Pietas in patriam the life of His Excellency Sir William Phips, Knt. late Captain…

Again; A Person was haunted by a most abusive Spectre, which came to her, she said, with a Sheet about her, though seen to none but her self. After she had undergone a deal of Tease, from the Annoyance of the Spectre, she gave a violent snatch at the Sheet that was upon it; where-from she tore a Corner, which in her Hand, immediately was beheld by all that were present; a palpable Corner of a Sheet: And her Father, which was now holding of her, catched, that he might keep, what his Daughter had so strangely seized; but the Spectre had like to have wrung his Hand off, by endeavouring to wrest it from him: However he still held it; and several times this odd Accident was renewed in the Family. There wanted not the Oaths of good credible People, to these particulars.

Again; A Person was haunted by a most abusive Spectre, which came to her, she said, with a Sheet about her, though seen to none but her self. After she had undergone a deal of Teaze, from the Annoyance of the Spectre, she gave a violent snatch at the Sheet that was upon it; where-from she tore a Corner, which in her Hand, immediately was beheld by all that were present; a palpable Corner of a Sheet: And her Father, which was now holding of her, catch'd, that he might keep, what his Daughter had so strangely siezed; but the Spectre had like to have wrung his Hand off, by endeavouring to wrest it from him: However he still held it; and several times this odd Accident was renewed in the Family. There wanted not the Oaths of good credible People, to these particulars.

Also, It is well known, that these wicked Spectres did proceed so far as to steal several Quantities of Money from divers People, part of which Individual Money, was dropped sometimes out of the Air, before sufficient Spectators, into the Hands of the Afflicted, while the Spectres were urging them to subscribe their Covenant with Death. Moreover, Poisons to the standers-by, wholly Invisible, were sometimes forced upon the Afflicted; which when they have with much Reluctancy swallowed, they have swoln presently, so that the common Medicines for Poisons have been found necessary to relieve them: Yea, sometimes the Spectres in the struggles, have so dropped the Poisons, that the Standers by have smelt them, and viewed them, and beheld the Pillows of the miserable stained with them.