The accomplishment of the first of Mr. Bickerstaff's predictions
In a Letter to a Person of Honour.
Written in the Year 1708.
My Lord,
IN Obedience to your Lordship's Commands, as well as to satisfy my own Curiosity, I have for some Days past enquired constantly after Partrige the Almanack maker; of whom it was foretold in Mr. Bickerstaff's Predictions, published about a Month ago, that he should die the 29th Instant, about Eleven at Night, of a raging Fever. I had