Great Britain -- History -- Commonwealth and Protectorate, 1649-1660 -- Fiction; Historical fiction
_October_ 19. This night they awaked not until the midst of the night;
they perceived the room, to shake with something that walkt about the
bedchamber, which having done so a while, it walkt into a
withdrawing-room, where it took up a brasse warming-pan, and returning
with it into the bed-chamber, therein made so loud a noise, in these
captains’ own words, it was as loud and scurvy as a ring of five
untuned bells rung backward; but the captains, not to seem afraid, next
day made mirth of what had past, and jested at the devil in the pan.
_October_ 20. These captains and their company, still lodging as
before, were wakened in this night with some things flying about the
rooms, and out of one room into the other, as thrown with some great
force. Captain Hart, being in a slumber, was taken by the shoulder and
shaked until he did sit up in his bed, thinking that it had been one of
his fellows, when suddenly he was taken on the pate with a trencher,
that it made him shrink down into the bed-clothes, and all of them, in
both rooms, kept their heads at least within their sheets, so fiercely
did three dozen of trenchers fly about the rooms; yet Captain Hart
ventured again to peep out to see what was the matter, and what it was
that threw, but then the trenchers came so fast and neer about his
ears, that he was fain quickly to couch again. In the morning they
found all their trenchers, pots, and spits, upon and about their beds,
and all such things as were of common use scattered about the rooms.
This night there were also, in several parts of the room and outer
rooms, such noises of beating at doors, and on the walls, as if that
several smiths had been at work; and yet our captains shrunk not from
their work, but went on in that, and lodged as they had done before.
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