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finding them whole, and a quarter of Beef which lay on the 
ground untouched, they began to entertain other thoughts. 
39. O^ob. I J, Somthingto their thinking removed all the 
wood of the Kings Oak. out of the dining-room into the Frefence 
Chamber, and hurled the chairs and ftools up and down that 100771 : 
From whence it came into the two C/^/j//73fr5 where the Commiffio- 
ners and their fervants lay, and hoifted up their beds jeet fo much 
higher than the heads, that they thought they Oiould have been 
turned over and over, and then let them fall down with fuch a 
force, that their bodies rebounded from the bed a good diftance, 
and then (liook the bed-fleds fo violently, that //^my^/z/^y con- 
feft their bodies were fore with it. Ociober 1 8. Somthing came 
into t\it Bed- chamber zTid walkt up and down, and fetching the 
warming-pan out of the with-d rawing room, made fo much noife 
that they thought five bells could not have made more. And 
OMer 1 9. Trencbtrs were thrown up and down the dining-room 
and at them that lodg'd there, whereof one of them being ft)akcn 
by thefhoulder and awakened, put forth his head to fee what 
was the matter, but had trenchersthxown at it, October 20. the 
curtains of the bed in the vrith-drawing room were drawn to 
and fro, and the bedfted much ftiaken, and eight great pester 
dijhes,m6. three dozen of trenchers, thrown about the bed-chamber 
again, whereof fome fell upon the heds\ this night they alfo 
thought whole arm-fulls of the wood of the Kings Oak had been 
thrown down in their chambers*, but of that, in the morning they 
found nothing had been moved. 
40. 06iober 21, The keeper of their Ordnary and his bitch, lay 
in one of the rooms with them, which night they were not di- 
fturbedatall. "^ui OMer 12. though the Z'/fc/jkennel'd there 
again (to whom they afcribed their former nights reft) both they 
and the bitch were in a pitiful taking ; the bitch opening but once, 
and that with a whining, fearful yelp. October 23. they had all 
their cloaths pluckt off them in the with-drawing room, and the 
^ric^s- fell out of the chimney into the room-^ and the 2V'' they 
thought in the dining-room that all the wood of the Kings Oak had 
been brought thither, and thrown down clofe by their bed-Me, 
which noife being heard by thofe of the with-drawing rootn, one 
of them rofe to fee what was done, fearing indeed that his fel- 
low CommiJJioners had been killed, but found no fuch matter ^• 
where- 
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