by the noises, which were so violent, it was in vain to think of sleep while they continued. I rose, and my wife would rise with me. We went into every cham ber, and downstairs; and generally as we went into one room we heard it in that behind us, though all the family had been in bed several hours. When we were going downstairs, and at the bottom of them, we heard as Emily had done before, a clashing among the bottles as if they had been all broke to pieces, and another sound distinct from it, as if a peck of money had been thrown down before us. The same, three of my daugh ters heard at another time. “ We went through the hall into the kitchen, when our mastiff came whining to us, as he did always after the first night of its coming ; for then he barked vio lently at it, but was silent afterwards, and seemed more afraid than any of the children. We still heard it rattle and thunder in every room above or behind us locked as well as open, except my study, where as yet it never came. After two, we went to bed, and were pretty quiet the rest of the night “ Wednesday night, December 26, after or a little before ten, my daughter Emilia heard the signal of it beginning to play, with which she was perfectly ac quainted; it was like the strong winding-up of a jack. She called us; and I went into the nursery, where it used to be most violent. The rest of the children were asleep. It began with knocking in the kitchen under neath, then seemed to be at the bed’s feet, then unde the bed, at last at the head of it. I went downstairs, and knocked with my stick against the joists of the kitchen. It answered me as often and as loud as I knocked; but then I knocked as I usually do at my door, 1—2 3 4 5 6—7 ; but this puzzled it, and it did no answer, or not in the same method ; though the chil dren heard it do the same exactly twice or thrice after "I went upstairs, and found it still knocking hard though with some respite, sometimes under the bed sometimes at the bed’s head. I observed my children that they were frighted in their sleep and trembled very much till it waked them. I stayed there alone, bid them go to sleep, and sat at the bed’s feet by them when the noise began again. I asked it what it was and why it disturbed innocent children, and did not come to me in my study, if it had anything to say to me. Soon after it gave one knock on the outside of the house (all the rest were within), and knocked off for that night. "I went out of doors, sometimes alone, at others with company, and walked round the house, but could see or hear nothing. Several nights the latch of our lodging chamber would be lifted up very often, when all were in bed. One night, when the noise was great in, the kitchen, and on a deal partition, and the door in the yard, the latch whereof was often lifted up, my daughter Emilia went and held it fast on the inside ; but it was still lifted up, and the door pushed violently against her, though nothing was to be seen on the outside. “ When we were at prayers, and came to the prayer for King George and the Prince, it would make a great noise over our heads constantly, whence some of the family called it a Jacobite. I have been thrice pushed by an invisible power, once against the corner of my desk in the study, a second time against the door of the matted chamber, a third time against, the right side of the frame of my study door, as I was going in. "I followed the noise into almost every room in the house, both by day and by night, with lights and with out, and have sat alone for some time, and when I heard the noise, spoke to it to tell me what it was, but never heard any articulate voice, and only once or twice two or three feeble squeaks, a little louder than the chirping of a bird; but not like the noise of rats, which I have often heard. “I had designed on Friday, December 28th, to make a visit to a friend, Mr. Downs, at Normandy, and stay some days with him ; but the noises were so boisterous on Thursday night, that I did not care to leave my family. So I went to Mr. Hoole, of Haxey, and desired his company on Friday night. He came; and it begar after ten, a little later than ordinary. The younger children were gone to bed, the rest of the family and Mr. Hoole were together in the matted chamber. I sent the servants down to fetch in some fuel, went with them, and staid in the kitchen till they came in. When they were gone, I heard loud noises against the door