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

  • John Aubrey
Date:
1784
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Credit: Miscellanies upon various subjects ... / [John Aubrey]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    of feveral that were well acquainted with, was a very honeft man, and of right blame- lefs converfation. He ufed ordinarily by look- ing to the fire, to fore-tell what ftrangers would come to his houfe the next day, or fhortly thereafter, by their habit and arms, and fometimes alfo by their names; and if any of his goods or cattle were miffing, he would direct his fervants to the very place where to find them, whether in a mire or upon dry ground; he would alfo tell, if the beaft were already dead, or if it would die ere they could come to it; and in winter, if they were thick about the fire-fide, he would defire them to make room for fome others that ftood by, though they did not fee them, elfe fome of them, would be quickly throne into the midft of it. But whether this — man faw any more than Brownie and Meg Mullach, I am not very fure; fome fay, he {aw more continually, and would often be very angiy-like, and fomething troubled, nothing vifibly moving him: others affirm he faw thefe two continually, and fometimes many more. They
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