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but returning on Monday, the Devil (for that was the name they 

 gave their nightly gueft) left them not unvifited; nor on the 

 Tuefday following, which was the laft day they ftaid. Where 

 ends the Hifiory (for fo he was ftiled by the people) of the juft 

 devil of Wood/lock.', the Commifjfi oners and all their dependants 

 going quite away on Wednefday; fince which time, fays the Au- 

 thor that lived on the place, there have honeft perfons of good 

 Quality lodged in the Bed-chamber and mth-draveing room, that 

 never were difturb'd in the leaft like the Commiffioners . 



45. Moftpart of thefe TranfaSlions, during the ftay of thefe 

 Commiffioners, 'tis true, might beeafily performed by combination, 

 butfome there are of them fcarce reconcilable to Jugling : Such 

 as 1. The extraordinary noifes, beyond the power of man to 

 make, without fuch inftruments as were not there. 2. The faring 

 down and fpliting the bed-pofls, and puting out fo many candles 

 and fo great fires no body knew how. 3. A vifible/?^ feen of 

 a horfes hoof treading out the candle. And 4. a tugging with 

 one of them for his foord by an invifible hand. A\\ which being 

 put together, perhaps may eafily perfwade fome man otherwife 

 inclined, to believe, that immaterial beings might be concern'd in 

 this bufinefs ; which if it do, it abundantly will fatisfie for the 

 trouble of the Relation, ftill provided the ffeculat he Theijf, be not 

 after all, a practical At heifi. 



46. And thus, before I am aware, being fallen amongft the 

 unufual accidents that have happened to men only, the next unac- 

 countable thing that prefents it felf, is a remarkable Dream of 

 ThomasWotton Efq; of Boclon Malherb in the County of Kent, Fa- 

 ther to the famous Sir Henry Wotton Provoft of Eaton, whofc 

 dreams did ufually prove true, both in fore-telling things to come, 

 and difcovering things paft. The dream, 'tis true, of which I 

 am now writing, was had at Boclon in Kent, but the moil impor- 

 tant concern of it relating to Oxford, I thought fit rather of the 

 two to place it here ; the particulars whereof, as taken verbatim 

 out of Sir Henry Cottons life b , are briefly thefe. 



47. Thh Thomas Wotton, a little before his death dreamed, that 

 Meliniverfity Treafury was robbed by Towns-men and poor Scho- 

 lars, and that the number wa6 five. And being that day to vrite 

 to his Son Henry (then a Scholar of Queens College) at Oxford, 



* Inter Reliquias Wottovian/i!. 



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