Chap-books of the eighteenth century . is innocence to the last, although the evidence was ver)-strongly circumstantial against him—and public opinion beingexercised thereon, the necessary catchpenny was forth-coming. His ghost seems to have appeared to several people,and the book winds up : Just now we have an Accountfrom the Marshalsea Prison in Southwark, that he was seenthere by several of the Prisoners on Tuesday Night last, andthat he has been heard to make his Fetters jingle in the WhyteLyon, being the place where he was put after his condemnation ;insomuch, that those who have hea
Chap-books of the eighteenth century . is innocence to the last, although the evidence was ver)-strongly circumstantial against him—and public opinion beingexercised thereon, the necessary catchpenny was forth-coming. His ghost seems to have appeared to several people,and the book winds up : Just now we have an Accountfrom the Marshalsea Prison in Southwark, that he was seenthere by several of the Prisoners on Tuesday Night last, andthat he has been heard to make his Fetters jingle in the WhyteLyon, being the place where he was put after his condemnation ;insomuch, that those who have heard the said unaccountableNoise are afro id to go near the said Place after Day light. THE Montier of WontJers BEING A Strange and Wonderful Relation of a Mermaid, that was seenand spoke with, on the Black Rock nigh Liverpool, by JohnRobinson Mariner, who was tossed on the Ocean for Six daysand Nights; Together with the Conversation he had with her,and how he was preserved; with the Manner of his Death fivedays after his return Licensed and entered according to Order. The Wonder of Wo7iders. 75 Ox the 29th of April last one Mr. James Dixon Captainand Commander of the Ship Dolphin in her passage from Am-sterdam in Holland, was beat back by a tempestuous Wind andall the ^len perished except a young Man named John Robin-son, who was taken very ill on board the Ship, and was leftto Almighty Providence, and to the Mercy of the Seas andWinds, and was also in great Fear and dreadful fright on theMain Ocean, for the said John Robinson dreamt that he wason the top of an high Mountain, whose top he thought reachdup to the Heavens, and that there was a fine Castle, about theCircumference of a Mile, and furnished with all sorts of Dia-monds, and precious Stones, and likewise on the top of theMountain was a well, which Water was as sweet as Honey andas white as Milk, that whomsoever drank of that Water shouldnever be dry again; with all sorts of Musick very delightful tohear, so one
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