Upon waking from a trance which lasted ten days, and during which time he took no sustenance, the eleven year old boy William Withers begins to speak after twenty-four hours. When he speaks, he "declareth most straunge and rare thinges, which are to come, and hath continued the space of three weeks." Generally, his prophecies relate to praising God, and are told in a "voyce seemeth to bee of such power that all the bedde shaketh."(Cover)