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told him, he should take it at his house; for he feared, should he take it so soon there, it would make him sick.

Thereupon they went together to Mr. Broom's House where they were no sooner entring in, but the Bell rang out. Mr. Broom presently sent his Maid to learn who was dead. She brought word that it was such an one, a Taylor, who dyed suddenly, though he had been in a Consumption a long time. And inquiring after the time of his death, they found it was as punctually as it could be guessed at the very time when the Ghost appeared. The Ghost had exactly this Taylor's known Gate who ordinarily went also with one Arm swinging, and a Glove in that hand, and looking on one side upwards.

ADVERTISEMENT.

THIS Relation was sent to Dr. H. More from Mr. Edward Fowler; at the end whereof he writes, that Dr. Burton as well as himself, heard it from Mr. Broom's own mouth. And I can add, that I also afterwards heard it from his own mouth at London.

RELAT. XVIII.

An Irish story of one that had like to have been carried away by Spirits, and of the Ghost of a Man who had been seven years dead that brought a Medicine to the abovesaid parties Bed-side.

A Gentleman in Ireland near to the Earl of Orrery's, sending his Butler one afternoon to buy Cards; as he passed a Field, he, to his wonder, espyed a company of people sitting round a Table, with a deal of good chear before them in the midst of the Field. And he going up towards them, they all