Case C (Lord L. At Prayers)

This incident has been independently recounted to me both by Lady Radnor and by Miss A. herself. Another small point not given by Sir J. Barnby is that Miss A. did not at first understand that family prayers were going on, but exclaimed: "Here are a number of people coming into the room. Why, they're smelling their chairs! "]

Four cases of apparently historical scenes connected with Salisbury Cathedral are given, of which I quote one, related by Lady Radnor.

H. Retrocognitive Scene (Brian Duppa)

On February 23, 1890, Miss A. and I were in the " Cage" [or Hungerford Chapel] and she told me she saw a grand ceremonial taking place. There appeared to be a tall chair which obstructed the view down the choir, and gradually the place appeared filled with clericals and others dressed in their best attire. Then she saw a tall big man, slowly walking up, dressed in red with white and lace over it, something that hung round his neck and down to his feet of broad gold embroidery, and a broad sort of mitre (but not peaked) more like a biretta, of beautiful embroidery.

Then there were three or four dressed very much like him, gorgeously dressed, and lots of little boys about in red and white and lace - holding candles, books, etc. The whole place was very full of people, and it was evidently a great occasion. After the principal figure had knelt in front of the chair - looking to the west for some little time - he stood up, and ten little boys lifted up the chair, and carried it higher up and placed it in front of the altar, still facing west. Then the principal figure walked up two steps and faced the east. (The whole of the arrangements of the altar, etc, as Miss A. saw them, are quite different from what they are now.) [It is here meant that Miss A.'s description was correct for that past date; as Lord Radnor explicitly told me was the case.] He had nothing on his head now. He knelt some little time, and then the most gorgeously dressed of the other figures placed something like a mitre on his head and retired, and the principal figure walked up to the chair, and sat down on it facing the congregation. Miss A. said she saw him later dead in a coffin, with the Winchester Cross over him.

She says he was tall, big, clean-shaven, a little curling hair, and blue-grey eyes.

Miss A. asked what she was seeing, and the answer came by raps.

A. The induction of Briant Uppa.

Then Miss A. said: There can't be such a name; it must be wrong.

She tried again, and got -

A. You are wrong. It is Duppa, not Uppa. Brian Duppa. Q. Who was Brian Duppa? A. Chister. Q. What was he? A. Bishop here. Q. When? or what was his date ? A. 44-16. His researches would help you. Manuscripts should lay at Winchester.

On returning home, we were talking after tea, and I casually took up Britton's "History of Wiltshire," and said to Miss A., laughing: "Now I will look for your Bishop."... The pages where the Bishops' names were were uncut, sides and top. I cut them, and to our delight we found on p. 149: -

"Brian Duppa or De Uphaugh, D.D.... tutor to Prince Charles... translated to the See of Chichester (Chister?)... Bishop of 1641... (deposed soon after by Parliament)... preferred soon after the Restoration to the See of Winchester." He was at Carisbrooke with Charles I., and is supposed to have assisted him in the writing of the Eikon Basilike, which book Miss A. had been looking at in my boudoir a few days previously, but which contains no mention of him nor his name.

Miss A. writes:

K. Retrocognitive Scene (White Webs)

I was looking in the crystal a year or two ago at Longford Castle. Lady Radnor was in the room with me. I saw amongst other things a large carved fireplace with a coat of arms in the middle and curious serpents entwined. There seemed to be a secret passage, which opened on touching one of the serpents' heads. I seemed to follow this path until it led out by a river, and I saw figures pass along it in old-fashioned dress. The name Edwye de Bovèry was then spelt out in the crystal; and Lady Radnor said that the vision must be all wrong, as the name had never been spelt like that. The name "White Webs " was also spelt out - a name of which I had never heard. A few days afterwards, when I was looking at some books in the library, I saw a curious old book with crests and coats of arms, drawn by hand, not printed; and in this book I found one of the coats of arms which I had seen in the crystal; only the one in the book was quartered with another, and the one I saw in the crystal was quite by itself.

Lady Radnor found that it was the coat belonging to an heiress, a Miss Smith. A little while afterwards, in an old church register or account-book or something, the name of Sir Edwye de Bovèry was found.

[It was in an extract from a parish register at Britford Church, in which parish Longford is. Sir Edward des Bouverie, Kt., whose name I have since found spelt in old deeds de Bovery, though he signed it himself des Bouverie, lived at the Red House, Cheshunt, Herts, and died there 1694. His son, Sir William, sold the house, and lived partly at the Parsonage of Cheshunt. There is a place called White Webs in that neighbourhood. Sir Edward's grandson, Edward des Bouverie, sold the property and settled at Longford in 1717. In 1718 he married Mary Smith, daughter and co-heiress of John Smith of London, one of the first Governors of the Bank of England. There were many secret passages leading to and from the Red House at Cheshunt; but I have not tried to identify the house at White Webs. - H. M. Radnor].