News from the invisible world; a collection of remarkable narratives on the certainty of supernatural visitations from the dead to the living / Impartially compiled from the works of Baxter, Wesley, Simpson, etc.

  • Ottway, T
Date:
1844
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: News from the invisible world; a collection of remarkable narratives on the certainty of supernatural visitations from the dead to the living / Impartially compiled from the works of Baxter, Wesley, Simpson, etc. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    2‘2 Sf^tated in his mind. In the aft«rnnon, he told the stonr to many of his friends in the Iloase of Ijords. At breakfast on Saturday, which wras the third day, ho appeared very pensive: but he atfected to cnrr)’ it off, saying to those who were with him, ‘ Why do you h>ok so crave ? What, arc you thinking about t!ie gliost ? 1 am as well as ever I was in my life.’ He then (probably to get rid of those unwelcome thought?) invite^i company to dinner. In the ev»>ninc he said to his company, ‘ A few honrs more, and I shall jockey the ghost' .\t eleven o’clock he retired to his cham- ber. Some time after he began to undress himself. Meanwhile his servant was preparing for him a rhu- barb draught, according to liis custom. But having nothing to mix it urith, lie went out of the room for a spoon. By the time he came in again, his lordship was getting into bed. But before the man could give the medicine, he reclined his head on the pillow, fell into convulsions, and died. The cries of the servant alarmed the company ; they flew to him, but all was over. Thus the event corresponded with the warn- ing, which he had himself mentioned before to seve- ral persons. .And his friends, who were in the house at the time, related it afterwanls. A minister (says Mr. Wills) who first told it me, had the account from one of those gentlemen ; which was confirmed to me afterwards by a religious person, related to I/ord Lyt- tleton. The Ajiparition of L :rd Lytllcton to Mr. .fn- dretc$, qf DartforU, (Additional circumitanee.) “ His lordship was to have paid Mr. Andrews a visit, on the day which the spectre prescribed as his last, and to Iiave slept at his bouse. But on account of the alarm which the impressive message of the ghost had m^e on his lordsliip, it was put oil without any iiiti- nuition to Mr. Ancirews of nis lordship's intention.