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 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 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.

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.