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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A31609	Lithobolia, or, The stone-throwing devil being an exact and true account (by way of journal) of the various actions of infernal spirits, or (devils incarnate) witches, or both, and the great disturbance and amazement they gave to George Waltons family, at a place call'd Great Island in the province of New-Hantshire in New-England ... / by R.C., Esq., who was a sojourner in the same family the whole time, and an ocular witness of these diabolick inventions ...	R. C. (Richard Chamberlayne)	1698 (1698)	Wing C1862; ESTC R8747	13,312	22

that the Boys at Work might throw them and strait her little Boy standing by her was struck with a Stone on the Back which caused him to fall a crying and her being convinc'd to carry him away forth-with In the Evening as soon as I had sup'd in the outer Room before mine I took a little Musical-Instrument and began to touch it the Door indeed was then set open for Air and a good big Stone came rumbling in and as it were to lead the Dance but upon a much different account than in the days of Old and of old fabulous Inchantments my Musick being none of the best The Noise of this brought up the Deputy-President's Wife and many others of the Neighbourhood that were below who wonder'd to see this Stone followed as it were by many others and a Pewter Spoon among the rest all which fell strangely into the Room in their Presence and were taken up by the Company And beside all this there was seen by two Youths in the Orchard and Fields as they said a black Cat at the time the Stones were toss'd about and it was shot at but missed by its changing Places and being immediately at some distance and then out of sight as they related Agreeable to which it may not be improper to insert what was observed by two Maids Grand-Children of Mr. Walton on the Sunday Night the beginning of this Lithoboly They did affirm that as they were standing in the Porch-Chamber Window they saw as it were a Person putting out a Hand out of the Hall Window as throwing Stones toward the Porch or Entry and we all know no Person was in the Hall except at that instant my self and another having search'd diligently there and wondring whence those should come that were about the same time drop'd near us so far we were from doing it our selves or seeing any other there to do it On Monday Night about the Hour it first began there were more Stones thrown in the Kitchin and down the Chimney one Captain Barefoot of the Council for that Province being present with others and also as I was going up to Bed in an upper Chamber and down those Stairs Upon Tuesday Night about Ten some five or six Stones were severally thrown into the Maid's Chamber near the Kitchin and the Glass-Windows broke in three new places and one of the Maids hit as she lay At the same time was heard by them and two young Men in the House an odd dismal sort of Whistling and thereupon the Youths ran out with intent to take the suppos'd Thrower of Stones if possible and on the back-side near the Window they heard the Noise as they said of something stepping a little way before them as it were the trampling of a young Colt as they fancied but saw nothing and going out could discover nothing but that the Noise of the stepping or trampling was ceas'd and then gone on a little before On Saturday Morning I found two Stones more on the Stairs and so some were on Sunday Night convey'd into the Room next the Kitchin Upon Monday following Mr. Walton going with his Men by Water to some other Land in a place called the Great Bay and to a House where his Son was placed they lay there that Night and the next Morning had ●his Adventure As the Men were all at work in the Woods felling Wood they were visited with another set of Stones and they gathered up near upon a Hat-full and put them between two Trees near adjoining and returning from carrying Wood to the Boat the Hat and its contents the Stones were gone and the Stones were presently after thrown about again as before and after search found the Hat press'd together and lying under a square piece of Timber at some distance from thence They had them again at young Walton's House and half a Brick thrown into a Cradle out of which his young Child was newly taken up Here it may seem most proper to inform the Reader of a parallel passage viz. what happened another time to my Landlord in his Boat wherein going up to the same place the Great Bay and loading it with Hay for his use at his own House about the mid-way in the River Pascataqua he found his Boat began to be in a sinking Condition at which being much surpriz'd upon search he discover'd the cause to be the pulling out a Plug or Stopple in the bottom of the Boat being fixed there for the more convenient letting out of the Rain-Water that might fall into it a Contrivance and Combination of the old Serpent and the old Woman or some other Witch or Wizard in Revenge or innate Enmity to have drown'd both my good Landlord and his Company On Wednesday as they were at work again in the Woods on a sudden they heard something gingle like Glass or Metal among the Trees as it was falling and being fallen to the Ground they knew it to be a Stirrup which Mr. Walton had carried to the Boat and laid under some Wood and this being again laid by him in that very Boat it was again thrown after him The third time he having put it upon his Girdle or Belt he wore about his Waste buckled together before but at that instant taken off ●●●ause of the Heat of the Weather and laid there again buckled it was fetch'd away and no more seen Likewise the Graper or little Anchor of the Boat cast over-board which caus'd the Boat to wind up so staying and obstructing their Passage Then the setting-Pole was divers times cast into the River as they were coming back from the Great Bay which put them to the trouble of Padling that is rowing about for it as often to retrieve it Being come to his own House this Mr. Walton was charg'd again with a fresh Assault in the out-Houses but we heard of none within doors until Friday after when in the Kitchin were 4 or 5 Stones one of them hot taken out of the Fire as I conceive and so thrown about I was then present being newly come in with Mr. Walton from his middle Field as he call'd it where his Servants had been Mowing and had six or seven of his old troublesome Companions and I had one fall'n down by me there and another thin flat Stone hit me on the Thigh with the flat side of it so as to make me just feel and to smart a little In the same Day 's Evening as I was walking out in the Lane by the Field before-mentioned a great Stone made a rusling Noise in the Stone-Fence between the Field and the Lane which seem'd to me as it caus'd me to cast my Eye that way by the Noise to come out of the Fence as it were pull'd out from among those Stones loose but orderly laid close together as the manner of such Fences in that Country is and so fell down upon the Ground Some Persons of Note being then in the Field whose Names are here under-written