ADVERTISEMENT.
THough the Sir-name of the Party be wanting, yet he is determinated so by other Circumstances, and the Story so fresh, and told by so credible a Person, that the Narrative is sufficiently considerable as it is. But of recovery of Land to the right Owners, the Story of Mrs. Brettons Ghost appearing, is a eximious Example, which is as follows.
RELAT. XVI.
The appearing of the Ghost of Mrs. Bretton, for the recovery of some Lands into the Hands of the Poor, taken from them by some mistake in Law or Right, as it is in a Narrative sent to Dr. H--- More, from Mr. Edward Fowler, Prebendary of Gloucester.
Dr. Bretton, late Rector of Ludgate and Deptford, lived formerly in Herefordshire, and Married the Daughter of Dr. S— This Gentlewoman was a Person of extraordinary Piety, which she exprest as in her Life, so at her Death. She had a Maid that she had a great Kindness for, who was Married to a near Neighbour, whose Name, as I remember, was Alice. Not long after her Death, as Alice was Rocking her Infant in the Night, she was called from the Cradle by a Knocking at her Door, which opening, she was surpriz'd at the sight of a Gentlewoman not to be distinguished from her late Mistress, neither in Person, nor Habit. She was in a Morning-Gown, the samw in appearance, with that she had often seen her Mistress wear. At first sight she exprest very great amazement, and said, Were not my Mistress dead, I should not question but that you are she. She reply'd, I am the same that was your Mistress, and took her by the Hand; which Alice affirmed was as cold as a Clod.
