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 Dwarf-wall with a Paliſadoe on it, on the right Hand; and the City Wall on the other Side, more to the right.

In this narrow Paſſage ſtands a Man looking thro' between the Paliſadoe's into the Burying Place; and as many People as the Narrowneſs of the Paſſage would admit to ſtop, without hindring the Paſſage of others; and he was talking mighty eagerly to them, and pointing now to one Place, then to another, and affirming, that he ſaw a Ghoſt walking upon ſuch a Grave Stone there; he deſcrib'd the Shape, the Poſture, and the Movement of it ſo exactly, that it was the greateſt Matter of Amazement to him in the World, that every Body did not ſee it as well as he. On a ſudden he would cry, There it is: Now it comes this Way: Then, 'Tis turn'd back; till at length he perſuaded the People into ſo firm a Belief of it, that one fancied he ſaw it, and another fancied he vaw it; and thus he came every Day making a ſtrange Hubbub, conſidering it was in ſo narrow a Paſſage, till Biſopſgate Clock ſtruck eleven; and then the Ghoſt would ſeem to ſtart; and as if he were call'd away, diſappear'd on a ſudden.

I look'd earneſtly every way, and at the very Moment, that this Man directed, but could not ſee the leaſt Appearance of any thing; but ſo poſitive was this poor man, that he gave the People the Vapours in abundance, and ſent them away trembling, and frighted; till at length, few People, that knew of it, car'd to go thro' that Paſſage; and hardly any Body by Night, on any Account whatever.

This Ghoſt, as the poor Man affirm'd, made Signs to the Houſes, and to the Ground, and to the People, plainly intimating, or elſe they ſo underſtanding it, that Abundance of the People, ſhould come to be buried in that Church-Yard;