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whereupon returning, to his bed again , he found two dozen 
of trenchers thrown into it, and handfonily covered with the 
bed -cl oaths. 
41. October 25. The curtains the bed in the with- drawing 
room were drawn to and fro, and the bedfled fliaken as before : 
and m xht bed-chamber ^^^2, flew about fo thick (aad yet not a 
pane of the c/^^w^er windows broken) that they thought it had 
rained money ; whereupon they lighted candles, but to their grief 
they found nothing but glafs^ which they took up in the morning 
and laid together. OSfober 2"). Somthing walked in the with- 
drawing room about an hour, and going to the window opened and 
ftiut it ; then going into the bed-chamber^ it x}\\:tw great fiones for 
about half an hours time, fome whereof lighted on the high-bed^ 
and others on the truckk-bed^ to the number in all of about four- 
fcore. ^K\?> night there was alfo a very great noife, as though 
forty pieces of Ordnance had been (liot off together ; at two fe- 
veral knocks it aftonidied all the neighboring dwellers^ which 'tis 
thought might have been heard a great way off. During thefe 
noifes which were heard in both rooms together, both Commiffioti- 
ers and fervants were ftruck with fo great horror, that they cryed 
out to one another for help, whereof one of them recovering j 
himfelf out of a ftrange agony he had been in, fnatch'd up a fword^ 
and had like to have killed one of his Brethren coming out of his 
bed in his ftiirt, whom he took for the Spirit that did the mif- 
chief: However, at length they got all together, yet the noife 
continued fo great and terrible, and (liook the walls fo much, that 
they thought the whole Manor would have fell on their heads. At i 
its departure it took all the glafizwzy with it. 
42. November i. Somthing as they thought walk'd up and 
down the with-drawing room, and then made a noife in the dining- 
room : The /iones that were left before and laid up in the with-draw- 
ing-room^ were all fetch'd away this night, and a great deal of 
glap (not like the former) thrown about again. November 2. 
came fomthing into the with-drawing room treading (as they con- 
ceived) much like a Bear^ which firft only walking about a quar- 
ter of an hour, at length it made a noife about the Table^ and 
threw the warming-pan fo violently, that it quite fpoiled it : It 
threw alfo g/^?/? and great at them again, and bones of 
horfes^ and all fo violently, that the bedjied and walls were bruifed 
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