2IO T'he 5\(^amral H'tjlory 
but returning on Monday^ the Devil (for that was the name they 
gave their nightly gueft) left them not unvifited ; nor on the i 
Tuefiay following^ which was the laft day they ftaid. Where { 
ends the Hiftory (for fo he was ftiled by the people) of the juft j 
devil of Woodftock. ; the Commiffionefs and all their dependants ' 
going quite away on Wednejday; fince which time, fays the ^4^- 
t/jor that lived on the place, there have honeft perfons of good 
Quality lodged in the Bed-chamber 'dnd. with-drawing room^ that 
never were diflurb'd in the lead like the Commiffioners. 
45. Moftpart of thefe Tranfa^ions^ during the (lay of thefe p 
Commiff toners^ 'tis true, might beeafily performed by combination^ 
butfome there are of them fcarce reconcilable to Jugling: Such 
as I. The extraordinary noi^es^ beyond the power of man to 
make, without fuch inftruments as were not there. 2. The raring 
down and fpliring the bed-pofis^ and puting out fo many candles 
and fo great fires no body knew how. 3. A ftjafe feen of , 
a horfes hoof treadmg out the candle. And 4. a tugging with 
o/ze of them for his yn^or J by an invifible hand. All which being 
put together, perhaps may eafily perfwade fome man otherwife 
inclined, to believe, that immaterial beings might be concern'd in i 
this bufmefs ; which if it do, it abundantly will fatisfie for the 
trouble of the Relation^ ftill provided the Jpeculative Theift^ be not 1 
after all, ^pra6fical Atheifi. ^ 
46. And thus, before I am aware, being fallen amongfr 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 Bodion Malherb in the County of Kent^ Fa- - 
ther to the fam.ous Sir Henry Wotton Provoft of Eaton.^ whofe 
dreams did ufually prove true, both in fore-telling things to come, 
and difcovering things paft. Thedream^ 'tis true, of which I ; 
am now writing, w^shzd zt BoSlon 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 Wottons life^, are briefly thefe. j 
47. Tim Thomas Wotton, a little before hk hath dreamed, that 
//j^llniverlity Treafury was rchhedby Towns^men<772^/poor Scho- 
lars, and that the number was five. And being that day to write 
to his SonHo^vA^ (jhen a Scholar <?/ Queens College) at Oxford, 
b Inter Rdicjuias Wottommas. ,; 
he \ 
