’Tis thought the ghost of some good wife Whose husband was depriv’d of life, Her children cheated, land in strife She banist. No man can tell the cause of these So wondrous dreadful outrages; Yet if upon your sinne you please To discant, You’le find our actions out-doe hell’s; O wring your hands and cease the bells, Repentance must, or nothing else Appease can’t. No. II. THE JUST DEVIL OF WOODSTOCK; OR, A TRUE NARRATIVE OF THE SEVERAL APPARITIONS, THE FRIGHTS AND PUNISHMENTS, INFLICTED UPON THE RUMPISH COMMISSIONERS SENT THITHER TO SURVEY THE MANNORS AND HOUSES BELONGING TO HIS MAJESTIE. [London, printed in the year 1660. 4to.] The names of the persons in the ensuing Narrative mentioned, with others:— CAPTAIN COCKAINE. CAPTAIN HART. CAPTAIN CROOK. CAPTAIN CARELESSE. CAPTAIN ROE. Mr. CROOK, the Lawyer. Mr. BROWNE, the Surveyor. Their three Servants. Their Ordinary-keeper, and others. The Gatekeeper, with the Wife and Servants. Besides many more, who each night heard the noise; as Sir Gerrard Fleetwood and his lady, with his family, Mr. Hyans, with his family, and several others, who lodged in the outer courts; and during the three last nights, the inhabitants of Woodstock town, and other neighbor villages. And there were many more, both divines and others, who came out of the country, and from Oxford, to see the glass and stones, and other stuffe, the devil had brought, wherewith to beat out the Commissioners; the marks upon some walls remain, and many, this to testifie. THE PREFACE TO THE ENSUING NARRATIVE.