An essay for the recording of illustrious providences

On the next day at night, as they wer• going to Bed, a lost Ladder was thrown against the Door, and their Light put out; and when the Man was a bed, he was beaten with an heavy pair of Leather Breeches, and pulled by the Hair of his Head and Beard, Pinched and Scratched, and his Bed-board was taken away from him; yet more in the next night, when the Man was likewise […] Bed; his Bed-board did rise out of its place, notwithstanding his putting forth all hi• strength to keep it in; one of his […] brought out of the next room into his Bed▪ and did prick him; the clothes wherewith he hoped to save his head from blows we•• violently plucked from thence. Within a nig••• ⟨p. 147⟩or two after, the Man and his Wife received both of them a blow upon their heads, but it was so dark that they could not see the stone which gave it; the Man had his Cap pulled off from his head while he sat by the fire.

On the next day at night, as they wer• going to Bed, a lost Ladder was thrown against the Door, and their Light put out; and when the Man was a bed, he was beaten with an heavy pair of Leather Breeches, and pull'd by the Hair of his Head and Beard, Pinched and Scratched, and his Bed-board was taken away from him; yet more in the next night, when the Man was likewise 〈…〉 Bed; his Bed-board did rise out of its place, notwithstanding his putting forth all hi• strength to keep it in; one of his 〈…〉 brought out of the next room into his Bed▪ and did prick him; the clothes wherewith he hoped to save his head from blows we•• violently pluckt from thence. Within a nig••• ⟨p. 147⟩or two after, the Man and his Wife received both of them a blow upon their heads, but it was so dark that they could not see the stone which gave it; the Man had his Cap pulled off from his head while he sat by the fire.