A T K I N S. " to torment us before the time- :' It was not then the time
- ' of their being tormented : it is lather to In believed th.:t
" they .ire wandering about in th.- air, and (here f! to " and fro, driving OM fuch wickid purpofes as this our enemy
- ' is engaged in. We know grave and it-nous hHtorians give
" us initances of correfpondencies held both oy good and bad
- fpirits here ; the wicked by God's per million , the f^ind.
<c by his command and particular good providence. So the " death of Julian the apoitatc heaih'.:n emperor, who was
- ' killed in his wars in Pcrfu, was known in the very mo-
" ment of it at the city of Rome, at a great diibnce from, " th? place of battle, to the no little joy of the Chriftians.
- ' And this, I fuppofe, was by 'he rniniftryof a good angel.
" We have initances of another nature, of what has been " done bv evil angels. In the inftant of our Saviour's O t pallion, if we may believe credible hiftorians, itwasknown " at a vail diftance from Jerufalem., at fea among fome who " were then on a voyage : they heard a voice in the air, " crying out of the death of the gr^at god Pan : after which " followed great bowlings and fcreechings. Whence we
- ' may fuppofe by the exprefiion, that this was by fome
" wicked ipirits that were then hovering in the air, and did 4< communicate this piece of intelligence." In June 1695, being then in his 74-ih year, he refigned his office [B], and retired to his feat at Saperton-hall in Glo- cefterftiire, where he fpent the laft fourteen years of his life in cafe and quiet. He died in the beginning of the year 1709, aged 88. He was a man of great probity, as well as of great fkill in hi= profeffion, and a warm friend to the con- ttitution [cj. He was twice married, firil to Mary, daughter of [B] It is f.uJ that his refignntion was " concerning the Election of Members owing to his being difappoimed of the " to Parliament between Sir Samuel place of tr.afier i;f the rolls, in the room " Barr,a;Jil>on Plaimirl", and Sir Wil- cf fir John Trevor. Remarks on the " liam Soame, SherirYut .suiT. Ik, De- Siate of the L.iw, p. 5. " fendant, in the t.ouit if King's [c] His writings are collected into " !' nch, in an action upon the Cafe, one volume, octavo, uniler ihe titK- -if " and afterwards l>y Error fued in the <( Parliameniary and political Tracls," " Exchequer Chamber." containing, 3. "An Enquiry into the Power of I. "The Power, JurifdicHon, and " difpenfmg with penal Siatntef. To- <; Privilege ot Parliament, and the An " gether wiih 'ome Animadverfions " tiquity of the Houle of Commons ;if- " upon a Rook writ by Sir Edward Ker- " ferted : occafioned by an Information " bert, Lord chief Juftice of the Court " in the King's Bench, by the Attor " of Common INcas, intituled, l A rticrt " ney-general, againft the Speaker of " Account of the Authorities in Law <l the Houfe of Commons." " upon which Judgment was given in 1. "An Argument in the great Cafe " Sir Edward Hale'f Cafe." B b 3 4- "ADe-
