204. The Statural H'tjlory 
fdves, all matters both of Spiritual and Temporal concern, havcf 
been fo effectually prefs'd, and prudently menaged.that there has 
not been known any fuch thing as an Ale-houfe^ a Senary ^ Suit 
of Law commenced within the whole pnrifi (which is of a large 
extent) in the memory of man : which being more for ought I 
know than any Parifli in England can Jay befide, and fo well wor- 
thy the imitation of all other places^ I thought fit (for the eternal 
honor of its Inhabitants^ to recommend it accordingly. 
32. Yet but few miles off, at the Tottw o( Watlington^ I was 
told of a fort of Se^aries , perhaps never heard of in the 
world before ; which if fo, is as ftrange as the thing it felf, for* 
one would have thought there could have nothing been fo abford 
in Religion^ but what muft have needs been embraced already. 
Thefe by the reft of the people are called Anointers^ from the ce- 
remony they ufe of anointing all perfons before they d.dnnt them 
into their C burch^ for which they allege the fifth of St. 7an2es^ v, 
the 14 and 15. Is there any fick among you (which it feems they 
account all people to be but themfelves) let him call for the Elders 
of the Churchy and let them pray over him^ anointing him with oyl 
in the name of the Lord ; and the prayer of faith fiall fave the fick^ 
and the Lord /hall raife him up-) and if he have committed fins thty 
/ball he for given him: which Elders amongft them are fome poor 
Trade/men of the Town^ and the oyl they ufe, that cornvmonly foM 
in the fiofs^ w'ith which the Profelyte being fmeared over, and 
fired with 2^al^ he prefently becomes a new Light of this Church ; 
which I could not but note, the^epeople being as remarkably mad, 
as thofe of Brightwell are good. Though perhaps fome may 
think one Richard Hajiings, then of Broughton^ and yet living 
near Banbury^ more religioufly mad than any of thofe ; who with 
<9n^e« underftanding the twelfth verfeof the nineteenth Chapter 
of St. Matthews Gofj^el literally, hath caftrated, and fo madehim- 
felf an Eunuch for the Kingdom of Heavens fake, 
33. And thus much of men and women jointly together in their 
lives ; as to what concerns their deaths^ I muft add alfo a Rela- 
tion^ ^fftrangeas 'tis true, of the Family of one Captairn ^^ooJ 
late of Batnpton^ now Brife-Norton^ Captain in the late Wars for 
the King ; Some whereof before their deaths have had fignaJ 
warning given them by a ccmm knocking^ either at the door with- 
out, or on the table or Jhehes within ; the number of ftroaks, 
and 
