She then related, that she had been several times with me, and that
afterwards she could not rest a-nights, but was troubled with bears,
lions, and tygers, &c. My counsel was the Recorder Green, who after he
had answered all objections, concluded astrology was a lawful art.
'Mistress,' said he, 'what colour was those beasts that you were so
terrified with?'
'I never saw any,' said she.
'How do you then know they were lions, tygers, or bears?' replied
he.--'This is an idle person, only fit for Bedlam.' The Jury who went
not from the bar, brought in, No true Bill.
There were many Presbyterian Justices much for her, and especially one
Roberts, a busy fellow for the Parliament, who after his Majesty came
in, had like to have lost life and fortune.
I had procured Justice Hooker to be there, who was the oracle of all the
Justices of Peace in Middlesex.
There was nothing memorable after that happened unto me, until 1650, and
the month of October, at what time Captain Owen Cox brought me over from
his Majesty of Sweden, a gold chain and medal, worth about fifty pounds;
the cause whereof was, that in the year 1657 and 1658, I had made
honourable mention of him: the _Anglicus_ of 1658 being translated into
the language spoke at Hamburgh, printed and cried about the streets, as
it is in London.
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