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 of instead of Plaisto, it being a place near, and of more note, I know not. And Paul Fox a Weaver, was the Man, whose House was haunted in Plaisto, according to that Pamphlet.

If the Gentleman that so well remembers the strange things he saw, had not forgot the Man's Name whose House was Haunted, (and the strangeness of those things would fix themselves in his Memory, even whether he would or no, when the Name of the Master of the House might easily in 30 or 40 Years time slide out of it) we might be sure whether it were Plaisto or Bow. But I am sure the Fame went of Bow, though the Pamphlet name Plaisto, and that might make the above-said Party, who told Dr. More the Story, fix the Scene, without all scruple in Bow.

But methinks I hear the Reader complain, that it was a great Omission in Mr. Glanvil, that he did not enquire of Dr. More, who this Party was, that told him the Story, it seeming an Headless piece without that part. Wherefore I find in a Paper, (whose Title is Doctor More's Particulars about the Stories) these Words in Answer to Mr. Glanvil. That it is Dr. Gibbs, a Prebendary of Westminster, and a sober intelligent Person. And some dozen Lines after, Dr. More says, Dr. Gibbs told the Story to my self, and to Dr. Outram, who brought me to him. And I have told you already, that he is a Person of Understanding and Integrity. He has also some Sermons in Print as I take it.

But forasmuch, as it was about 3 Months after Dr. More has received this Account of the Story from Dr. Gibbs, that he Wrote to Mr. Glanvil, it is not to be expected that he related it in the very same Words, and in every punctilio as he heard it. But I dare undertake for him, that for the Main, and that which makes to the evincing of Witchcraft, and the ludicrous Feats of Dæmons, that he hath committed no Error therein, nor set down any thing whose Substance was not related to him by the Reverend Dr. Gibbs.