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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A90787	The natural history of Oxford-shire, being an essay toward the natural history of England. / By Robert Plot ...	Plot, Robert, 1640-1696.	1677 (1677)	Wing P2585; ESTC R231542	322,508	394

give it a chop and destroy it when he pleases To prevent which great evil I hear the chiefest of the Parish have lately combined wherein I think they have done well enough provided always that the Rights of the Church whatever they be be fully compensated some other way 29. In the Northern part of Oxford-shire about Banbury and Bloxham it has always been the custom at set times of year for young people to meet to be hired as servants which meeting at Banbury they call the Mop at Bloxham the Statute where they all sort themselves and carry their badges according as they are qualified the Carters standing in one place with their whips and the Shepherds in another with their crooks but the maids as far as I could observe stood promiscuously which custom I had scarce I think noted but that it seems to be as old as our Saviour and to illustrate his Parable in St. Matthews Gospel a Matth. 20. v. 3. where the laborers are said to stand in the mercat to be hired 30. And now I have run my self into Divinity I cannot but note an odd custom at Stanlake where the Parson in the Procession about holy Thursday reads a Gospel at a Barrels head in the Cellar of the Chequer Inn where some say there was formerly a Hermitage others that there was anciently a Cross at which they read a Gospel in former times over which now the house and particularly the cellar being built they are forced to perform it in manner as above 31. But in matters of Religion there is nothing so worthy memory as the Christian unanimity of the Parish of Brightwell where through the exemplary Piety and prudent conduct of that worthy Gentleman the Worshipful John Stone Esq Lord of the Town and the Reverend Mr. Fiddës Rector of the place and their Predecessors and the good disposition of the people themselves all matters both of Spiritual and Temporal concern have been so effectually press'd and prudently menaged that there has not been known any such thing as an Ale-house a Sectary or Suit of Law commenced within the whole parish which is of a large extent in the memory of man which being more for ought I know than any Parish in England can say beside and so well worthy the imitation of all other places I thought fit for the eternal honor of its Inhabitants to recommend it accordingly 32. Yet but few miles off at the Town of Watlington I was told of a sort of Sectaries perhaps never heard of in the world before which if so is as strange as the thing it self for one would have thought there could have nothing been so absurd in Religion but what must have needs been embraced already These by the rest of the people are called Anointers from the ceremony they use of anointing all persons before they admit them into their Church for which they allege the fifth of St. James v. the 14 and 15. Is there any sick among you which it seems they account all people to be but themselves let him call for the Elders of the Church and let them pray over him anointing him with oyl in the name of the Lord and the prayer of faith shall save the sick and the Lord shall raise him up and if he have committed sins they shall be forgiven him which Elders amongst them are some poor Tradesmen of the Town and the oyl they use that commonly sold in the shops with which the Proselyte being smeared over and fired with zeal he presently becomes a new Light of this Church which I could not but note these people being as remarkably mad as those of Brightwell are good Though perhaps some may think one Richard Hastings then of Broughton and yet living near Banbury more religiously mad than any of those who with Origen understanding the twelfth verse of the nineteenth Chapter of St. Matthews Gospel literally hath castrated and so made himself an Eunuch for the Kingdom of Heavens sake 33. And thus much of men and women jointly together in their lives as to what concerns their deaths I must add also a Relation as strange as 't is true of the Family of one Captain Wood late of Bampton now Brise-Norton Captain in the late Wars for the King Some whereof before their deaths have had signal warning given them by a certain knocking either at the door without or on the table or shelves within the number of stroaks and distance between them and the place where for the most part respecting the circumstances of the persons to dye or their deaths themselves as will easily be collected from the following relation 34. The first knocking that was heard or at least observed was about a year after the restoration of the King in the afternoon a little before night at or upon the door it being then open as it was apprehended by Mrs. Elenor Wood mother to Captain Basil Wood who only heard it none being then by or about the house but her self at which she was very much disturbed thinking it boded some ill to her or hers and within fourteen nights after she had news of the death of her Son in law Mr. George Smith who dyed in London 35. About three years after that there were three great knocks given very audibly to all that were then in the house viz. to the aforesaid Mrs. Elenor Wood Mr. Basil Wood and his wife Mrs. Hester and some servants which knocks were so remarkable that one of the maids came from the well which was about twenty yards from the place to see what was the matter and Mrs. Elenor Wood and another maid that was within the house saw three great pans of Lard shake and totter so upon a shelf in the Milk-house that they were like to fall down Upon this violent knocking Mr. Basil Wood and his wife being then in the hall came presently into the milk-house to their mother where finding her somwhat disturbed and enquiring the reason she replyed God Almighty only knew the matter she could tell nothing but she heard the knocking which being within doors Mr. Basil Wood concluded must be for some of the Family at home that upon the door being for a friend abroad which accordingly fell out three of the family according to the number of the knocks dying within little more than half a year after viz. Mrs. Hester Wood wife to Mr. Basil Wood a child of Mr. Woods sister and Mrs. Elenor Wood his mother 36. About August 1674. Mr. Basil Wood junior son of Basil aforesaid living at Exeter in Devon-shire heard the same kind of knocking at which being disturbed he wrote word of it to his Father here at Bampton in Oxford-shire viz. That one Sunday he and his wife and her sister and his brother did distinctly hear upon a Table in their Chamber as they stood by it two several knocks struck as it were with a cudgel one of them before and the other after Morning-prayer a little

before dinner which Letter was shewn by Mr. Wood senior as the other knocking 's before the deaths of any that dyed were before-hand told to several neighboring Gentlemen After which within about fourteen days Mrs. Hester Wood a second wife of Mr. Basil Wood senior and about a quarter of a year after her Father Mr. Richard Lisset dyed both at Bampton since which time they have heard nothing more as yet 37. Amongst such unaccountable things as these we may reckon the strange passages that happened at Woodstock in Anno 1649. in the Manor-house there when the Commissioners for surveying the Manor-house Park Deer Woods and other the Demeasnes belonging to that Manor sat and lodged there whereof having several relations put into my hands and one of them written by a learned and faithful person then living upon the place which being confirmed to me by several eye-witnesses of many of the particulars and all of them by one of the Commissioners themselves who ingeniously confest to me that he could not deny but what was written by that person above-mention'd was all true I was prevailed on at last to make the relation publick though I must confess I have no esteem for such kind of stories many of them no question being performed by combination which I have taken care to do as fully yet as briefly as may be 38. October the 13. 1649. the Commissioners with their servants being come to the Manor-house they took up their Lodging in the Kings own rooms the Bed-chamber and with-drawing Room the former whereof they also made their Kitchin the Council-hall their brew-house the Chamber of Presence their place of sitting to dispatch business and a wood-house of the Dining-room where they laid the wood of that ancient Standard in the high-Park known of all by the name of the Kings Oak which that nothing might remain that had the name of King affixed to it they digged up by the roots October the 14 and 15 they had little disturbance but on the 16 there came as they thought somwhat into the Bed-chamber where two of the Commissioners and their servants lay in the shape of a dog which going under their beds did as it were gnaw the bed-cords but on the morrow finding them whole and a quarter of Beef which lay on the ground untouched they began to entertain other thoughts 39. Octob. 17. Somthing to their thinking removed all the wood of the Kings Oak out of the dining-room into the Presence Chamber and hurled the chairs and stools up and down that room From whence it came into the two Chambers where the Commissioners and their servants lay and hoisted up their beds feet so much higher than the heads that they thought they should have been turned over and over and then let them fall down with such a force that their bodies rebounded from the bed a good distance and then shook the bed-steds so violently that themselves confest their bodies were sore with it October 18. Somthing came into the Bed-chamber and walkt up and down and fetching the warming-pan out of the with-drawing room made so much noise that they thought five bells could not have made more And October 19. Trenchers were thrown up and down the dining-room and at them that lodg'd there whereof one of them being shaken by the shoulder and awakened put forth his head to see what was the matter but had trenchers thrown at it October 20. the curtains of the bed in the with-drawing room were drawn to and fro and the bedsted much shaken and eight great pewter dishes and three dozen of trenchers thrown about the bed-chamber again whereof some fell upon the beds this night they also thought whole arm-fulls of the wood of the Kings Oak had been thrown down in their chambers but of that in the morning they found nothing had been moved 40. October 21. The keeper of their Ordnary and his bitch lay in one of the rooms with them which night they were not disturbed at all But October 22. though the bitch kennel'd there again to whom they ascribed their former nights rest both they and the bitch were in a pitiful taking the bitch opening but once and that with a whining fearful yelp October 23. they had all their cloaths pluckt off them in the with-drawing room and the bricks fell out of the chimney into the room and the 24th they thought in the dining-room that all the wood of the Kings Oak had been brought thither and thrown down close by their bed-side which noise being heard by those of the with-drawing room one of them rose to see what was done fearing indeed that his fellow Commissioners had been killed but found no such matter whereupon returning to his bed again he found two dozen of trenchers thrown into it and handsomly covered with the bed-cloaths 41. October 25. The curtains of the bed in the with-drawing room were drawn to and fro and the bedsted shaken as before and in the bed-chamber glass flew about so thick and yet not a pane of the chamber windows broken that they thought it had rained money whereupon they lighted candles but to their grief they found nothing but glass which they took up in the morning and laid together October 29. Somthing walked in the with-drawing room about an hour and going to the window opened and shut it then going into the bed-chamber it threw great stones for about half an hours time some whereof lighted on the high-bed and others on the truckle-bed to the number in all of about fourscore This night there was also a very great noise as though forty pieces of Ordnance had been shot off together at two several knocks it astonished all the neighboring dwellers which 't is thought might have been heard a great way off During these noises which were heard in both rooms together both Commissioners and servants were struck with so great horror that they cryed out to one another for help whereof one of them recovering himself out of a strange agony he had been in snatch'd up a sword and had like to have killed one of his Brethren coming out of his bed in his shirt whom he took for the Spirit that did the mischief However at length they got all together yet the noise continued so great and terrible and shook the walls so much that they thought the whole Manor would have fell on their heads At its departure it took all the glass away with it 42. November 1. Somthing as they thought walk'd up and down the with-drawing room and then made a noise in the dining-room The stones that were left before and laid up in the with-drawing-room were all fetch'd away this night and a great deal of glass not like the former thrown about again November 2. came somthing into the with-drawing room treading as they conceived much like a Bear which first only walking about a quarter of an hour at length it made a noise about the Table and threw the warming-pan so