[41] Baxter, Certainty of the World of Spirits.
[42] William Turner, Compleat History of Most Remarkable Providences (London, 1697).
[43] Seymour, Succession of Clergy in Cashel and Emly.
[44] O’Donoghue, Brendaniana, p. 301. See Joyce, Wonders of Ireland, p. 30, for an apparition of a ship in the air in Celtic times. See also Westropp, Brasil (Proc. R.I.A.); that writer actually sketched an illusionary island in 1872.
[45] Memorialls.
[46] Glanvill, op. cit., Rel. 18; Baxter, op. cit.
[47] Op. cit.; W.P., History of Witches and Wizards (London, 1700?).
[48] John Lindon (or Lyndon) became junior puisne Judge of the Chief Place in 1682, was knighted in 1692, and died in 1697 (Cork Hist. and Arch. Journal, vol. vii., 2nd series).
[49] Egmont MSS. (Hist. MSS. Comm.), ii. 181.
[50] “An experiment was made, whether she could recite the Lord’s Prayer: and it was found that though clause after clause was most carefully repeated unto her, yet when she said it after them that prompted her, she could not possibly avoid making nonsense of it, with some ridiculous depravations. This experiment I had the curiosity to see made upon two more, and it had the same effect.”