An historical, physiological and theological treatise of spirits, apparitions, witchcrafts, and other magical practices ... With a refutation of Dr. Bekker's 'World bewitch'd', and other authors that have opposed the belief of them / By John Beaumont.

  • John Beaumont
Date:
1705
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Credit: An historical, physiological and theological treatise of spirits, apparitions, witchcrafts, and other magical practices ... With a refutation of Dr. Bekker's 'World bewitch'd', and other authors that have opposed the belief of them / By John Beaumont. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    or PrnUiar Spirit i* * a little Woman,between her Curtain and her * Pillow , who told her flie was her Mother, * that file was Happy, and that by Twelve of the Clock, that Day, flie fhould be with her^ (whereupon fhe knok’d again for her Maid, c called for her Clothes, and when flie was c drefs’d, went into her Clofet, and came not c out again till Nine; and then brought out * with her a Letter fealed to her Father, brought 0 it to her Aunt, the Lady Everard, told her M what had happen’d, and defied, that aifoont 4 as file was Dead, it might be fent to him • but' * the Lady thought flie was fuddenly fall’# Mad; and thereupon fent jffefently away c to Chelmsford, for a Phyfician and Surgeon, * who both came immediately, but* the Phyfi* € cian could difcern no Indication of what the c Lady imagin’d, or of any Indifpofition of € her Body, notwithstanding the Lady would * needs haVe her let Blood, which was done ac~ € cordmgly;and when theYotmg Woman had * patiently let them do what they would with * her file defir d that theChaplain might becalm '* led to read Prayers; and when Prayers were € ended, flie took her Gittar and Vfalm Book,and 4 fate down upon a Chair without Arms, and * play’d and fung fo melodioufly and admi- c rably, that her Mufick-Mafter , who was * then there, admired at it* and near the fltoke f of Twelve, fhe rofe, and fate her felf down * in a great Chair with Arms, and prefentiy fetching a firong Breathing or two, imme* *ately Expired , and was lb fuddenly gold, was much wondred at by the Phyfician c a. 1 Surgeon. She dyed at Waltham, inEJ]ex$ f tht e Miles from Chelmsford ; and the. Let-'