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by them. This night they fee candles all about the rooms, and 

 made fires up to the mantle-trees of the chimneys ; but all were 

 put out no body knew how, the fire, and billets that made it, be- 

 ing thrown up and down the rooms y the curtains torn with the 

 rods from their beds, and the bed-poftspulVd away, that the tefler 

 fell down upon them 6 and the feet of the hedged cloven in two : 

 And upon the fervants in the truchje-bed, who lay all this time 

 fweating for fear, there was firft a little, which made them be- 

 gin to ftir ; but before they could get out, there came a whole. 

 coule, as it were, of ftinking ditch-water down upon them, fo 

 green, that it made their fiirts and Jheets of that colour too. 



43. The fame night the windows were all broke by throwing of 

 flones, and there was molt terrible noifes in three feveral places 

 together, to the extraordinary wonder of all that lodged near 

 them ; nay, the very Cony-ftealers that were abroad that night, 

 were fo affrighted with the difmal thundering, that for haft they 

 left their Ferret in the Cony-boroughs behind them, beyond Ro~ 

 famonds well. Notwithftanding all this*, one of them had the 

 boldnefs to ask in the Name of God, what it was ? what it would 

 have ? and what they had done, that tbeyjhould be difturbed in this 

 manner ? to which no anfwer was given, but the noife ceafed for 

 awhile. At length it came again, and (as all of themfaid) brought 

 feven Devils worfethan it felf. Whereupon one of them light- 

 ed a candle again, and fet it between the two chafnbers in the 

 door-way, on which another of them fixing his eyes, faw the 

 fimilitude of a hoof ftriking the candle and candle-flick into the 

 middle of the bed-chamber, and afterwards making three fcrapc3 

 on the fnuff to put it out. Upon this the fame perfon was fo 

 bold as to draw his [word, but he had fcarce got it out, but there 

 was another invifible band had hold of it too, and tug'd with him 

 for it, and prevailing, (truck him fo violently with the/ww/we/,that 

 he was ftun'd with the blow. 



44. Then began grievous noifes again, in fo much that they 

 called to one another, got together and went into the Prefence- 

 chamber , where they faid Prayers and fang Pfalms notwith- 

 ftanding all which, the thundring noife ftill continued in other 

 rooms. After this, November 3. they removed their Lodgings 

 over the gate ; and next day being Sunday, went to ILwelm, 

 where how they efcaped, the Authors of the Relations knew not ; 



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