2o6 7"^^ 3^mral Hijlory 
vera! knocks ^"Tuck as ic were with a cudgel, one of them before, 
and the other after Morning-prayer, a little before dinner : which 
Letter was fliewn by Mr. irood fenior (as the other hnochings be- 
fore the deaths of any that dyed, were before-hand told) to fe- 
veral neighboring Gentlemen. After w^hich, within about four- 
teen days, Mrs. HeJIer rWafecond wife of Mr. Bafil Wood fe- 
nior, and about a quarter of a year after, her Father Mr. Pdchard 
Lifet, dyed both at Bamfton ; fince which time they have heard, 
nothing more as yet. 
37. Amongft fuch unaccountable things as thefe, we may 
reckon the ftrange paiTages that happened at Wood/lock in Anno 
1^49. in the M^/?or-houfe there, when CommijTioners ^ot {m- 
vevina the Manor-hoi'fe, Park, ^eer. Woods, and other the Ve- 
meajnes belonging to that Manor, fat and lodged there : whereof 
having feveral relations put into my hands, and one of them 
written by a learned and faithful ferfon then living upon the 
place, which being confirmed to me by feveral eye-witnefes of 
many of the particulars, and all of them by one of the Commif- 
y/o;?nTthemfelves, who ingenioully conteftto me, that he could 
not deny but what was written by that perfon above-mention'd 
was all true ; I was prevailed on at laft to make the relation pub- 
lick (though I muft confefs 1 have no efteem for fuch kind o^Jlo- ^ 
ries, many of them no queftion being performed by combinati- 
on) which 1 have taken care to do as fully, yet as briefly as 
maybe. 
38. 05iober the 13. 1^49. the Commi/fioners with their fer- 
vants being come to the Manor-boufe, they took up their Lodging 
in the Kings own rooms, the Bed-chamber and with- drawing Room-, 
the former whereof they alfo made their Kitchin ; the Coz/wci/- 
hall, then hrew-lwufe; iht Chamber of Fre>«ce, their place of fit- 
ting to difpatch bufmefs ; and a wood-houfeof the Dining-room ^ 
where they laid the wood of that ancient Standard in the high- 
Park, known of all by the name of the Kings Oak, which (that 
nothing might remain that had the name of ^i;?^ affixed to it) 
theydi jgedupby the roots. O^iober the 14 and 15 they had lit- 
tle difturbance, but on the 16 there came as they thought, fom- 
what into the Bed-chamber where two of the Commiffwners and 
their /m^;2/5 lay, in the fliape of a ^og, which going under their > 
beds, did as it were gnaw the bed-cords ; but on the morrow 
finding 
