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nroft Uke a Spatk of Ftre, Sbme at thc very Töp of that Part. Yet wasnot this Fowl MortifiJ , nor at all lll fiented, but so Fresli, that the ncxrday 1 found it very Good Meat.

2. i. Upon Friday (Feb. 25. 167^.) aWonun of7Win Semerf.t-ii S . p. sil. stjire bough; in the Market a Neck, of Veal, which scero’d well Coloured, andwell Conditioned in e very refpect: The Calf\ a Ccw-calf, was kill’d inthe Evening the Day before; it was Hung to a Shelf in a little Chamber,where stie and her Husband lay ; upon the following Saturday, about 9 inthe Night, the Neck ot Veal ßuned so Bright, that it did put the Woraaninto a great affirightment. She calls up her Husband; he hastens to theUght, as fearing Fire and Flames, and feeing the Light come only fromthe Flejh, he caughtthe F h(h in his Lese Hand, and beat it withhis RightHand, as endeavouring to Extinguifh the Flame ; but witheut effect. TheFlejh '(htned as much, is not more, than before, and his Hand, with whichhe J beat the Fleßt, became all in a Flame* as bright and Vivid, as the Flejhes the Veal was, and so it continued, whilst he went from place to place,

, fhewing it to oihers. Then he thrusts his Rla-ättg Hand into a Pail ot pureWater ; this could not Extir.guish the Flame at all, but his Hand ßnned througbthe Water. At Iase he took aNapkin, and Wiped his Hand, till he wipedoff a ll the Light. The next Day (being Ftb. 27.) the Veal was Dreffed,and fome oh the Ncighbours, who siw 'v ßnntng, wereinvited to Eat ofit;allestecm d it as Good, as any they had Eaten. A part of it was kept forFeb 28, and 29 in which time it lose nothingof its Sweetnesi.

1. And now I want not a Parallel in Consort for that part of this Rela-tion, which seemeth strängest Foron Tuefday (bdng Apnl 4. »676 ) aFat Pork was kill’d for my Family; within Two Days, the Guts , or (asfome call them) the Chvttrhng. r, and Feet of the Pork wereBoyl’d, and as-ter they werc throughly Gold, they were put, in due order, in Saufe drink,or Pickte, in a Low Room on the North side, which had lirtle Light atMid-Jay, and was veryDark, assoon as N ght began, Apr. 8- all thofeParts of the Gutts, and the Claws of the Feet , which Floted on the top ofthe Pickk, Ugan to Shine , and the Parts Immerscd under Water gave noLight The Light Encreased Daily more and more in all the Parts that Fioat-«d. Apr. tj. the Light soemed as Bright as the Brightest Mten-ßnne.Thus it continued to Shtne (but Fainter and Fainter, and in Fewer Paris)almost a Wetk langer ; for, being osten tumbled up and down, by DowDcgrees all sonk into rhe tickle, and then all the Light Expired. Whilstthe Light was Vivid, 1 caused a Maid-servant to Rub one of her Hand*upon the Shming PsrV; aster which, she Came through ; Rooms, into theplace where 1 fate, between a great Fire on one side, and a Candle or twoon a Table near at Hand, on the other side - y and in this place she shewtdme her Hmd, all over Slmng, as Bright as Moonßnne-, one indeed sloedbetween her Hand and the Fire, another between htr ard tle Candles.Thence I wem into another Room, where there was but a finali Fire, andro Cindle, but fat that time) a little Moon jhine through a Window: tforethe Shining Parrs of her Hand, or indeed her Hand all over, appeared

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