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To the
Reverend and Learned
Dr. HENRY MORE. D. D.
SECT. I.
His Answer to certain Questions and Queries touching the Stirs made by the Drummer of Tedworth.
Honoured Sir,
The scrupulous care you take in examining the Story of the Disturbance at Tedworth, is no more than becomes a Philosopher, and one that is not willing to be deceived, And without such a cautious and particular Inquiry, you could not answer the Murmurs and petty Evasions of wilful Unbelievers. *Those Objections you pickt up at Cambrige, have the ill Fortune to miscarry in almost every Circumstance, and are in no likelihood of being believed but at a great distance. Some of them I could have answered upon mine own Knowledge; and concerning the rest I have made a strict inquiry of Mr. Mompesson himself and others, when I was last in those Parts, and upon certain Information I give you this Account.
To the ( 1. ) that saith, The House is Rented, and that this is a device to beat down the value of it. I answer from his own Mouth, That the House is his own, and so the Foundation of this shift is overturned. The second, of those that say, It is a Trick, to get Money from those that come to see the Prodigy, hathas
