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 called Great Island in the Province of New-Hantshire in New-England, chief in Throwing about (by an Invisible hand) Stones, Bricks, and Brickbats of all Sizes, with several other things, as Hammers, Mauls, Iron-Crows, Spits, and other Domestic Utensils, as came into their Hellish Minds, and this for the space of a Quarter of a Year.  
By R. C. Esq who was a Sojourner in the same Family the whole Time, and an Ocular Witness of these Diabolick Inventions.  
The Contents hereof being manifestly known to the Inhabitants of that Province, and Persons of other Provinces, and is upon Record in his Majesty's Council-Court held for that Province.  
LONDON, Printed, and are to be Sold by E. Whitlook near Stationers-Hall, 1698.   

To The much Honoured Mart. Lumley, Esq●  
SIR,  
AS the subsequent Script deserves not to b● called a Book, so these precedent Lines presume not to a Dedication: But, Sir, it is an occasion that I am ambitious to lay hold on, to discover to You by this Epitome (as it were) the propension and inclination I have to give a more ful● and perfect demonstration of the Honour, Love and Service, I own (as I think myself obliged) to hav● for You. To a Sober, Judicious, and well Principled Person, such as yourself, plain Truth's ar● much more agreeable than the most charming and surprising Romance or Novel, with all the strang● turns and events. That this is of the first sort, (as have formerly upon Record attested) I do now ave● and protest; yet neither is it less strange than true and so may be capable of giving you some Diversion for an hour: For this interruption of your more serious ones, I cannot doubt your candour and clemency, in pardoning it, that so well know (and do most sensibly acknowledge) your high Worth and Goodness; and that the Relation I am Dignified with, infers a mutual Patronization.  
SIR, I am Your most Humble Servant, R. C.   

R. F. Esq  

TO tell strange feats of Daemons, here I am;  
Strange, but most true they are, even to a Dram  
Tho' Sadduceans cry, 'tis all a Sham.   

Here's Stony Arg'uments of persuasive Dint,  
They'll not believe it, told, nor yet in Print:  
What should the Reason be? The Devil 's in't.   

And yet they wish to be convinced by Sight,  
Assured by Apparition of a Spirit;  
But Learned Brown doth state the matter right:   

Satan will never Instrumental be  
Of so much Good, to ' Appear to them; for he  
Hath them sure by their Infidelity.   

But you, my Noble Friend, know better things;  
Your Faith, mounted on Religion's Wings,  
Sets you above the Clouds whence Error springs.   

Your Soul reflecting on this lower Sphere,  
Of froth and vanity, joys oft to hear  
The Sacred Ora'cles, where all Truths appear,   

Which will Conduct out of this Labyrinth of Night,  
And lead you to the source of Intellect'ual Light.   
Which is the Hearty Prayer of Your most faithful Humble Servant● R. ●●   

LITHOBOLIA: OR, THE Stone-throwing Devil, etc.  
SUCH is the Sceptical Humour of this Age for Incredulity, (not to say Infidelity,) That I wonder they do not take up and profess, in terms, the Pyrrhonian Doctrine of disbelieving their very Senses. For that which I am going to relate happening to cease in the Province of New-Hampshire in America, just upon that governor's Arrival and Appearance at the Council there, who was informed by myself, and several other Gentlemen of the Council, and other considerable Persons, of the true and certain Reality hereof, yet he continued tenacious in the Opinion that we were all imposed upon by the waggery of some unlucky Boys; which, considering the Circumstances and Passages hereafter mentioned, was altogether impossible.  
I have a Wonder to relate; for such (I take it) is so to be termed whatsoever is Preternatural, and not assignable to, or the effect of, Natural Causes: It is a Lithobolia, or Stone-throwing, which happened by Witchcraft, (as was supposed) and maliciously perpetrated by an Elderly Woman, a Neighbour suspected, and (I think) formerly detected for such kind of Diabolical Tricks and Practices; and the wicked Instigation did arise upon the account of some small quantity of Land in her Field, which she pretended was unjustly taken into the Land of the Person where the Scene of this Matter lay, and was her Right; she having been often very clamorous about that Affair, and heard to say, with much Bitterness, that her Neighbour (innuendo the forementioned Person, his Name George Walton) should never quietly enjoy that piece of Ground. Which, as it has confirmed myself and others in the Opinion that there are such things as Witches, and the Effects of Witchcrast, or at least of the mischievous Actions of Evil Spirits; which some do as little give Credit to, as in the Case of Witches, utterly rejecting both their Operations and their Being's, we having been Eye-Witnesses of this Matter almost every Day for a quarter of a Year together; so it may be a means to rectify the depraved Judgement and Sentiments of other disbelieving Persons, and absolutely convince them of their Error, if they please to hear, without prejudice, the plain, but most true Narration of it; which was thus.  
Some time ago being in America, (in His then Majesty's Service) I was lodged in the said George Walton's House, a Planter there, and on a Sunday Night, about Ten a Clock, many Stones were heard by myself, and the rest of the Family, to be thrown, and (with Noise) hit against the top and all sides of the House, after he the said Walton had been at his Fence-Gate, which was between him and his Neighbour one John Amazeen an Italian, to view it; for it was again (as formerly it had been (the manner how being unknown) wrung off the Hinges, and cast upon the Ground; and in his being there, and return home with several Persons of (and frequenting) his family and House, about a flight shot distant from the Gate, they were all assaulted with a peal of Stones, (taken, we conceive, from the Rocks hard by the House) and this by unseen Hands or Agents. For by this time I was come down to them, having risen out of my Bed at this strange Alarm of all that were in the House, and do know that they all looked out as narrowly as I did, or any Person could, (it being a bright Moonlight Night) but could make no Discovery. Thereupon, and because there came many Stones, and those pretty great ones, some as big as my Fist, into the Entry or Porch of the House, we withdrew into the next Room to the Porch, no Person having received any Hurt, (praised be Almighty Providence, for certainly the infernal Agent, constant Enemy to Mankind, had he not been overruled, intended no less than Death or Maim) save only that two Youths were lightly hit, one on the Leg, the other on the Thigh, notwithstanding the Stones came so thick, and so forcibly against the sides of so narrow a Room. Whilst we stood amazed at this Accident, one of the Maidens imagined she saw them come from the Hall, next to that we were in, where searching, (and in the Cellar, down out of the Hall,) and finding no Body, another and myself observed two little Stones in a short space successively to fall on the Floor, coming as from the Ceiling close by us, and we concluded it must necessarily be done by means extraordinary and preternatural. Coming again into the Room where we first were, (next the Porch) we had many of these lapidary Salutations, but unfriendly ones; for, shutting the Door, it was no small Surprise to me to have a good big Stone come with great force and noise (just by my Head) against the Door on the inside; and then shutting the other Door, next the Hall, to have the like Accident; so going out again, upon a necessary Occasion, to have another very near my Body, clattering against the Board-wall of the House; but it was a much greater, to be so near the danger of having my Head broke with a Mall; or great Hammer brushing along the top or roof of the Room from the other end, as I was walking in it, and lighting down by me; but it fell so, that my Landlord had the greatest damage, his Windows (especially those of the first mentioned Room) being with many Stones miserably and strangely battered, most of the Stones giving the Blow on the inside, and forcing the Bars, Led, and hasps of the Casements outwards, and yet falling back (sometimes a Yard or two) into the Room; only one little Stone we took out of the glass of the Window, where it lodged its self in the breaking it, in a Hole exactly fit for the Stone. The Pewter and Brass were frequently pelted, and sometimes thrown down upon the Ground; for the Evil Spirit seemed then to affect variety of mischief, and diverted himself at this end after he had done so much Execution at the other. So were two Candlesticks, after many hitting, at last struck off the Table where they stood; and likewise a large Pewter Pot, with the force of these Stones. Some of them were taken up hot, and (it seems) immediately coming out of the Fire; and some (which is not unremarkable) having been laid by me upon the Table along by couples, and numbered, were found missing; that is, two of them, as we returned immediately to the Table, having turned our backs only to visit and view some new Stone-charge or Window-breach; and this Experiment was four or five times repeated, and I still found one or two missing of the Number, which we all marked, when I did but just remove the Light from off the Table, and step to the Door, and back again.  
After this had continued in all the parts and sides of the first Room (and down the Chimney) for above four hours, I, weary of the Noise, and sleepy, went to Bed, and was no sooner fallen asleep, but was awakened with the unwelcome disturbance of another Battery of a different sort, it issuing with so prodigious a Noise against the thin Board-wall of my Chamber, (which was within another) that I could not imagine it less than the fracture and downfall of great part of the Chamber, or at least of the Shelves, Books, Pictures, and other things, placed on that side, and on the Partition-Wall between the Antichamber and the Door of mine. But the Noise immediately bringing up the Company below, they assured me no Mischief of that nature was done, and shown me the biggest Stone that had as yet been made use of in this unaccountable Accident, weighing eight pound and an half, that had burst open my Chamber Door with a rebound from the Floor, as by the Dent and Bruise in it near the Door I found next Morning, done, probably, to make the greater Noise, and give the more Astonishment, which would sooner be effected by three Motions, and consequently three several Sounds, viz. one on the Ground, the next to and on the Door, and the last from it again to the Floor, then if it had been one single Blow upon the Door only; which ('tis probable) would have split the Door, which was not permitted, nor so much as a square of the Glass-Window broken or cracked (at that time) in all the Chamber. Glad thereof, and desiring them to leave me, and the Door shut, as it was before, I endeavoured once more to take my Rest, and was once more prevented by the like passage, with another like offensive Weapon, it being a whole Brick that 〈◊〉 in the antichamber Chimney, and used again to the same malicious purpose as before, and in the same manner too, as by the mark in the Floor, whereon was some of the dust of the Brick, broken a little at the end, apparent next Morning, the Brick itself lying just at the Door. However, after I had lain a while, harkening to their Adventures below, I dropped asleep again, and received no further Mosestation that Night.  
In the Morning (Monday Morning) I was informed by several of the Domestics of more of the same kind of Trouble; among which the most signal was, the Vanishing of the Spit which stood in the Chimney Corner, and the sudden coming of it again down the same Chimney, sticking of it in a Log that lay in the Fire-place or Hearth; and then being by one of the Family fet by on the other side of the Chimney, presently cast out of the Window into the Backside. Also a pressing-Iron lying on the ledge of the Chimney back, was conveyed invisibly into the Yard. I should think it (too) not unworthy the Relation, that, discoursing then with some of the Family, and others, about what had passed, I said, I thought it necessary to take and keep the great Stone, as a Proof and Evidence, for they had taken it down from my Chambers; and so I carried it up, laid it on my Table in my Chamber, and locked my Door, and going out upon occasions, and soon returning, I was told by my Landlady that it was, a little while after my going forth, removed again, with a Noise, which they all below heard, and was thrown into the antichamber, and there I found it lying in the middle of it; thereupon I the second time carried it up, and laid it on the Table, and had it in my Custody a long time to show, for the Satisfaction of the Curious.  
There were many more Stones thrown about in the House that Morning, and more in the Fields that Day, where the Master of the House was, and the Men at Work. Some more Mr. Woodbridge, a Minister, and myself, in the Afternoon did see, (but could not any Hand throwing them) lighting near, and jumping and tumbling on the Grass: So did one Mrs. Clark, and her Son, and several others; and some of them felt them too. One Person would not be persuaded but that the Boys at Work might throw them, and straight her little Boy standing by her was struck with a Stone on the Back, which caused him to fall a crying, and her (being convinced) to carry him away forthwith.  
In the Evening, as soon as I had supped 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 Enchantments, my Music 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 wondered 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 tossed about, and it was shot at, but miss, 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, grandchildren 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, myself and another, having searched diligently there, and wondering whence those should come that were about the same time dropped near us; so far we were from doing it ourselves, or seeing any other there to do it.  
On Monday Night, about the Hour it first began there, were more Stones thrown in the Kitchen, 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 Kitchen, 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 supposed Thrower of Stones, if possible; and on the backside 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 ceased, 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 conveyed 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 pressed 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 midway in the River (Pascataqua) he found his Boat began to be in a sinking Condition, at which being much surprised, upon search, he discovered 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 drowned both my good Landlord and his Company.  
On Wednesday, as they were at work again in the Woods, on a sudden they heard something jingle 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 Wether, and laid there again buckled, it was fetched away, and no more seen. Likewise the Graper, or little Anchor of the Boat, cast overboard, which caused 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 Paddling, that is, rowing about for it as often to retrieve it.  
Being come to his own House, this Mr. Walton was charged again with a fresh Assault in the outhouses; but we heard of none within doors until Friday after, when, in the Kitchen, 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 called it) where his Servants had been Mowing, and had six or seven of his old troublesome Companions, and I had one fallen 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 beforementioned, a great Stone made a rustling Noise in the Stone-Fence between the Field and the Lane, which seemed to me (as it caused me to cast my Eye that way by the Noise) to come out of the Fence, as it were pulled out from among those Stones lose, 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) to visit Mr. Walton there, are substantial Witnesses of this same Stonery, both in the Field, and afterward in the House that Night, viz. one Mr. Hussey, Son of a Counsellor there. He took up one that having first alighted on the Ground, with rebound from thence hit him on the Heel; and he keeps it to show. And Captain Barefoot, mentioned above, has that which (among other Stones) flew into the Hall a little before Supper; which myself also saw as it first came in at the upper part of the Door into the middle of the Room; and then (tho' a good flat Stone, yet) was seen to roll over and over, as if trundled, under a Bed in the same Room. In short, these Persons, being wondrously affected with the Strangeness of these Passages, offered themselves (desiring me to take them) as Testimonies; I did so, and made a Memorandum, by way of Record, thereof, to this effect. Viz.  
These Persons under-written do hereby Attest the Truth of their being Eye-Witnesses of at least half a score Stones that Evening thrown invisibly into the Field, and in the Entry of the House, Hall, and one of the Chambers of George Walton's. Viz. 

Samuel Jennings, Esq Governor of West-Jarsey.  
Walter Clark, Esq Deputy-Governour of Road-Island.  
Mr. Arthur Cook.  
Mr. Matt. Borden of Road-Island.  
Mr. Oliver Hooton of Barbados, Merchant.  
Mr. T. Maul of Salem in New-England, Merchant.  
Captain Walter Barefoot.  
Mr. John Hussey.  
And the Wife of the said Mr. Hussey.    
On Saturday, July 24. One of the Family, at the usual hour at Night, observed some few (not above half a dozen) of these natural (or rather unnatural) Weapons to fly into the Kitchen, as formerly; but some of them in an unusual manner lighting gently on him, or coming toward him so easily, as that he took them before they fell to the Ground. I think there was not any thing more that Night remarkable. But as if the malicious Daemon had laid up for Sunday and Monday, than it was that he began (more furiously than formerly) with a great Stone in the Kitchen, and so continued with throwing down the Pewter-Dishes, etc. great part of it all at once coming clattering down, without the stroke of a Stone, little or great, to move it. Then about Midnight this impious Operation not ceasing, but trespassing with a continuando, 2 very great Stones, weighing above 30 pound a piece, (that used to lie in, the Kitchen, in or near the Chimney) were in the former, wont, rebounding manner, let fly against my Door and Wall in the ante-Chamber, but with some little distance of time. This thundering Noise must needs bring up the Men from below, as before, (I need not say to wake me) to tell me the Effect, which was the beating down several Pictures, and displacing abundance of things about my Chamber: but the Repetition of this Cannon-Play by these great rumbling Engines, now ready at hand for the purpose, and the like additional disturbance by four Bricks that lay in the outer-Room Chimney (one of which having been so employed the first Sunday Night, as has been said) made me despair of taking Rest, and so forced me to rise from my Bed. Then finding my Door burst open, I also found many Stones, and great pieces of Bricks, to fly in, breaking the Glass-Windows, and a Paper-Light, sometimes inwards, sometimes outwards: So hitting the Door of my Chamber as I came through from the ante-Chamber, lighting very near me as I was fetching the Candlestick, and afterward the Candle being struck out, as I was going to light it again. So a little after, coming up for another Candle, and being at the Stare-foot door, a wooden Mortar with great Noise struck against the Floor, and was just at my Feet, only not touching me, moving from the other end of the Kitchen where it used to lie. And when I came up myself, and two more of the same House, we heard a Whistling, as it were near us in the outer Room, several times. Among the rest of the Tools made use of to disturb us, I found an old Card for dressing Flax in my Chamber. Now for Monday Night, (June 26) one of the severest. The disturbance began in the Kitchen with Stones; then as I was at Supper above in the ante-Chamber, the Window near which I sat at Table was broke in 2 or 3 parts of it inwards, and one of the Stones that broke it flew in, and I took it up at the further end of the Room. The manner is observable; for one of the squares was broke into 9 or 10 small square pieces, as if it had been regularly marked out into such even squares by a Workman, to the end some of these little pieces might fly in my Face, (as they did) and give me a surprise, but without any hurt. In the mean time it went on in the Kitchen, whither I went down, for Company, all or most of the Family, and a Neighbour, being there; where many Stones (some great ones) came thick and threefold among us, and an old howing Iron, from a Room hard by, where such Utensils lay. Then, as if I had been the designed Object for that time, most of the Stones that came (the smaller I mean) hit me, (sometimes pretty hard) to the number of above 20, near 30, as I remember, and whether I removed, sit, or walked, I had them, and great ones sometimes lighting gently on me, and in my Hand and Lap as I sat, and falling to the Ground, and sometimes thumping against the Wall, as near as could be to me, without touching me. Then was a Room over the Kitchen infested, that had not been so before, and many Stones greater than usual lumbring there over our Heads, not only to ours, but to the great Disturbance and Affrightment of some Children that lay there. And for Variety, there were sometimes three great, distinct Knocks, sometimes five such sounds as with a great Maul, reiterated divers times.  
On Tuesday Night (June 28) we were quiet; but not so on Wednesday, when the Stones were played about in the House. And on Thursday Morning I found some things that hung on Nails on the Wall in my Chamber, viz. a Spherical Sundial, etc. lying on the Ground, as knocked down by some Brick or Stone in the ante-Chamber. But my Landlord had the worst of that Day, tho' he kept the Field, being there invisibly hit above 40 times, as he affirmed to me, and he received some shroud hurtful Blows on the Back, and other Parts, which he much complained of, and said he thought he should have reason to do, even to his dying day; and I observed that he did so, he being departed this Life since.  
Besides this, Plants of Indian Corn were struck up by the Roots almost, just as if they had been cut with some edged Instrument, whereas re vera they were seen to be eradicated, or rooted up with nothing but the very Stones, altho' the injurious Agent was altogether unseen. And a sort of Noise, like that of Snorting and Whistling, was heard near the Men at Work in the Fields many times, many whereof I myself, going thither, and being there, was a Witness of; and parting thence I received a pretty hard Blow with a Stone on the Calf of my Leg. So it continued that day in two Fields, where they were severally at Work: and my Landlord told me, he often heard likewise a humming Noise in the Air by him, as of a Bullet discharged from a Gun; and so said a Servant of his that worked with him.  
Upon Saturday, (July 1) as I was going to visit my Neighbour Capt. Barefoot, and just at his Door his Man saw, as well as myself, 3 or 4 Stones fall just by us in the Field, or Close, where the House stands, and not any other Person near us. At Night a great Stone fell in the Kitchen, as I was going to Bed, and the Pewter was thrown down; many Stones flew about, and the Candles by them put out 3 or 4 times, and the Snorting heard; a Negro Maid hit on the Head in the Entry between the Kitchen and Hall with a Porringer from the Kitchen: also the pressing-Iron clattered against the Partition Wall between the Hall and a Chamber beyond it, where I lay, and Mr. Randolph, His Majesty's Officer for the Customs, etc.  
Some few Stones we had on Sunday Morning, (July 2) none at Night. But on Monday Morning (the 3d) both Mr. Walton, and 5 or 6 with him in the Field, were assaulted with them, and their Ears with the old Snorting and Whistling. In the Afternoon Mr. Walton was hit on the Back with Stones very grievously, as he was in his Boat that lay at a Cove side by his House. It was a very odd prank that was practised by the Devil a little while after this. One Night the Cocks of Hay, made the Day before in the Orchard, was spread all abroad, and some of the Hay thrown up into the Trees, and some of it brought into the House, and scattered. Two Logs that lay at the Door, laid, one of them by the Chimney in the Kitchen; the other set against the Door of the Room where Mr. Walton then lay, as on purpose to confine him therein: A Form that stood in the Entry (or Porch) was set along by the Fire side, and a joint Stool upon that, with a Napkin spread thereon, with two Pewter Pots, and two Candlesticks: A Cheese-Press likewise having a Spit thrust into one of the holes of it, at one end; and at the other end of the Spit hung an Iron Kettle; and a Cheese was taken out, and broke to pieces Another time, I full well remember 'twas on a Sunday at Night, my Window was all broke with a violent shock of Stones and Brickbats, which scarce missed myself: among these one huge one made its way through the great square or shash of a Casement, and broke a great hole in it, throwing down Books by the way, from the Window to a Picture over-against it, on the other side of the Chamber, and tore a hole quite through it about half a foot long, and the piece of the Cloth hung by a little part of it, on the backside of the Picture.  
After this we were pretty quiet, saving now and then a sew Stones marched about for Exercise, and to keep (as it were) the Diabolical hand in use, till July 28, being Friday, when about 40 Stones flew about, abroad, and in the House and Orchard, and among the Trees therein, and a Window broke before, was broke again, and one Room where they never used before.  
August 1. On Wednesday the Window in my ante-Chamber was broke again, and many Stones were played about, abroad, and in the House, in the Daytime, and at Night. The same Day in the Morning they tried this Experiment; they did set on the Fire a Pot with Urinal, and crooked Pins in it, with design to have it boil, and by that means to give Punishment to the Witch, or Wizard, (that might be the wicked Procurer or Contriver of this Stone Affliction) and take off their own; as they had been advised. This was the Effect of it: As the Liquor begun to grow hot, a Stone came and broke the top or mouth of it, and threw it down, and spilt what was in it; which being made good again, another Stone, as the Pot grew hot again, broke the handle off, and being recruited and filled the third time, was then with a third Stone quite broke to pieces and split; and so the Operation became frustrate and fruitless.  
On August 2. two Stones in the Afternoon I heard and saw myself in the House and Orchard; and another Window in the Hall was broke. And as I was entering my own Chamber, a great square of a Casement, being a foot square, was broke, with the Noise as of a big Stone, and pieces of the Glass flew into the. Room, but no Stone came in then, or could be found within or without. At Night, as I, with others, were in the Kitchen, many more came in; and one great Stone that lay on a Spinning-Wheel to keep it steady, was thrown to the other side of the Room. Several Neighbours then present were ready to testify this Matter.  
Upon August 3. On Thursday the Gate between my said Landlord and his Neighbour John Amazeen was taken off again, and thrown into Amazeen's Field, who heard it fall, and averred it then made a Noise like a great Gun.  
On Friday the 4th, the Fence against Mr. Walton's Neighbour's Door, (the Woman of whom formerly there was great Suspicion, and thereupon Examination had, as appears upon Record;) this Fence being maliciously pulled down to let in their cattle into his Ground; he and his Servants were pelted with above 40 Stones as they went to put it up again; for she had often threatened that he should never enjoy his House and Land. Mr. Walton was hit divers times, and all that Day in the Field, as they were Reaping, it ceased not, and their fell (by the men's Computation) above an hundred Stones. A Woman helping to Reap (among the rest) was hit 9 or 10 times, and hurt to that degree, that her left Arm, Hippolito, Thigh, and Leg, were made black and blue therewith; which she showed to the Woman, Mrs. Walton, and others. Mr. Woodbridge, a Divine, coming to give me a Visit, was hit about the Hip, and one Mr. Jefferys a Merchant, who was with him, on the Leg. A Window in the Kitchen that had been much battered before, was now quite broke out, and unwindowed, no Glass or Lead at all being left: a Glass Bottle broke to pieces, and the Pewter Dishes (about 9 of them) thrown down, and bend.  
On Saturday the 5th, as they were Reaping in the Field, three Sickles were cracked and broke by the force of these lapidary Instruments of the Devil, as the Sickles were in the Reaper's hands, on purpose (it seems) to obstruct their Labour, and do them Injury and Damage. And very many Stones were cast about that Day; insomuch, that some that assisted at that Harvest-Work, being struck with them, by reason of that Disturbance left the Field, but were followed by their invisible Adversaries to the next House.  
On Sunday, being the 6th, there fell nothing considerable, not on Monday, (7th) save only one of the Children hit with a Stone on the Back. We were quiet to Tuesday the 8th. But on Wednesday (9th) above 100 Stones (as they verily thought) repeated the Reapers Disquiet in the Cornfield, whereof some were affirmed by Mr. Walton to be great ones indeed, near as big as a Man's Head; and Mrs. Walton, his Wife, being by Curiosity led thither, with intent also to make some Discovery by the most diligent and vigilaut Observation she could use, to obviate the idle Incredulity some inconsiderate Persons might irrationally entertain concerning this venefical Operation; or at least to confirm liar own Sentiments and Belief of it. Which she did, but to her Cost; for she received an untoward Blow (with a Stone) on her Shoulder. There were likewise two Sickles bend, cracked, and disabled with them, beating them violently out of their Hands that held them; and this reiterated three times successively.  
After this we enjoyed our former Peace and Quiet, unmolested by these stony Disturbances, that whole Month of August, excepting some few times; and the last of all in the Month-of September, (the beginning thereof) wherein Mr. Walton himself only (the Original perhaps of this strange Adventure, as has been declared) was the designed concluding Sufferer; who going in his Canoe (or Boat) from the Great Island, where he dwelled, to Portsmouth, to attend the Council, who had taken Cognizance of this Matter, he being Summoned thither, in order to his and the Suspect's Examination, and the Courts taking Order thereabout, he was sadly hit with three pebble Stones as big as one's Fist; one of which broke his Head, which I saw him show to the Precedent of the Council; the others gave him that Pain on the Back, of which (with other like Strokes) he complained then, and afterward to his Death.  
Who, that peruses these preternatural Occurrences, can possibly be so much an Enemy to his own Soul, and irrefutable Reason, as obstinately to oppose himself to, or confusedly fluctuate in, the Opinion and Doctrine of Daemons, or Spirits, and Witches? Certainly he that does so, must do two things more: He must temerariously unhinge, or undermine the Fundamentals of the best Religion in the World; and he must disingenuously quit and abandon that of the Three Theologick Virtues or Graces, to which the great Doctor of the Gentiles gave the Precedence, Charity, through his Unchristian and Uncharitable Incredulity.  
FINIS.