A RELATION OF A STRANGE APPARITION In an Ale-house next door to the White Horse, against Sommerset-House in the Strand; Where a company of Papists were at their Exercises: as is conceived the devil in an ugly black shape disturbing them, and tearing the Rugge, and scattering it in pleces up and down the room.  
WITH A RELATION Of a Iudgement that strangely fell upon one at Mr. mondays House in Little britain; who whilst he was cursing of Mr. Burton, Mr. Prinne, and Doctor Bastwicke, his ears fell a bleeding, to the amazement of the beholders.  
LONDON Printed for Richard Smethrust, 1641.   

A STRANGE APPArition at an Alehouse next door to the White Horse against Summerset House in the Strand.  
CErtain jesuits or Papists, being met together at an Alehouse in the Strand, near the White Horse over against somerset House; they were at their Exercises in an upper Chamber, three stories high, they were most of them Irish; who whilst they were at the exercise, with what zeal, I shall not need to relate, because it is too well known what Popish zeal is.  
But see how exactly they conjured with their Beads( as I may so call it) for without all doubt it was either the Devil or some strange Monster, that disturbed them from the devil.  
There was in the room where they were a bed, and under the window against the beds feet, stood a back chair of read leather.  
And after their long and loud acclamations, or Popish exercises, there appeared amongst them a strange Monster: or if you will the devil in the shape of a Monster, all as black as pitch, as big as a great dog; which appeared in a most horrid shape, to the affrightment of all the company; which disturbed the company exceedingly; then they crost themselves, and applied them to their Popish customs.  
But the black Fiend leaped into the chair that stood by the window, at the beds feet, and there roused itself up; which made them all to quake and tremble. It put them out of the tale of their Beads, and made them to run some one way, and some another, and set the whole house in a distraction.  
Amongst the rest, one of them( an Irish man) drew out his Rapier, and with a great rage began to scuffle with this strange Monster: and between hope and fear ran desperately at him; but it leaped down from the chair in a furions manner, and immediately got upon the bed, which was covered with a green Rugge.  
This Fiend toare the Rugge all to pieces, and threw it up and down the room: and many pieces of it was found upon the floor. And those that were then present were so amazed hereat, that they knew not how the vision vanished, or what became of it; one of the servants of the house ran forth of the door to a neighbours, quaking and shivering at what she had seen: but one of them, seeing her in such a fright, laboured to persuade her that it was a dog: Lord bless me from such dogges( quoth she) but they could not soon pacify her, to mitigate her fear.  
Neighbours hearing of it, inquiring concerning it, the people of the house report it to be a mighty Cat: the Papists report it to be a dog: but multitudes of people have resorted thither, to inquire of it; and to talk with the people about this vision which so disturbed them.   

A RELATION Of a strange Iudgement at the House of Master monday in Little britain.  
TWo Gentlemen were talking together about news, and such like discourse at the house of one Mr. mondays in Little britain, who at the last fell into Discourse about Religion. Then they fell into discourse of Mr. Burton, Mr. Prinne, and Doctor Bastwikey, and of their sufferings: the one of them applauding them for honest godly, religious men, and such as suffered patiently; and were faithful witnesses of Iesus Christ, commending them to be such as he verily thought were the Children of God.  
But the other answered: Oh you are deceived man, they are eclesiastical Fellows; it is no matter if they were hanged: a company of base Brownists, as we are troubled with a company of them; they are base dissembling fellows.  
Oh! I pray you, said the other, be no● so hot, I believe that they are such as are real honest men, and such as have stood for Christ from their very heart, as witness may testify.  
But the other answered( cursing them) and all such Puritans( as he called them) If Burton, quoth he, had had a bishopric, and had been made a Bishop,( quoth he) he had never found fault with that government.  
No, quoth the other man, you are mistaken; what he did or any of them, I am verily persuaded that they did out of conscience, and that they were men truly fearing God; oh the weeping eyes that beholded them when they lost their cares, and the tender hearts that pitied them then, and ever since; methinks it grieves me to think of it: Push( quoth the other, swearing a bloody oath) It were no matter if they had been hanged, base eclesiastical jacks, to trouble the whole kingdom with their base opinions, and he concluded that saying with bloody, and fearful Curses.  
Whereupon, on an instant, he began to sweat, and to be faint, and taking out of his pocket, an hankercher, to wipe his face and his head, a strange Iudgement fell upon him, his ears fell a bleeding, and thereby his handkerchief was all bloody with wiping of them; which wrought a strange amazement to all that stood by.  
Oh! therefore, let every one beware how they curse Gods people; for the righteous God judgeth justly, and will avenge himself on those that rise up against him, and his distressed Saints.  
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