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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A69640	An history of apparitions, oracles, prophecies, and predictions with dreams, visions, and revelations and the cunning delusions of the devil, to strengthen the idolatry of the gentiles, and the worshipping of saints departed : with the doctrine of purgatory, a work very seasonable, for discovering the impostures and religious cheats of these times / collected out of sundry authours of great credit, and delivered into English from their several originals by T.B. ; whereunto is annexed, a learned treatise, confuting the opinions of the Sadduces and Epicures, (denying the appearing of angels and devils to men) with the arguments of those that deny that angels and devils can assume bodily shapes ; written in French, and now rendred into English ; with a table to the whole work.	Bromhall, Thomas.	1658 (1658)	Wing B4885; ESTC R15515	377,577	402

without some reluctancy ask't him What Man or God art thou or what is thy businesse here The Vision answered O Brutus I am thy evil Angel and thou shalt see me again at Philippi At which Brutus nothing daunted said again I shall then But when it was vanished he called together his Servants who averred to him they neither saw nor heard either Vision or voyce after which Brutus took his rest again When it was light he went to Cassius and told him of this Phantasm When after Cassius was slain at Philippi whilest he prepared for a second fight wherein he was conquered after he had been Victor in the first In the night as the story sayes the same Vision appeared again to Brutus in the same shape not speaking a syllable but so vanisht Plutarchus in Bruto WHen Marcus Antonius became bankrupt at Actium Cassius of Parma his Partner fled to Athens where in the dead of the night as he lay in his bed ingulph't with cares and perplexities he phancied a man of a monstrous magnitude a black and ugly hue his beard incompt and squalid and his hair disorderly hanging down came to him And being askt who he was answered 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i.e. thy evil Angel or Genius Being at last affrighted with so horrid a presence and so evill a name he called in his servants and questioned them whether they saw one of such a dresse and visage either come in or go out of his Chamber and when they had assured him they saw none such he again composed himself to his rest but presently the same Phantasm haunted him Wherefore he cast off all thought of rest and commanded a Candle up to his chamber and enjoyned his servants not to depart from him Between this night and his execution inflicted by Caesar was but a very short interval as you may read in Valerius Max. l. 1. c. 7. and Sueton. in Aug. and Plutarch in vita Antonii DIon of Syracusa after the Syracusans were made free and a little before he was slain by Calippus as he sate by chance in his Porch in the evening full of carefull thoughts heard a sudden noise and looking about him it being yet day-light he saw a huge woman in face and habit nothing differing from a Tragick fury sweeping the house with a Broom He very much terrified called his friends and acquainted them with the sight and intreated them to stay and lodge with him that night for he should sink under his terrour if they should leave him and the Ghost haunt him again The Ghost indeed troubled him no more but his Son being almost arrived to Manhood by reason of some slight and puerile crosse became so sorrowfull and enraged that he precipitated himself from the house top and so perished Plutarchus in Dione ALexander the third King of Scots took to Wife Joan Sister to Henry the third King of England which Joan dyed without issue after which he married Margaret daughter of the same King Henry who bare to him Alexander David and Margaret All these dyed yet the King not altogether dispairing of an Heir and Successor of his body married the third time one Iola daughter of a Knight of Draconum whilest by night they were celebrating the Wedding Feast he saw the likenesse of a dead Man follow the Dance The same year the King was knockt off his horse and slain Hence arose all that sedition and destruction which blasted that formerly flourishing Kingdome This fell out in the year of our Redemption MCCL. Cardanus de rerum varietate l. 16. c. 93. THere is a noble Family and among the chiefest of Parma called by the name of the Tortells which have a Castle wherein there is a Hall In it about the chimney an old woman for this hundred years uses to appear when any of the Family dyeth or is like to dye On a time a gallant Matron by name Paula of Barbia which was one of the same family when we were at Supper together at Belzois told me that one of the Maids of the house was very ill and that the old woman appeared all were of opinion that she would dye But it fell out otherwise for she recovered but another of the family which was well dyed suddenly They report that this old woman whose Ghost is now seen was formerly very rich and was by her own Nephews murthered for her moneys sake and hackt in pieces and thrown into the Privy Cardanus ibidem ANtonius Urceus Codrus a Grammarian of Brixia the very same night he dyed thought he saw one of a huge magnitude a bald pate his beard hanging down to the ground fiery eyes carrying Torches in both hands and terrible all over and he spake to him thus Who art thou which walkest up and down alone thus like a Fury in that time of the night when men are fastest asleep Speak out what dost thou look for or whither goest thou When he had thus said he skipt out of his bed to avoid him rushing in violently upon him Bartholomaeus Bononiensis in ejus vitâ JAcobus Donatus Patricius of Venice and also rich when on a night sleeping with his Wife he had a taper light and two Nurses also were asleep in a truckle-bed with a young child not a year old he saw the chamber door open by little and little and a man I know not who put in his head the Nurses also saw him but no body knew him The young man being affrighted as well he might be snatcht his Sword and Buckler each of the Nurses great Tapers into the Hall they come which was near adjoyning to the Chamber where all things were close The young man comes back with great admiration the small Infant which was well in health dyed the next day Cardanus de Rerum varietate lib. 16. cap. 93. VVHen Cursius Ruffus in his family notable for nothing of worth did act as Quaestor at Adrumetum a City of Africa walking up and down at noon in the porch he saw the shape of a woman of a more comely hue far beyond any mortal creature which spake unto him Thou art Ruffus which shalt shortly come Vice-Consull into this Province He being hopefully advanc'd with this prodigie not long after enjoyed the Proconsulship of Africa by Tiberius Caesar whereby the event of the Vision was fulfilled Fulgosus lib. 1. cap. 6. EDwinus being banished by Ethelfred King of the Northumbrians fled to Redovaldus King of the East-Angles Not long after when Ethelfred by some in authority sought to kill him he began to take great care to secure himself In the night when all was still one of an unknown face and habit having met with him ask't him what he would give him if he told him that which would free his mind from all manner of sadnesse Edwinus made him this answer whatsoever was his that he might lawfully request and was in his power that he will freely give him Then he prognosticated to him that so