The Whole Works of the Right REV. Jeremy Taylor, D.D; With a Life of the Author and a Critical Examination of His Writings, Volume 1 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1822 edition. Excerpt: ...him with a business he had to.'eliver him, which Taverner refused to do, and would go W 'own way (for they were now at a quadrivial), and so rode on homewards. But immediately on their departure. there arose a great wind, and withal he heard very hideous screeches and noises, to his great amazement; TmVTiding iowarji'as fast as he could, he at last heard the'cbcl&'cTow '"f to his comfort; he alighted from his horse, and 'felling to prayer, desired God's assistance, and so got safe hdme.;J "The night after there appeared again to him the likeness "of James Haddock, and bid him go to Elenor Welsh (now the wife of Davis, living at Malone, but formerly the wife of the said James Haddock, by whom she had an onely son, to jvhom the said James Haddock had by his will given ti lease, which he held of the Lord Chichester, of which the son was fflBprivied by Davis, who had married his mother, )1 arid to 'ask'her if her maiden name was not Elenor Welsh; iritfif it JX J weie, ' to tell her, that it was the will of her former htisband Xii sit; T I'll.'.i.")-i'.i- i' i-n n', i InuJ-, .it Q) urm ycb Joaies Haddock, that their son should be righted in the B"t Taverner, partly loath to gain the ill will of his. neighbours, and partly thinking he should not be credited biitkoled on as deluded, long neglected to do his message; till hayu)g been every night for about a month's space haunted with this apparition in several forms, every night more and more terrible, (which was usually preceded by an unusual trembling over his whole body, and great change of countenance manifest to his wife, in whose presence frequently; tbje apparition was, though not visible to her;) at length he went to Malone to Davis's wife, and askt whether...