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38 and valiant gentleman, who ſet him again on his horſe, and held him on one ſide, whom when the ſpirits durſt not attempt, by reaſon of his innocence, they vaniſhed out of ſight; the nobleman was carried into a monaſtry hard by, where he lay three days and died; ſuch many times is the end of horrible, and fearful blaſphemers.—Luciernus.

LII. A vintner who accuſtomed himſelf to blaſpheming, ſwearing and drunkenneſs, and delighted to entertain ſuch as were like himſelf to ſwallow his wine, upon the Lord's day ſtanding at the door with a pot in his hand, to call in more gueſts, there came ſuddenly a violent whirlwind, and carried him up into the air, in the ſight of all men, and he was never ſeen more.—Beard's Theatre.

LIII. Lamentable is the relation of what happened in Holland in June 1681, as it is written by Theodorus Paludamus, a Proteſtant miniſter at Lewarden in Friezland, which may ſerve for a terror to all wretched ſwearers and drunkards; a perſon named Dowee Sitſes, a maſon in that country, being reported to be in a deſperate condition, I accompanied a gentleman who was ſent to him by order from the lords of the provincial, where we found two maſter chirurgions, and their two ſervants buſy in making plaſters, and dreſſing the patient, and he in ſuch a lamentable condition, as we could not behold but with amazement, his hair was burnt off his head to his ears; his whole face burnt except his eyes, his arms burnt in ſeveral places, his hands to the ends of his fingers were burnt like a roaſted fowl, but could move all his fingers, his breast and back burnt in ſeveral places, and yet his ſhirt whole, his belly under the navel, for about the breadth of an hand was as black as a