66 66 66 "Well, but this very man has in the "77th and 78th pages of this Echo printed "for the author in 12. and sold at his "house in Long Alley in Black Friars, "1653, second edition with additions, a 'prophecy which astonishes all who carefully consider it. It is in these words, A vision that I had presently after the king's death. I thought that I was in a great hall like the king's hall, or the castle in Winchester, and there was none there but a judge that sat upon "the bench and myself; and as I turned "to a window in the north-westward, "and looking into the palm of my "hand, there appeared to me a face, "head and shoulders like the Lord Fairfax's, and presently it vanished. Again, 66 "there arose the Lord Cromwell, and “he vanished likewise; then arose a face and he had a crown upon young "his head, and he vanished also; and face arose with a crown "another young upon his head, and he vanished also; young face arose " and another "with a crown upon his head, and "vanished in like manner; and as I "turned the palm of my hand back "again to me and looked, there did appear no more in it. Then I turned "to the judge and said to him, there arose in my hand seven; and five of "them had crowns; but when I turned my land, the blood turned to its veins, and these appeared no more: so I "awoke. The interpretation of this vision 46 is, that after the Lord Cromwell, there "shall be kings again in England, which 66 thing is signified unto us by those that arose after him, who were all crowned, "but the generations to come may look "for a change of the blood, and of the name in the royal seat, after five kings "once passed, 2 Kings x. 30. (The "words referred to in this text are these) "And the Lord said unto Jehu, because "thou hast done well, &c. thy children F "of the fourth generation shall sit upon "the throne of Israel."* Sauvages mentions, that a woman, subject to epilepsy, saw, during the paroxysm, dreadful spectres, and that real objects appeared magnified to an extraordinary degree: a fly seemed as large as a fowl, and a fowl appeared equal in size to an ox. In coloured objects, green predominated with her; a curious fact, which I have seen verified in other convulsive diseases. very intelligent boy, who was under my care for convulsions of the voluntary muscles, when he looked at some large caricatures, glaringly coloured with red and yellow, insisted on it that they were covered with green, till his paroxysm abated, during which his intellects had not been at all affected. * Jortin's Rem. on Ecclesiast. Hist. App. to vol, I. A Among other instances of Suffusio, Sauvages also mentions an aged physician of Narbonne, who, during several days, saw every object crooked. I shall select, as a remarkable instance of spectral impressions, a story published by Richard Bovet, in his Pandamoпит, or the Devil's Cloyster, printed in 1684. The first appearances were probably seen in a dream. The noises, on the second night, were perhaps recollected impressions.* "About the year 1667, being with "some persons of honour in the house of "a nobleman in the west country, which had formerly been a nunnery: I must "confess I had often heard the servants, "and others that inhabited or lodged there, speak much of the noises, stirs, and apparitions that frequently disturbed the * Eighth Relation, p. 202.. 16 house, but had at that time no appre"hensions of it; for the house being full 66 of stranger's, the nobleman's steward, "Mr. C. lay with me in a fine wainscoatroom, called my ladies' chamber; we "went to our lodging pretty early, and having a good fire in the room, we 66 66 spent some time in reading, in which "he much delighted: then having got into bed, and put out the candles, we "observed the room to be very light, by the brightness of the moon, so that 66 66 a wager was laid between us, that it "was possible to read written hand by "that light upon the bed where we lay; 66 accordingly I drew out of my pocket a manuscript, which he read distinctly "in the place where he lay: we had "scarce made an end of discoursing "about that affair, when I saw (my face being towards the door which was locked) entering into the room, five appearances of very fine and lovely 66 |