Wesley Corpus

I knew Mr. Walsh to be a person of good understanding and real piety; and he testified what he had seen with his own eyes: But still I wanted more witnesses, till, awhile ago, being at Mr. Cary’s in Copthall Buildings, I occasionally mentioned The Brothers' Footsteps; and asked the company if they had heard anything of them. “Sir,” said Mr. Cary, “sixteen years ago, I saw and counted them myself.” Another added, “And I saw them four years ago.” I could then no longer doubt but they had been ; and a week or two after I went with Mr. Cary and another person to seek them. We sought for near half an hour in vain. We could find no steps at all within a quarter of a mile, no, nor half a mile, north of Montague-House. We were almost out of hope, when an honest man, who was at work, directed us to thc next ground, adjoining to a pond. There we found what we sought for, about three-quarters of a mile north of Montague House, and about five hundred yards east of Tottenham Court Road. The steps answer Mr. Walsh's description. They are of the size of a large human foot, about three. inches deep, and lie nearly from north-east to south-west. We counted only seventy-six; but we were not exact in counting. The place where one or both the brothers are: supposed to have fallen, is still bare of grass. The labourer showed us also the bank, where (the tradition is) the wretched woman sat to see the combat. What shall we say to these things? Why, to Atheists, or Infidels of any kind, I would not say one word about them. For “if they hear not Moses and the Prophets,” they will not regard anything of this kind. But to men of candour, who believe the Bible to be of God, I would say, Is not this an astonishing instance, held forth to all the inhabitants of London, of the justice and power of God?