* <£ My Lady Baltimore , her Mother-in-law, for 
<c fomc time before the Death of her Son Caci m 
tc Hus Calvert , had the like happened to her i 
which has made Madam Sewall much trou- 
“ bled at what has happened ro her.” 
They caufed Mrs. Sufanna Sewall one Day to 
“ put on her Sifter Digges’s Petticoat, which 
“ they had tried beforehand, and would not 
4 ‘ fparkle ; but at Night, when Madam Sewall 
*‘.put it off, it would fparkle as the reft other 
4 ‘ own Garments did.” 
The celebrated Bartholin of Copenhagen , in his 
Collection of anatomical Hiftories that are unufual, 
Century hi. Hijl. lxx. which he intitles Alulier 
fplendens, gives us a parallel Inftance in a noble 
Lady of Verona in Italy , which, he fays, he had 
from an Account of the Phenomenon pubiifhed by 
Petrus a Cajlro , a learned Phyfician of the fame 
Place, in a lmall Treatife intituled De Igne Lam - 
kente . There is this Circumftance not mentioned in 
Mrs. Sewall’s Cafe (tho J perhaps it would have hap- 
pened, if Trial had been made, as well as in the Cafe 
of the Italian Lady) ; which I think not improper to 
mention, in Bartholin s own Words, “ ut quo - 
“ tiens lev iter Imteo corpus tetigerit, feint ill# ex 
a: tubus copioje profit ant, c unci is domejticis cou- 
fpicuee, non fecus acjie Jilice excuterentur. 1 ' At 
the Conclusion of this Relation he refers us to a Book 
of his, intituled, De Luce Animalium, for more In- 
Inftanccjr 
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* The addirionsl Linec are not in Colonel Digges’s Hand, but 
feem to be in Mr. Claytons. 
