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The Book of Dreams and Ghosts
·
Andrew Lang
46
One
very
curious
circumstance
in
connection
with
the
assassination
of
Mr.
Perceval
has
never
been
noticed.
A
rumour
or
report
of
the
deed
reached
Bude
Kirk,
a
village
near
Annan,
on
the
night
of
Sunday,
May
10,
a
day
before
the
crime
was
committed!
This
was
stated
in
the
Dumfries
and
Galloway
Courier,
and
copied
in
The
Times
of
May
25.
On
May
28,
the
Perth
Courier
quotes
the
Dumfries
paper,
and
adds
that
"the
Rev.
Mr.
Yorstoun,
minister
of
Hoddam
(ob.
1833),
has
visited
Bude
Kirk
and
has
obtained
the
most
satisfactory
proof
of
the
rumour
having
existed"
on
May
10,
but
the
rumour
cannot
be
traced
to
its
source.
Mr.
Yorstoun
authorises
the
mention
of
his
name.
The
Times
of
June
2
says
that
"the
report
is
without
foundation".
If
Williams
talked
everywhere
of
his
dream,
on
May
3,
some
garbled
shape
of
it
may
conceivably
have
floated
to
Bude
Kirk
by
May
10,
and
originated
the
rumour.
Whoever
started
it
would
keep
quiet
when
the
real
news
arrived
for
fear
of
being
implicated
in
a
conspiracy
as
accessory
before
the
fact.
No
trace
of
Mr.
Williams's
dream
occurs
in
the
contemporary
London
papers.
The
best
version
of
the
dream
to
follow
is
probably
that
signed
by
Mr.
Williams
himself
in
1832.
{39a}
It
may,
of
course,
be
argued
by
people
who
accept
Mr.
Williams's
dream
as
a
revelation
of
the
future
that
it
reached
his
mind
from
the
purpose
conceived
in
Bellingham's
mind,
by
way
of
"mental
telegraphy".
{39b}
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