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The Book of Dreams and Ghosts
·
Andrew Lang
128
"EDMUND
WINDHAM.
"BOULOGNE,
5th
August,
1652."
This
version
has,
over
all
others,
the
merit
of
being
written
by
an
acquaintance
of
the
seer,
who
was
with
him
while
the
appearances
were
going
on.
The
narrator
was
also
present
at
an
interview
between
the
seer
and
Buckingham.
His
mention
of
Sir
Ralph
Freeman
tallies
with
Clarendon's,
who
had
the
story
from
Freeman.
The
ghost
predicts
the
Restoration,
and
this
is
recorded
before
that
happy
event.
Of
course
Mr.
Towse
may
have
been
interested
in
Buckingham's
career
and
may
have
invented
the
ghost
(after
discovering
the
secret
token)
{127}
as
an
excuse
for
warning
him.
The
reader
can
now
take
his
choice
among
versions
of
Sir
George
Villiers'
ghost.
He
must
remember
that,
in
1642,
Sir
Henry
Wotton
"spent
some
inquiry
whether
the
duke
had
any
ominous
presagement
before
his
end,"
but
found
no
evidence.
Sir
Henry
told
Izaak
Walton
a
story
of
a
dream
of
an
ancestor
of
his
own,
whereby
some
robbers
of
the
University
chest
at
Oxford
were
brought
to
justice.
Anthony
Wood
consulted
the
records
of
the
year
mentioned,
and
found
no
trace
of
any
such
robbery.
We
now
approach
a
yet
more
famous
ghost
than
Sir
George's.
This
is
Lord
Lyttelton's.
The
ghost
had
a
purpose,
to
warn
that
bad
man
of
his
death,
but
nobody
knows
whose
ghost
she
was!
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