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538 [Doc. 263.
TESTIMONY OF CONTEMPORARIES
6. Also the story of the fire in Stockholm: that after he
had gone out from the company into the garden of the house
at Gottenburg, he returned, and told the company soon after,
that his house and garden were safe, and described how near
the flames had come to it, though no account from thence had
then arrived.*
7. The remarkably speedy voyage that Captain Hodson†
had when he carried him to Stockholm, he related to me,
being but seven days on the voyage, and that the captain
never once dropped anchor all the time, a thing he was greatly
surprised at himself, and said that he found Swedenborg’s
company so agreeable, that he was much delighted and taken
with him.
8. He once lived in the Minories ; and after that in Cold
bath Fields, where I often went to see him; and he told me,
some short time before he died, that as it had pleased God to
take away the use of his arm by a palsy, his body was now
good for nothing but to be put into the ground. I asked him
whether he would take the sacrament, and whether I should
bring Mr. Ferelius, the Swedish minister? He said, Do: and
we both returned soon after. He told the priest to pronounce
or read the blessing on it (or the consecration), and leave the
rest of the form to him, as he knew very well what it meant
and was: this he did : and after Swedenborg had taken it, he
perceived a strong degree of heat in his face. He was quite
clear in his mind at the time, and said all was then properly
done, and thanked the clergyman for attending. This was on
the Friday ; and he died on the Wednesday following.
Mr. Charles Lindegren" sent his effects to Sweden.
9. Mr. Mathesius118 was an opponent of Swedenborg, and
said that he was lunatic, &c.; but it is remarkable that he
went lunatic himself, which happened publicly one day when
he was in the Swedish Church, and about to preach : I was
there, and saw it : he has been so ever since, and sent back
to Sweden, where he now is: this was about four years ago.
10. In general, Swedenborg kept retired, and sought to
* See subdivision E of the present Section.
This name should probably have been Dixon ; see Document 260, no. 12.
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