To the Reader.

I invite you to the reading of so pleasant and useful a treatise; and yet I can add one thing more regarding the story of the Demon of Tedworth original: "Damon of Tedworth," a famous 1662 haunting case involving a ghostly drummer in the home of John Mompesson which is very significant. It is not for me, indeed, to comment on that narrow-mindedness original: "meanness of Spirit" found in those who dismiss apparitions and witches, which very strangely revealed itself in the decrying of that well-attested narrative concerning the disturbances in Mr. Mompesson's house.

In that house, although those who came to be spectators of the marvelous things done there by some invisible agents had all the liberty imaginable—even to the ripping open of the bolsters A long, thick pillow or cushion to search and see if they could discover any natural cause or clever trick by which such strange feats were performed—and numbers who had free access from day to day were abundantly satisfied of the reality of the thing (that the house was haunted and disturbed by demons or spirits), yet a few years after the disturbances had ceased, the truth of this story sat so uncomfortably in the minds of those who loathe such things that they raised a report.

Even though none of them—not even the most diligent and curious—could detect any trick or fraud themselves in the matter, they claimed that both Mr. Glanvill himself, who published the narrative, and Mr. Mompesson, in whose house these wonderful things happened, had confessed the whole matter to be a cheat and a fraud original: "imposture". They were so diligent in spreading abroad this massive untruth that it became current in all the three kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland. This is a shocking revelation of what kind of spirit this sort of men possesses. As I said, though it is not my place to dwell on it, I will not hesitate to point it out, as it serves both my own interest and the interest of truth, that those reports raised regarding Mr. Glan- The text cuts off here, continuing "Glanvill" on the next page.