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A MIRAGE NEAR MONTGOMERY. IN 1661, about sunset at Weston, in Montgomeryshire, a great number of horsemen, about 400 paces off, were seen marching, two abreast on the common, and were half-an-hour before the rear came up, seeming about 500 the spectators were amazed, thinking them roundheads going to release the prisoners of Mont- gomery, several ministers and gentlemen being in prison on the top of the hill they had another full view of their horses of several colours they marched in three companies, every division had three horse- colours they appeared about an hundred yards from them a man, who was thatching a house all that day, said he saw no soldiers march, neither was there any track of the horses they deposed these particulars before the Lord Herbert. A woman coming from Bishop's Castle over the same common, fell off her horse, being terrified with a blazing star, which she and six men saw, with a tail like an arrow, seeming just over their heads. 1 Admirable Curiosities, in Rarities and Wondtrs in England, Scotland and Ireland.- By Rd. Burton, 1811.