=Phillip Melancthon=, writeth in his booke _De anima_, that he himselfe hath séene some Spirits, and yͭ he hath knowne many men of good credit, which haue auouched not only to haue séene ghostes themselues, but also that they haue talked a great while with them. In his booke which he intituleth _Examen Theologicum_, he rehearseth this historie. Which was, that he had an aunt, who as she sat very heauily by the fire, after her husband was dead, two men came into her house, whereof the one being very like, said he was her husband deceased, the other being verie tall, had the shape of a =Franciscan= Friar. This that séemed to be the husband, came neare the chimney saluting his heauy wife, bidding her not to be afraide, for (as he said) he came to commaund her certaine things: then he bid the long Monke to go aside a while into the stoue hard by. And there beginning his talke, after many words, at the last be earnestly beséecheth, and most hartily desireth her, to hire a Priest to say Masse for his soule, and so being readie to depart, he biddeth her giue him her right hand: which thing (she being sore afraide) abhorring to doo, after he had faithfully promised she should haue no harme, she giueth her hand, which albeit indeed it had no hurt, yet did it séeme to be so scorched, that euer after it remained blacke. This being done, he calleth foorth the =Franciscan=, and hastily going forth togither, they vanish away. =Ioannes Manlius=, in his collectanies of Common places, writeth concerning other spirites which he and other men also did sée, the first tome in the Chapter _De malis spiritibus & ipsorum operibus_, and also in the Chapter _De satisfactione_. [Sidenote: Ludouicus Viues.] =Ludouicus Viues=, saith in his first booke _De veritate fides_, that in the new world lately found out, there is nothing more common, than not only in the night time, but also at noone in the midday, to sée spirits apparantly, in the Cities and fieldes, which speake, commaund, forbid, assault men, feare and strike them. The very same do other report which describe those nauigations of the great Ocean. [Sidenote: Hieronimus Cardanus.] =Hieronimus Cardanus= of _Millen_, excellently séene in Philosophie & Phisicke, remembreth a great many of these apparitions, in his booke _De subtilitate, & varietate rerum_: which who so listeth to reade, I referre him to his bookes, for I am desirous to be bréefe. [Sidenote: Olaus.]