Mothman Encounter From 1684?

The Quarterly review, Volume 29 (copied from Richard Bovet’s ‘ Pandemonium, or the Devil’s Cloisters, published 1684)

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Mr. Edmund Ansty of South Petherton, had occasion to return home by night from Woodbury Hill Fair, a mart well known in the west country. Coming to a place not far from Yeovil, noted by the name of Outhedge, his horse rushed very violently with him against one side of the bank, snorting and trembling very much, so that he could by no means put him on his way…, but he still pressed nearer to the bushes. At length Mr. Ansty heard the hedges crack with a dismal noise, and perceived coming towards him in the road, which is there pretty wide, a large circle of a duskish light, about the bigness of a very large wheel, and in it he perfectly saw the proportion of a huge bear, as clearly as if it had been by day light The spectre passed near him, and as it came just over against the place where he was, the monster looked very gashfully at him, showing a pair of very large flaming eyes; as soon as ever it was gone by, his horse sprung into the road and made homeward with so much haste that he could not possibly rein him hi, and had much ado to keep the saddle.—’ The old gentleman is lately dead, but there are many of the neighbours, of good reputation, that have often heard him relate this passage, and, upon inquiry, can witness the truth of it.’