Like Nicolai, he sometimes saw a multitude of men and women about him, both in the day and night. 66 "So it was "with myself," says he, "for I saw "hundreds, though I never saw any in "the night-time, without a fire, or canIdle-light, or in the moonshine, and 66 " as the person mentioned (by Aubrey) "had two particular spirits there named, "which constantly attended him, be"sides others without names, so it was with myself; two spirits constantly at 66 tending me, night and day, for above "three months together; who called "each other by their names, and several 66 spirits would often call at my chamber "door, and ask whether such spirits "lived there, calling by their names, "and they would answer, they did. "As for the other spirits that attended 66 me, I heard none of their names men"tioned, only I asked one spirit which "came for some nights together, and 66 rung a little bell in my ear, what his name was, who answered Ariel. We "find that one of the spirits, who "attended the second-sighted person, 66 appeared as a boy, the other as a girl; "but the two that constantly attended myself, appeared both in women's habit, they being of a brown com plexion, and about three foot in sta"ture; they had both black, loose net"work gowns, tyed with a black sash "about the middle, and within the net"work appeared a gown of a golden "colour, with somewhat of a light strik 66 ing through it. Their heads were not "drest with top-knots, but they had "white linen caps on, with lace on them, about three-fingers breadth, and "over it they had a black loose net-work "hood. “As the foresaid second-sighted persons, sitting by the fire, with others in the winter-time, would see spirits standing by, and often seem angry "and disturbed, though nothing visible "to others moved him; so, as I have "been sitting by the fire with others, "I have seen several spirits, and pointed "to the place where they were, telling "the company they were there. And "one spirit, whom I heard calling to +66 me, as he stood behind me, on a "sudden clapped his finger to my side, "which I sensibly perceived, and started "at it, and as I saw one spirit come in "at the door, which I did not like, I suddenly laid hold of a pair of tongs, "and struck at him with all my force, whereupon he vanished. 66 66 *** I must declare, that I would "not for the whole world undergo what "I have undergone, upon spirits com"ing twice to me; their first coming "was most dreadful to me, the thing being then altogether new, and consequently more surprizing, though at "the first coming they did not appear 66 66 "to me, but only called to me at my chamber windows, rung bells, sung "to me, and played on music, &c. but "the last coming also carried terror enough; for when they came, being only five in number, the two women "before mentioned, and three men, (though afterwards there came hun 66 66 66 dreds) they told me they would kill me, if I told any person in the house "of their being there, which put me in "some consternation, and I made a "servant sit up with me four nights in 66 66 my chamber before a fire, it being "in the Christmas Holidays, telling no person of their being there. One of "these spirits in women's dress, lay "down upon the bed by me every night; and told me if I slept, the spirits would kill me, which kept me waking for three nights. In the mean time, a near relation of mine went (though unknown to me) to a physician of my acquaintance, desiring 66 66 66 66 "him to prescribe me somewhat for sleeping, which he did, and a sleeping potion was brought me, but I set it by, being very desirous and inclined "to sleep without it. The fourth night "I could hardly forbear sleeping, but "the spirit, lying on the bed by me, told me again, I should be killed if I slept; 66 66 66 66 66 1 whereupon I rose, and sate by the fire-side, and in a while returned to my bed; and so I did a third time, "but was still threatened as before : whereupon I grew impatient, and "asked the spirits what they would "have? Told them I had done the 66 part of a christian, in humbling myself "to God, and feared them not, and "rose from my bed, took a cane, and "knocked at the ceiling of my cham“ber, a near relation of mine lying then “over me, who presently rose and came "down to me, about two o'clock in the morning, to whom I said, you have 66 66 seen me disturbed these four days past, |