rn to life she
informed those about her that she had asked of two apparitions, dressed
in long, white garments, for leave, like Hezekiah, to live for fifteen
years, to see her daughter grow up, and that it was granted. She died in
fifteen years from that time.

Maidstone, Lady, saw a fly of fire as premonitory of the deaths--first,
of her husband, who died in a sea-fight with the Dutch, May 28th, 1672,
and second, of her mother-in-law, Lady Winchilsea.

Chedworth, Lord, was visited by a friend and fellow-sceptic, saying he
had died that night and had realised the existence of another world.
While relating the vision the news arrived of his friend's death.

Rambouillet, Marquis of, had just the same experience. A
fellow-unbeliever, his cousin, the Marquis de Precy, visited him in
Paris, saying that he had been killed in battle in Flanders, and
predicting his cousin's death in action, which shortly occurred in the
battle of the Faubourg St. Antoine. (Quoted by Calmet from "Causes
Celebres," xi. 370.)

Lyttleton, Lord (third), died Nov. 27th, 1799, was warned of his death
three days earlier, and exhorted to repentance. The story, very widely
quoted, first appears in the _Gentleman's Magazine_, vol. lxxxv. 597. He
also himself appeared to Mr. Andrews, at Dartford Mills, who was
expecting a visit from him at the time.

Middleton, Lord, was taken prisoner by the Roundheads after the battle
of Worcester. While in prison he was comforted by the apparition of the
laird Bocconi, whom he had known while trying to make a party for the
king in Scotland, and who assured him of his escape in two days, which
occurred.

Balcarres, Lord, when confined in Edinburgh Castle on suspicion of
Jacobitism, was visited by the apparition of Viscount Dundee--shot at
that moment at Killiecrankie.

Holland, Lord (the first), who was taken prisoner at the battle of St.
Neot's in 1624, is said still to haunt Holland House, dressed in the cap
and clothes in which he was executed.

Montgomery, Count of, was warned by an apparition to flee from Paris,
and thus escaped the Massacre of St. Bartholemew. (See Coligni.)

Shelburne, Lord, eldest son of the Marquis of Lansdowne, is said, in
Mrs. Schimmelpenninck's Memoirs, to have had, when five years old, a
premonitory vision of his own funeral, with full details as to
stoppages, etc. Dr. Priestley was sent for, and treated the child for
slight fever. When about to visit his patient (whom he expected