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The Book of Dreams and Ghosts
·
Andrew Lang
123
WYNDHAM'S
LETTER
"Sr.
According
to
your
desire
and
my
promise
I
have
written
down
what
I
remember
(divers
things
being
slipt
out
of
my
memory)
of
the
relation
made
me
by
Mr.
Nicholas
Towse
concerning
the
Aparition
wch
visited
him.
About
ye
yeare
1627,
{122}
I
and
my
wife
upon
an
occasion
being
in
London
lay
att
my
Brother
Pyne's
house
without
Bishopsgate,
wch.
was
ye
next
house
unto
Mr.
Nicholas
Towse's,
who
was
my
Kinsman
and
familiar
acquaintance,
in
consideration
of
whose
Society
and
friendship
he
tooke
a
house
in
that
place,
ye
said
Towse
being
a
very
fine
Musician
and
very
good
company,
and
for
ought
I
ever
saw
or
heard,
a
Vurtuous,
religious
and
wel
disposed
Gentleman.
About
that
time
ye
said
Mr.
Towse
tould
me
that
one
night,
being
in
Bed
and
perfectly
waking,
and
a
Candle
burning
by
him
(as
he
usually
had)
there
came
into
his
Chamber
and
stood
by
his
bed
side
an
Olde
Gentleman
in
such
an
habitt
as
was
in
fashion
in
Q:
Elizebeth's
tyme,
at
whose
first
appearance
Mr.
Towse
was
very
much
troubled,
but
after
a
little
tyme,
recollecting
himselfe,
he
demanded
of
him
in
ye
Name
of
God
what
he
was,
whether
he
were
a
Man.
And
ye
Aparition
replyed
No.
Then
he
asked
him
if
he
were
a
Divell.
And
ye
answer
was
No.
Then
Mr.
Towse
said
'in
ye
Name
of
God,
what
art
thou
then?'
And
as
I
remember
Mr.
Towse
told
me
that
ye
Apparition
answered
him
that
he
was
ye
Ghost
of
Sir
George
Villiers,
Father
to
ye
then
Duke
of
Buckingham,
whom
he
might
very
well
remember,
synce
he
went
to
schoole
at
such
a
place
in
Leicestershire
(naming
ye
place
which
I
have
forgotten).
And
Mr.
Towse
tould
me
that
ye
Apparition
had
perfectly
ye
resemblance
of
ye
said
Sr
George
Villiers
in
all
respects
and
in
ye
same
habitt
that
he
had
often
seene
him
weare
in
his
lifetime.
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