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1180 NOTES TO VOLUME II.
following additional information : "Mr. Chastanier, it appears, met
with his death some years afterwards in the following unfortunate
manner. Having gone to Scotland on some particular business, he
designed to have returned to London by the Packet, and went on
board with that intention. But the wind at that time being un
favourable, the Captain delayed sailing till a change should take
place. On this Mr. Chastanier told the Captain, that he would in
the meantime visit a friend at a little distance, and return to the
vessel the next day. He accordingly quitted the Packet, leaving his
bundle behind him, but never returned. It was cold, snowy weather ;
and it is supposed he either lost his way, or was overtaken with
drowsiness, and sat down on the road-side to rest himself, where he
was found the next day frozen to death. The Captain sailed when
the wind was fair, and brought his bundle to London, which was
afterwards delivered into the hands of Mr. Sibly,267 of Goswell Street."
From the "New Church Quarterly," Vol. I (p. 67 et seq.), it appears
that "the old man was then nearly eighty years old."
NOTE 223.
PETER PROVO.
In publishing for the first time in full the "Testimony collected
by Peter Provo," which constitutes Document 263, the Rev. S. Noble
says in the "Intellectual Repository" for 1836, "Mr. Peter Provo was
a respectable gentleman of the medical profession, who published
the work called ’Wisdom’s Dictates.""
Mr. Hindmarsh in his "Rise and Progress" (p. 14) alludes to his
intercourse with Mr. Provo in the following manner: "In one whole
year after my reception of the Writings, I found only three or four
individuals in London, with whom I could maintain a friendly inter
course on the subjects contained in them. In 1783 I invited these
few to hold regular meetings for reading and conversation in my
house in Clerkenwell Close, not far from the spot where Sweden
borg died. These meetings were continued every Sunday morning,
till it was thought expedient to endeavour to make them more public.
I was possessed of all the writings in Latin, and these were con
stantly on the table before us, while we read in them illustrations
of the Holy Word, and those extraordinary relations in reference to
the state of things in another life, which so peculiarly distinguish
our Author’s theological works from those of every other man. In
this manner we went on for a time, our first meeting consisting of
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