Mr. Edmund Halley, R. S. S. was carried on with a strong impulse to take a voyage to St. Hellens, to make observations of the southern constellations, being then about twenty-four years old.  Before he undertook his voyage, he dreamt that he was at sea, sailing towards that place, and saw the prospect of it from the ship in his dream, which he declared to the Royal Society, to be the perfect representation of that island, even as he had it really when he approached to it.

A Gentlewoman dreamt that a pultess of blew corants would cure her sore throat; and it did so.  She was a pious woman, and affirmed it to be true.

Anno 1690.  One, in Ireland, dreamed of a brother or near relation of his, (who lived at Amesbury in Wiltshire) that he saw him riding on the downs, and that two thieves robbed him and murdered him.  The dream awaked him, he fell asleep again and had the like dream.  He wrote to his relation an account of it, and described the thieves complexion, stature and cloaths; and advised him to take care of himself.  Not long after he had received this monitory letter, he rode towards Salisbury, and was robbed and murdered; and the murderers were discovered by this very letter, and were executed.  They hang in chains on the road to London.

’Twas revealed to a King of Scots, that if he drank of the water of Muswell, he would be cured.  After great enquiry they heard of such a place, not far from Hornsey in Middlesex.  See Weever’s Funeral Monuments of the Well.  John Norden’s Description of Middlesex.  Here was afterwards founded a religious house for Austin Monks:  since it belonged to Sir Thomas Row, and in 1677, was pulled down and the materials sold.  Anciently the Kings of Scotland were feudatory to the Kings of England, and did their homage every Christmas day.  They had several lodges belonging to them for their reception in their journey; as at Huntingdon, &c.  See Caxton’s Chronicle concerning this.

The water of this spring is drank for some distempers still.

      “Somnium ex Eubernea porta.”

Mrs. Cl—–­, of S—–­, in the county of S—–­, had a beloved daughter, who had been a long time ill, and received no benefit from her physicians.  She dreamed that a friend of hers deceased, told her, that if she gave her daughter a drench of yew pounded, that she would recover; she gave her the drench, and it killed her.  Whereupon she grew almost distracted:  her chamber maid to complement her, and mitigate her grief, said surely that could not kill her, she would adventure to take the same herself; she did so, and died also.  This was about the year 1670, or 1671.  I knew the family.

A Gentlewoman, of my acquaintance, dreamed, that if she slept again, the house would be in danger to be robbed.  She kept awake, and anon thieves came to break open the house, but were prevented.