Credulous inhabitants

A pretended ghost, which has lately appeared in the cloisters of Westminster Abbey, St. John's church-yard, Milbank, Masham-street, &c. was seized on Wednesday evening, and found to be a servant to one of the gentlemen belonging to the abbey, wrapped up in a large white sheet, with the corners hanging over his head, inimitation of feathers. He had struck such a terror into the credulous inhabitants thereabouts, that those who could not be brought to believe it a ghost, entered into a subscription, to give five guineas to the person, who would seize him, in order to remove the superstitious error adopted by their weak minded neighbours.