‘After this _It_ would come 5 nights together, and absent itself 3. Knocking very hard at the out-sides of the House, which is most of it, of Board. This _It_ did, constantly, as they were going to sleep, either early or late. After a month’s racket without, _It_ came into the room where the _Drum_ lay, where _It_ would be 4 or 5 nights in 7, making great hollow sounds, and sensibly shaking the Beds and Windows. _It_ would come within half an hour after they were in Bed, and stay almost two. The sign of _Its_ approach was an _hurling_ in the Air over the House; and at _Its_ recess they should hear a _Drum_ beat, like the breaking up of a Guard. _It_ continued in this Room for the space of two months; the Gentleman himself lying there to observe _It_: and though _It_ was very troublesome in the fore part of the night, yet, after two hours disturbance, _It_ would desist, and leave all in quietness: At which time perhaps the Laws of the _Black Society_ required _Its_ presence at the general _Rendezvous_ elsewhere. ‘About this time the Gentleman’s Wife was brought to Bed; the noise came a little that night she was in Travail, but then forbore for three weeks till she had recover’d strength. After this _civil cessation_, it return’d in a _ruder_ manner than before, applying wholly to the younger children; whose Bedsteads _It_ would beat with that violence that all present would expect, when they would fall in pieces. Those that laid their hands upon them, could feel no blows, but perceived them to shake exceedingly. _It_ would for an hour together beat, what they Call ROUNDHEADS and CUCKOLDS--the Tattoo, and several other Points of Warre, and that as dextrously as any Drummer. After which _It_ would get under the Bed, and scratch there as if _It_ had Iron Tallons. _It_ would lift the children up in their Beds, follow them from one room to another; and, for a while, applied to none particularly but them. ‘There was a Cock-loft in the House which had been observed hitherto to be untroubled; thither they removed their children, putting them to bed while it was fair day: and yet they were no sooner covered, but the _unwelcome Visitant_ was come, and played his tricks as before.