Great Britain -- History -- Commonwealth and Protectorate, 1649-1660 -- Fiction; Historical fiction
_October 27_. The Commissioners had not yet done their work, wherefore
they must stay; and being all men of the sword, they must not seem
afraid to encounter with any thing, though it be the devil; therefore,
with pistols charged, and drawn swords laied by their bedsides, they
applied themselves to take some rest, when something in the midst of
night, so opened and shut the window casements with such claps, that it
awakened all that slept; some of them peeping out to look what was the
matter with the windows, stones flew about the rooms as if hurled with
many hands; some hit the walls, and some the beds’ heads close above
the pillows, the dints of which were then, and yet (it is conceived)
are to be seen, thus sometime throwing stones, and sometime making
thundering noise for two hours space it ceast, and all was quiet till
the morn. After their rising, and the maid come in to make the fire,
they looked about the rooms; they found fourscore stones brought in
that night, and going to lay them together in the corner where the
glass (before mentioned) had been swept up, they found that every piece
of glass had been carried away that night. Many people came next day to
see the stones, and all observed that they were not of such kind of
stones as are naturall in the countrey thereabout; with these were
noise like claps of thunder, or report of cannon planted against the
rooms, heard by all that lodged in the outer courts, to their
astonishment, and at Woodstock town, taken to be thunder.
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