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On Dreams.
did not only declare against it , but also raised foices to oppose it ; believing ( as they said ) it would ne a means to bring En .. i . ind to be under a subjection to Spain , and make th se of this ' nation slaves to strangers . And of this number Sir Thomas \ V \ at-, of Boxlev-Abi . ey , in Kent , ( betwixt whose family and the family of the Wottons there had been an ancient and entire friendship ) was the principal actor ; who having persuaded many of the nobility and gentry ( especially of
Kent ) to side with him , and he being defeated and taken prisoner , was legally arraigned and condemned , and lost hi . , life : so did the Duke of Suffolk , and divers others , especially many of the gentry of Kent , who were there , in several places , ' executed as Wyatt ' s assistants . And of this number , in all probability , had Mr . Wotton been , if he had not been confined : for though he could not be ignorant
that another man ' s treason makes it mine by concealing it ; yet he durst confess to his uncle , when he returned into England , and then came to visit him in prison , that he had more than an intimation of Wyatt ' s intentions ; and thought he had not continued actually innocent , if his uncle had not so happily dreamed him into a prison ; out of which placewhen he was delivered by the same hand tl . atcuused
, . his commitment , they both considered the dream more seriously ; and then both joined in praising God for it : —that God , who ties himself io no rules , either in preventing of evil , or in shewing of mercy to those , whom of his good pleasure be hath chosen to love . ' Archbishop Laud , in his diary under January 24 , 1640 , relates : . At night I dreamed , that my father ( who died 4 6 years since )
came to me ; and , to my thinking , he was as well and as cheerful as ever I saw him . He asked me what 1 did here ? And after some speech , I asked him , how long he would stay with me ? Pie answered , he would stay till he had me awav with him . I am not moved with dreams ; yet I thought fit to remember this . ' December iStb following , he was accused by the Commons of high treason , and in March he was committed to the Tower .
A medical man , some years ago , engaged himself as surgeon ' s mate with a master cf a Greenland ship ; and accordingly had put his chest of instruments , bed , and cloaths on board , and lay himself at Gravesend , waiting the falling down of the vessel . Some few nights before he expected fo sail , an old man appeared to him in his sleep , and bade him ' give over all thoughts of the voyage , for the ship would be
lost . ' The dieam a little troubled him , but the remembrance of it soon passed over , till , the second night , he dreamed the same again . This gave him some concern , and induced him to mention the matter to the sur-eon , who lay in the same house ; but-he laughed at the other ' s superstition . The third night , as he lay in bed , he imagined himself on board , encompassed with ail the terrors of the deep , when
the winds and the waves seemed to threaten them with utter destruction . He thought that the ship struck on a rock , and was staved in a thousand pieces ; that he saw the master clinging to a plank , and floating for a moment , then sink beneath a mountainous billow , which ' came rushing over him on a sudden , and was seen no more . The terror of this object awoke him ; and the nextday he was so impiessed with it that he fetched his things from the vessel , and suffered
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
On Dreams.
did not only declare against it , but also raised foices to oppose it ; believing ( as they said ) it would ne a means to bring En .. i . ind to be under a subjection to Spain , and make th se of this ' nation slaves to strangers . And of this number Sir Thomas \ V \ at-, of Boxlev-Abi . ey , in Kent , ( betwixt whose family and the family of the Wottons there had been an ancient and entire friendship ) was the principal actor ; who having persuaded many of the nobility and gentry ( especially of
Kent ) to side with him , and he being defeated and taken prisoner , was legally arraigned and condemned , and lost hi . , life : so did the Duke of Suffolk , and divers others , especially many of the gentry of Kent , who were there , in several places , ' executed as Wyatt ' s assistants . And of this number , in all probability , had Mr . Wotton been , if he had not been confined : for though he could not be ignorant
that another man ' s treason makes it mine by concealing it ; yet he durst confess to his uncle , when he returned into England , and then came to visit him in prison , that he had more than an intimation of Wyatt ' s intentions ; and thought he had not continued actually innocent , if his uncle had not so happily dreamed him into a prison ; out of which placewhen he was delivered by the same hand tl . atcuused
, . his commitment , they both considered the dream more seriously ; and then both joined in praising God for it : —that God , who ties himself io no rules , either in preventing of evil , or in shewing of mercy to those , whom of his good pleasure be hath chosen to love . ' Archbishop Laud , in his diary under January 24 , 1640 , relates : . At night I dreamed , that my father ( who died 4 6 years since )
came to me ; and , to my thinking , he was as well and as cheerful as ever I saw him . He asked me what 1 did here ? And after some speech , I asked him , how long he would stay with me ? Pie answered , he would stay till he had me awav with him . I am not moved with dreams ; yet I thought fit to remember this . ' December iStb following , he was accused by the Commons of high treason , and in March he was committed to the Tower .
A medical man , some years ago , engaged himself as surgeon ' s mate with a master cf a Greenland ship ; and accordingly had put his chest of instruments , bed , and cloaths on board , and lay himself at Gravesend , waiting the falling down of the vessel . Some few nights before he expected fo sail , an old man appeared to him in his sleep , and bade him ' give over all thoughts of the voyage , for the ship would be
lost . ' The dieam a little troubled him , but the remembrance of it soon passed over , till , the second night , he dreamed the same again . This gave him some concern , and induced him to mention the matter to the sur-eon , who lay in the same house ; but-he laughed at the other ' s superstition . The third night , as he lay in bed , he imagined himself on board , encompassed with ail the terrors of the deep , when
the winds and the waves seemed to threaten them with utter destruction . He thought that the ship struck on a rock , and was staved in a thousand pieces ; that he saw the master clinging to a plank , and floating for a moment , then sink beneath a mountainous billow , which ' came rushing over him on a sudden , and was seen no more . The terror of this object awoke him ; and the nextday he was so impiessed with it that he fetched his things from the vessel , and suffered