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SIR,
WHen I was at London, I called on your Bookseller, to know in what forwardness this new intended Impression of the Story of the Dæmon of Tedworth was, which will undeceive the World touching that fame spread abroad, as if Mr. Mompesson and your self had acknowledged the business to have been a meer Trick or Imposture. But the Story with your ingenious Considerations about Witchcraft, being so often printed already, he said, it behoved him to take care how he ventur'd on a new Impression, unless he had some new Matter of that kind to add, which might make this new Edition the more certainly sailable; and therefore he expected the issue of that noised Story of the Spectre at Exeter, seen so oft for the discovering of a Murther committed some thirty Years ago. But the event of this business, as to juridical process, not answering expectation, he was discouraged from making use of it, many things being reported to him from thence in favour to the party most concerned. But I told him a Story of one Mrs. Britton her appearing to her Maid after her Death, very well attested, though not of such a Tragical kind as that of Exeter, which he thought considerable. But of Discoveries of Murther I never met with any Story more plain and unexceptionable than that in Mr. John Webster his display of supposed Witchcraft: The Book indeed it self, I confess, is but a weak and impertinent piece; but that Story weighty and convincing, and such as himself (though otherwise an affected Caviller against almost all Stories of Witchcraft, Apparitions) is constrained to assent to, as you shall see from his own Confession. I shall for your better ease, or because you haply may not have the Book, transcribe itout
