Miscellanies upon various subjects ... / [John Aubrey].

  • John Aubrey
Date:
1784
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    are reprefented to their view. One inftance I had from a gentleman here, of a Highland gentleman of the Mackdonalds, who having a brother that came to vifit him, faw him coming in, wanting a head; yet told not his brother he faw any fuch thing ; but within twenty-four hours thereafter, his brother was taken, (being a murderer) and his head cut off, and fent to Edinburgh. Many fuch inftances might be given. Query 5, If the fecond-fight be a thing that is troublefome and uneafy to thofe that have it, and fuch as they would gladly be rid of ? Anfwer. 3 Tt is commonly talked by all I fpoke with, that it is troublefome; and they would gladly — be freed from it, but cannot: only I heard lately of aman very much troubled in his foul therewith, and by ferious begging of God deliverance from it, at length loft the faculty of the fecond-fight, Query 6.
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