Againe my spectickles were throwne from ye table, and
almost into ye hot fire. My paper, do what I could, I could hardly
keep it. Before I could dry my writing, a mammouth hat rubbed along it,
but I held it so fast that it did only blot some of it. My wife and I
being much afraid that I should not preserve ye writing, we did think
best to lay it in ye Bible. Againe ye next night I lay it there againe,
but in ye morning it was not to be found, till I found it in a box
alone. Againe while I was writing this morning I was forced to forbeare
writing any more, because I was so disturbed by many things constantly
thrown att me."
Anthony Morse testified:--
"Occasionally, being to my brother Morse's hous, he showed to me a pece
of brick, what had several times come down ye chimne. I sitting in ye
cornar towde that pece of brick in my hand. Within a littel spas of tiem
ye pece of brick was gone from me I know not by what meanes. Quickly
after it come down chimne. Also in ye chimne cornar I saw a hammar on ye
ground. Their bein no person nigh it, it was sodenly gone, by what
meanes I know not; but within a littell spas it fell down chimne, and
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