The dream was an ordinary dream, and did not announce death, or anything but a journey.

Mr.Wilkins dreamed, in Devonshire, that he was going to London.

He thought he would go by Gloucestershire and see his people.

So he started, arrived at his father's house, found the front door locked, went in by the back door, went to his parents' room, saw his father asleep in bed and his mother awake.

He said: "Mother, I am going a long journey, and have come to bid you good-bye".