Sir, this is all my friend wrote.  This letter came inclosed in another from a clergyman, my friend, who lives in those parts.  He tells me all the relations he receives from divers persons living in Spreyton and the neighbouring parishes, agree with this.  He spake with a gentleman of good fashion, that was at Crediton when Fry was blooded, and saw the stone that bruised his forehead; but he did not call it copper or brass, but said it was a strange mineral.  That gentleman promised to make a strict inquiry on the place into all particulars, and to give him the result:  which my friend also promises me; with hopes that he shall procure for me a piece of that mineral substance, which hurt his forehead.

The occasion of my friend’s sending me this narrative, was my entreating him sometime since, to inquire into a thing of this nature, that happened in Barnstable, where he lives.  An account was given to me long since, it fills a sheet or two, which I have by me:  and to gratify Mr. Glanvil who is collecting histories for his “Sadducismus Triumphatus”.  I desired to have it well attested, it being full of very memorable things; but it seems he could meet only a general consent as to the truth of the things; the reports varying in the circumstances.

Sir, Yours.

      **A Copy of a Letter from a learned Friend of mine in Scotland, dated
      March 25, 1695.

Honoured sir,

I received yours dated May 24th, 1694, in which you desire me to send you some instances and examples of Transportation by an Invisible Power.  The true cause of my delaying so long, to reply to that letter, was not want of kindness; but of fit materials for such a reply.

As soon as I read your letter of May 24, I called to mind, a story which I heard long ago, concerning one of the Lord Duffus, (in the shire of Murray) his predicessors of whom it is reported, that upon a time, when he was walking abroad in the fields near to his own house, he was suddenly carried away, and found the next day at Paris in the French King’s cellar, with a silver cup in his hand; that being brought into the King’s presence and questioned by him, who he was ? and how he came thither ? he told his name, his country, and the place of his residence, and that on such a day of the month (which proved to be the day immediately preceding) being in the fields, he heard the noise of a whirl-wind, and of voices crying Horse and Hattock, (this is the word which the fairies are said to use when they remove from any place) whereupon he cried (Horse and Hattock) also, and was immediately caught up, and transported through the air, by the fairies to that place, where after he had drank heartily he fell asleep, and before he awoke, the rest of the company were gone, and had left him in posture wherein he was found.  It is said, the King gave him the cup which was found in his hand, and dismissed him.