i6%) 
 
 happened even as he foretold ; within the 
 laid fpace he died, and his Brother DuncAn 
 Mackphi^rfon this prelent Clunie fucceeded. 
 This and the like may fatisfie your fourth 
 Query, he feeing the Man even then co- 
 vered all over w^ith his dead Linens. The 
 Event was vifibly reprefented and as it 
 were afted (before his Eyes) and alio the 
 laft part of your fecond Query, viz. That 
 it was as yet to come. As for the reft of 
 the'Queftions, viz. That they difcoverpre- 
 fent and part Events, is alfo manifeft, thus : 
 I have heard of a Gentleman whole Son had 
 gon abroad, and being anxious to know 
 how he was, he went to Confult one who 
 had this Faculty, who told him, that that 
 fame Day 5 a Clock in the Afternoon his 
 Son had Married a Woman in Fra^ce^ with 
 whom he had got ib many Thoufand 
 Crowns, and wathin two Years he fhould 
 come home to fee Father and Friends, leav- 
 ing his Wife with Child of a Daughter, and 
 a Son of fix Months Age behind him : 
 Which accordingly was true. About the 
 lame time two Years he came home, and 
 verified all that was fore-told. 
 
 It is likewife ordinary with Perfbns that 
 lofe any thing, to go to (bme of thefe Men, 
 by whom they are directed; how, what 
 Perfons, and in what place they fhall find 
 it. But all futh as profefs that Skill, 
 
 are 
 
( i69 ; 
 
 are not equally dexterous in it. For In- 
 ftance, two of them were in Mr. Heffor 
 Mack§nzi Minifter of Invernefs his Father's 
 Houfe, the one a Gentleman, the other a 
 common Fellow ^ and Difcourfing by the 
 Fire-fide, the Fellow fuddenly begins to 
 Weep, and cry out Alas ! alas ! fuch a Wo- 
 man is either Dead or prefently expiring. 
 The Gentlewoman lived 5 or 6 Miles from 
 the Houfe, and had been fome Days before 
 in a Fever. The Gentleman being fome- 
 what better expert in that Faculty, faid. 
 No, faith he, flie's not Dead ; nor will 
 fhe dye of this Difeafe. O faith the Fellow, 
 do you not fee her all covered with her 
 Winding- fheet ? Ay, laith the Gentleman, I 
 fee her as well as you do ; but do you not 
 fee her Linnen all wet ? which is her Sweat, 
 (he being prefently cooling of the Fever. 
 This Story Mr. BeUor himfelf will teftifie. 
 The moft Remarkable of this fort, that I 
 hear of now, is one Archibald Mackeanyers^ 
 alias Mackdonald^ Living in Ardinmurch 
 within 10 or 20 Miles, or thereby, of Glen- 
 coe^ and I was prefent my felf, where he 
 fore-told fbmething, which accordingly 
 fell out. In 1683. ^his Man being in 
 Strathfpey in John Mackdonald of Glencoe his 
 Company, told in Balachajle.il before the 
 Laird of Grant^ his Lady, and feveral o- 
 thers, and alfo in my Father's Houfe ; that 
 
 Argyle, 
 
i 
 
 ( »7o; 
 Argjle^ of whom few or none knew then 
 where he was, at leaft there was no word of 
 him then here ; fhould within two Twelve 
 Months thereafter, come to the Weft-High^ 
 landsy and raile a Rebellious FaSion, which 
 would be divided among themfelves, and 
 difperfe, and he unfortunately be taken and 
 Beheaded at Edinburgh^ and his Head fet up- 
 on the Talboothy where his Father's Head 
 was before him : Which proved as true, as 
 ke fore- told it, in i68<;. thereafter. Like- 
 wife in the beginning of May next after the 
 late Revolution, as my Lord Dmdee re- 
 turn'd up Spey-fide after he had followed Ge- 
 neral Major Mac K.^y in his Reer down the 
 length of iS^/«^/^e, at the MiUtown of Gar- 
 tinbeg the Machkans joined him, and after 
 he had received them, he Marched forward, 
 but they remained behind, and fell a Plun- 
 dering : Upon which, Glencot and fome o- 
 thers, among whom was this ArchibaU^h^m^ 
 in my Father's Houfe and hearing that Mac 
 Leans diudi others were Pillaging fome of his 
 Lands, went to reftrain them, and com- 
 manded them to March after the Army 5 
 after he had cleared the firft Town, next 
 my Father's Houfe of them, and was come 
 to the fecond, there flanding on a Hill, 
 this ArchibaU faid, Qlencoe^ If you take 
 my Advice, then make off with your felf 
 with all poflible hafle, for ere an Hour 
 
 come 
 
come and go, you*lI be put to it as hard 
 as ever you was : Some of the Com- 
 pany began to droll and fay, what fhall be- 
 come of me? Whether G/f;;^(?e believed him, 
 or no, I cannot tell; but this lamfure of, 
 that whereas before he was of intention to 
 return to my Father's Houfe and ftay all 
 Night, now we took leave and immedi- 
 ately parted ; And indeed, within an Hour 
 thereafter Mac Kjy^ and his whole Forces 
 appeared at CulnAkyk in Abtrmthie 2 Miles 
 below the place where we parted, and hear- 
 ing that CleAVtrhoufe had Marched up the 
 Water-fide a little before, but that Mac 
 Leans and fcveral other ftraglers had ftayed 
 behind, commanded Major jEneas Mac Kay^ 
 with 2 Troops of Horfe after them ^ who 
 finding the faid Mac Leans at KJmhardk in 
 the Parifli oi Duthel^ Chafed them up the 
 Morskaith : In which Chafe Glencoe hap- 
 pened to be, and was hard put to it, as was 
 fore-told. W hat became of Archibald him- 
 felf, I am not fure, I have not (een him 
 fince, nor can I get a true Account of him, 
 only I know he is yet alive, and at that 
 time one of my Father's Men whom the 
 Red-coats meeting,compeird to guide them, 
 within fight of the Mac Leans^ found the 
 faid Archibaldh Horfe within a Mile of the 
 place where I left him. I am alfb informed, 
 this Archibald faid to Glencoe^ that he would 
 
 be 
 
be Murthered in the Night-time in his own 
 Houfe Three Months before it happen'd. 
 
 Touching your 3d. Query, TheObjeGs 
 of this Knowledge, are not only fad and 
 difinal ; but alfo joyful and profperous : 
 Thus, they fore tell of happy Marriages, 
 good Children, what kind of Life Men Ihall 
 Live, and in what Condition they fhall 
 Die : Alfo Riches, Honour, Preferment, 
 Peace, Plenty and good Weather. 
 
 Query. 6. What way they pretend to 
 have it ? I am informed, that in the Ifle 
 of Skj^ efpecially before the Gofpel came 
 thither ; feveral Families had it by SucceP- 
 (ion, defcending from Parents to Children, 
 and as yet there be many there that have it 
 that way 5 and the only way to be freed 
 from it is ; when a Woman hath it her felf 
 and is Married to a Man that hath it alfo ; 
 if in the very Aft of Delivery, upon the 
 firft fight of the Childs Head, it be Bap- 
 tized, the fame is free from it; ifnothehath 
 it all his Life : By which it feems, it is a 
 thing troublefomeand uneafie to them that 
 have it, and fuch as they would fain be rid 
 of. And may fatibfie your 5th Query. And 
 for yourfarcher contentment in this Query ; 
 I heard of my Father, that there was one 
 Johndu> beg MacGrigor2i Reanach-mdin Born, 
 very expert in this Knowledge, and my 
 Father coming one Day from Invermfs^ 
 
 faid 
 
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 faid by the way, that he would go into an 
 Alehoufe on the Road, which then would 
 be about 5 Miles off. This John Mac Grigor 
 being in his Company ^and taking up aSlate- 
 ftone at his Foot, and looking to it, re- 
 plied ; Nay, faith he, you will not go in 
 there, for there is but a matter of a Gal- 
 Ion of Ale in it even nov\ , and ere we 
 come to it, it will be all near Drunken, 
 and thofe who are Drinking there, are 
 Strangers to us, and ere we be hardly paft 
 the Houfe, they'll difcord among them- 
 felves: Which fell out fo; ere we were 
 two pair of Butts paft the Houfe, thofe 
 that were Drinking there went by the 
 Ears, wounded and mifchieved one an- 
 other. My Father by this and fcveral 0- 
 ther things of this nature, turned curious 
 of this Faculty, and being very intimate 
 with the Man, told him he would fain learn 
 it : To which he anfwered, that indeed 
 he could in 3 Days time Teach him if he 
 pleafed ; but yet he would not adviie 
 him nor any Man to learn it ; for had he 
 once learned he would never be a Minute 
 in his Life, but he would fee innumerable 
 Men and Women Night and Day round 
 about him 5 which perhaps he would think 
 ; wearifome and unpleafant, for which rea- 
 fon my Father would not have it. But as 
 Skilful as this Man was, yet he knew noc 
 
 wh^" 
 
t 
 
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 what fiiould be his own laft End ; which 
 was Hanging : And I am Informed, that 
 moft, if not all of them, though they can 
 fore- fee what fhall happen to others; yet 
 they cannot fore-tell, much lefs prevent 
 what (hall befal themfelves. I am alfo in- 
 formed by one Vv'hocame laft Summer from 
 the Ifle of Sky^ that any Perfon that pleafes 
 will get it Taught him for a Pound or two 
 of Tobacco. 
 
 As for your laft Query. For my own 
 part, I can hardly believe they can be juftly 
 prefumed, much lefs truly Godly. As for 
 this Mac Grigor feveral report, that he was 
 a very civil difcreet Man, and fome fay he 
 was of good Deportment, and alfo unjuftly 
 Hanged. But Archibald Mackenyere will 
 not deny himfelf, but once he v^s one 
 of the moft Notorious Thieves in all the 
 Highlands : But I am informed fince I came 
 to this Knowledge which was by an Acci- 
 dent too long here to relate, that he is 
 turned honefter than before. 
 
 There was ont James Macl^ Coil-vic-aUfter 
 alias Grants in Gknbttim near Kjrk- Michael 
 in Strathawin, vi'ho had this Sight, who I 
 hear of (everal that v^ere well acquainted 
 with, was a very honeft Man, and of right 
 blamelels Converfation. He ufed ordinari- 
 ly by looking to the Fire, to fore-tell what 
 Strangers would come to his Houfe the next 
 
 Day, 
 
'( 175 ; 
 
 Day, or (hortly thereafter, by their Habit 
 and Arms, and fbmetimes alfb by their 
 Names 5 and if any of his Goods or Cattel 
 were miffing, he would direft his Ser- 
 vants to the very place where to find them 
 whether in a Mire or iipon dry Ground ; he 
 would alfo tell, if the Beaft were already 
 Dead, or if it would Die ere they could 
 come to it ; and in Winter if they were 
 thick about the Fire-fide, he would defire 
 them to make room to fbme others that 
 flood by, the they did not fee them, elfe 
 fome ot them would be quickly thrown in- 
 to the midft of it. But whether this Man 
 faw any more than Brownie and Meig MaU 
 lach, lamnotvery fure: Some fay, he (aw 
 more continually, and would often be very 
 angry-like, and fomething troubled, nO' 
 thing vifibly moving him: Others affirm 
 he law thefe two continually, and fbme- 
 times many more. 
 
 They generally term this Second-fight 
 in Iri/h Taifhitaraughk^ and fuch as have 
 it Taijhatriny from Taifh^ which is properly 
 a fhadowy fubftance, or fuch naughty, 
 and thing, as can only, or rather 
 
 Icarcely be difcerned by the Eye ; but not 
 caught by the hands : for which they af^ 
 figned it to Bugks or Ghofts, fo that Taifh- 
 tar, is as much as one that converfes with 
 Ghofts or Spirits, or as they commonly 
 
 call 
 
call them, the Fairies, or Fairy- Folks. 
 Others call thefe Men Phiffichin^ from Phu^ 
 which is properly Fore-fight, or Fore- 
 knowledge. This is the fureft and cleareft 
 account of Second- fighted Men that I can 
 now find, and I have fet it down fully, 
 as if I were tranfiently telling it, in your 
 own prefence, being curious for nothing 
 but the verity, fo far as I could. What 
 you find improper or fuperfluous , you 
 can befl: compendife it, Cc 
 
 Thus far this Letter, written in a Fami- 
 liar and Homely ftile , which I have here 
 let down at length: Meg MulUck^ and 
 Brownie mentioned in the end of it, are 
 two Ghofl:s, which (as is conftantly re- 
 ported ) of old haunted a Family in 
 Straths'pey of the Name of Grant, They 
 appeared, the firft in the lijkenefi of a 
 young Lais : The Second of a young Lad. 
 
 Dr. Moulin (who prefents his lervice to 
 you) hath no aquaintance \n Orkneys but 
 I have juftnowfpoken with one who not 
 only hath acquaintance in that Country, 
 but alfo entertains fome thoughts of going 
 thither himfelf, to get me an account of 
 the Cures ufually praQifed there. The 
 Cortex Winteranm mentioned by you as 
 an excellent Medicine, I have heard com- 
 mended as good for the Scurvy^ if you 
 know it to be Eminent or Specifick 
 
 (fuch 
 
\ ( fuch as the Peruvian Bark is ) for any 
 Difeafe. I fhall be well pleafed to be in- 
 formed by you. 
 
 ' Thus, Sir, you have an account of all 
 
 j my Informations concerning Second-fight- 
 ed Men : I have alfo briefly touched all 
 
 ■ the other particulars in both your Letters, 
 which needed a Reply, except your Thanks 
 fb liberally and obligingly returned to me 
 for my Letters, and the kind fenfe you 
 exprels of that fmall fervice. The kind 
 reception which you have given to thofe 
 poor trifles, and the value which you put 
 on them, I confider as effefts of your 
 .^indnds to my felf, and as engagements 
 on me to ferve you to better purpofe when 
 it Ihall be in the power of 
 
 Your Faithful Friend 
 and Servant. 
 
 N JdMla- 
 
Jdditaments of Second Jtght, 
 
 DIemhrok§ in his Book de Pejie, gives 
 us a ftory of Dimmer us de Raety 
 that being at Delft ^ where the Plague 
 then raged, fent then his Wife Thirty 
 Miles ofF. And when the Doftor went to 
 li fee the Gentleman of the Houfe, as foon as 
 f he came in, the old Chair-woman that 
 wafhed the Cloathes fell a weeping ; He 
 asked her, Why? faid ftie-, My Miftrefi 
 is now dead : I faw her Apparition but 
 juft now without a Head, and that i% 
 was ufual with her when a Friend of hers 
 died, to fte their Apparitions in that man- 
 ner, though never fo far ofF. His Wife 
 died at that time. 
 
 Mr. Th. May in his Hiftory Lib. VIII. 
 writes, that an Old Man (like an Her- 
 mit) Second ftghtedf took his leave of King 
 » James the Fir ft , when he came into 
 England: He took little notice of Prince 
 Henry ^ but addrefling himfelf to the 
 Duke of Tork [ fince King Charles I. ] 
 fell a weeping to think what misfortunes 
 he [hould undergo; and that he fhould be 
 one of the miftrableft unhappy Princes tha^ 
 gver was. 
 
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 A Scotch Noble Man lent for one of 
 thefe Second-fighted Men out of the High^ 
 lands to give his Judgment of the then 
 great Favourite George Villiersy Duke of 
 Buckingham ; as foon as ever he law him, 
 Ti[hy faid he, he will come to nothing. J 
 fee a Dagger in his breafl , and he was 
 ftabbed in the breaft by Capt. Felton. 
 
 Sir James Melvin hath leveral the like 
 Stories in his Hiftory. 
 
 A certain Old Man in South-fValei told 
 a Great Man there of the Fortune of his 
 Family ; and that there flbould not be a 
 Third Male Generation. 
 
 In Spain there are thofe they call Satu- 
 dadores^ that have this kind of Gift. There 
 
 was a Dominican Fryar one « 
 
 a Vortugues belonging to Queen Katharine 
 Dowagers Chapel , who had the Second- 
 fight. 
 
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