Andover in Wiltshire, who utter'd those horrid and blasphemous expressions, that God never did him any good in his life, and he believed did not know what he did himself; with other words too monstrous and devilish to be repeated: upon which he was immediately struck speechless, motionless, and almost without sign of life, and fell down as in a dead sleep; and no strength either of men or horses has been able hitherto to remove him from the ground. Also an account of his wicked life and actions for twenty-four years before this just judgement fell upon him, with his coming to his speech again in four months and twenty days' time, and the terrible sights he saw in the other world, which he has discover'd to some thousands of spectators, &c. 8vo. n. d.

160. LOVE'S TRUE ORACLE, or a new and curious fortune-book for men, maids, wifes, and widows, plainly and truly resolving, after a new and ingenious method, whether life be long or short, &c. 12mo. n. d.

To dissolve and hinder witchcraft, and to prevent ä thief from breaking into the house. Pimpernal, governed by the sun, being gathered the latter end of July half an hour after two in the afternoon, or something more take this herb, and sew it up in a yellow silk rag, stitched with yellow silk, and lay it under the threshold, hindereth the witch from coming in, and dissolveth witchcraft; or take a quill of quicksilver, and stop it with yellow wax very well, and lay it under the party bewitched, and the inchantment will cease. The virtue and use of marygold in discovering a thief.

Gather this herb in the middle of August, on a

Saturday, three quarters of an hour after sun-rising, and put in a leaf of laurel, and then write the party's name that useth it, and if he hath anything stolen, put it under the pillow at night, and he shall see the thief in his dream, and know him. This hath been approved.

If the gaul of a cow is secretly hid in the east side of the house, no thieves will venture to break into the house.

To cure the tooth-ache. Take one head of garlick, the skin peeled off and bruised; lay it in equal parts on the soles of the feet, and bind it fast on; it will help them speedily by drawing the humours out of the soles of the feet. Those who have taken this medicine have not been troubled with the tooth-ache for several years after.

161. A NEW PROPHESY, or an account of a young girl (of Torver, in the parish of Ulverston, in Lancaster), not above eight years of age, who being in a trance, or lay as dead for the space of forty-eight hours; with an account of the strange and wonderful sight that she see in the other world. 8vo. n.d.

The title further states it contains, "an alarm from heaven to the inhabitants of the earth, giving an account how crying sins of the day and time do provoke the Almighty; with strange and wonderful things, as a warning to this last and worst age, agreeable to the Holy Scriptures and divine revelation: the like never published, that the saying of the Almighty may be

fulfilled, That out of the mouth of babes and sucklings God will perfect praise.' In the account of the trance we are told, The envious and discontented were howling like mad dogs: the oppressors of the poor were trodden under foot by the devils in the burning flames; in the midst of which lake were the swearers, lyars, and covetous persons, bearing the wrath of God to all eternity!"

162. GOD'S JUSTJUDGMENTAGAINST JEALOUS PERSONS, the case of Mr. William Watts, a gentleman of very good estate in the parish of Milverton, near Taunton in Somersetshire. 8vo. n.d.

In this narrative, the devil is represented as appearing to him in the fields in the shape of a nobleman, and persuading him to murder his wife, whose conduct had alarmed his jealousy. The devil's speech is given entire, and was no doubt considered authentic by the people amongst whom tracts of this kind were circulated.

163. THE SURRY WONDER, giving a true and strange relation of Mr. Henry Watts, minister of Rygate, in the county of Surry, who lay in a trance fortyeight hours. 8vo. Licensed and enter'd according to Order, n.d.

According to this account, the coffin was on the point of being consigned to the earth, when a struggling noise was heard inside, and on its being opened, the supposed corpse lifted up its hand, and by degrees recovered. In the curious account given of the revelations made to him in his trance, he says, "As soon as my soul was separated from this lump of earth, all

my sins were exposed before me, seeming engraved as on a marble table in crimson letters, which very much astonished me. The scroll was very large, every title of them being fresh in my memory. It caused me almost to despair; when at that very instant, an angel presented me with a white and pleasant roll, in which all my good acts were written in letters of shining gold, as also my holy prayers and charitable practices, which shined above all the rest more gloriously, so that a great and heavenly joy seized my soul."

164. THE ROYAL GARLAND OF PROTESTANT DELIGHT, fully furnished with variety of new songs upon sundry occasions: fitted to the capacities of all loving subjects both in city and country. 12mo. Printed for J. Blare at the Looking-glass on London-bridge, 1689.

A curious little volume, in black-letter. The following ballad may be selected as a specimen. It is a companion to "The witty lass of Somersetshire, or the fryer serv'd in his kind," and is entitled, “Robin her true love's contrivance, in an answer to the fryer's misfortune": tune is, "O so ungrateful a creature":

Now, my sweet amorous Nancy,

Thou hast been wise in thy ways,
For I have reason to fancy

We soon our fortune's may raise;
Now in all haste we'll be marry'd,
And of a couple make one;
Matters so fairly is carry'd

That we'll not long lye alone.

Oh! how my riches increases,

Which makes my heart blithe and light:

Here I have twenty broad pieces
Besides good silver so bright:
Thou wast the suttle inventer

Of this new prank which we play'd:
I might have thresh'd a whole winter,
And ne'er been half so well paid.

I'll buy a cow and a weather,

Likewise young yows that will breed;
And I will keep them together,

All in one pasture to feed;
Thou shalt spin woolen and linnen,
And I will harrow and mow,

Thus in a happy beginning,

First we will creep and then go.

As he his mind did discover,
Swearing to make her his bride;
Nancy was pleas'd at her lover,
And with a smile she reply'd:
Robin, true reason requires
Persons to seek after gain,
And 'tis good threshing of fryers,
For they yield excellent grain!

Then the inn-keeper, her master,
With many gentlemen more,
Laugh'd at the fryers disaster,
Vowing they never before
Heard a more prettier fancy,

Which did the fryer defeat,
Still they commended young Nancy,
Who was both wise and discreet.

165. FAIRY STORIES, containing "The Blue Bird and Florina," "The King of the Peacocks and