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6 shew his throat, which was cut by the prisoner: and who, as he said, stood staring full upon him with a frightful countenance; and this confounded him (as well it might); and yet there was no real apparition, no spectre, no ghost, or appearance; it was figured out to him by the power of his own guilt and the agitation of his soul, fired and surprised by the influence of his conscience.

Apparition of a Corpse to Mrs. Stephens, of Booth Street, Spitalfields.

years since, their lived in Spitalfields, one Mrs. Anne Stephens, a person at that time well known and respected, for her great dealings with the mercers on Ludgate-hill This person sitting one evening in her house alone, and musing upon business, happened by accident to look behind her, when to her great surprise, she saw, as it were, a dead corpse, as she thought, lying extended upon the floor, just as a dead body should he, excepting that the foot of one leg was fixed on the ground, as it is in bed, when one lies with one knee up; she looked at it a while, and by degrees withdrew her eyes from so unpleasing an object: however, a strange kind of curiosity soon overcame her fears, and she ventured a second time to look that way, and saw it for a considerable time longer fixed as