Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1869-03-27
World Wonders.

lnere was puDllsneu III 1OnuOui III
the early part of the seventeenth
century, thin volume, entitled, "a
Great Wonder in Heaven" in which the
subjoined statements, incredible as they
may appear to the reader, we're made:
"On the 23d of January, 1913, there &C.
cured at Keniton, in NorthamptoDshire,
the apparition aAd noise of battle in the
air, ghostly repetition of the conflict
which, two months before, had taken
place on the adjacent fields at Edgehill,
between the forces of the King and the
Parliament. 1t was between twelve and
one ia the morning there was heard, by
come shepherds. and other countrymen
and travellers, first the sound of drums
afar of, and the noise of soldiers, as it
were, giving out their last groans, at
which they were much amazed, and
amazed stood still, till it appeared by the
nearness of the noise to approach them
at which, too much affrighted, they sought
to withdraw as fast as possibly they could;
but then, on sudden, while they were
in these cogitatiens, there appeared in
the air the same incorporeal soldiers that
made those clamors, and Immediately,
with ensigus displayed, drums beating,
muskets going of, cannons discharged,
horses neighing, which also to these men
were visible; the alarum or entrance to
this game OF death was struck up; one
army, which gave the first charge, having
the Kings colors, and the other the Par,
liament's, in their head or front of the
battles, and so pell to it they went;
the battle that appeared to [be] the
Kings forces seeming at first 10 have the
best, but afterward to be put into appa-
rent rout. But till two or three in the
morning, in equal scale. continued this
dreadful fight, the clat;ering of arms,
noise of cannons, cries of soldiers, so
amazing and terrifying the poor men,
that they could not believe they we're
mortal, or give credit to their ears aud
eyes. Run away they burst not, for fear
of being made prey to these Internal
soldiers; and so they, with much fear
and alright, stayed to behold the sue
cess of the business. After
some three hours fight, that army
which carried the Kings colors with
drew, or rather appeared to fly; the
other, remaining, as it were, masters of
the field, stayed good space triumph
ing, and expressing all the signs of joy
and conquest, and then, with all their
drums, trumpets, ordnance, and soldiers,
vanished. The poor men, glad they were
gone, made with all haste to keniton, and
there knocking up Mr.. Wood, a justice of
the peace, who called up'his neighbor,
Mr.. Marshall, the minister, they gave
them an account Of the whole passage,
and averred it, upon there oaths, to be
true" What follows is most remarkable
of all. The gentlemen thus spprised of
what had taken place, "suspending their
judgments till the next night about the
same hour, they, with the same men, and
all the substantial men of that and the
neighboring parishes, drew thither, where,
about half an hour after their arrival,
on Sunday, being Christmas night, ap-
peared in the same tumultuous, warlike
manner, the same two adverse armies,
fighting with as much spite and spleen
as formerly. The next night
they appeared not, nor all that week.
But on the ensuing Saturday
night, in the same place, and at the same
hour, they were again seen with far
greater tumult, fighting in the manner
above mentioned for four hours, or very
near. and then vanished, appearing
again on Sunday night, and performing
the same actions of hostility and blood
shed. . Successfully the next
Saturday and Sunday the same tumults
aud prodigious sights and actions were
nut in the state and condition they we're
formerly. The rumor whereof coming to
His Majesty, at Oxford, be Immediately
dispatched thiiher Col. Lewis Kirke,
Capt. Dudley, Capt Waithman, and
three other gentlemen of credit, 70 take
the full view and notice Of the said busi-
ness: who, frst hearing the relation of
Mr., Marshall aud others, stayed there
till Saturday night following, wherein
they saw and heard the aforementioned
prodigies, and so on Sunday, distinctly
knowing divers of the apparitious BY their
faces. as that of Sir z imund yarney and
others that were slaini Of which, upon
oath, they made testimony to His
Majesty"