Miscellanies Upon Various Subjects eBook

John Aubrey
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 161 pages of information about Miscellanies Upon Various Subjects.

Miscellanies Upon Various Subjects eBook

John Aubrey
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 161 pages of information about Miscellanies Upon Various Subjects.

Sir Berkley Lucy sold the fabric of the chapel of Netley Abbey, to one Taylor, a carpenter of Southampton, who took off the roof, and pulled down great part of the walls.  During the time that this Taylor was in treaty for the chapel, he was much disturbed in his sleep with frightful dreams, and as some say, apparitions; and one, night he dreamt that a large stone, out of one of the windows of the chapel, fell upon him and killed him.  The undertaker, though staggered with these intimations, finished his agreement, and soon after fell to work on pulling down the chapel; but he was not far advanced in it, when, endeavouring with a pickax to get out some stones at the bottom of the west wall, in which there was a large window, the whole body of the window fell down suddenly upon him, and crushed him to pieces.  Willis’s Mitred Abbeys, vol. 2, p. 205, 6.

Jan. 1774.  One Daniel Healy, of Donaghmore, in Ireland, having three different times dreamed that money lay concealed under a large stone in a field near where he lived, procured some workmen to assist him in removing it, and when they had dug as far as the foundation, it fell suddenly and killed Healy on the spot.

March 25, 1779.  This morning A. B. dreamt that he saw his friend 0.  D. throw himself from a bridge into a river, and that he could not be found.  The same evening, reading Dr. Geddes’s account of Ignatius Loyola, p. 105, 5th tract, v. 3, he met with the following particular of him; as he was going into Bononia, he tumbled off a bridge into a moat full of mud; this circumstance was quite new.  Every tittle of the above is strictly true, as the writer will answer it to God.—­ To what can be attributed so singular an impression upon the imagination when sleeping ?

      **Comical History of three Dreamers.

Three companions, of whom two were Tradesmen and Townsmen, and the third a Villager, on the score of devotion, went on pilgrimage to a noted sanctuary; and as they went on their way, their provision began to fail them, insomuch that they had nothing to eat,, but a little flour, barely sufficient to make of it a very small loaf of bread.  The tricking townsmen seeing this, said between them-selves, we have but little bread, and this companion of ours is a great eater —­ on which account it is necessary we should think how we may eat this little bread without him.  When they had made it and set it to bake, the tradesmen seeing in what manner to cheat the countryman, said:  let us all sleep, and let him that shall have the most marvellous dream betwixt all three of us, eat the bread.  This bargain being agreed upon, and settled between them, they laid down to sleep.  The countryman, discovering the trick of his companions, drew out the bread half baked, eat it by himself, and turned again to sleep.  In a while, one of the tradesmen, as frightened by a marvellous dream, began to get up, and was asked by his companion, why he was so frightened ? he answered, I am frightened

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