'When Archbishop Abbot's mother (a poor cloth-worker's wife in Gilford) was with child of him, she did long for a jack, and she dreamt that if she should eat a jack, the son who was about to be born would be a great man. She arose early the next morning, and went with her pail to the river-side (which runneth by the house, now [1696] an alehouse, the sign of the "Three Mariners") to take up some water, and in the water in the pail she found a good jack, which she dressed, and ate it all, or very near. Several of the best inhabitants of Gilford were invited (or invited themselves) to the christening of the child. It was bred up a scholar in the town, and by degrees came to be Archbishop of Canterbury.'

'When Doctor Harvey, one of the Physicians' College in London,* being a young man, went to travel towards Padua, he went to Dover, with several others, and shewed his pass, as the rest did, to the Governor there. The Governor told him that he must not go, but he must keep him prisoner. The Doctor desired to know "for what reason? how he had transgressed?" "Well, it was his will to have it so." The pacquet-boat hoisted sail in the evening, which was very clear, and the Doctor's companions in it. There ensued a terrible storm, and the pacquet-boat and all the passengers were drowned. The next day the sad news was brought to Dover. The Doctor was unknown to the Governor, both by name and face; but the night before the Governor had a perfect vision in a dream of Doctor Harvey, who came to pass over to Calais; and that he had a warning to stop him. This the Governor told to the Doctor the next day. The Doctor was a pious, good man, and has several times directed this story to some of my acquaintance.'

'My Lady Seymour dreamed that she saw a nest, with nine finches in it. And so many children she had by the Earl of Winchelsey, whose name is Finch.'

'The Countess of Cork (now Burlington) being at

* But better known to us as the discoverer of the circulation of the blood.

Dublin, dreamed that her father, the Earl of Cumberland, who was then at York, was dead. He died at that time.'

"Tis certain that several had monitory dreams of the conflagration of London.

'Sir Roger L'Estrange was wont to divert himself with cocking in his father's (Sir Hammond L'Estrange's) park. He dreamed that there came to him in such a place of the park, a servant, who brought him news that his father, who had been sick a good while, was departed. The next day, going to his usual recreation, he was resolved for this dream's sake to avoid the way; but his game led him to it, and in that very place the servant brought him the ill news according to his dream.'

'Anno 1690, one in Ireland dreamed of a brother, or near relation of his, who lived at Amesbury, in Wiltshire, that he saw him riding on the Downs, and that two thieves robbed him and murthered him: the dream awaked him; he fell asleep again, and had the like dream. He wrote to his relations an account of it, and described the thieves, complexion, stature, and clothes, and advised him to take care o"f himself. Not long after he had received the monitory letter, he rode towards Salisbury, and was robbed and murthered: and the murtherers were discovered by this letter, and were executed. They hang in chains on the road to London.

'There are millions of such dreams too little taken notice of; but they have the truest dreams, whose IXth house is well dignified; which mine is not. But most have some monitory dreams. The Germans are great observers of them.'

'Sir Thomas White, Alderman of London, was a very rich man, charitable, and public spirited. He dreamed that he had founded a college at a place where three elms grow out of one root. He went to Oxford, probably with that intention, and discovering some such tree near Gloucester Hall, he began to repair it, with a design to endow it. But walking afterwards by the convent where the Bernardines formerly lived, he plainly saw an elm with three large bodies rising out of the same root: he forthwith purchased the ground, and endowed his college there, as it is at this day, except the additions which Archbishop Laud made, near the outside of which building, in the garden belonging to the president, the tree is still to be seen. He made this discovery about the year 1557.'

'William Penn, proprietor of Pennsylvania, told me that he went with his mother on a visit to Admiral

Dean's wife, who lived then in Petty-France. The Admiral was then at sea. She told them that the night before she had a perfect dream of her husband, whom she saw walking on the deck, and giving directions, and that a cannon bullet struck his arm into his side. This dream did much discompose her, and within forty-eight hours she received news of the fight at sea, and that her husband was killed in the very manner aforesaid.' - Miscellanies.