In the friendly confidence growing out of paro chial relations, the existence of this manuscript be came known to the writer of this introduction. Curiosity led to its examination; the strange and interesting nature of the incidents it recorded, related as they were with unpretending simplicity, soon fixed his attention It struck him as being a vivid picture of by-gone times sketched by an honest eye witness and the page of past history thus illustrated was not the least interesting in the records of Protestantism.