The narrative of this solemn event was by order of the authorities recorded on a tablet and hung up in the Market house (a row of sheds near the Cross). When the building was taken down, Mr. Halcombe, who kept the Bear Inn, in order that the remembrance might not be lost, caused it to be inscribed on the pediment of a couple of pillars which stood opposite his inn, supporting the sign of the Bear. The sign was removed in 1801, and a few years after Lord Sidmouth having presented to the town the New Cross, which forms the central ornament of the Market Place, the Mayor and Corporation “availed themselves,” to use their own language, “of the stability of the new structure to transmit to future time a record of the awful death of Ruth Pierce in hope that it might serve as a salutary warning against the practice of invoking the Sacred Name to conceal the devices of falsehood and fraud.” And now to conclude this portion of the subject. Each example already recorded has, no doubt, told its own story sufficiently well. Some cases may appear to certain minds to be as trivial as they certainly are, to others, marvellous and inexplicable; other examples, again, cannot fail to leave a deep impression on the reader, as well from the remarkable character of the presentiments and dreams themselves, as from the reasonable testimony by which their truth is supported by persons of repute and credibility. The Editor has intentionally avoided the making of comments, either prolix or the reverse, preferring to present to the reader each recorded narrative, as received or obtained by himself, without dissertations, theories, or explanations. END OF VOL. I. CHISWICK PRESS:--PRINTED BY WHITTINGHAM AND WILKINS, TOOKS COURT, CHANCERY LANE. GENERAL INDEX. A Discerner of spirits, i. 81 Abimelech’s dream, i. 210 Aerolites, i. 24 After-vision of a suicide, ii. 75 Alexander Macdonald’s dream, i. 285 Amulet of the Grahams, i. 277 ---- of the Macdonald Lockharts, i. 278 Ann Thorne bewitched, i. 194 Apparition at Ballarat, ii. 61 ---- at time of death, ii. 59 ---- in the Jewel House, ii. 105 ---- near Cardiff, ii. 114 ---- of a college friend, ii. 71 ---- of a crow, ii. 131 ---- of a dying father, ii. 58 ---- of a dying lady to her children, ii. 64 ---- of a father to his son, ii. 58 ---- of a friend, ii. 60 ---- of a sister, ii. 59 ---- of a son to his mother and another, ii. 73 ---- of an officer, ii. 10 ---- of Dr. Ferrar’s daughter, ii. 25 ---- of Philip Weld, ii. 51 ---- of Rev. W. Naylor, ii. 7 ---- of S. Stanislaus, ii. 51 ---- seven years after death, ii. 71 ---- to a gentleman, ii. 119 ---- to a lady and her child, ii. 113 ---- to a lady and her child, ii. 117 ---- to a sentry, and his death thereupon, ii. 108 ---- to Lord Brougham, ii. 68 ---- to Lord Chedworth, ii. 35 ---- to Mr. Andrews, ii. 41 Apparitions at Oxford, ii. 209