Not many stories have such good evidence
in their favour.
{103} Phantasms, ii., 528.
{111} "That which was published in May, 1683, concerning the Daemon,
or Daemons of Spraiton was the extract of a letter from T. C.,
Esquire, a near neighbour to the place; and though it needed little
confirmation further than the credit that the learning and quality of
that gentleman had stampt upon it, yet was much of it likewise known
to and related by the Reverend Minister of Barnstaple, of the vicinity
to Spraiton. Having likewise since had fresh testimonials of the
veracity of that relation, and it being at first designed to fill this
place, I have thought it not amiss (for the strangeness of it) to
print it here a second time, exactly as I had transcribed it then."--
BOVET.
{118} Shchapoff case of "The Dancing Devil" and "The Great Amherst
Mystery".
{121} Additional MSS., British Museum, 27,402, f. 132.
{122} Really 1628, unless, indeed, the long-continued appearances
began in the year before Buckingham's death; old style.
{127} It may fairly be argued, granting the ghost, his advice and his
knowledge of a secret known to the countess, that he was a
hallucination unconsciously wired on to old Towse by the mind of the
anxious countess herself!
{129a} Hamilton's Memoirs.
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