STRANGE NEWS FROM Bishops-Stafford, NEAR BUCKINGHAM.  
LICENCED, April 26th, 1694.  
AMidst the various Clans of Enthusiasts who being led astray thro' blind ways by their distempered Brains and fantastic Notions. the Wills in the Whisp, which they mistake for a true light, none seem more positive of being guided right, and conscquently more stubborn and daring than those I am going to give you an account of.  
One Mason, Minister of Bishops-Stafford, near Buckingham, a Man of a very good Life and Reputation, however now disordered, affirmed to his People, that our Saviour appeared to him on Monday the 16th of this instant April in his Chamber, and told him, that he should appear publicly on Earth at Pentecost, and judge sinners: This Story, and the Sanctity of the Man, so wrought upon the unthinking Multitude, that they flock every day into the Fields in great Companies, employing their time Night and Day in dancing and singing Hallelujahs, in expectation of his coming to Reign on Earth; when the Sinners are to be trampled under foot, and the Righteous to be all brought to Bishops-Stafford, from whence they are to take a Progress to Jerusalem, and in their way to call in all the wand'ring Jews. They have prepared a great many fat Beasts to make a Sacrifice, and are so positive of the truth of this, that 'tis almost dangerous to contradict them; whole Families, Men, Women and Children, leaving their Habitations together, as if they had utterly done with all Affairs of this World. Their Number at first was but small, but in a few days increased to Two Hundred, and I have since received news that they are multiplied to Five; and I imagine that nothing but finding their own Folly will be able to convince them; so that when their Tarantula is over, we may expect them and their Pastor to return to their several Vocations, and wait the good hour with as much patience as other People.  
Had I not received this Account from a Man of undoubted Reputation, my Friend, I should scarce have credited it: But I hope this Paper may be secured from the Character of being Grubstreet, since it is in the power of every Person that pleases, in a few hours, to satisfy himself of the truth of this Relation; who himself concludes with this Sentence, after he himself had been to see them, on Monday the 23d of this instant, Such a strange Sight, such Confusion and Madness, I never expected to see, unless in Bedlam.   

London, Printed for Randal Taylor, near Stationers-hall, 1692▪