Life after death, or wonderful relations, etc. Being an inquiry concerning the state ... of departed souls ... Shewing their power and abilities to re-visit mankind ... / Abstracted from the works of Mr. Jones, Mr. Jackson, etc.

Date:: [1787?]

Credit: Life after death, or wonderful relations, etc. Being an inquiry concerning the state ... of departed souls ... Shewing their power and abilities to re-visit mankind ... / Abstracted from the works of Mr. Jones, Mr. Jackson, etc. Source: Wellcome Collection.

52/62 (page 50)

$the retutn of the kings; and they alTured me, upoi\ their own knowledge, that to that day the poor en¬ joyed the piece of ground: they added, that Mrs. Jdretton’s father could never endure to hear any thing of his daughter’s appearing after death, hut would flill reply, that it was not his daughter, but the devil; to that he acknowledged fomething ap¬ peared in the likenefs of his daughter. ^I'his is aitehed by me 17th February, i68t, Edward Fowler. 20th, The Apparition of Sir G. H-to his two Tons to prevent a duel between them. T—H-efc]. a gentleman of fortune, eldeft fon of the family, whole father was a baronet, and of an honourable line, (and then living) being a young man, and a man ofpleafure, had an intrigue with a certain lady, in which the younger brother, (of the two rather more gay, and given to it rather more than himfelf) was his rival; the lady was handfome, and of no defpicable fortune, but much inferior to the eldcll; fon of the family, whofe for¬ tune was near 2C00I. per annum, after the death of his lather Sir G— H-. '['he younger gentleman was really in love with tile lady, and inclined to marry her if he could bring his father to conlent to it; nor was the baronet much averfe to it, only he thought her fortune too fmalh . On the other hand, the Tquire, as they called him, kept her company on a far worfe account, defigning to mak^ a mi lire fs of her, and not a wdfe. Upon thefe widely diderent views the brother* ©ften met at the aunt’s, where flie lived. The elder brother had this advantage, (viz.) that the lady loved him, and would have been very well ple«fed$