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The said John came, and did not deny the said agreement; and because it appeared to the Court that such a suit ought not to subsist among Christians, the aforesaid parties are, therefore, adjourned to the infernal regions, there to hear their judgment, and both parties were amerced by William de Scargell, Seneschall.
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Lancashire Legends,
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Romances of the West of England.
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A Strange and True Relation of one Mr. John Leech,
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Saunders' Legends and Traditions of Huntingdonshire,
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Say not 'tis vain! I tell thee, some Are warned by a meteor's light, Or a pale bird flitting calls them home, Or a voice on the winds by night-- And they must go. And he too, he, Woe for the fall of the glorious tree.
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Rookwood Hall of his striking romance.
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The supernatural occurrence, he says,
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And whether gale or calm prevail, or threatening cloud hath fled, By hand of Fate, predestinate, a limb that tree will shed; A verdant bough, untouched, I trow, by axe or tempest's breath, To Rookwood's head, an omen dread of fast approaching death.
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Cuckfield Place, adds Ainsworth,
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A similar tradition is associated with the Edgewell Oak, which is said to indicate the coming death of an inmate of Castle Dalhousie by the fall of one of its branches; and Camden in his
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Magna Britannia, alluding to the antiquity of the Brereton family, relates this peculiar fact which is reported to have been repeated many times:
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This wonderful thing respecting them is commonly believed, and I have heard it myself affirmed by many, that for some days before the death of the heir of the family the trunk of a tree has always been seen floating in the lake adjoining their mansion;