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

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.

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 dropt 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 dropt the Poisons, that the Standers by have smelt them, and view'd them, and beheld the Pillows of the miserable stained with them.

Yet more, the miserable have complained bitterly of burning Rags run into their forcibly distended Mouths, and though no Body could see any such Clothes, or, indeed any Fires in the Chambers, yet presently the scalds were seen plainly, by every Body, on the Mouths of the Complainers, and not only the Smell, but the Smoke of the Burning, sensibly filled the Chambers.

Yet more, the miserable have complained bitterly of burning Rags run into their forceably distended Mouths, and though no Body could see any such Clothes, or, indeed any Fires in the Chambers, yet presently the scalds were seen plainly, by every Body, on the Mouths of the Complainers, and not only the Smell, but the Smoke of the Burning, sensibly fill'd the Chambers.