Dreaming Murder in Parliament #10: John Williams, the Dirt (and Tin) November 12, 2013
Author: Beach Combing | in : Modern
Surely the most important player in the Perceval dream is the dreamer himself, John Williams. Read most modern reports about the murder and you will assume that JW was a member of the Cornish upper middle classes, a squire with clay and fox blood on his hands. In fact, John Williams was a major Victorian […]
Dreaming Murder in Parliament #4: The Dreamer Speaks! October 14, 2013
Author: Beach Combing | in : Modern
Readers will remember the recent post on murder in parliament in 1812 and an alleged telepathic dream. Here is the account from the dreamer (Mr Williams, a mine director in Cornwall), written in 1832, four years after our earliest account appeared in The Times in 1828. Was it perhaps written to put the record straight? […]
