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Honoured Sir,

scrupulous care you take in examining the Story of the Disturbance at Tedworth, is no more than becomes a Philosopher, and one that is not willing to be deceived, And without such a cautious and particular Inquiry, you could not answer the Murmurs and petty Evasions of wilful Unbelievers. *Those Objections you pickt up at Cambrige, have the ill Fortune to miscarry in almost every Circumstance, and are in no likelihood of being believed but at a great distance. Some of them I could have answered upon mine own Knowledge; and concerning the rest I have made a strict inquiry of Mr. Mompesson himself and others, when I was last in those Parts, and upon certain Information I give you this Account.

To the ( 1. ) that saith, The House is Rented, and that this is a device to beat down the value of it. I answer from his own Mouth, That the House is his own, and so the Foundation of this shift is overturned. The second, of those that say, It is a Trick, to get Money from those that come to see the Prodigy, hath