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whereupon returning to his bed again , he found two dozen 

 of trenchers thrown into it, and handiomly covered with the 

 bed-cloaths. 



41. Ottobe'r 25. The curtains of the bed in the with- drawing 

 room were drawn to and fro, and the bedfted fhaken as before : 

 and in the bed-chamber glafs flew about fo thick (and yet not a 

 pane of the chamber windows broken) that they thought it had 

 rained money ; whereupon they lighted candles, but to their grief 

 they found nothing but glafs, which they took up in the morning 

 and laid together. Oclober i^. Somthing walked in the with- 

 drawing room about an hour, and going to the window opened and 

 fhut it ; then going into the bed-chamber, it threw great ftones for 

 about half an hours time, fome whereof lighted on the high-bed, 

 and others on the truckje-bed, to the number in all of about four- 

 fcore. this night there was alfo a very great no ife, as though 

 forty pieces of Ordnance had been (hot off together ; at two fe- 

 veral knocks it aftonifhed all the neighboring dwellers, which 'tis 

 thought might have been heard a great way off. During thefe 

 noifes which were heard in both room^ together, both Commijfion- 

 ers and fervants were ftruck with fo great horror, that they cryed 

 out to one another for help, whereof one of them recovering 

 bimfelf out of a ftrange agony he had been in, fnatch'd up a /word, 

 and had like to have killed one of his Brethren coming out of his 

 bed in his fliirt, whom he took for the Spirit that did the mif- 

 chief: However, at length they got all together, yet the noife 

 continued fo great and terrible, and (hook the walls fo much, that 

 they thought the whole Manor would have fell on their heads. At 

 its departure it took all the g/tf/?away with it. 



42. November 1. Somthing as they thought walk'd up and 

 down the wit h-dr awing room, and then made a noife in the dining- 

 room : The ftones that were left before and laid up in the with-draw- 

 ing-room, were all fetch 'd away this night, and a great deal of 

 glajl (not like the former) thrown about again. November 2. 

 came fomthing into the with-drawing room treading (as they con- 

 ceived) much like a Bear, which firft only walking about a quar- 

 ter of an hour, at length it made a noife about the Table, and 

 threw the warming-pan fo violently, that it quite fpoiled it : It 

 threw alfo glafi and great ftones at them again, and the bones of 

 horfes, and all fo violently, that the bedfted and walls were bruifed 



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