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1603 febr. 21. ☾ toward evening In a tempest the miller of Foxr going from his water mill to his windmill sawe as it were a blacke man in blacke going before him an{d} when he Called to him desyring him to stay that he might have his comp{any} to the mill he was turned into a black dogge. and when the miller came {to} the mill he sawe him agayne like a man and assoone as he spake to {him} he was turned into a blacke beare so vanished away. Reported by Mr I{illeg} King prcher and seconded by Mr R{illeg} Tryst of maidford /

Calendared text from MS Ashmole 207, f. 59v (bottom right part of page)

Cite this as: Lauren Kassell, Michael Hawkins, Robert Ralley, John Young, Joanne Edge, Janet Yvonne Martin-Portugues, and Natalie Kaoukji (eds.), ‘NOTE2167’, The casebooks of Simon Forman and Richard Napier, 1596–1634: a digital edition, https://casebooks.lib.cam.ac.uk/notes/NOTE2167, accessed 29 October 2026.