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being heard by thoſe in the drawing-room, one of them roſe to ſee what was done fearing that his fellow-commiſſioners has been killed, but found all ſafe. Whereupon returning to his bed again, he found two or three dozen of trenchers thrown into it and handsomely covered with the bed-clothes.
October 25th. The curtains of the bed in the drawing room were drawn to and fro and the bed ſtead ſhaken as before. And in the bed-chamber, glaſs flew about ſo thick and yet not one pane of the chamber windows broken that they thought all the windows the houſe were broken. But upon examination they found all the windows ſafe.
October 29 something going to the window opened and ſhut it Then going into the bed.chamber it threw great ſtones for half an hour's time. ſome whereof lighted on the two beds to the number of above eighty—gave two ſeveral knocks, which aſtoniſhed the neighbouring dwellers and might have been heard a great way off During theſe noiſes which were heard in both rooms together, the commiſſioners and their servants were ſtruck with to great horror that they cried out one to another for help. One of them recovering himſelf out of this fright, ſnatched a ſword, and had almoſt killed one of his brethren coming out of his bed in his shirt whom he took for the evil ſpirit that did the miſchief (illegible text)t this evil spirits departure, ſhook the walls of the manor moſt terribly, and took all the glaſs of the windows away.
