{131} He had strange dreams of being in hell with the cruel murderess, Mrs.Brownrigg, who "whipped three female 'prentices to death and hid them in the coal-hole".

Such a man might have strange fancies, and a belief in approaching death might bring its own fulfilment.

The hypothesis of a premeditated suicide, with the story of the ghost as a last practical joke, has no corroboration.

It occurred to Horace Walpole at once, but he laid no stress on it.
Such is a plain, dry, statistical account of the most extraordinary event that happened in Dr.Johnson's day.
However, the story does not end here.

On the fatal night, 27th November, 1779, Mr.Andrews, M.P., a friend of Lyttelton's was awakened by finding Lord Lyttelton drawing his curtains.