– About August, 1674, Mr Basil Wood Junior, Son of Basil aforesaid, living at Exeter, in Devonshire, heard the same kind of Knocking at which, being disturbed, he wrote word of it to his Father here at Bampton, viz., That on 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 shown by Mr Wood Senior (as the other knockings before the Deaths of any that died were beforehand told) to several neighbouring Gentlemen. After which, within about Fourteen Days, Mr Hester Wood the second wife of Mr Basil Wood Senior, and about a quarter of a year after, her Father Mr Richard Lisset, died both at Bampton, since which time they have heard nothing as yet.”
In the Bucks Herald, 5th January 1861, following a story about Bampfield