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<HEAD>STRANGE NEWS From Bi&s;hop-Hatfield IN HERTFORD-SHIRE, <HI>January</HI> the 25 1680.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">Being a Relation of <HI>Elizabeth Freeman,</HI> a &s;ingle Woman, aged about one and thirty years, Daughter to <HI>Elizabeth Freeman</HI> of <HI>Bi&s;hop-Hatfield</HI> in the County of <HI>Hertford</HI> Widdow; taken before <HI>Sr. Jo&s;eph Jordan,</HI>Knight, and <HI>Richard Lee, D. D.</HI> Rector of <HI>Hatfield,</HI> and Chaplain in ordinary to his Maje&s;ty</HEAD>
<P>_FIr&s;t, &s;he gives an account, that on <HI>Monday</HI> at night, be|ing <HI>January</HI> the twenty fourth, 1680. &s;he &s;itting by her Mothers fire&s;ide, between five and &s;ix of the Clock in the Evening, with a Child in her lap, &s;he heard a Voice behind her, which mildly &s;aid, <HI>Sweet-heart:</HI> Where|upon &s;he turning her Face about, &s;aw an appearance of a Woman, as &s;he conceived, all in White, covered with a white Vale, &s;o that &s;he &s;aw no Face, but a very white Hand, was laid on the back of her Chair, The Apparition further &s;aid to her. <HI>The fiftenth Day of May it is appointed for the Royal Blood to be poy&s;oned,</HI> and &s;aid likewi&s;e, <HI>be not af|fraid, J am &s;ent to tell thee;</HI> and &s;o vani&s;hed.</P>
<P>Secondly, That on <HI>Teu&s;day, January</HI> the twentyfifth, 1680. betwen five
<PB N="2" REF="2"> and &s;ix at night, coming to her Mothers from a friends hou&s;e, being within four or five Pole of the door, the Apparition appeared to her again in white and vailed as before, and &s;aid, <HI>Do you remember what I &s;ai<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">?</HI> and &s;he an&s;wered, <HI>yes,</HI> And that young woman &s;he further &s;aid, <HI>In the name of the Father, the Son, and Holy Gho&s;t, what art thou?</HI> and immediately it appeared in a very glorious &s;hape, and with a more har&s;h voice, &s;aid, <HI>Tell King Charles from me and bid him not remove his Parliament, and &s;tand to his Council,</HI> and &s;aid likewi&s;e, <HI>Do as J bid you,</HI> to which the young woman an&s;wered, <HI>yes,</HI> and &s;o the Apparition vani&s;hed.</P>
<P>Thirdly On <HI>Wedne&s;day, January</HI> the twentyeth &s;ixth 1680. between the &s;aid hours of five and &s;ix in the evening &s;he &s;itting by the fire, and her Mother &s;itring by her, the &s;aid Apparition came again to her; at the &s;ight whereof &s;he could not &s;pake, and her Mother perceiving her to be troubled, &s;aid to her Daughter, <HI>&s;ee&s;t thou any thing?</HI> The Daughter not able to &s;peake, noded with her head; whereat her Mother &s;aid, <HI>&s;hall J goe out?</HI> and thereupon her Daughter being inabled to &s;peak, (the Appari|tion nodding to her,) &s;aid, <HI>yes;</HI> upon which her Mother going out, the Apparition &s;aid <HI>Do the Me&s;&s;age.</HI> She an&s;wered, <HI>I will, &s;o &s;oon as God &s;hall inable me,</HI> and it &s;aid <HI>Be not affraid,</HI> continued the Apparition, and &s;o va|ni&s;hed; and &s;he cryed <HI>Mother, Mother,</HI> and then her Mother and &s;ome other friends came in.</P>
<P>Fourthly, The &s;aid Apparition appeared to the &s;aid Maid on <HI>Thur&s;day</HI> in the evening, between the afore&s;aid hours of five and &s;ix, &s;he being at a Neighbours hou&s;e, but &s;aid nothing to her. This was taken from the Maids own mouth, by me.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Richard Wilki&s;on.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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