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 he called them, which was after it was Day. Which they confirmed, and protested that the Noise was not made by them. Mr. Mompesson had told us before, that it would be gone in the middle of the Night, and come again divers times early in the Morning, about Four a Clock, and this I suppose was about that time.

Another Passage was this, my Man coming up to me in the Morning, told me, that one of my Horses (that on which I rode) was all in a sweat, and lookt as if he had been rid all Night. My Friend and I went down and found him so. I enquired how he had been used, and was assured that he had been well fed, and order'd as he used to be, and my Servant was one that was wont to be very careful about my Horses. The Horse I had had a good time, and never knew but that he was very sound. But after I had rid him a Mile or two, very gently over a plain Down from Mr. Mompesson's House, he fell Lame, and having made a hard shift to bring me home, died in 2 or 3 Days, no one being able to imagine what he ailed. This I confess might be accident, or some unusual Distemper, but all things being put together, it seems very probable that it was somewhat else.

But I go on with Mr. Mompesson's own particulars. There came one Morning a Light into the Childrens Chamber, and a Voice crying A Witch, a Witch, for at least an Hundred times together.

Mr. Mompesson at another time, (being in the Day) seeing some Wood move that was in the Chimney of of a Room, where he was, as of it self, discharged a Pistol into it, after which, they found several Drops of Blood on the Hearth, and in divers places of the Stairs.

For two or three Nights after the discharge of the Pistol, there was a calm in the House, but then it came again, applying it self to a little Child newly taken from Nurse, which it so persecuted, that it would not let the poor Infant rest for two Nights together, nor suffer a Candle in the Room, but carry'd them away lighted up the Chimney, or throw them under the Bed. It so scared this Child by leaping upon it, that for some Hours it could not be recover'd out of the Fright; so that they were forced again to remove the Children out of the House. The next Night after which, something about Midnight came up the Stairs, and knockt at Mr. Mompesson's Door, but he came lying still, it went up another pair of Stairs, to his Man's Chamber, to whom it appeared, standing at his Beds-foot; the exact Shape and Proportion he could not dis-