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i APPARITIONS, WITCHCRAFT, &c. 
 
 A^yparition before death. 
 
 Mr. Joseph Glew, a sword-hllt-maker, lived with his 
 wife (both ancient people) many years, and one woman- 
 lodger, in the house over the archway in the passage fo 
 Bear-yard, near the Oratory, in Lincoln's-Inn-iields ; and 
 for the sake of company desired a nephew of his, by mar- 
 riage, to come and lodge in hi^ house. Accordingly, in 
 the beginning of January, 1/39-40, the nephew came to 
 his uncle, and spent every evening with him and his wife 
 in reading, &c. for their amusement. About the twenty- 
 fifth of the same month, after the nephew had been reading 
 to his uncle and aunt, who were at this time in very good 
 health, some meditations out of Dr. Thomas Coney*s 
 Devout Soul, he retired to his chamber, a large back room, 
 up two pair of stairs, and, having fastened the door, went 
 to bed, and fell asleep before ten o'clock. A little before 
 the clock struck twelve, he wus awakened by the drawing 
 of the curtain of his bed, and, starting up, saw by a glim- 
 mering light, resembling that of the moon, the shadow of 
 his uncle in the night-gown and cap he had on when he last 
 •parted with him, standing on the right side, near the head 
 of the bed, holding the head-curtain back with his left 
 hand, and seemed as if he was either going to strike or 
 stroke him with his right ; but the nephew believed the 
 latter, as the face of the spirit had a cheerful look, and 
 they lived in the greatest amity. At this instant, Mrs, 
 Cooke, an ancient women, that -lodged in the fqni two 
 pair of stairs room, and who formerly belonged '^ito Mr. 
 Rich's company of comedians several years, came out of 
 her apartment to light down stoirs the widow of the 
 facetious James Spiller, who had been this eveaing to visit 
 her. He now heard the clock, wliich wus in ius uncle's 
 apartment, underneath^ strike twelve, and tried to call out 
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APPARITIONS, WITCHCRAFT5 Sec. 
 
 to the two women as the}'- passed by his door, but had lost 
 all power of utterance. The ghost kept its position, and 
 the nephew his eyes fixed on it, aixl heard, when the two 
 women opened the street-door, that they called to the 
 watchman, as he came by crying the hour of twelve, and 
 agreed to give him some pence to light Mrs. Spiller to 
 her lodging, which was but at a little distance, Ou 
 which she went away, and Mrs. Cooke, having again 
 fastened the door, vv^as coming up the stairs, when the 
 nephew supposes he swooned away ; for, on coming 
 again to the use of his reason, he found himself half out 
 of bed, and immergedinto a cold and sickly sweat. The 
 first thing he heard, after he had recovered from his fright, 
 was the clock striking one. He now wrapped himself 
 up in his bed-clothes, but closed his eyes no more the 
 whole night. About eight in the morning, as soon as he 
 heard his aunt open the door of her apartment, he jumped 
 out of bed, and, putting en his apparel with what expe- 
 dition he could, hurried down to her room, and, having, 
 asked how he did, heard he was pretty well. On this he 
 told his aunt w^hat he had seen, with the time and cir- 
 cumstances ; but she, looking on it as fabulous, they 
 called for Mrs. Cooke, who was just got up, and she con- 
 firmed every thing he had said concerning Mrs. Spiller 
 and the watchman, a positive proof he was awake and 
 in his senses. The aunt now desired he would not men* 
 tion it to his uncle, which he promised he would not, but 
 withal told her he could never m^ore lie in that chamber, 
 and went out ubout his business. The same day, before 
 one o'clock, the nephew received a message from his aunt, 
 where he was at work in Fleet-street, desiring him to 
 come immediately to her : he accordingly went to her 
 house, where he found his uncle dead, and was told that 
 he fell down in crossing his room, and died suddenly 
 about three minutes before twelve o'clock ; exactly tweh^ 
 hours from his ghost's appearance to his nephew. 
 
 This circumstance induced the young man to think his 
 
 uncle might want te reveal somethuig to him, and there- 
 
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APPARITIONS, WITCHCRAFT, &C- 
 
 fore desired to sit up with his corpse the night prectN 
 ding his interment, which the aunt agreeing to, he for-* 
 tiHed his mind, and prepared a devotional book for his 
 companion, witli which he shut himself up in the room 
 with the body, about six in the evening, in hopes he 
 might see tiie spirit of his uncle, if he had any thing to 
 say or open to him ; but as nothing occurred, during 
 fourteen hours he was alone with the corpse, the follow- 
 ing evening he attended his funeral to the north part of 
 the church-yard of St. Giles's in the Fields, where his 
 body was interred, leaving behind him the character of 
 a good Christian, a tender husband, and a sincere friend. 
 
 Authentic and remarkable Account of a House that tva'S 
 haunted at Bov, 
 
 • A certain gentleman, about thirty years ago, or more, 
 being to travel from J^ondon to Essex, and to pass 
 through Bow, at the request of a friend he called at a 
 house there, which began then to be a little disquieted. 
 But not any thing much remarkable yet, unless about 
 a young girl who was pluckt by the thigh by a cold 
 hand in her bed, who died within a few days after. 
 
 Some weeks after this, his occasions calling him back, 
 he passed by tiie same bouse again, but had no design to 
 give them a new visit, he having done that not long be-- 
 fore. But it happening that the woman of the house 
 stood at the door, he thought himself engaged to ride to 
 her, and ask her how she did. To whom she answered, 
 with a sorrowful countenance, that, though she was in 
 tolerable heahh, yet things went very ill with them, 
 their house being extremely haunted, especiallv aboy^ 
 stairs, so that they were forced to keep in the lower 
 rooms, there v/as such a throwing of things up and 
 down, of stones and bricks through the windows, and 
 putting all in disorder. But he ceuld scarcely forbear 
 laughing at her, giving so little credit to such stories 
 himself, and thought it was, the tycks only of some 
 3 A 2 unhappy 
 
APPARITIOKS, WTTCHCRAFT, &C. 
 
 unhappy wags to make sport to themselves, and trouble 
 tlieh' i]icio:hbours. 
 
 Well, said she, if you will but stay a while, you may 
 chance to see something with your own eyes. And, in- 
 deed, he had not stayed any considerable time with her 
 in the street, but a window of an upper room opened of 
 itself, (for, they of the family took it for granted nobody 
 was above stairs,} and out comes a piece of an old wheel 
 through it. Whereupon it presently clapt to again. A 
 little while after, it suddenly flew open again, and out 
 came a brick-bat, which inflamed the gentleman wuth a 
 more eager desire to see what the matter was, and to dis- 
 cover the knavery. And therefore, he boldly resolved, 
 if any one would go up with him, he would enter the 
 chamber. But none present durst accompany him. Yet, 
 \ht keen desire of discovering the cheat, made him ven- 
 ture by himself into that room. Into which, when he 
 was come, he saw the bedding, chairs, stools, and can- 
 dlesticks, and bed-staves, and all the furniture, rudely 
 scattered on the fiooT;, but, upon search, found no mortal 
 in the room. 
 
 Well ! he stayed there a while to try conclusions ; anon 
 a bed-staff begins to move, and turn itself round a good 
 while together upori it^ tOC« ^i*^ '^^ l^si ramv lo laV it* 
 self down again. The curious epectator, when he had 
 observed, it to lie still awhile, stepts out to it, views 
 whether any small string or hair were tied to it, or whe- 
 ther there were any hole or button to fasten any such 
 $tring to, or hole or string in the ceiling above ; but after 
 search, h^ found not the least suspicion of any such thing. 
 
 He retired to the window again, and observed a little 
 longer what might fall out. Anon, another bed-staft rises 
 off from the ground, of its own accord, higher into the 
 air, and seems to mnke towards him. He now begins to 
 think there v/as something more than ordinary in the 
 business, and presently makesto the door w^ith ail speed, 
 and for better caution, shuts it rfter him. Which Ava§ 
 4 presently 
 
APPARITIOXS, WITCHCRAFT, &C. 
 
 presently opened again, and such a clatter of chairs and 
 stools, and caiidl9sticks, and bed-staves, sent after him 
 down stairs, as if they intended to have maimed him ; 
 but their motion was so moderated, that he received no 
 harm : but by this, he was abundantly assured that it 
 was not mere womanish fear or superbtltion that so 
 afFricfhted the mistress of the house. And, while in a low 
 room he was talking with the family about these things, 
 he saw a tobacco-pipe rise from a side-table, nobody be- 
 ing nigh, and fly to the other side of the room, and bi«eak 
 itself against the wall ; for his farther confirmation, that it 
 was neither the tricks of wags, nor the fancy of a woman, 
 but the mad frolics of witches and daemons : which they 
 -of the house being fully persuaded of, roasted a bed- 
 staff; upon which, an old woman, a suspected witch, 
 came to the house, and was apprehended, but escaped 
 the law. But the house was afterwards so haunted in all 
 the rooms, upper and lower, that it stood empty for a 
 long time. 
 
 ■ Apparition to Captain Henri/ Bell. 
 
 Captain Henry Bell, in his narrative prefixed to Luther's 
 Table Talk, printed in England in 1652, after having 
 mentioned the mystery and providence of the discovery 
 of it under ground in Germany, v/here it had lain hid 
 fifty-two years, relates the following astonishing admoni- 
 .tion relating to the translating of it into English. 
 
 Captain Van Spar, a German gentleman, havino^, as 
 before described, recovered the copy from the worms, 
 desired Captain Bell, with whom he Wc>s well acquainted 
 while he was agent for king James I. on the continent, 
 to translate it into English, and publish it in London 
 for the advancement of religion; but Captain Bell was 
 always somehow most unaccountably hindered from pro- 
 secuting that work in such a sort as to bring it to a pro- 
 per conclusion, being prevented by such intervening busi-* 
 ness as his public occupation required biin to execute. 
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APPARITIOXS, WITCHCRAFT, &C, 
 
 About six weeks after he had received the GermatX 
 copy, being well in health, and in bed with his wife,^be* 
 t^veen twelve and one o'clock, there appeared to him, 
 standing at the side of the bed, an ancient man clothed 
 in a light-coloured habit, and^of a most reverend aspect, 
 having a broad and white beard, which hung as low as 
 his girdle, and, smiling at him, said, in a gentlemanly 
 manner of rebuke, ** Will you not take time to translate 
 that book which is sent to you out of Germany ? If you 
 do not, I will shortly hereafter provide you both time 
 and place to do it!" and then instantly vanished. 
 
 This extraordinary vision affrighted him so much, that 
 he fell into an extreme sweat ; so that his wife awaking, 
 and finding him in that condition, she asked him what he 
 ailed ? He then related to her his vision, and the remark- 
 able message attending it. But Captain Bell not paying 
 much attention to the matter afterwards, time wore it off 
 bis jnemory, and he paid no more regard to what he had 
 seen and heard than if it had been a mere dream. 
 
 However, he had soon reason to recollect the old man'd 
 words, for, soon after being at his lodgings in King-street, 
 Westminster, at dinner with his wife, two messengers 
 came from the Council-Board, with a warrant to carry 
 him to the Gate-house, there to be confined till farther 
 orders from the Lords of the Privy-Council. Upon this 
 warrant he was detained ten whole years a close prisoner, 
 whereof he spent &\c in the translation of the aforemen- 
 tioned work ; having good cause to be mindful of the old 
 inan's saying, " I will shortly provide for you both time 
 and place to translate it. 
 
 This narrative is extracted from the preface of Luther's 
 Table-talk, printed in 1652 ; and, from what Mr. Aubrey 
 observes upon this story, which he briefly relates, it ap- 
 pears, that whatsoever was pretended for the cause of his 
 confinement, yet the true reason of the Captain's com- 
 mitment was, because he was urgent with the Lord 
 Treasure^ for his arrears, which amounted to a great sum ; 
 6 he 
 
APPARITIONS, WITCHCRAFT, &C. 
 
 he was unwilling to pay, and, to be freed from his cla* 
 mours, hit upon the scheme of holding him in prison. 
 
 Apparition of Sir John Otocn to his lodf/^ to i^ani her of 
 her extravagant waj/ of livincr. 
 
 Sir John Owen was a person of note, and of well- 
 known credit ; his lady and one of her sons lived here in 
 London ; and being of a gay disposition, and given to 
 live high and expensive, it was thought she spent beyond 
 what the Knight could afford, and tliat she was sensible 
 of it, and uneasy about it. She had a very good house in 
 London, and a country-house, or lodgings for the sum- 
 mer, at Hampstead, and kept a great equipage ; the 
 consequence of these things did at last prove, that Sir 
 John's dislike of it was justly founded ; but thiit's by the 
 bye. 
 
 It happened one day, the lady being at her country- 
 lodgings, a person well dressed, appearing very much like 
 a gentleman, came to her citj^'-house, and, knocking at the 
 door, asked the maid if there were any lodgings to be let 
 * there, and if her lady was at home ? The maid answered 
 no, there were no lodgings to let there ; and speaking, as 
 it were with some resentment. Lodgings 1 says she, no, I 
 think not ! my lady does not use to let her lodgings. 
 Well, but sweetheart, says he, don't be displeased, your 
 lady has had some thoughts of staying at her summer- 
 lodgings all the winter, and so would dispose of some 
 apartments here for the parliament season ; and I am di- 
 lected by herself to look upon the room.s, and give my 
 answer; 'let me but just see them, child, I shall do you 
 no harm. So he stepped in, and, as it were, pushed by 
 her, going into the first parlour, and sat down in an easy 
 chair, his servant staying at the door ; and as the maid 
 did not apprehend any mischief, she went in after him ; 
 for, he did not look like one that came with an ill design^ 
 or to rob the house, but looked like a gentleman that 
 could nave no such intent ; so I say she went in after 
 him. 
 
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 When the maid came in, the gentleman rose up, and, 
 looking about the room, he found fault \vith every thin©- 
 there, even the furniture, and the disposition of it ; no- 
 thing pleased him ; but this was not because they were 
 not good enough for him, but that all was too good, and 
 too rich, far above her quality that owned it ; and said, 
 that the lady did not know what she did, that it was an 
 expense she could not carry on, and her estate would not 
 support it ; and that such a way of living would bring 
 her and all tire family, to ruin and beggary, and the like. 
 
 By and by she carried him into another parlour, and 
 there he found fault in the same manner : he told her, he 
 was surprised at what her lady meant, and that she lived 
 at so extravagant a rate as Sir John's estate could never 
 maintain, but would run him into debt and ruin him ; 
 and so he would be undone by her extravagance. 
 
 Upon this, the maid began to take him short a little, 
 aifti told him, that this was all out of the v/ay to what he , 
 came about ; if the lodgings were too good for him, that 
 was Ills business indeed, but else he had nothing to do 
 w^ith her lady's conduct, and how she pleased to furnish 
 her house ; that her master was a gentleman of a great 
 estate, and had large plantations in Jamaica ; that he con- 
 stantly supplied her lady w^th money sufficient for her 
 support, and for all her expenses ; and she wondered he 
 should trouble himself with that which she was sure was 
 none of his business : in short, the girl huffed him, and 
 asked him what it was to him, who was quite a stranger, 
 how her lady lived ? 
 
 However, he turned to the maid, and, sitting down 
 again, calmly entered into some discourse with her about 
 her lady, and her way of living, and told so many of the 
 secrets of the family to her, that she began to be more 
 mild with him, and perceived that he knew more of the 
 family-than she thought he did, or indeed than she did 
 herself; at last the girl began to be very uneasy, and to 
 question with herself, whether it was not her master come 
 over incognito, and that he had not yet discovered himself. 
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APPARITIONS, WITCHCRAFT, &C. 
 
 She tried several times to leani who he was, his quality. 
 Ills country, his name, and how she might send to him ; 
 but he always put it off*, and only told her he would go 
 to Hamstead, where her lady lodged, and wait ut)on her 
 lady himself; and so treating the servant very civilly, and 
 thanking her for shewing him the house, he went away 
 in form, with his servant following him, so that he did 
 not vanish as an a])parition. 
 
 Yet all this time the poor girl was very uneasy ; she 
 began to think it could not be an ordinary creature, be- 
 cause he gave such strange and particular accounts of 
 things done in the family ; such as, where several things 
 were deposited that belonged to the family, with several 
 circumstances belonging to her mistress, to her Jittle son, 
 and to his father in the West-Indies : and, in short, said 
 ^ome things, which, as she imagined, none but the devil 
 could tell of; which, by the way, was talking as ignorant 
 people talk of such things ; namely, that if any thing be 
 said or done out of the ordinary way, and more than is 
 common for men to talk or to do, they will immediately 
 Bay, it must be the devil. 
 
 The poor girl was very much surprised at this gen« 
 tie man's anoearance, and more so after he was gor^? ^:^jt 
 before ; for, he dici not give her time to reflect upon the 
 particulars he mentioned to her ; but, relating one thing 
 after another, she had enough to do to take in the heads 
 of things in general. 
 
 But when he was gone, and she cantic to reflect and 
 compare things together, she began to consider who 
 could this possibly be ? how could he know such and 
 such things ?* how could he tell whose picture that was ? 
 where my mistress had such a suit of curtains, and such 
 a cabinet ; who must he be, to tell me how long my 
 master has been at Jamaica ; how much his estate is there, 
 and how much money he has sent my lady over, at such 
 and such times ? This must be the devil in my master's 
 cjothes ; something must be in it ; I'll go to my hdy, and 
 let her know It all., And with this the maid gets a wo-. 
 i) mauj 
 
APPARITIONS, WITCHCRAFT, &C. 
 
 man, that used to be trusted in such cases, to look after 
 the house, and away she goes to Hampstead to her mistress. 
 
 I think it is a part of the story thdt the gentlemah de- 
 sired she woukl acquaint her mistress with it ; that such a 
 penson had been there, and gave her some particukir to- 
 kens, by which he said her mistress would understand 
 who he was ; and that she should tell what he said, that 
 her income would not support the expenses she lived at, 
 but that it would bring her to ruin, and she would be 
 undone : but this part I do not positively remember; but 
 am certain that he told the maid it would be so. 
 
 However, the poor girl, the more she ruminated upon 
 the thing, the more she was alarmed at it : at length, 
 away she went, as I have said, to give her lady an ac- 
 count of what had happened ; and she was the more 
 eager to go, because she understood him, to talk about 
 the lodgings, and so she would prepare her lady to re- 
 ceive him, and to consider what kind of a man it must 
 be, that she might not be frighted at him; but he had 
 been too quick for the maid. 
 
 When she came to Hampstead, she found her mistress 
 lying upon the bed, and so very ill, that they at first told 
 her she could not be spoke with. Don't tell me, says 
 Mary (the London maid), I must speak with her, and 
 will speak with her. What extraordinary business can 
 you have ? says the lady's w^oman, in a taunting manner : 
 if your business w^as from the devil, you can't speak with 
 rny lay just now, for she is very ill, and laid down upon 
 the bed. 
 
 From the devil, says Mary, I don't know but it may, 
 and I believe it is indeed ; so I must speak with my lady 
 immediately. 
 
 Nay, says the woman, here has been one messenger 
 too many from the devil already, I think : sure you don't 
 come of his errand too, do ve ? 
 
 I don't know whose errand I come of, but I am fright- 
 ed out of my wits ; let me speak with my lady presently, 
 or I shall die before 1 deliver my message, 
 
 19 Die! 
 
APPARIXrONS, WITCnCRAFT, &C. 
 
 Die ! says the woman ; I wish my lady don't die be- 
 fore she can hear it ; })r'ythee, Mary, if it be any thing to 
 frighten her, don't tell it ber just now, for she is almost 
 frightened to death already. 
 
 Why, says Mary, is my lady seen any thing. 
 
 Ay, ay : seen ! says the woman, she has seen and heard 
 too ; here has been a man who has brought her some 
 dreadful tidings, I don't know what it is. 
 
 Tliey talked this so loud, or were so. near, that the lady 
 h€arin<^ something of it, immediately rang the bell for her 
 woman. 
 
 When the woman went in. Who is that below, says the 
 lady, talking so earnestly ? is any body come , from Lon- 
 don ? 
 
 Yes, Madam, says the woman, here is Mary come to 
 speak to your ladyship. 
 
 Mary come 1 says she, in a surprize ; what can be the 
 matter! why, sure, has she seen something too? Mercy 
 on me, what's the matter ! what does she say ? 
 
 She does not say much, Madam, says the woman, but 
 she wants mightily to speak with your ladyship, and is ia 
 a great hurry. 
 
 W^hat, says the lady, is she frighted ? 
 
 I believe she is, says the woman, but she will tell no- 
 tliing but to yourself. 
 
 Oh, I shall die ! says the lady ; call her up. 
 
 Pray Madam, says the woman, don't call her up till 
 your ladyship has recovered yourself a little from your 
 other disorder ; she'll tell you some wild tale or other of 
 her own imagination, that will discomfit you, and do 
 you mischief. 
 
 O, says the lady, let her have whatever she will to say, 
 I do insist upon hearing it ; if it should be from the devil, 
 it cannot be worse than it is ; call her up, I must speak 
 with her. 
 
 Accordingly Mary came up, and the woman was or- 
 dered to withdraw. 
 
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Apparitions, witchcraft, &c. 
 
 As soon as the door was sliut, the lady again burst inl* 
 tears; for she had been crying vehemently. O Maiy^ 
 says she, I have had a dreadful visit this afternoon ; your 
 master has been here. 
 
 My master ! why, madam, that is impossible. 
 
 Nay, it was your master, I am sure ; or the devil ia 
 bis likeness. 
 
 In a word, it is certain it was her husband in appari- 
 tion, or the apparition of her husband ; and he talked 
 very warmly and closely to her, and told her his estate 
 would not support her expensive w^ay of living, and that 
 she w^ould bring herself to misery and poverty ; and a 
 great deaF more to the same purpose as he had said to 
 Mary. Mary immediately asked her ladyship what man- 
 ner he appeared in ; and, by the description that her 
 mistress gave, it was exactly the same figure that had 
 appeared to her, and desired to see the lodgings. So 
 Mary gave her ladyship a particular relation of what had 
 happened to her also, and of the message she was charged 
 to deliver. 
 
 What folio w^ed upon this alarm, and how the lady 
 was reduced, and obliged to sell her fine furniture and 
 equipage, and came to very low circumstances, though 
 it be a part of the story, is not so much to my purpose 
 in the relation. But what is remarkable to the case in 
 hand is, that they allege, that, just at the juncture. Sir 
 John Owen, the lady's husband, died in the West Indies. 
 I suppose, by his death, her supplies were immediately 
 stopped, and that was the occasion of her being reduced 
 so suddenly. 
 
 Tiiis relation is taken froni a manuscript, late in the 
 possession of Sir Owen Ap Owen, of Breknockshire : 
 the circumstance happened in the beginning of Queen 
 Anne's reign. 
 
 Apparition seen hy Doctor Donne* 
 In the year 1615, Doctor Donne accompanied Sir 
 -Robert Drury to Paris j where he is S9.id to have had \ 
 12 a 
 
APPARtTIOXS, WITCIICRAFT, &C. 
 
 a most extraordinary vision : When Sir Robert requested 
 hhn to go, Mrs. Donne, who was then with cliild, and 
 under an ill liabit of body, expresse^l an unwillingness, 
 saying, " that her divining soul boded some ill in his 
 absence:*' bat, upon Sir Robert's l)eing importunate, she 
 at last consented. Two days after their arrival. Dr. 
 Donne was left alone in a room, where himself. Sir 
 Robert, and some friends, had dincrd together : to which 
 Sir Robert returning in an hour, as he left, so he found. 
 Dr. Donne alone, but in such an extacy, and so altered 
 in his countenance, that Sir Robert could not look u])oa 
 him without amazement. He asked him, in God's 
 name, what had befallen him in the short time of his 
 absence : Dr. Donne was not able to answer directly, 
 but, after a long and perplexed pause, at last said, " I 
 have seen a dreadful vision since I saw you : I have 
 seen my dear wife pass twice by me through this room, 
 with her hair hanging about her shoulders, and a dead 
 child in her arms. This I have seen. since I saw you.'' 
 To which Sir liobert answered, " Sure, Sir, you have 
 slept since I went out, and this is the result of some 
 melancholy dream, vvhich I desire you to forget, for 
 ;^ou are now awake.'' l)i\ Donne answered, " I can- 
 not be surer that I now live, than that I have not slept 
 since I saw you ; and am as sure, that at her second 
 appearing, shex stopped, looked me in the face, and 
 Vanished." 
 
 • A servant was immediately dispatched to Drury-house, 
 to know whether Mrs. Donne was living, and, if ahve, 
 in what condition; vJio brought word, that he found 
 and left her very sad and sick in bed, and that, after a 
 long and dangerous labvuir, she hid been delivered of a 
 dead child. And, upon exan\incition, the abortion prov- 
 ed to be on the same chy\ and about the same hour, 
 that Dr. Donne attirnied ne saw her pass by him in the 
 room. 
 
 Mr. Walton observes, that, tho»igh he had not tins 
 
 Story from Dr. Donne himsell, yet lie had it iioiu a 
 
 13 B pcrsou 
 
APPARITIONS, WITCHCRAFT, &C. 
 
 person of honour, and on the strictest inthnacy with Dr. 
 Donne, who aiiirmed the truth of it with the most 
 solemn asseverations. 
 
 Apparition of the dtxih 
 
 It appeared, upon the deposition of several persons,, 
 that JVlargaret Wild, widow, of Guildford, in Suiry, 
 bore but a slight character, and had several times been 
 observ^ed, or suspected, to be with child, but nobody 
 knew of any delivery. She lived in a lone house upon 
 a piece of waste land, and occupied by possession. 
 Several farmers havinc; been robbed in the nei«:hbour- 
 hood, set up a very rigid search in quest of their pro- 
 perty, and in their pursuit thereot* visited the widow's 
 habitation, as not being the least suspicious place, where, 
 their property might h& finced. L-pon searching, they 
 found under her bed a bag v/ith a great many little bones 
 in it, and when they questioned her about them, she, 
 Tvithout hesitating, replied they were her's, and nobody 
 bad a right to inquire why they were deposited there. 
 Suspicions being ver\^ strong against her, she was fully 
 committed to take her trial at the next assizes ;u Kinorstcn; 
 Avhcre, from her own confession, it was found that, being 
 secretly delivered, she had smothered the infant during 
 the month, and afterwards (horrid to relate !) boiled the 
 flesh off the bones, in consequence of a dream she had; 
 from which she inferred that, as long as she could keep j 
 the bones, she should be safe fiom discovery; but yet, i 
 fearing the worst, she had twice carried them out to . 1 
 bury them privately in a field, ci throw them in some , j 
 by-place, but both times had been met by a strange, j 
 gentleman in black, who she at first took for a clergy- i 
 man, and who cautioned her from exposing those bones, 
 saying, that if she ever attempted to hide them in earth, 
 •ea, or other water, she would surely be discovered, but, 
 while she could keep them, she would be safe. 
 
 Whether this cre;Uure saw an apparition, or the devil, 
 
 is left to the reader to guess. That she might reckon 
 
 14 herself 
 
APPARITIONS, WITCHCRAFT, &C. 
 
 herself safe while she coukl keep them was plausible 
 enough, and when she could not any longer, jier deutk 
 was not far olf". 
 
 Apparition cf Sir Gcor<xt VilUm, 
 Mr. Nicholas Towse, an officer in the King's ward- 
 tahe in Windsor-castle, of uni.npeachable manners and 
 •unquestioned veracity, had in his youth been much no- 
 Jticed by Sir George Villars, father to the celebrated and 
 imfortuuute Duke of Buckingham. As this gentleman 
 lay in his oed, perfectly awake, and in good health, he 
 perceived a person of a venerable aspect draw near to his 
 bedside ; and, with much earnestness of look, ask- 
 ed, Whether he had any recollection of him? This 
 question was repeated betore the poor gentleman could 
 recover from his apprehension, and summon courage 
 enough to reply, that he supposed himself visited by the 
 apparition of Sir George Villars, which, being assured of 
 by his visitant, he was desired to go and acquaint his 
 son from him, " that, unless he did something to ingra- 
 tiate himself with the people, he must expect to fall a 
 victim, and that very soon." After this injunction, he 
 disappeared. The next morning, Mr. Towse recollected 
 every particular, which, however, he paid no regard to, 
 -considering the whole as a dream. The following night 
 the visit was repeated, by the apparition, with a coun- 
 tenance indicating dissatisfaction and resentment, accom- 
 panied with threats of haunting the house until the 
 warning he wished to convey to his son were commu- 
 nicated to him ; upon w^hich the haunted man promised 
 compliance. The lively representation of this vision 
 tlirew him into great perplexity, yet did he slight it as 
 he had done the former, and, considering at what a dis- 
 tance he was fiom the duke, was disposed to believe it 
 deserved no notice. This occasioned a third visit, and 
 reproaches for his breach of promise. He had now got 
 courage enough to remonstrate; and alleged how ditii- 
 cult it was to gain admission to the duke, much more 
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APPARITIOXS, WITCHCRAFT, Src. 
 
 to ht credited by hhn ; that whoever went upon such an 
 errand would be regarded as a madman, and endanger 
 his liberty. - The person, after Ir.iving redoubled his 
 former threats, said that the duke was known to be very 
 easy of access ; that two or three particulars, he would 
 (and did) impart to him, charging him at the same time 
 never to mention them, to any other, would procure him 
 credit ; which having said, he vanished. This apparition 
 had the desired effect ; for, the old gentleman repaired 
 immediately to London, where the couit then was, and 
 being known to Sir Ralph Freeman, wlio iiad married a 
 lady nearly related ta-the duke, he acquainted him with 
 enough to assure him there was something' .extraordinary 
 ill it, "without revealing to him all the particulars. 
 
 Sir Rciiph having informed the duke of w^kat the man 
 desired, and of all that he knew of the maiter, his Grace 
 with his usual condescension said, that he was on the lol- 
 iowing &dy to hunt witli the king; that he would land 
 at Lambeth-bridge by five in the morning, wdiere, if the 
 man attended, he would give him a hearing. Accordingly, 
 the man being conducted by Sir Halph, met the duke, 
 and walked aside in conference v/ith him for near an hour ; 
 Mr Ralph and his servants being at such ii distance, that 
 they cauld not hear a v/ord, though the duke was observed 
 to speak sometimes with emotion. The man told Sir 
 luilph, in returning over the water, that when he mention- 
 ed his credentials (the substance of which, he said, he 
 was to impart to no man) the duke swoi^e '^ he could 
 come at that knowledge by none but the devil, for, those 
 pariiculars were a secret to ail but himself and another, 
 Tvho he was sure would never divulge it/' The duke re- 
 turned fiTun the chace at an early hour, and w^.s closeted 
 wdth his mother in Whiteliali for two or three hours ; and, 
 when he kft her, his countenance appeared full of trouble, 
 with a mixture of anger. She herself, when the news 
 of the duke's' murder (which happened soon after) was 
 brought to her, seemed to receive it without surpnze^ 
 and as a tiling slie .had foreseen. 
 
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APPARITIOXS, WITCHCRAFT, &C. 
 
 Auihiidicaftd Apparition, 
 
 A young lady of my acquaintance having a sister tiiat 
 went out to spend the evening: in apparent good health, 
 came home when the clock struck twelve, quite indisposed, 
 slie accompanied her to bed, where she com])lained of be- 
 ing worse. In a short time afterWards,' her mother, ha- 
 Ting occasion to go into the pantry, saw the appearance of 
 a wo-man staudin<r at the door ; at first she thouojht it was 
 a mist before her eyes, but, looking more stedfast at the 
 apparition (which seemed to represent the appearance of 
 her beloyed sister} she walked along with a coffin-board 
 at her back, and then disappeared. She went to bed 
 very much alarmed, and acquainted her husband with 
 what she had seen, telling him she was fearful of her 
 death. When the solemn 'hour of two arrived, a Watch- 
 man knocked at t]\e door, and informed her that her sister 
 was dying, and wished her to come to her ; she -went, 
 and found her dead. On inquiry, her death happened at 
 the precise time wherein she saw the said apparition. 
 
 Appearance to M/\ Torjihy, 
 As a Mr. John Tornley was walking through King- 
 street, Dublin, about ten o'clock on a Tuesday night, he 
 met a lady who he perfectly knew, being his next-door 
 neighbour; he accosted her with the usual compliments, 
 and was answered with a smile, as was common with 
 her : they walked to the end of the street, conversing all 
 the way ; she expressed herself very tired. Mr. Tornley 
 asked her if she would ride, and, before he gave her time 
 tO'ilnsvver, called a coach, when she got in, and he fol- 
 lowed ; and soon as he gave orders to the coachman, they 
 began conversing on different subjects : she said that the 
 coach made her head-ach ; at which, Mr. Tornley put 
 bis head out of the coach, and told the man to stop ; but 
 great was his surprize, when, recovering his seat, the 
 lady was gone ! He jumped out of the coach, looked 
 round him, but could see no appearance of any lady : 
 and, what is still more remarkable, the coachman had 
 ^7 B 3 never 
 
APPARITIONS, W ITCnCRAFT, &C. 
 
 never seen imy lady get into the coach, -and cx])ressed his 
 wonder at heavuig Air. Tpniley say there was one got in ; 
 he said he had heard Mr. Tornley speak several tunes, 
 but supposed it was to himself. Mr. Tornley then walk- 
 ed home ; and to his great astonishment was told that his 
 neighbour's wife, the lady he had seen, was dead but a 
 few minutes, and that before she died she wished much 
 to see Mr.. Tornley. • 
 
 The above fact happened, as near as I can remember, 
 in August, 1787. 
 
 A mother s appearance to her son Kvhlle at sea. 
 A woman, who had lived on Rhode-Island, in Ameri- 
 ca, whilst on her death bed, and just before she expired, 
 expressed a desire of seeing her only son, who was then a 
 mariner, navigating in the Vv^est-India seas, and of deliver- 
 ing him a message. She informed the persons near her 
 what she wanted to say to her son, and died immediately • 
 About that instant she appeared to him, as he was standing 
 at the helm, it being night and bright moonshine. She 
 first appeared on the shrouds, and delivered her message ; 
 ;ind after wa ids w^alk^d over some casks that lay on the 
 deck, then descended regularly to the water, where she 
 seemed to float for awhile, and at last sunk and wholly 
 disappeared. The young man immediately set down the 
 time and day, and the substance of her message, and found, 
 on his arrival at Rhode-Island, that she died at the vtry 
 juncture wdien she was seen by him ; and that the words 
 she spoke to him, corresponded exactly with those she 
 delivered to the persons around her. This young man 
 liad soon after the misfortune to be drowned at sea ; per- 
 haps her appearing to him, and sinking in the water, was 
 a forerunner not only of her own but of his death. 
 
 A cler2:^7nan in America sees his oxvn apparition. 
 
 A clergyman, who lived in the Massachusetts, and had 
 
 entertained an opinion, for more than fifty years, that 
 
 such stories were the vapours of distempered and weak 
 
 18 brains^ 
 
APPARITIONS, WITCHCRAFT, S:C. 
 
 brains, was convinced at last in the following manner ; 
 being in his own garden, he saw his own likeness oraj)[);i- 
 / rition, dressed just as he then was, pass b}'' him, and look 
 him full in the face. He ran into the house in a great 
 surprize, told his family what he had seen, that he was 
 convinced of his former error, and that he feared he should 
 live but a few days. 1 lis words j)roved true, for he died 
 a short time after. 
 
 Apparition of a rorj>.S(', 
 About the year liill, there lived in Spitalfields, one 
 Mrs. Ann Stephens, a person at that time well known 
 ^and respected for her great dealings with the mercers on 
 Ludgate-hill. This person silting one evening in her 
 house alone, and musing upon business, happened by 
 accident to look behind her, when, to her great surprize, 
 she saw, as it were, a dead corpse, ls siie thought, lying 
 extended upon the floor, just as a dead body should be, 
 excepting that the foot of one leg was fixed on the giound, 
 as it is in bed, when one lies with one knee up ; she 
 looked at it awhile, and by degrees withdrew her eyes 
 from so un pi easing an object : however, a strange kind of 
 air of curiosity soon overcame her fears, and she ventured 
 a second time to look tliat way, and saw it a considera- 
 ble time longer fixed as before, but yet she durst not stir 
 from her seat. She again turned from the horrible and 
 melanclioly spectacle, and resuming her courage, after a 
 little reflection, got up with a design to ascertain herself 
 of the reality of the vision, by going nearer to it ; but lo ! 
 it was vanished ! 
 
 Apparitions of spirits. 
 
 A nobleman in Silesia, having caused a sumptuous en- 
 tertainment to be prepared for several of his friends, they, 
 instead of being punctual to the time, according to pro- 
 mise, alledged divers excuses for the necessity they were 
 under of absenting themselves, which so exasperated 
 19 him. 
 
 I 
 
APPARITIONS, WITCHCRAFT, &C. 
 
 liini, tiuit he id I into a paro>' vsm of rage, exclaiming, 
 ** Since ibey have V.ius disa])polnted me, may as many 
 devils iVoni hdl come and eat np the provisions 
 those tViends,of mine refused to partake of!" whicl: said, 
 he sallied out of the hou^-e, and went to church, to hear a 
 sennon, lie had not been ione^ gone, A^hen a numerous 
 company of hori^emen, all arrayed in black, of extraor- 
 dinary aspect and stature, appc:acd in his court-yard, 
 and, alighting, called a groom to take their horses, 
 bidding another run preseiuiy to his master, and tell him 
 his guejits were airivc^L The servant, \\i:^ii hair upright, 
 and look? betokening horror, entered the church where 
 his- master was, and acquainted him with the circum- 
 $tance, as well as h}s fright woidd permit him. The 
 nobleman immevhately interrupted the sermon, intreating 
 the pfcacher to assist him with his ghostly counsel. Pie, 
 with all his coiigregation, mace all speed towards the 
 mansion, which had been deserted by the servants ; who, 
 in the hurry of their flight, had left behind them a 
 young child, their master's son, sleeping in the cradle* 
 By this time the devils were revelling in the dining-room, 
 making a great noise, as if they saluted aud welcomed 
 each other. They looked through the casements, one 
 with ttie hciid of a bear, another with that of a wolf, &c. 
 taking the bowls at the same time, and quaffing, as if 
 they drank to the master of the house. The nobleman, 
 who, among others, v^/^as a witness of their revelry, 
 seeing his servants safe, bethought himself of his son, and 
 asked what was become of him ? The v/ords had scarcely- 
 passed his lips, when one of tlic devils had the infant in 
 his arms, and shewed him at the window. The father, 
 half frantic with his feelings, on seeing his beloved off- 
 spring so pe^'iio^isly situated, fetched a deep sigh, and 
 turning to an oid and faithful servant, said, " What will 
 becomiC of my boy ?" " Sir," said the trusty domestic, 
 truly affected by the ajony of despair he saw his master 
 in, " by God*s help 1 will enter the house, and rescue 
 the babe, or perish with him." '* Heaven prosper thy 
 £0 attempt," 
 
Apparitions, wncucRAFr, &:c. 
 
 Aftempt," returned his master, '' and strengthen thee in 
 thy piupose !" He accordingly went, followed by the 
 prayers of all present, and, having entered a room adjoin- 
 ing that in which the devils were rioting, he fell upon 
 his knees, and commended himsi'lf to the pr{itoction of 
 heaven ; after which, he burst in among tnein, and be- 
 held them in their horrible sha]>es. 'I'n.it instaiit ihey 
 all pressed round him, inquiring what his business was 
 
 •there? He, under great terror, though resolved to fulfil 
 the intent of iiis coming, addressing himself to the spirit 
 that held the child, said, '' In the ikime of God, deliver 
 the child to me!" " No, (rej)lied the fiend,) let thy 
 master who is more interested in him come." *' J am 
 come, (rejoined the man,) to do that service to which 
 
 • God hath called me; by virtue of which, and by his 
 power, 1 do seize upon the innocent:" so saying, he 
 snatched him from the devil, and bore him off, the 
 spirits clamouring as he departed, *' Knave, knave, 
 leave the child, or we will tear thee in pieces T' but he, 
 undismayed by their diabolical menaces, effected his pur- 
 
 'pose, and restored the boy to his afflicted father. 
 
 A ixcudcrful imtance of the effects of a troubled conscleiwe* 
 
 In the village of B , in Lancashire, there has 
 
 long been a popular story, of which we have lately 
 gained the following particulars : One James Dunstable, 
 a ]K>or labouring man, had by great industry amassed 
 •a considerable sum of money, wnich, as lie Had but a 
 small fam.ily, continiially increased ; so that, by the death 
 of an uncle of his wife, who was a consideiabie farmer 
 m that part, his possessions made him be looked upon as 
 one of the most able peasants in t'nat country. He lived 
 for some time in this state ; and was much respected 
 among his neighbours* It happened that he was called 
 efF to a fair in one of the chief towns, and wms away two 
 days ; as the fair lasted in general no longer, he vvas 
 expected on the third i but, not coming at the expected 
 time, and being a \txy sober and punctual man, there 
 
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APPARITIONS, WITCHCRAFT, &C. 
 
 was sotiie suspicion that he had iret with an accident. 
 On the tilth, not arriving, his wife and all the neighbour- 
 hood wore ninch alarmed ; Dwd search was made round 
 the country, but he could net be heard of, nor was he found 
 at all at tliat time : so that it was concluded, and not 
 without reiiFCi;, that he had !■< en murdered, especially as 
 lie had been known to ha\c set out from the inn after the 
 fair was over. 
 
 Things continued in this situation for several years ; 
 till the wife was peisuaded to give her hand to a neigh- 
 bour, who was thought to be ver^- deserviiig. He made 
 her a good husband, and for a iittle space of time they 
 continued happy. But at last it appeared that all was 
 not right with him ; his wile was the nrst who perceived 
 this change in his temper and carriage; he would fre- 
 quently stait, as if he beheld something supernatural of a 
 sudden ; he was troubled in his sleep, as if his dreams 
 had been disagreeable. She wou'd sometimes ask him 
 the reason of those emiotions ; but he aiw^ays excused 
 himself. His fears grew upon him every day, and his 
 neighbours perceived that he was neither so bold nor so 
 steady in his deportment as visual. 
 
 One ni<j:ht5 in a party at an ale-house, where a pretty 
 large com])an3' were collected, he got elated with drink, 
 and recovered his wonted spirits, so that he Avas as cheer- 
 ful and m.erry as the rest. In the midst of their festivity 
 be was observed to start with great terror, and fixed his 
 eyes upon a particular place. The wdiole com.pany 
 thought him mad or drunk, as they jokingly said : how- 
 ever, he could not be appeased ; and at last, giving a 
 shriek, he cried out loudly, '' O there he is I look, he 
 sees me ! it was me !'* There now arose great conster- 
 nation in the house, and he was immediately seized, upon 
 suspicion of having murdered Dunstable ; he was tried 
 soon after, and confessed the afllnr ; that he had mur- 
 dered him, and throw i-. his body into a deep pit, which 
 had been pj.rtly filled ui), and which had escaped the 
 vlgih^nce of those who made search for him. The 
 22 body 
 
APPARITIONS, WITCHCRAFT, &C, 
 
 body was found as aesclbed, and the murdcier received 
 his due reward. Whether lu such a case the apparition 
 ot'the deceased appeared to tht murderer, or whether it 
 might be the effects of liis troubled ima^^ination, is not 
 easy to say: but, it is sufficicint to prove, that such 
 wicked and premeditated deeds will some day or other 
 be brought to li^ht. 
 
 Spirit of a poo?' man^ just deceased^ appearing^ is the means 
 of a ^\e tiemans preservation • 
 
 Mr. Weston, of Old Swinford, in Worcestershire, was 
 walkiiig, one evening in the summer of 1/39, in the park 
 of Lord Lyttleton at liaglcy, and, being overtaken by a 
 sudden shower, ran into a <;Votto, and stood under a 
 spreading oak, under whose shade several cattle were 
 standing. He had' not been above ten minutes in that si- 
 tuation, before he saw the form of a man passing over the 
 brook almost close to the shade. Su])posing it to be a 
 poor peasant, who had long worked for him, he called him 
 by name, but received no answer ; and the app:irition 
 quickly disaT)pearing, he found his mind much agitated. 
 Regardless of the storm, Mr. Weston withdrew from the 
 place wnere he had sought an asylum, am! ran round a 
 rising hill, in order to discover the form w-iich had pre- 
 sented itself to him. That however had not the effect 
 desired ; but one abundantly more salutary it certainly 
 had; for, just as he had gained the summit of the hill, on 
 his return to the tri'otto, a tremendous flash of li^htnin^ 
 darted its forked fury on the venerable oak, shiveied it tQ 
 pieces, and killed two of the cattle under its boughs. 
 
 On Mr. Weston's return to Swinford, he found that 
 the death of the labourer was just announced in the neigh- 
 bourhood. He told the story to his friends, who, on the 
 credit of his own veracity, could not well refuse it belief. 
 He saw the body, at his own expense, decently interred, 
 and afterwards contributed totiie support of the widow, not 
 only by remitting a year's rent for her cottage and piece of 
 23 ground. 
 
APPARITIONS, WITCHCRAFT, &C. 
 
 ground, but also by settling a small annuity upon her till 
 she should marry. 
 
 Wt have told this tale simply as it was related by Mr. 
 Weston, and leave the reader to make his ow^i reflec- 
 tions on so marvellous an interposition of Divine Frovi- 
 dence, without deciding in this, or any such other case, 
 whether the form that appeared was the soul of the 
 deceased, exerting 'its philanthropy in its fliobt to the 
 luiknown country, or the guardian angel of that soul 
 returning to give up his charge, and produce his account 
 at the bar of the Supreme. When Peter was redeemed 
 from death, and freed from prison by a miraculous 
 power, he visited the assembled company of Christians, 
 who, at iirst, could hardly believe their eyes that it was 
 the apostle, but said, " It is his angel 1" This proves 
 that the notion of ministering spirits prevailed in the ear- 
 liest age of Christianity, a notion which not only accords 
 with many passages of the Old, but also of the New, 
 Testament. 
 
 Insta)icc of tvifchcraft, 
 Duffe, the seventy-eighth King of Scotland, laboured 
 with a new and unheard-of disease, his body languishing 
 in a continual sweat, and his strength apparently de- 
 caying, insomuch that he was suspected to be bewitched, 
 'Which increased by a rumour, that certain witches of 
 Forrest, in Murray, practised his destruction, arising 
 f«'om a word which a girl let fall, that the king should die 
 shortly ; who, being examined by Donald, captairi of 
 the castle, confessed the truth, and how her miother was. 
 IQ the assejnbly ; and, when certain soldiers were sent in 
 search, they surprized them roasting a waxen image of 
 the king before a slow fire, to the end that, as the wax 
 melted by degrees, so should the king dissolve, and his 
 Lfe waste away with the consumption of the other. But 
 the image being broke, and the witches hanged for it, the 
 king recovered his health in a verj' short time, 
 24 
 
 £To be continued. 
 
APPARITIONS, WITCUCKAFT, &C, 
 
 DANISH WITCHES, 
 
 THANSDATED FROM THE ICELANDIC. 
 
 Oi*^ the witches, and the estimation in which they were 
 held amongst the Danes and Anglo-Saxons, we have some 
 curious accounts in Erin's Rauga Saga and other Icelan- 
 dic fragments ; one of them is thus described : There 
 was an old woman named Heida, famous for her skill in 
 divination and the arts of magic, who frequented pubhc 
 entertainments, predicting what kind of weather woultl 
 be the year after, and telling men and women their for- 
 tunes. She was constantly attended by thirty men ser- 
 vants, and waited on by fifteen young maidens. These 
 miserable hags were all old women ; for, age, among our 
 ancestors, was always connected with an idea of wis-* 
 dom ; and princes and great men were always desirous 
 of inviting: them to their houses, to consult them about . 
 the success of their designs, the fortunes of themselves 
 and families, and any future events which they desired to 
 know. On these occasions they made great preparations 
 for their honourable reception, and entertained them in 
 the most respectful manner. The description of' the 
 witch Thorbiorga, in Rauga Saga, and her interview with 
 Earl Thorckile, is curious ; she is represented as the only 
 survivor of nine sisters, all witches or fortune-tellers, 
 who were famous for their knowledge in futurity, and 
 also frequented puhlic entertainments when invited. Earl 
 Thorckile, in order to be informed when a sickness and 
 famine would cease, which then raged in the country, sent 
 for and madfe proper preparations for the reception of Thor- 
 biorga ; on her arrival in the evening, she was dressed in 
 a gown of green cloth, buttoned from top to bottom ; 
 with a string of glass beads suspended ix^om hgr neck, 
 25 c and 
 
APPARITIONS, WITCHCRAFT, &C. 
 
 and her head was covered with the skin of a black lamb, 
 lined with that of a white cat ; her shoes were of calf- 
 skin with the hair on, tied with thongs and fastened witli 
 brass buttons ; and on her hands were a pair of gloves, 
 of white cat's skin with the fur inward ; about her waist 
 she wore a hunlandic orirdle, at which huns: a bas: 
 containing her magical instruments ; and she supported 
 herself on a staff, adorned with many knobs of brass. Oa 
 her entrance, the whole company rose and saluted her, 
 and Earl Thorckile advancing took her by the hand and 
 conducted her to the seat prepared for her, on which was ' 
 a cushion of hen's feathers ; after some ceremony, and re- 
 freshments was set before h^r, Thorckile, seriously ap- 
 proaching the prophetess, requested to know what she 
 thought of his house and family, and when she would be 
 pleased to tell them what they desired to know ; she 
 answered, the next day she would fully satisfy, them. Ac- 
 cordingly on the morrow, having put her instruments of 
 divination in order, she commanded Godnada, for God^s 
 council) one of her maidens, to sing the magical song of 
 Vardlokur^ (or the "word of fortune, J which she sung with 
 so clear and sweet a voice as delighted the company, and 
 particularly the prophetess, who declared that she then 
 knew many things respecting the sickness and the famine, 
 which before she was ignorant of. The famine would 
 "be of short continuance, and the sickness would abate. 
 Each of the family then asked her what queiitions they 
 pleased, and she told them every thing they cfesirec to 
 know. 
 
 From several passages in the northern sag(:s, those 
 itches, or fortune-tellers, were initiated into the ?irts of 
 magic and divination in the early parts of their lives, and 
 in some instances lived in a kind of college, or community, 
 0nd were frequently persons of noble birth. The wi- 
 zards, or male conjurors, were generally the priests of the 
 lieathen diviniteer, and were likewise much esteemed and 
 ^f considerable rank. 
 
 86 ^rovidmiiai 
 
APPARITIONS, WITCHCRAFT, &C. 
 
 Providential t scape fr07n poison* 
 
 On the first sabbath day, in the year 1 74-9, Mr. Thomas 
 Lilly, the son of a farmer in the parish of Kelso, in Rox* 
 barghshire, a promising young man, intended for the 
 church of Scotland, and who then had studied a consi- 
 derable time at school, happening to be at home keeping 
 the house, with only a shepherd's boy, all the rest of the 
 family, (excepting a maid servant,) being at sermon ; the 
 young student and the boy being seated by the lire, whilst 
 the crirl was s:one to the well for some water, a venerable 
 old gentleman, clad in an antique garb, presented himself; 
 and, after some little ceremony, desired the student to o.per\ 
 the Bible which lay upon the table before him, and turn 
 over to a certain chapter and verse in the second book of 
 Kings, The student did so, and read ; There is death 
 
 IN THE POT." 
 
 On this the old man, with much apparent agitation^ 
 polluted to the great family-pot boiling on the fire, de- 
 claring, that the maid had cast a great quantity of arsnig 
 into it, with intent to poison the whole family, to the end 
 she miglit rob the house of the hundred guineas, which she 
 knew her master had taken for sheep and grain, which he 
 had sold. Just as h^ was so §aying, the maid came to the 
 door, announcing her approach by the noise of the nails 
 in her shoe-heels. The old gentleman said to the student, 
 ** Remember my warning, and save the lives of the fami- 
 ly," and that instant disappeared. 
 
 The maid entered with a smiling countenance, emptied 
 her pail, and returned to the well for a fresh supply. 
 Meantime, young LiUy put some oatmeal into a woodea 
 dish, skimmed the pot of the fat, and mixed it like what 
 is called brose or croudy ; and, when the maid returned, 
 he, with the boy, appeared busily employed in eating 
 the mixture. '< Come, Peggy," said the student, " here i$ 
 enough ieft for you ; are not yon fond of croudy?" She 
 smiled, took up the dish, and, reaching a horn spoon, 
 withdrew to the back-room. The shepherd's dog fol- 
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APPARITIONS, WITCHCRAFT, &C. 
 
 lowed her, unseen by the boy ; and the poor animal, 
 on the croudy being put down by the maid, lell a 
 victim to his voracious appetite ; for, before the return of 
 the family from church, it was enormously swelled, and 
 expired in great agony. 
 
 The studeiit enjoined the boy to remain quite passive for 
 the present ; meantime he attempted to sliew his inge- 
 nuity in resolving the cause of the canine catrastrophe into 
 insanity, in order to keep the girl in countenance, till a Hi 
 cpportunity of discovering the plot should present itself. 
 
 Soon after, his father, mother, brothers, and sisters, with 
 the other servants, returned from church, all hungering 
 after the word, and eager to sit round the rustic board. 
 
 The table was instantly replenished with v/ooden bowls 
 
 and trenchers, and a heap of barley bannocks graced the 
 
 top. The kail or broth, infused with leeks or w^inter 
 
 cabbages, was poured forth in plenty ; and Peggy, with 
 
 'a prodigal hand, filled all the dishes wdth the homely 
 
 dainties of Tiviotdale. The master began grace, and all 
 
 hats and bonnets were instantly off. '* O Lord,'* prayed 
 
 the farmer, '• we have been 1 eajing thy "V^prd {k^tti the 
 
 Kiouth of thy aged servant, Mr. Ramsey ; we have been 
 
 alarmed by the awful famine in Samaria, and of death be- 
 
 ino^ in the Pot !" Here the youns^ scholar interrupted his 
 
 father, by exclaiming : '' Yes, sir, there is death in the 
 
 Pot now here, as well as there was once in Israel. Touch 
 
 r.ot ! taste net! See the dog dead by the poisoned pot 1" 
 
 '' What!'* cried the farmer, '' have you been raising the 
 
 devil by your conjuration ? Is this the effect of your 
 
 study, sir ?*' '* No, father,'* said the student, '' I pretend 
 
 to no such arts of magic cr necromancy ; but this day, 
 
 as the boy can testify, I had a solemn warning from one, 
 
 whom I take to be no demon, but a good angel. To him 
 
 "We all owe our lives. As to Peggy, according to his inti* 
 
 mation, she has put poison into the pot, for the purpose 
 
 of destroying the family root and branch!" Here the 
 
 girl fell into a fit, from which being wdth some trouble 
 
 recovered, she confessed the whole of her deadly design, 
 
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 and was suffered to withdraw from the family and her 
 native country. She wa3 sooa after executed at New- 
 castle-upoa-Tync for tiie murder of her bastard child, 
 again milking ample confession of the above diuboIic;J 
 design. 
 
 Assigyimtioii to appear offer death. 
 The story of the Marquis de Rambouillet's appearia|^ 
 after his death to his cousin the Marquis de Precy, is 
 well known. These two noblemen talking one day cori-^ 
 cerning the affairs of the next world, in a manner which, 
 shewed they did not believe much about it, entered into 
 an agreement, that the first that died should come and 
 give intelligence to the other. 
 
 Soon after, the Marquis de Ramboulllet set out for 
 Flanders, which was thert the seat of war, and the Mar* 
 quis de Precy remained ia Paris, being ill of a violent 
 fever. About six weeks aft^r, early one morning, hj^ 
 heard some one draw the curtains of his bed, and, turn- 
 ing to see who it was, discovered the Marquis de Ram- 
 bouillet in a buff-coat and boots. He instantly got out of 
 bed, and attempted to shake hands with his friend ; but 
 Rambouiliet drew b^ck, and told him he was only come 
 to perform the promise he had formerly made ; that no- 
 thing was more certain than what they had been told 
 concerning another life ; that he advised him earnestly tc? 
 alter his way of life, for that the fir^t action he shoul4 
 be engaged in, he would certainly fall. 
 
 Precy made a fresh attempt to touch his freind, but he 
 immediately withdrew. He lay wondering on his bed 
 upon the strarfgeness of the circumstance for some time, 
 when he saw the same appearance re-enter his apartment; 
 upon which, Rambouiliet, finding that he still disbelievec} 
 what was told, shewed him the wound in his reins, of 
 which he died, and from which the blood still seemed 
 to flow. 
 
 Soon after this, Precy received a confirmation of the 
 
 Marquis de Rambouiilet's death ; and was killed himFclf, 
 
 23 c 3 according 
 
APPARITIONS, WITCHCRAFT, &C. 
 
 according to the prediction, in the civil wars, at the 
 battle of the Faubourg St. Antoine. 
 
 It may naturally be asked here, whence it happens that 
 so many other persons, who have made the same promise 
 to come again after their death, have not done it ? Seneca 
 mentions a stoic philosopher, named Canius Julus, who, 
 being condemned to death by Caligula, told his friends, 
 that whereas they were inquiring whether the soul was 
 immortal or not, he was going to a place where he 
 should soon know : but we are no where told that he 
 ever returned to clear up the point. 
 
 La Motte le Vayer, in his book on the Immortality of 
 the Soul, relates how he made an agreement with a friend 
 of his, that the first of the two that died should return and 
 inform the other of his condition. It happened that his 
 friend died first, but he never returned and kept his promise. 
 
 Mr. Montague's agreement with the Earl of Rochester 
 ended in the same manner, as the story is related in Mrs, 
 Rowe's Letters ; but it is wrong to conclude, that, be- 
 cause the deceased sometimes return, that they always 
 can ; and it is equally absurd to deny their coming again, 
 because some, that have promised to do so, have not been 
 able to keep their word. 
 
 To justify these positions, we must suppose it to be in 
 their own power to appear when and hovC^ they please ; 
 but it Seems evident, on the contrary, that this does 'not 
 depend upon them, and that it is by the particular per- 
 mission of Almighty God that they ever appear at all. 
 
 li xtraor dinar y ^warning to a gentleman not to enter into the 
 ariny, 
 
 A young gentleman of fortune, in the beginning of the 
 last war with France, had a great inclination* to see the 
 •world, as he called it ; therefore resolved to go into the 
 army; his father being dead, and had left him a good 
 estate, besides his mother's jointure. His mother earnestly 
 entreated him to desist from his resolution of going into 
 the army ; and represented to him the many calamities he 
 30 would 
 
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APPARITIONS, WITCHCRAFT, &C. 
 
 would be exposed to, beside the danger of losing hij 
 life, as was too often the case with soldiers. He made 
 light of his mother's arguments, and told her, that if he 
 happened to be shot, he should die honourably, and that 
 then there would be an end of him. Accordingly he mort- 
 gaged part of his estate, and purchased a post in the first 
 regiment of light horse, thjen going abroad. 
 
 The night before he signed the c^greement for the com- 
 pany, being in bed, and fast asleep, he saw in a dream 
 his fcther coming to him in his gown, and with a great 
 fur cap on, such as he used to wear, and calling him by 
 his name, *' What is the reason," says he, *' that you 
 will not listen to the entreaties. of your mother, not to go 
 to the wars ? I do assure you, that if yovi resolve to take 
 this commission, you will not enjoy it three years." 
 
 *^ Why, says he, (in his dream,) " what will hinder 
 me ?" being, it seems, desirous to know something of 
 his fortune. 
 
 ** Ask me not the particulars," says the apparition, 
 ** but either decline the employ ; or, when you have en- 
 joyed it two years and a half, sell out again, as I did be- 
 fore you, and you may thereby probably prolong your life." 
 
 He seemed to slight the admonition, and said it was 
 too late to look back. 
 
 ** Too late ! too late 1" says the apparition, repeating 
 the words : *' then go on, and repent too late.'' 
 
 He was not much affected with this apparition, when 
 he awaked, and found it was but a dream ; "for dreams,** 
 said he, ** are not to be heeded 1" So he went on, and 
 bought the commission. 
 
 A few days after the commission was bought, the 
 father appeared again, not to him but to his mother, in 
 a dream too as before : and, taking notice to her how his 
 son had rejected her admonition, he added : 
 
 " Young heads are wilful ; Robert will go into the 
 army ; but tell him from -me he shall never come back.'* 
 
 All these notices were of no force with this young 
 
 gentleman ; but, as he had resolved^ so he pursued his 
 
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APPARITIONS, WITCHCRAFT, &C. 
 
 resolution, and went into the army : and two battalions 
 of that regiment going into the field that summer, his 
 company was one, and was ordered into Flanders. 
 
 He wanted no occasion to shew his bravery, and in 
 several warm actions came off* with applause ; so that he 
 was lar from being suspected of cowardice ; but one 
 day, and in the third year of his service, the army ^as 
 drawn out in order to battle, the general having received 
 certain advice, that the enemy would come and attack 
 them. As he stood at the head of his company, he was 
 seized suddenly with a cold shivering fit ; and it was so 
 violent, that some officers, who were near him, (everyone 
 at their post,) perceived it. 
 
 It continued about a quarter of an hour, and the ene- 
 my came on as was expected ; but the fight began 
 vipon the left, at a good distance from them, so that 
 the whole left wing was engaged before they began. 
 
 While this lasted, theheutenant called to tbe gentleman : 
 ** Colonel," says he, " how do you do? I hope your 
 shivering fit is over.'* 
 
 *' No," says the colonel, '* It is not over ; l^ut it is 
 a httle better." 
 
 " It will be over presently," says the Heutenant. 
 
 *' Ay, so it will," says the colonel ; "I am very easy • 
 I know what it was now !" and with that he called the 
 lieutenant to come to him for a moment. 
 
 When he came, says he, " I know now what ailed 
 me ; I am very easy ; I have seen my father ; I shall be 
 killed the first volley : let my mother know I told you 
 this. Adieu !" 
 
 In a few minutes after this, a body of the enemy ad- 
 vanced, and the first volley the regiment received, was 
 the fire of five platoons of grenadiers, by which the cap- 
 tain and several other ofiicers, besides private men, were 
 killed, and the w^hole brigade was soon after put into 
 confusion ; though, being supported by some regiments 
 ©f the second line, they rallied again soon after ; the 
 young captain's body was presently recovered^ but he 
 32 was 
 
APPARITIOXS, WITCHCRAFT, 6C(;. 
 
 was irrecoverably dead, for he received a shot in his face, 
 which killed him immediately. 
 
 As I have observed before, kow rarely do we find that 
 any of these fore- warnings arc regarded, let them come 
 either from a bad or a good spirit, especially among the 
 gay and unbelieving world. 
 
 Of a lady in Vtrginia'Strcct^ ivho saw her husband when he 
 vas in danger at sea. 
 
 A certain lady of my acquaintance, going out of her cham- 
 ber' into a closet in tlie adjoining room, saw her husband 
 walking along in the room before her : she immediately 
 came down in great surprize,, and toldthx family she had 
 seen her husband, and she was sure ^it was lie ; though at 
 the sam^ time she knew her husband (who was the com- 
 mander of a ship) was at sea, on a voyage to or from the 
 Capes of Virginia. 
 
 The family took the alarm, and told her, that, to be 
 sure, her husband wasdead, that she should be sure to 
 set down the day of the month, and the hour of the day ; 
 and it was ten thouvsand to one but she should find that 
 he died that very moment, or as near as could be found out. 
 
 About two months after, her husband cams home very 
 well, but had an accident befal him in his voyage, viz, 
 that, stepping into the boat, or out of the boat, he fell 
 into the sea/ and was in danger of being lost ; and this 
 they calculated upon to be as near the time as they could 
 judge that he appeared to his wife. 
 
 C«/Y/ of the ague hy a charm* 
 
 While Mr. Hale was a student at Oxford, he and 
 5iome other young gentlemen, his frien<Ss, being out on a 
 shooting party, became much fatigued, and wanted some 
 refreshment ; and, meeting with a public-house, they 
 agreed to go in and get such as it produced ; b^ut, upon 
 inquiry among one ano^^Jjer, it appeared that none of the 
 party had any money ; invention, therefore, was neces* 
 sary ; and Mr. Hale, seeing a miserable old trotting fe- 
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APPARmONS, WITCHCRAFT, &C. 
 
 ijiale sitting in the chimney-corner, he inquired the 
 cause of her condition. She had been sorely afflicted, 
 she said, for more than a year, with the ague, whict 
 bailed all iht skill of the doctors.' Mr. Hale imme- 
 diately declared he would remove her complaint in ten 
 days time, and accordingly got a pair of scissars, and, 
 cutting out a circular piece of paper, wrote a line in 
 \ irgil in tlie margin thereof, and bid her wear it about 
 her neck. The old woman had faith ; and the students 
 could I'Ot prevail on her to take what they offered, but 
 what they had not to give. When Mr. Hale became 
 Lord Chief Justice, a woman was brought before him 
 for trial, charged with being guilty of witchcraft, &:c. 
 His Lordship was veiy unwilling to try, and much 
 more to condemn, a poor innocent woman ; (for, he was 
 too good a philosopher not to suspect the weakness of the 
 poor creature ;) he therefore asked in what instance the 
 prL'^oner seemed particularly criminal ? Her accusers said, 
 among other things, that she had a charm whereby she 
 cured agues, which never returned. The jt^lge called 
 upon the old woman to answer to the charge, and she 
 honestly owned tha|: it was true, but absolutely denied 
 that she possessed any supernatural power, but did it 
 merely by means of a bit of paper whicix had cured her 
 mother of a most obstinate ague, and vv^as given to her 
 mother as a rare and valuable legacy, which she had re- 
 ceived from a vouns: 2:entleman of Oxford. The Chief 
 Justice required the woman to produce the charm, and 
 was confirmed in his suspicion ; for, he found it to be 
 the very charm with which he had subdued his own and 
 his companions hungry appetites 1 It is alm-ost needless to 
 add, that the witch escaped the. trying-pool, and the 
 Judge foimd a pleasing opportunity to discharge the pri- 
 soner, and to compensate for his youthful frolic. 
 
 Journey qf a cofin* 
 M. de Pages, on a voyage up the Mediterranean, on 
 drawing near the coast of Sicily, opposite the burning 
 34 fiaountain 
 
APPARITIONS, WrrCHCRAFT, &C. 
 
 mountiiui on that island, observes : '' We perceived 
 something floating along the sea, and moving up and 
 down in its course : we imagined it to be the buoy that 
 had belonged to a ship, but, on its near approach, it ap- 
 peared to be a very handsome coffin. It passed along- 
 side our ship, and, narrowly watching it, we saw that 
 it made to the shore, where it landed ; and then (as if 
 conducted by an invisible power) steered directly up to 
 the summit of the burning mountain, and instantly darted 
 down into the volcano. 
 
 Misa Prihglts appearance at two places at the same t'me, 
 Mrs. Jane Lowe, house-keeper to Mr. Pfingle, in 
 Clifton-park, in the south of Scotland, one morning, in 
 the summer of 1743, beheld the apparition of a lady 
 walking in the avenue, on the margin of a rivulet, which 
 runs into the Kale water. The form exactly resembled a 
 daughter of her master, who had long been absent from 
 the family, at the distance of about a hundred miles 
 south of Paris. As Mrs. Lowe walked down the 
 avenue and approached the rivulet, she grew more 
 and more certain of the similitude of the phantom 
 to the idea in her mind of the Miss Pringle ; and, 
 seeing her master in an enclosure adjoining, she com- 
 municated to him what she had just seen. Mr. Pringle 
 laughed, and said, ** You simple woman, that lady is 
 Miss Chattow, of Moorebattle." However, Mrs. Lowe 
 prevailed on him to accompany her to the place ; which 
 they had nearly reached, when the apparition sprung 
 into the water, and instantly disappeared. 
 
 Mr. Pringle and Mrs. Lowe, on returning to the hall, 
 
 apprised the family of the vision, and for their pains were 
 
 heartily laughed at. The Rev. Mr. Turnbull, minister 
 
 of Linton, happened to breakfast that morning with 
 
 Mr. Pringle, his lady, and two young daughters, who 
 
 joined in the ridicule. About three months after, the 
 
 •same reverend gentleman honoured the family with his 
 
 . company ; when, standing at a window in the lower 
 
 35 room^ 
 
APPARITIONS, WITCHCRAFT, &C. 
 
 room, he observed a poor ragged, lame, lean, man, slowl}"^ 
 approaching the house : " Here comes another appari- 
 tion !" cried Mr. Turnbull, with a kind of contemptuous 
 smile. This drew the immediate attention of all present, 
 and Mr. Pringle quickly recognized the person to be his 
 second son; whom he had not seen before for ten years. 
 
 On his arrival he soon convinced them he was no ap-, 
 parition, declaring that he had narrowly escaped with his 
 jife from Tunis, in the vicinity of which he had been a 
 slave to the Algerines seven years, but had happily been 
 ransomed at the critical moment when he was ordered to 
 be put to death for mutiny. He added, that on his re- 
 turn home through France, he called at the place where 
 be had heard his sister resided, and to > his unspeakable 
 grief found that she died on the 25th of May, the same 
 summer, about five o'clock in the morning, which he 
 recollected to have been the precise time that he was 
 rescued from the jaws of death, and when he thought 
 he beheld his sister. Mrs. Lowe, Who was preseiat in 
 the room, on hearing his declaration, broke forth into 
 an acclamation, affirming that the day alluded to was 
 . that on which she had shewn Mr. Pringle the apparition; 
 and this w^as confirmed by the reverend divine, in whose 
 study this story was found after his death, , 
 
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