dyner, Knight, of Peckham, Surrey, deceased, when he resigned his fellowship at Cambridge. On the 11th April, 1645, the Speaker of the House of Commons was ordered to grant his pass to the Lady Bard to go to the enemy's quarters; but further on this we have no information. "were On the 30th of the following month Sir Henry is found with the King at the taking of Leicester. "The first that entered," says Rushworth, Sir Bernard Astley, and at another place Sir Henry Bard, who scaled the walls only with three ladders." In the memorable battle of Naseby-the casting die of Charles-fought on the 14th June, he led on the left Tertia, with Sir George Lisle, and shortly after he was appointed Governor of Worcester. From this place he issued the following "bold and profane" war rant: "Whereas I have often directed to you my warrants, when I was in Campden, for your monthly contributions; and although I found in you no complyance, I was not moved, because I knew not whether ever you heard from me, rather doubting the high constable's diligence than your neglect; but now being at Worcester, I have just come to take extremitie of armes on your parish, finding your parishioners base in breaking promise with my agents; know, therefore, that unlesse you bring into mee to Worcester, at Captain Honton's house in the Brod-street, the monthly contribution of six moneths past, on Thursday next, being the 6th day of this present month, you are to expect an unsanctified partie of horse amongst you, from whom if you hide yourselves (as I believe each of you hath his hiding hole), they shall fire your houses without mercy, hang up your bodies wherever they finde them, and scare your ghosts into dribling garrisons to make new Committee Men; from whom neither the 21 troopes of Tentbury nor 17 of Strentham shall defend Dublyn, in the said kingdome, entayling the same upon his heires male of his body for ever." + In the December of the year following, he was taken upon the sea by a Captain Beddall, on his passage from England to Ireland, and brought into Plymouth. Upon intimation of this capture being given to the House, the Committee of Lords and Commons for the Admiralty and Cinque Ports was ordered on the 17th to take good security of him to depart the kingdom, with his wife, children, and servants, within ten days. It was, probably, at this time that he wrote to the Parliament, and told them" that he had taken up arms neither for religion (for there were then so many, that he knew not which to be of), nor for that mousetrap the laws, but to re-establish the King on his throne; and, therefore, seeing that the time was not yet come, he desired leave that they would discharge him, that he might relinquish the kingdome," which, says Wood, was accordingly done. We next find him at the Hague, attending upon Charles II. and while here he was arrested 12th May, 1649, by order of the States, charged with the murder of Dr. Dorislaus, the Dutch Concernagent from the Parliament. ing this murder, which was perpetrated the same evening the Doctor entered the Hague, whilst he sat at supper in his inn, historians somewhat differ in their relations. Clarendon tells us, the murderers were Scots and followers of the Marquis of Montrose; Whitlocke, that they were twelve English Cavaliers, who stabbed him in several places and cut his throat, one of them saying at the same time, "Thus dies one of the King's Judges;" and Ludlow, that they were English and Scots. Which last account we may consider correct, for both Montrose and Hopton were questioned upon it. In 1656, our Viscount was sent from Bruges, Ambassador from Charles to the Emperor of Persia, in the hope that the service done that state by the English ships at the taking of Ormus, in 1622-23, had insured to him " great assistance in money." Whilst travel + Docquets of Charles I. p. 273. ling here he was unhappily overtaken by a whirlwind and choked in the sands'; "thereby putting," says Wood, "a period to his vain hopes of being the Grand Master of Malta, having been a Roman Catholic several years before he died." "He left behind him," continues this author, "a widow, not so rich but that she received relief upon her petition, after his Majesty's return, from King's College, in Cambridge; and two daughters, who were of his religion." Lady Bellamont, or Bard, as she was called, died in 1668. Of his daughters, Anne, the eldest, became mistress to her father's patron, Prince Rupert, and by him was mother to Dudley Bard, afterwards slain at the siege of Buda in 1686; and Persiana, the youngest, married her cousin Nathaniel Bard, of Caversfield, and died so late as 1739. * Lloyd, writing of Lord Bellamont, says, He would often commend Sir Clement Paston's method of bounty, building a fair house for hospitality, where his serving-men spent their younger days in waiting upon him, and an hospital hard by, where they might bestow their elder years in recollecting themselves." Wood, who seems to have had a personal dislike to him, says, "He was a compact body of vanity and ambition, yet proper, robust, and comely." Yours, &c. G. S. S. See a pedigree of the family of Bard, recently published in the Collectanea Topographica et Genealogica, vol. iv. p. 59. the mouths of many sober creditable persons in these parts. Witness my hand, REMARKABLE CASE OF WITCHCRAFT, IN SUFFOLK. THE county of Suffolk was remarkable for the number of Witches which were known to practise their diabolical arts in it. Baxter says, he knew more than a hundred at one time. The famous trial of Sir Matthew Hale, at Lowestoft, is well known. The present case is found in a copy of Baxter's World of Spirits, and was probably preserved for another edition which did not appear. It is directed to him. TOBIAS GILBERT, Cordwainer, No. 2, East Cheap, now dwelling at Freston aforesaid. Worthy Sir,-Your last, of the 6th of July, I duly received, and since that I have inquired further into the business of the possession of Magdalen Holyday, maid-servant to the Parson of Saxmundham, Suffolk, as you desired; you saying it would be of use to your forthcoming volume, and of which case I informed you, in a letter dated Nov. 1, 1685, and forwarded to you by the Ipswich waggon to the Ram Inn, Smithfield. Now, being myself lately on a visit to my sister's nephew in these parts, a pains-taking honest man, living at Freston, under the Lord Stafford, which village is near to the sea, and not far from the said town of Saxmundham, I have made due and diligent inquiry thereupon, in answer to your pressing entreaties, that I would enrich your next work on Apparitions and Witchcrafts with this case; I here, forthwith, send it to you, as I have received it from Magdalen Holyday, spinster, aged eighteen years, the daughter of poor honest persons, Phineas and Martha Holyday, of the parish of Rendham, near Framlingham (as may be seen by the register of the said parish), was servant-maid to Mr. Simon Jones, minister of the parish of Saxmundham, with whom she had dwelt for the space of three years and upwards; and was esteemed by all the neighbours, as a civil, well behaved young woman, of good conduct above her years; very decent, and frugal in her apparel, modest in her behaviour, sweet and civil in her speech, and painstaking in her religion; so that she was well respected of all in the said parish, young and old. She was also a very fair and comely person, save only a defect in the colour of her hair, of moderate stature, and a cheerful disposition: nor was any reproach ever thrown upon her, save that some few of the Gospellers (a party that sprang up in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, and doth now continue to the great division of the one Catholic Church,) would taunt her, that being handmaid to a Minister of the Church, she would frequent wakes and fairs at Whitsuntide, and saint days and holy days; but they could not throw any thing in her teeth, which they would, as she always went in company with her brother, aunts, or other sober people of good repute, who could keep scandal from her door. Her family did not like Oliver Cromwell, nor any of his ordinances, but were true and faithful to King Charles, of blessed memory, though they were but poor folk. Now Magdalen Holyday had, in her youth, been touched of the King for the evil, when he came into the Associated Counties; but, since that, she had always preserved her health, so that the rose-blush in her cheek, and the milky snow on her forehead were known to all. But to come to my story. It happened on Monday, in Lammas, the year 1672, about noon, as she was carrying in dinner, no one in the parlour save the parson and his wife and their eldest daughter, Rebecca, then about to be married to a worthy and pains-taking Gospel Minister then living at the parish of Yoxford, in the said county; that on a sudden, just as she had placed a suet dumpling on the board, she uttered a loud shriek, as if she were distraught, and stooping down as in great pain, said, she felt a pricking as of a large Pin in the upper part of her leg; but did not think that any such thing could be there. Yet on ungartering her hose, she felt a pin had got there, within the skin, yet not drawing blood, nor breaking the skin, nor making any hole or sign, and she could hardly feel the head of it with her finger, and from that time it continued tormenting her with violent and retching pains all the day and night; and this continuing and nothing assuaged, Mistress Jones, by advice of the Minister, sent for the assistance of two able apothecaries (medici) then dwelling in the said town; one, a chirurgeon of great repute, who had studied under the famous Hondius at Frankfort; the other, a real son of Galen; who, on examining the part, and above and below, at sufficient distance, both declared they could see neither “vola, nec vestigium" of the said pin; but on her constant and confident assertion there was a pin, tho' it had now time to work itself deeper into the flesh, like an insidious enemy, they made an incision, but could find none, only the maid asserted that a few days before, an old woman came to the door and begged a pin of her, and she not giving her one, the said woman muttered something, but she did not suspect her. And now it was time these noted leeches should do something for this afflicted person; for now she lies in ceaseless torment, both by night and by day, for if she slept, her sleep was troubled with dreams and wicked apparitions: sometimes she saw something like a mole run into her bed, sometimes she saw a naked arm held over her, and so was this poor maid thus tormented by evil spirits, in spite of all godly prayers and ringing of church bells, &c. But now the doctors took her in hand, their names, Anthony Smith, Gent. and Samuel Kingston, chirurgeon to Sir John Rouse of Henham, Knt. having taken down the deposition of the said Magdalen Holyday before Mr. Pacey, a pious Justice of the Peace, living at Marlesford, in the said county, upon oath; they then gave to the said M. H. the following medicines :-Imprimis, a decoction-exfuga Dæmonum-of southern-wood, mugwort vervain, of which they formed a drink according to Heuftius' Medical Epistles, lib. xii., sect. iv., also following Variola, a physician, of great experience, at the court of the Emperor. They also anointed the part with the following embrocation : -Dog's grease well mixed, four ounces; bear's fat, two ounces; eight ounces of capon's grease; four-andtwenty slips of misletoe, cut in pieces and powdered small with gum of Venice turpentine, put close into a phial, and exposed for nine days to the sun till it formed into a green balsam; with which the said parts were daily anointed for the space of three weeks, during which time, instead of amendment, the poor patient daily got worse, and vomited, not without constant shrieks or gruntling, the following substances : paring of nails, bits of spooons, pieces of brass (triangular), crooked pins, bodkins, lumps of red hair, egg-shells broken, parchment shavings, a hen's bone of the leg, one thousand two hundred worms, pieces of glass, bones like the great teeth of a horse, alumi |