Of OXFO%T)^SHI\E. 2-5 
and difra nee between them, and the flace where, for the moft 
part refpeding the circumftances of t\\Q perfons to dye, or their 
deaths thenifelves, aswilleafily be coliecred from the following 
relation. 
34. ^[v^ knocking that was heard, or at lead obferved, 
wasabouta year after the reftoration of x.\\q King, in the after- 
noon a little before night, at or upon the dcor it beiiigthen open, 
as it was apprehended by Mrs. Elenor Wocd^ mother to CaDtain 
Bafil IFood, who only heard it, none being then by or about the 
houfe but her felf ; at which (lie v^as very much diftui bed, think- 
ing it boded fome ill to her or hers^ and within fourteen nights 
after, flie had news of the death of her Son in law Mr. Gtorge 
Smithy who dyed in London. 
3 5 . About three years after that, there were three great knocks 
given very audibly to all that were then in the houfe^ vij- to the 
aforefiid Mrs. E/enor IFoodj Mr. Bafd V/ood^ 2iXid his wife Mrs. 
Hefter^ and fome fervants: which knocks wtit fo remarkable, 
that one of the maids came from the well which was about twenty 
.yards from the place, to (ee what was the matter ; and Mrs. E- 
lenorWooct^ and another maid that was wirhin the houfe^ faw three 
great pans of Lard ftake and totter fo upon a ilielf in the M'dkr 
houfe^ that they were like to fall down. Upon this violent knockr 
ing^ Mr. Bafd Wood and his wife being then in the hall^ came 
prefently into the 772/74- /'ow/e to their mother, w^here finding her 
fomwhat difturbed, and enquiring the reafon, fk replyed, God 
Almighty only knew the matter, ^^'e could tell nothing but fi)e 
heard the knocking ; which being within doors, Mr. Bafd f'^^ood 
concluded muft be for fome of the Family at home^ that upon 
the doorhtiug for a friend abroad', which accordingly fell out, 
three the family^ according to the number of the knocks^ dying 
within little more than half a year after ; z//^. Mrs. Hefter Wood 
wife to Mr. BafdWood^ a child of Mr, ff^oods fifter, and Mrs. £- 
lenor Wood his mother. 
1^6. About Augujif 1674. Ur. Bafd Wood junior^ [on Ba- 
fd aforefaid, living at Exeter in 'Devon-Jhire-, heard the fame kind 
of knocking^ at which being difturbed, he wrote word of it to 
his Father here at Bampton in Oxford-Jhire ; viz. ^That one Sun- 
day, he and his wife^ and her .'/f^er, and his brother-, did diftindly 
hear upon a Table in their Chamber as they flood by it, two fe- 
veral 
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