The King got angry, and said, that he had no dread of sorceresses, and would make the old lady disgorge her twenty lacs.

That very night, however, in his sleep, he saw the Kuduseea Begum enter his room, approach his bed, look upon him with a countenance still more kind and bright than in life, and then return slowly with her face still towards him, and beckoning him with her hand to follow! As soon as he awoke he became greatly agitated and alarmed, and ordered the old sorceress to be sent forthwith across the Ganges to Cawnpoor.

She paid her five lacs, and took off about fifteen; but what became of her afterwards I have not heard.
One of the first cases that I had to decide, after taking charge of my office, was that of a claim to five Government notes of twenty thousand rupees each, left by Sultan Mahal, one of the late King, Amjud Allee Shah's, widows.

The claimants were the reigning King, and the mother, brother, and sister of the deceased widow.

She was the daughter of a greengrocer, and, in February 1846, at the age of sixteen, she went to the palace with vegetables.