STrange and wonderful are all the discoveries of Omnipotent Providence, when Crimes that blush with cruel Murthers do pollute the world, restless Ghosts and Airy forms from their [Page 2] dire Mansions, and compel'd to rouse and discover their vile deeds their vile hands have done as may in alls (the Fame of which has reached the Ears of many Thousands) be more dreadful shown.

Mrs. Adkins late a Midwife dying in Scroop Court in Holbourn about half a year since, after whose Decease as it is credibly re­ported by several of the Neighbours of good Testimonies there has been at divers times unusual molestation, and as some affirm strange Apparitions resembling her shape and form, so that affrigh­ted with the gastly Wonder, many have amazed fled to shelter from the fleeting shade, but being timerous to divulge upon the not as then perfect certainty, this weighty secret has been long concealed, but since the great God has thought fit that such a Monstrous Crime as that Appearance did portend, should be no longer hid or masked in Darkness be forever silent; for the afore­said Party late Deceased, formerly living in Middle Row, and there professing the Dexterity of a Midwife had been for many years looked upon as a Woman of an extraordinary subtilty and pri­vate policy, so that during her lifetime she would oft applaud her Wit, and say, her Head-piece had ben still her chiefest Friend, and had preserved her from all dangers yet, but these dark Sil­logisms being then not understood, were looked upon as vain and frivolous, but since her Transmigration from the Regions of Mor­tality, a shape like hers, if not her Wandering Spirit, has Alarmed the House in Middle Row where formerly she lived, and noises have been heard, nocturnal Visions and Impetuous Groans have sounded out the dismal Ecchoes of some strange Event, but the Spirit finding none that would or dare reply, at last began to be more importunate, and bursting from the long incloafing Grave, or from the dismal Regions of the Dead, assumed a Mortal Shape, and would no longer keep concealed what was the cause of its disturbance, but on Tuesday being the 16 of this Instant March about 9 of the Clock in the Evening, a Servant Maid living in the House in Middle row where it appeared, being by her Mistriss sent up Stairs to fetch down her Night Cloaths, no sooner entred the Chamber, but a [...]eadfu [...] Ghost in the shape o [...] her whom we be­fore recited, presents it self unto her view, seating it self sitting as she supposed upon the Cupboard head, and with gastly Coun­tenance seemed to belch flames of Fire, at which amazed, all pale with fear, she started back, but had not power to fly, yet with a faint Voice cryed, O Mistress, The Chamber is all on Fire; When [Page 3] the immortal Spirit bid her not to fear, for its Commission was not to injure her, but charged her to tell Mary (which is since supposed to be her Grandchild) that she should take up two Tiles in the hearth, and under them should find a board and what she found beneath, that she should bury, and so in a Flash of Lightning Vanished, this the Maid after she had recovered, from the great Amazement she was in, imparted to her Mistress and Master, who at first would give no credit to what she said, but of­ten affirming the Truth of the most wondrous Apparition, and there having been a former Rumor of an Apparition, they con­decended to dig in the place the Mald had told them of, first ta­king up the Tiles, about four Inches deeper they found a Board accordingly, and searching farther found the Bones of two chil­dren, as it is supposed, but of one 'tis certain the said Bones being at this time to be seen at the Cheshire Cheese in Middle row, but lying almost underneath the Fire-place, are so dried, that they are reduced to a small substance. It is conjectured that they had been Children Illegitimate, or Bastards who to save their Mo­thers Credits had been Murthered, and buried there, and in the Opinions of divers Chirurgions might have lain there since their first repose, a considerable quantity of years.

Therefore let all admire and fear that God who made the world, & views with narrow searching Eyes whate're is done, though sable-night and veils of darkness cover the most horrid Sceene, yet all lies open, and no secret can overpass his boundless wisdome, nor escape his sight; nay Hell it self has not a depth sufficient to obscond prodigious crimes from him, how often are the Fiends of hell com­pelled to declare those Cruelties themselves have been the Authors or the Promoters to; and blood of innocents cried loud for Vengeance from the Earth and their Murthers after Ages have re­vealed.

[Page 4] For know, that Murther bears a lasting stain and clogs the Conscience of the Guilty Soul with the restless fears and jelosies which often make de­spairing Mortals unaccused by Man, betray them selves, or if not so, at least when Death, has closed their Eyes, and as the World imagines, they repose in a long slumber, till the dreadful day of rendring Account, their restless Spirits forced about the Earth, do wander up and down until they have made known those Crimes the Party represented in those thin and Airy forms did in their Lifetimes act, as the holy works of many learned Divines do testifie, and some places of Seripture hints upon; so that we may well conclude our strange Relati­on with the Prophet David, Great and wonderful art thou O Lord, and dreadful to be feared in Hea­ven and in Earth.