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his statement ; because I have had interviews 

 with eye-witnesses, whose unimpeachable tes- 

 timony fully corroborates it, and I have by me 

 just now the most minute particulars concern- 

 ing these virgins, written equally by eye- 

 witnesses whose characters are quite above 

 suspicion, and whose piety has not the slightest 

 tinge of fanaticism in it. 



Certainly it would not be difficult to ferret 

 out sufficient cause why it has pleased Omnipo- 

 tence to withhold from England in these latter 

 ages, a frequency of those supernatural occur- 

 rences which history, both native and foreign, 

 does assure us, in the most positive terms, did 

 take place in this island during the long period 

 previous to what is generally termed the 

 reformation. 



When our press teemed with remarks con- 

 cerning the Prince of Hohenlohe, at the time 

 that Almighty God, through his prayers ^and 

 those of the Church, had restored the arm of a 

 nun at New Hall, from the last stage of loath- 

 some disease, to one of perfect health and 

 soundness, I determined to travel into Bavaria 

 in order to gain indubitable information con- 

 cerning the astonishing cures which were said 



