Visits from the world of spirits, or, Interesting anecdotes of the dead ... : Being an impartial survey of the most remarkable accounts of apparitions, dreams, ghosts, spectres, and visions ... together with some originals / to which is prefixed, an introduction, by the editor.
- Date:
- 1791
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Visits from the world of spirits, or, Interesting anecdotes of the dead ... : Being an impartial survey of the most remarkable accounts of apparitions, dreams, ghosts, spectres, and visions ... together with some originals / to which is prefixed, an introduction, by the editor. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![[ ] Whatever there was of all this, it is a notorious truth, that when the news of the duke’s murder (which happened within a few months after) was brought to his mother, Ihe feemed not in the leaft. degree furprizcd, but received it as if fhe had forefeen it; nor did afterwards exprefs fuch a de- gree of borrow as was expefle'd from fuch a mo- ther, for the lofs of fuch a fon. This llory is related with fome little circumftan- tlal difference byfevcral confiderable authors, who all feera to agree in the moil material parts of it. Vide Baker s Chronicle, Fame, though with fome privacy, fays, that the fecret token was an incefluoiis breach of modefiy between the duke and a certain lady too nearly re- lated to him, which it furprized the duke to hear of; and that as he tliought he had good reafons to be fure the lady would not tell it of herfelf, fo he thought none but the devil could tell it befides her; and this aftonifhed him, fo that he was veiy far from receiving the man flightly, or laughing at his melfage. A confiderable time before this happened. Sir Clement Throckmorton dreamed that an. affaffin would kill his grace; therefore he took the firfl opportunity to advife him to wear a privy coat; the duke thanked him for his counfel very kindly, but gave him this arifwer, that he thought a coat of mail would fignify little in a popular commotion, and from any fingle perfon he apprehended no danger. Kelique PVotton^ p. i.]4. This relation is recorded by three different an- tliors; viz. Mr. Lilly the aftrologer, in a work of his; Lord Clarendon’s hiftory of England; and Mr. maker’s Chronicle. It is alfo mentioned by Mr. Flavel in his treatifeon the foul.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28781545_0066.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
