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 Though this quaintness is more than is requisite in these Prodigies presaging the sick Man's Death. As for the latter, it seems to be nothing else but the saying Amen to the Presage, uttered in his accustomary Form of Speech; as if he should say, You of the invisible Kingdom of Spirits, have given the Token of my sudden Departure, and you say true, I shall be with you by and by. Which he was enabled so assuredly to assent to, upon the advantage of the relaxation of his Soul now departing from the Body: Which Diodorus Siculus, lib. 18, notes to be the Opinion of Pythagorus and his Followers, that it is the privilege of the Soul near her departure, to exercise a fatidical Faculty and to pronounce truly touching things future, <...>, That humane Souls prognostick things to come, at what time they are seperating from their Body.

RELAT. XXVI.

The Apparition of James Haddock, to Francis Taverner, near Drum-bridge in Ireland, comprized in a Letter of Thomas Alcock, to Dr. H. More.

AT Michaelmas, 1662, Francis Taverner, abut 25 Years old, a lusty proper stout Fellow, then Servant at large, (afterwards Porter) to the Lord Chichester Earl of Donegal, at Belfast, in the North of Ireland, County of Antrim, and Diocess of Connor, riding late in the Night from Hilbrough homeward, near Drum-bridge, his Horse, though of good Metal, suddenly made a stand; and he supposing him to be taken with the Staggers, alighted to blood him in the Mouth, and presently mounted again. As he was setting forward, there seemed to pass by him two Horsemen, though he could not hear the treading of their Feet, which amazed him. Presently there appeared a third in a white Coat, just at his Elbow, in the likeness of James Haddock, formerly an Inhabitant in Malone, where he died near five Years before. Whereupon Taverner askt him in the Name of God who he was? He replied, I am James