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 none knew but himself and Wife and Avon and his Wife, and was never paid it again before now by this Goddard.

And this said Goddard farther saith, That this very day by Mr. Majors order, he with his Brother-in-Law William Avon went with the Sword, and about Nine a Clock this Morning, they laid down the Sword in the Copse near the place the Apparition had appointed Goddard to carry it, and then coming away thence Goddard looking back, saw the same Apparition again in the like habit as before. Whereupon he called to his Brother-in-Law, and said, Here is the Apparition of our Father; Who said, I see nothing. Then Goddard fell on his Knees; and said, Lord open his Eyes that he may see it. But he replyed, Lord grant I may not see it, if it be they blessed Will. And then the Apparition to Goddard's appearance, beckened with his hand to him to come to it. And then Goddard said, In the Name of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, what would you have me do? Then the Apparition said to him, Thomas, take up the Sword, and follow me. To which he said, Should both of us come, or but one of us? To which it answered, Thomas, do you take up the Sword. And so he took up the Sword and followed the Apparition about ten Lugs (that is Poles) farther into the Copse, and then turning back, he stood still about a Lug and a half from it, his Brother-in-Law staying behind at the place where they first laid down the Sword. Then Goddard laying down the Sword upon the ground, saw something stand by the Apparition like a Mastiff Dog of a brown colour. Then the Apparition coming towards Goddard, he stept back about two steps, And the Apparition sid to him, I have a permission to you, and commission not to touch you; and then it took up the Sword, and went back to the place at which before it stood, with a Mastiff Dog by it as before, and pointed the top of the Sword in the ground, and said, In this place lies buried the Body of him which I murdered in the year 1635. which is now rotten and turned to dust. Whereupon Goddard said, I do adjure you in the Name of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, wherefore did you do this Murder? And is said, I took Money from the Man, and he contended with me, and so I murdered him. Then Goddard askt him, who was confederate with him in the said Murder? and it said, None but my self. Then Goddard said, What would you have me do in this thing? And the Apparition said, This is that the World may know that I murdered a Man, and buried him in this place in the year 1635.

Then the Apparition laid down the Sword on the bare ground there whereon grew nothing, but seemed to Goddard to be as a Grave sunk in. And then the Apparition rushing further into