Literary cadet, and Saturday evening bulletin. [volume] (Providence, R.I.) 1826-1827, 1826-07-15

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| and three dozen Of trenchers thrown about the
| bed-chamber again, whereof some fell upon the
beds; this night they also thought whole armiuIls
| of the wood of the Kings Oak hud been thrown
down in their chamber; but of that, in the morning
| they found nothing had been moved.
| "October Gil the keeper OF their ordinary and his
| bitch lay in of the rooms with them; which
night they were not disturbed at all But Octo-
Der %, though the bitch kenncled there again Ito
whom they ascribed their former nights resto
both they and the bitch were in pitiiul taking;
| the bitch opening her mouth but once, aud that
with whining. fearful yelp.
October 23 they had all their clothes pluckt off
them in the withdrawing room. and the bricks fell
out Of the chimney into the room: and the Oath,
they thought, in the dining room, that all the wood
of the Kings Oak had been brought hither and
| thrown down close by their bedside. which noise
! being heard by those Of the Withdrawing room,
of them rose to what was done, fearing in
deed, that his teow-commissioners had been KILL
| ed; but found no such matter, whereupon, return
ing to his bed again, he found two dozen trenchers
| thrown into It, and handsomely covered with the
| bed clothes.
| October 25, the curtains Of the bed in the
withdrawing room were drawn to and fro, and the
bedstead shaken betore and in the bed-chamber,
glass few about SO thick (and yet not pane of the
chamber windows broken) that they thought it had
raned money; whereuron they lighted candles,
but to their grief, they found nothing but glass,
| which they took up in the morning and laid to-
| gether.
"October 90, something walked in the withdraw
ing room about All hour, and going TO the window,
opened and shut it; then going into the bed-cham-
ber, il threw great stones for about hall an hours
time, some whereof lighted on the high bed, and
others the truckle bed, TO the number in all OF
about four score. This nght there was also very
great nose though forty pieces of ordnance had
haa fxxn
tonished all the neghboring dwellers which, It's
| thought might have been heard great way off
During these noises, which were heard IN both
rooms together, both commissioners and servants
were struck with so great horror, that they cried
| out TO another for help, whereof one OF them,
| reco> ering himself out of strange agony he had
been IN, snatched up IA sword and had like to have
killed one of his brethren coming out o his bed
in his shirt, whom he took for the spirit that did the
mischief However, at length they got all together;
yet the noise continued So great and terrible, and
| shook the walls much, that they thought the
whole manor would have fell on their heads. At
its departure it took all the glass with it.
| "Novcmber /, something, rs they thought, walk
| ed up and down the Withdrawing room, and then
made noise in the dining room, where all fetchd
away this night, and great deal of glass (not like
the former) thrown about again.
November 9, come something into the with
drawing room, treading Gas they conceived) much
like bear, which first only walking about quar-
ter Of AN hour; at length it made noise about the
| table, and threw the warming pun violently
that it quite spoiled il. 1t threw also glass and
great stones at them agun, and the bones OF horses
| and all so violently that the bedstead and walls
| were bruised by them. This night they set can
dies all about the rooms and made fires up 10 the
mantle trees fthe chlmnics but all were put out,
| nobody knew how; the fires and billets that made
! i being thrown up aud dswn the rooms; the cur
tains torn with the rods from their beds, and the
posts pulled away, that the tester fell down upon
them, and the feet OF the bedstead cloven in two;
and upon the servants in the truckle-bed, who lay
all this time sweating for fear, there first little
| which made them begin to stir; but before they
could get out there whole coule, as 1t were
of sinking ditch water down upon them SO green,
that it made their shirts and sheets that color too
1.-The same night the windows all broke by
throwing stones, and there was most terrible noises
in the three several places together, to the extra
ordinary wonder OF all that lodged ne ar them; nay
the very cony stealers that were abroad that night
were so affrghted with the dismal laundering, that
for haste they lett their ferret In the cony borougb
| behind them, beyond Rosamond's Well Notwith-
standsns all this, of them had the b0ldness to
| ask, in the name of God, what it was? what it
would have. and what they had done, that they
| should be dist urbed in this manner? To which no
| answer wa, given, but the noise ceased for while
At length it came again, and (as all of them saId)
| brought seven devils worse than itself, whereupon
| one Of them lighted candle again. and set it be-
| tween the two chambers in the door way, on which
another Of them fixing his eyes saw the similitude
of hoof shaking the candlestck into the middle OF
| tne bed chamber, and afterwards making three
| scrapes on the snuff 10 put it OUT upon this the
same person was so bold as to draw his sword, but
he had scarce got it out but there was another in
visible hand had hold OF it too, and tuggd with him
fori and prevailing, struck him so violently with
| the pummel, that he was stunned with the blow.
| Then began grievous noises again, in so much
that they called to another, got together, and
| went into the presence chamber, where they said
| their prayers and sang psalms, Notwithstanding all
which the laundering noise stll continued in other
| rooms f.
| AFTER this, November 3, they removed their
| lodgings over the gate, aud next day being Sun
| day went to Ewelm. where how they escaped, the
| author of the relations knew not; but returning
| on Monday, the devil (ior that was The they
gave their nightly guest) left them not unvisited;
| nor on the Tuesday following, which was the last
| day they staid Where ends the history (lor so he
was styled of the just devil of Woodstock; the
commissioners and all their dependant. going quite
away on Wednesday, since which time, says the au
thor that lived the place, there have honest per-
sons OF gooj quality lodged in the bed-chamber and
| Withdrawing room, that never were disturbed III
4 the leastlik the commissioners.
Most part of these transactions, during the stay
of these commissioners, It's true, might be easily
| performed by combination, but some there are
of them scarce reconcilable TO juggling; such as:
| I. The extraordinary noises, beyond the power Of
a. hon a,,,h ru not