To the Reader.

...Glanvill, through his Preface to the second part of the book; and regarding Mr. Mompesson, through two letters of his own—one to Mr. Glanvill and the other to myself—which are attached to that same Preface. This fact alone may justly be considered to add great weight to the value of that story, as well as to this current edition. However, I will not, under the pretense of whetting your appetite, keep you from satisfying it with an overly long preface. If this introduction seems lacking in any way, the Doctor’s letter (where, among other things, you will find that famous and well-attested story of the apparition of Anne Walker’s ghost to the miller A celebrated 1631 murder case in County Durham, where the ghost of a murdered woman supposedly appeared to a miller named James Graham to identify her killers) will, I hope, provide an abundant supply of evidence. I shall add nothing more myself, except that I am

original: "Dr. H. M."; refers to Dr. Henry More (1614–1687), a prominent Cambridge Platonist philosopher and collaborator of Joseph Glanvill