“Well, but this very man has in the 77th and 78th pages of this Echo printed for the author in 12^{mo}. and sold at his house in Long Alley in Black Friars, 1653, second edition with additions, a prophecy which astonishes all who carefully consider it. It is in these words, A vision that I had presently after the king’s death.--I thought that I was in a great hall like the king’s hall, or the castle in Winchester, and there was none there but a judge that sat upon the bench and myself; and as I turned to a window in the north-westward, and looking into the palm of my hand, there appeared to me a face, head and shoulders like the Lord Fairfax’s, and presently it vanished. Again, there arose the Lord Cromwell, and he vanished likewise; then arose a young face and he had a crown upon his head, and he vanished also; and another young face arose with a crown upon his head, and he vanished also; and another----young face arose with a crown upon his head, and vanished in like manner; and as I turned the palm of my hand back again to me and looked, there did appear no more in it. Then I turned to the judge and said to him, there arose in my hand seven; and five of them had crowns; but when I turned my hand, the blood turned to its veins, and these appeared no more: so I awoke. The interpretation of this vision is, that after the Lord Cromwell, there shall be kings again in England, which thing is signified unto us by those that arose after him, who were all crowned, but the generations to come may look for a change of the blood, and of the name in the royal seat, after five kings once passed, 2 Kings x. 30. (The words referred to in this text are these) And the Lord said unto Jehu, because thou hast done well, &c. thy children of the fourth generation shall sit upon the throne of Israel.”[12] Sauvages mentions, that a woman, subject to epilepsy, saw, during the paroxysm, dreadful spectres, and that real objects appeared magnified to an extraordinary degree: a fly seemed as large as a fowl, and a fowl appeared equal in size to an ox. In coloured objects, green predominated with her; a curious fact, which I have seen verified in other convulsive diseases. A very intelligent boy, who was under my care for convulsions of the voluntary muscles, when he looked at some large caricatures, glaringly coloured with red and yellow, insisted on it that they were covered with green, till his paroxysm abated, during which his intellects had not been at all affected. Among other instances of _Suffusio_, Sauvages also mentions an aged physician of Narbonne, who, during several days, saw every object crooked. I shall select, as a remarkable instance of spectral impressions, a story published by Richard Bovet, in his _Pandæmonium_, or _the Devil’s Cloyster_, printed in 1684. The first appearances were probably seen in a dream. The noises, on the second night, were perhaps recollected impressions.[13]