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finding them whole, and a quarter of Beef which lay on the 

 ground untouched, they began to entertain other thoughts. 



39. Oftob. 17. Somthing to their thinking removed all the 

 wood of the Kings Oak. out of the dining-room into the Prefence 

 Chamber., and hurled the chairs and ftools up and down that ;oom : 

 From whence i: came into the two Chambers where the Cwtthifffa* 

 ners and their ferv ants lay, and hoifted up their beds feet fo much 

 higher than the beads, that they thought they fhould have been 

 turned over and over, and then let them fall down withfnch a 

 force, that their bodies rebounded from the bed a good diftance, 

 and then (hook the bed-fteds fo violently, that themfelves con- 

 fer! their bodies were fore with it. October 1 8. Son- thing came 

 into the Bed- chamber and walkt up and down, and fetching the 

 warming-fan out of the with-drawing room, made fo much r.oife 

 that they thought five bells could not have made more. And 

 October 1 9. Trenchers were thrown up and down the dining-room 

 and at them that lodg'd there, whereof one of them being fllaken 

 by thefhoulder and awakened, put forth his head to fee what 

 was the matter, but had trenchers thrown at it, Ofiober 20. the 

 curtains of the bed in the with-drawing room were drawn to 

 and fro, and the bed/led much fhaken, and eight great pewter 

 dijhes^nd three dozen of trenchers, thrown about the bed-chamber 

 again, whereof fome fell upon the beds', this night they alfo 

 thought whole arm -fulls of the tfcod of the Kings Oak had been 

 thrown down in their chambers ; . but of that, in the morning they 

 found nothing had been moved. 



40. OSiobeni. The keeper ot their Ordnary and his bitch, lay 

 in one of the rooms with them, which night they were not di- 

 fturbedat all. But ORober 22. though the bitch\tnntV d there 

 again (to whom they afcribed their former nights reft) both they 

 and the bitch were in a pitiful taking ; the bitch opening but once, 

 and that with a whining, fearful yelp. October 23. they had all 

 their cloaths pluckt off them in the with-drawing room, and the 

 bricks fell out of the chimney into the room-, and the 24 th they 

 thought in the dining-room that all the wood of the Kings Oak had 

 been brought thither, and thrown down clofe by (heir bed-fids, 

 which noife being heard by thofe of the with-drawing room, one 

 of them rofe to fee what was done, fearing indeed that his fel- 

 low Commiffioners had been killed, but found no fuch matter 



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