Memorable providences relating to witchcrafts and possessions a faithful account of many wonderful and…

Tho the Letter was a most Villainous Forgery, Filled with Treason and Madness in the Exaltation of it, and never was one line of it written by my Father. The Letter-Forger had so foolishly drawn it up, That Randolph could not get the Blood of the Gentlemen, whom he (after his manner, that is) falsely Charged with being the Author it, yet care was taken thereby to blast his Name: The Observator, (whom one calls The Father of Lies) here became Nurse, & printed it, with not a few scurrilous Observations on it. So that in all the Taverns and Coffee-houses throughout Three-Kingdoms, this innocent Person was made a Ridicule, and Barbados too, with other of the Lee-ward Islands, took this opportunity to spit their venom on one who had never done any thing to deserve it, but by being (in the account of some that are Both) somewhat of a Learned and Honest man. My Father to Vindicate himself, while our old Government yet lasted, wrote a Letter to Mr. Dudley, who had from White-Hall, Received a Copy of that bloody Forgery; and in this Vindication, he intimates that several shroud things would make him suspect Randolph himself to be the Director of it. It was Evident unto him That the whole Forgery was contrived for Randolph's advantage; tis almost all of him and for him; but could any rational man imagine, that he was then wholly a stranger ⟨p. 10⟩to it? Besides there were in it several other Expressions, which (twas then thought) no man in his Wits can dream that any without him should have. But Randolph upon his arrival here with our New Government getting a Copy of my Fathers Vindication, dos after so many months now sue him in an Action of Defamation, to Embarrass the Affairs he had before him. The Jury which consisted partly of Church of E. Gentlemen, Found for my Father against the Plaintiff. And yet just within a Week or two before his Voyage, Randolph renewed his Action; his Abetters resolving (as I am credibly informed) That having laid the Arrest upon him, they would have secured his Person in the Goal, as the worse of Traitors; for what Illegality would they stick at? He happily understanding, what they would be at, by the counsel of his Friends withdrew, for about a week; and then, tho both by Day and Night, both by Land and Sea, the late Spirits among us way-laid him, God carried him safely through them all;

Tho the Letter was a most Villanous Forgery, Filled with Treason and Madness in the Exaltation of it, and never was one line of it written by my Father. The Letter-Forger had so foolishly drawn it up, That Randolph could not get the Blood of the Gentlemen, whom he (after his manner, that is) falsly Charged with being the Authour it, yet care was taken thereby to blast his Name: The Observator, (whom one calls The Father of Lyes) here became Nurse, & printed it, with not a few scurrilous Observations on it. So that in all the Taverns and Coffee-houses throughout Three-Kingdoms, this innocent Person was made a Ridicule, and Barbados too, with other of the Lee-ward Islands, took this opportunity to spit their venome on one who had never done any thing to deserve it, but by being (in the account of some that are Both) somewhat of a Learned and Honest man. My Father to Vindicate himself, while our old Government yet lasted, wrote a Letter to Mr. Dudley, who had from White-Hall, Received a Copy of that bloody Forgery; and in this Vindication, he intimates that several shrowd things would make him suspect Randolph himself to be the Director of it. It was Evident unto him That the whole Forgery was contrived for Randolph's advantage; tis almost all of him and for him; but could any rational man imagine, that he was then wholly a stranger