[The Book of Dreams and Ghosts by Andrew Lang]@TWC D-Link bookThe Book of Dreams and Ghosts CHAPTER II 20/44
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Fox, son of one to whom the dream was told _before_ the event, was then a boy of fourteen, and sixty-one years later was sure that he himself heard of Mr.Williams's dream _before_ the news of the murder arrived. After sixty years, however, the memory cannot be relied upon. One very curious circumstance in connection with the assassination of Mr.Perceval has never been noticed.
A rumour or report of the deed reached Bude Kirk, a village near Annan, on the night of Sunday, May 10, a day before the crime was committed! This was stated in the Dumfries and Galloway Courier, and copied in The Times of May 25.
On May 28, the Perth Courier quotes the Dumfries paper, and adds that "the Rev.Mr.Yorstoun, minister of Hoddam (ob.
1833), has visited Bude Kirk and has obtained the most satisfactory proof of the rumour having existed" on May 10, but the rumour cannot be traced to its source.
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