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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A63937	A compleat history of the most remarkable providences both of judgment and mercy, which have hapned in this present age extracted from the best writers, the author's own observations, and the numerous relations sent him from divers parts of the three kingdoms : to which is added, whatever is curious in the works of nature and art / the whole digested into one volume, under proper heads, being a work set on foot thirty years ago, by the Reverend Mr. Pool, author of the Synopsis criticorum ; and since undertaken and finish'd, by William Turner...	Turner, William, 1653-1701.	1697 (1697)	Wing T3345; ESTC R38921	1,324,643	657

same upon charitable Uses After this Vow finding his Estate wonderfully increased he began to build Alms-houses one in the Parish of St. George in Southwark another in St. Mary Newington because in those Parishes he observed many blind poor lame People were and never an Alms-house for them He built a Chappel near one of his Alms-houses and when he had so done with the Poor's Stock he bought Lands and Houses of Inheritance which he setled upon the Company of Drapers as for the Relief of his poor Alms-people so for the performing other charitable Gifts mentioned in his Last Will and Testament While he lived he was wont to go himself once a Month to his Alms-houses in his worst Cloaths that he might not be suspected to be the Founder of them and gave unto the poor People their promised Allowance This whilst living At his Death also he gave very considerable besides which he gave the left to his Wife and two Daughters about 10000 l. 9. William Pennoyer Esq Citizen and Merchant of London a Person wholly composed of Mercy and Goodness many Years before his Death turned great part of the Stock wherewith he traded into Lands of Inheritance to the value of Four hundred Pounds per Annum he lived frugally spending upon himself and Family about Two hundred Pounds per Annum and the Remainder he bestowed on charitable Uses His Legacies bequeathed in his Last Will and Testament were as followeth To poor Ministers Widows and others in distress about 150 l. To Four of his poor Tenants 20 l. Likewise 800 l. to be laid out here in Woollen-Cloth or other Commodities to be sent to New-England for the Vse of his poor Kindred there To Bristol 54 l. per Annum towards the Maintenance of a School-master and a Lecturer to Preach a Week-day Lecture there and to other charitable Vses He likewise setled 20 l. per Annum on Trusstees for the teaching of Forty Boys in or near White-Chappel and 40 s. yearly to buy Bibles for some of the Children He gave 12 l. Annum for maintaining a School at Hay in Brecknock-shire and 40 s. more yearly to buy Books for the Scholars Ten Pound per Annum for poor distressed People in Bethlehem Hospital London Ten Pound per Annum more to Ten of the blindest poorest oldest Cloath-workers at the Discretion of the Masters Wardens and Assistants of the said Company for the time being Forty Pound per Annum to Christ-Church Hospital for the placing out Four Children yearly and 40 s. more yearly to buy each of the Children a Bible Besides these he gave to his poor Kindred above 2000 l. by his Will And by a Codicil annexed thereunto he bequeathed to certain Trustees 1000 l. to be given to honest poor People As also 300 l. for Releasing poor Prisoners c. 10. Thomas Arnold Citizen and Haberdasher of London at his first setting up was not rich in Stock but being charitably disposed and ready to every good Work his Estate through God's Blessing very much increased He frequently enquired of others after such poor People as were over-burdened with Children or otherwise distressed yea he hired Men with Money to make it their Business to find out honest poor People on whom he might bestow his Charity and likewise did intrust others with considerable Sums to distribute among the poorer sort charging them to have special Respect to the honest Poor such whom they conceived did truly fear God That he was no Loser but a Gainer by his Liberality appeareth in that God so blessed him in his Calling that he attained to an Alderman's Estate and was chosen to that Office yea he gave over his Calling in the City and withdrew into the Country that he might the better mind God and the Concernments of his Soul more and the World less 11. John Clark Doctor of Physick one of great Repute for his Learning Piety and Charity sometime President of the College of Physicians was wont to lay by all the Lord's-days Fees as a sacred Stock for charitable Uses devoting that entirely to God which he received on his Day accounting it a piece of Sacriledge to appropriate it to himself or any common use whereupon God so prospered him in his Calling that tho' at first his Practice was little and his Estate not very great yet afterwards his Practice so increased and the World so flowed in upon him that he lived plentifully and comfortably 12. Dr. J. Bathurst likewise kept his Lord's-days Fees as a Bank for the Poor which was so far from lessening his Incomes that by the Blessing of God upon his Practice they were greatly in few Years augmented by it for tho' at his first coming to London he brought little Estate with him and here had small Acquaintance York-shire being his Native Country where he had spent his former Days yet the Lord was pleased so to prosper him in his Calling that in 20 Years time he purchased Lands of Inheritance to the value of 1000 l. per Annum to speak saith my Author what I know to be certain for in the Repute of some his Estate at his Death was no less than 2000 l. of yearly value 13. Dr. Edmond Trench likewise observed the same course as his Wife and divers other of his Friends do testifie And certain it is that this was no damage but a great advantage to him for he had as many Patients as his weak Body would permit him to visit and tho' he lived at a full and plentiful rate frequently and chearfully entertaining Ministers and Scholars at his Table yet did he gain a very considerable Estate which he left to his Wife and Children c. 14. Samuel Dunche of Pusey in the County of Berks Esq a Person that according to the Apostle's Rule Did good to all but especially to those of the Houshold of Faith used to send Moneys yearly to several Towns as to Stow upon the Woold in Gloucester-shire to Lamburn and others for the Relief of the Poor and upon the last here named he setled Lands of Inheritance for ever for the same use And to Rumsey in Hamp-shire he gave by Deed upon the like Account a Lease of Ninety nine Years to commence after his Decease The Poor also of the said Town whom he called his Alms-people had also during his Life weekly Relief from him and many other Towns together with them were large Sharers in the like Bounty Several poor Children of the said Town and likewise of those belong to Farringdon he set to School and did not only pay for their Teaching but also furnished them with Books convenient He caused also several good Books to be Printed at his own Charge which he freely gave to the Poor and gave considerable Sums of Money yearly for the Relief of poor Ministers and upon several of them he setled Annuities as 10 l. 20 l. per Annum for their Lives besides Legacies at his Death Besides all this his Hand was

1665 Elizabeth Brooker Servant to Mrs. Hicron of Honiton in the County of Devon as she was serving in Dinner one Lord's-Day suddenly felt a pricking as of a Pin in her Thigh the next Day she felt but little pain the Tuesday she was much pained and the Pin wrought so far into her Flesh that she could no longer feel it with her Fingers The Wednesday she went to Exeter that she might have the Advice of Mr. Anthony Smith a Chirurgeon there of great Reputation He upon examining the place would not believe that any Pin was there there being no Skin broken no Swelling nor any other thing by which be might perceive the least Token of any such matter however upon her confident and constant affirming there was a Pin he made an Incision and searching with an Instrument at length found the Pin and took it out it was a little crooked and of the larger sort of small Pins He presently made Application for the Cure of the Wound which in about three Weeks time was effected The day before this happened the Woman had an unknown Person asked a Pin of her which she denied her but did not suspect her Hist Disc of Apparitions and Witches p. 65. 15. There was Published in the Year 1690 the Relation of a Ghost to one John Dyer in Winchester-yard in Southwark giving an Account of the amazing Circumstances attending this Apparition and it persuing him from place to place with Violence used at sundry times in Laming him and cruel Attempts to take away his Life all very strange and wonderful 16. Another Relation was Published 1683 called A Narrative of the Demon of Spraiton in the County of Devon The Relation thus About the Month of November last in the said Parish and County one Francis Fey Servant to Mr. Phil. Furse being in a Field near his Master's House there appeared unto him in the resemblance of his Master's Father with a Mole-staff in his hand as he was wont to carry when living the Spectrum bid him not be afraid of him but tell his Master That several Legacies bequeathed by him were unpaid naming ten Shillings apiece to two Persons The young Man replied That one of them was dead the Ghost answered He knew that but named the next Relation And ordered him likewise to carry twenty Shillings to the Sister of the deceased living near Totness and promised when he had performed these things to trouble him no further and then left the young Man who took care to see the Legacies satisfied and carried the twenty Shillings to the Gentlewoman but she refused it being sent as she said from the Devil The same Night the Spectrum appeared to him again whereupon the young Man challenged his Promise seeing he had performed all according to his appointment But his Sister would not receive the Money To which it replyed 'T was true but withal ordered the young Man to ride to Totness and by a Ring of that value which she would receive which being provided accordingly she took and the young Man was no further troubled It further tells and that is it that I chiefly aimed at That the former Spectrum speaking to the young Man of his second Wife who was also dead called her wicked Woman though the Relator knew her and esteemed her a very good Woman Now the next day after the buying and delivering the Ring the young Man riding home to his Master's House with the Servant of the Gentlewoman near Totness and near the entrance of the Parish of Spraitan there appeared to be upon the Horse behind the young Man a Spectrum resembling the old Gentleman's Wife spoken of before This Demon often threw the young Man off his Horse and threw him with great Violence to the Ground to the great Astonishment of the Gentlewoman's Servant and divers others that were Spectators of the Action At his coming into his Master's Yard the Horse which the young Man rid tho' very poor leaped at once twenty five Foot at one spring Soon after the She Spectrum shewed herself to others in the House viz. Mrs. Thomasin Gidly Ann Langdon and a little Child which they were forced to remove from the House She appeared sometimes in her own Shape sometimes in Forms very horrid now and then like a monstrous Dog beiching out Fire At another time it flew out of a Window in the shape of a Horse carrying with it only one pane of Glass and a small piece of Iron One time the young Man's Head was thrust into a very strait place between the Beds-head and a Wall and forced by the strength of divers Men to be removed thence who being much hurt was advised to be Bleeded and the Ligature of his Arm was conveyed from thence about his Middle where it was strained with so much Violence that it had almost killed him and being cut in sunder it made a strange and dismal Noise so that the standers by were affrighted at it At divers other times he hath been in danger to be strangled with Cravats and Neckcloths which have been drawn so close that with the sudden Violence he hath near been choaked and hardly escaped Death Another time one of his Shooe-strings was observed without the assistance of any Hand to come of its own accord out of his Shooe and filing it self on the other side of the Room the other was crawling after it but a Maid spying that with her Hand drew it out and it strangely clasped and curled about her Hand like a living Eele or Serpent This is testified by a Lady of considerable Quality too great for exception who was an Eye-witness To pass over many other phantastical Freaks When the young Man was returning from his Labour he was taken up by the skert of his Doublet by this Female Demon and carried a height into the Air he was soon missed by his Master and other Servants then at Labour and after diligent enquiry no news could be heard of him until at length near half an hour after he was heard singing and whistling in a Bog where they found him in a kind of Trance or Extatick Fit when he returned again to himself viz. about an Hour after he solemnly protested to them that the Demon had carryed him so high that his Master's House seemed to him to be but as a Hay-cock and that during all that time he was in perfect Sense and prayed to Almighty God not to suffer the Devil to destroy him and that he was suddenly set down in that Quagmire The Workmen found one Shooe on one side of his Master's House and the other on the other side and in the Morning espied his Peruke hanging on the top of a Tree by which it appears that he was carried a considerable heighth and that which he told them was no Fiction Extracted out of a Letter from a Person of Quality in Devon to a Gentleman his Friend in London Dated May 11. 1683. CHAP. LXXXV Satan permitted to Hurt the