IN answer to yours , you may be pleased to know , that it was my Fortune a while ago , to travel in the Upper Loraine , a Country bordering upon Germany ; where hearing the report of a very strange Dog being carried to several places in a Cart , with a Clergy-man and others attending upon it ; I had a great desire to see it , and know what it should mean . At last , coming to a Town called Argameen , being a Garrison wherein I quartered , I understood that it was brought to an Abby called Frankendale , in which there was a Convent of Fryers . This place being but five or six Leagues off , my curiosity led me thither to be fully satisfied of the truth thereof : where being come , I saw a Creature of the perfect shape and form of a Dog , not distinguishable from other Dogs in any respect , as to shape and form , save only the hairs of his head , which were long , and hanging down very low , in the perfect likeness of the natural hairs of a mans head . It was a little bigger than the ordinary size of your common Mastiff-dogs ; all of a black colour , ( only the hairs , which were of a brownish colour ) and very dreadful to behold . I must confess unto ye , I could not behold it without admiration , especially seeing those hairs , which are only proper to mankinde , and contrary to the nature of Dogs , or any other creature : But my astonishment was more , when they aver'd unto me that he was constantly heard to speak twice every day two or three words in a perfect dialect , plain , and intelligible to all that heard him . The constant words that he repeated , were , O que Dieu est Juste ! O how just is God! These words , I have not heard spoken by this Creature it self , having not leisure enough to attend him , or be any long while absent from my Garrison ; but during my stay there , I saw him attended upon by a Fryer of the Franciscan Order , and both were carried in a Cart , and that only to places where people resorted unto for Sanctity , or Devotion , as they frequent much in those Countries . I made it my business to know what all this should mean ; and the best accompt that I could learn , was as followeth .

In that part of the Upper Loraine which is next to Germany , there lived one who went by the title of a Grave or Lord : This person wanted not Means enough to live happy and contented , if Avarice ( which ever wants ) had not blinded him with too insatiable a desire of becoming wealthy and potent ; whereby the weak and poor which lived under his power and reach , were forc'd to bear the burthen of his oppressions , and to suffer by his greedy extortions . At length it happened that one of his Tenants died , leaving behinde him a Wife and three or four small Children , who had scarce any other way of sustenance , but what they received from one Milch Cow that she had . The news of his death came no sooner to this Graves knowledge , but he orders one of his Bayliffs to seize on the poor Widdows Cow , on colour of a Custom used in some parts of that Country , which allowed the Landlord a Heriot upon the death of any Tenant . The aforesaid Bayliff seizes on the only Cow this poor woman had in the world , and puts the same in his Masters possession : whereupon the woman goes and addresses her self to her Landlord , and sets forth to him , in the most lamentable manner that she could , the miserable condition she was reduc'd unto by the death of her Husband ; her Poverty , and the great charge of children that she had ; begging him to leave her her Cow , to preserve her self and her children from starving . But he , without taking any pitie of her condition , or affording her any relief , caused her to be turn'd away with many threats and abuses : and so the poor woman being left to her tears , and altogether fallen into despair , she fell to dreadful Imprecations against him , invoking God that he would inflict some heavie Judgement upon him , and shew him no more mercie than he did to her . In which sad manner she went away , and departed from him .

Within some little while after , it happened that there fell a strange and unusual Murrain among his Cattle , insomuch that neither Cow , Horse , Sheep , or any other sort of what he possessed in the world , was left him alive : whereat he was so confounded , thus to see all his Stock perish in that manner before his face ; and his Conscience convincing him that God might do this to avenge his oppressing of the poor woman ; he became so extravagantly enraged , that he takes his case of Pistols , and comes to a place where the Picture of our Saviour was as hanging on the Cross , and discharges them at the same , saying , Now thou God , who out of revenge hast done all this s●aughter on my Beasts , send now , if thou caust , Dogs enough to devour them . Upon which , they say , he was immediately transformed into the shape and form of that Dog that I saw at Frankendale .

After this , the Lady his wife seeing the heavie hand of God thus fallen upon her husband , sent for several able Divines , and other devout persons , to obtain , by the assistance of their Prayers , if it were Gods blessed will , to restore him again to his former shape . But all proving ineffectual , they advised her to send him to some other places of Devotion , or where any Godly persons lived , in hopes still that some just persons Prayers may he heard at last .

And further , one thing more is remarkable , which the Fryer that attended on him , and others , told me , viz. That when the Lady intended to send him away in her Coach , the horses would in no manner budge from the place , notwithstanding all the means they used ; so that she was forced to make tryal of a Cart , which carryed him without any difficulty .