occasion of some discourse was told by him, that he could see Ghosts, and that he had seen divers. Mr. Broom rebuking him for talking so idly, he persisted in it very stiffly. Some days after lighting upon him again, he askt him whether he had seen any Ghost since his coming to that Town. To which he replyed, No.
But not long after this, as they were walk∣ing together up the Town, he said to Mr. Broom, Yonder comes a Ghost. He seeing no∣thing, askt him whereabout it was? The o∣ther said, it is over against such a house, and it walks looking upwards towards such a side, flinging one arm with a Glove in its hand. He said moreover, that when it came near them, they must give way to it. That he ever did so, and some that have not done so, have suffered for it. Anon he said, 'tis just upon us, let's out of the way. Mr. Broom believing all to be a fiction, as soon as he said those words, took hold of his Arm, and kept him by force in the way. But as he held him, there came such a force against them, that he was flung into the middle of the street, and one of the palms of his hands, and one knee bruised and broken by the fall, which put him for a while to excessive pain.
But spying the Lieutenant lye like a dead man, he got up as soon as he could, and ap∣plied