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The Book of Dreams and Ghosts
·
Andrew Lang
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Meanwhile,
on
18th
September,
Lady
Hillsborough's
agent
lay
with
armed
men
at
Hinton,
and,
making
no
discovery,
offered
50
pounds
(increased
by
Mr.
Ricketts
to
100
pounds)
for
the
apprehension
of
the
persons
who
caused
the
noises.
The
reward
was
never
claimed.
On
8th
March,
1772,
Camis
wrote:
"I
am
very
sorry
that
we
cannot
find
out
the
reason
of
the
noise";
at
other
dates
he
mentions
sporadic
noises
heard
by
his
mother
and
another
woman,
including
"the
murmur".
A
year
after
Mrs.
Ricketts
left
a
family
named
Lawrence
took
the
house,
and,
according
to
old
Lucy
Camis,
in
1818,
Mr.
Lawrence
very
properly
threatened
to
dismiss
any
servant
who
spoke
of
the
disturbances.
The
result
of
this
sensible
course
was
that
the
Lawrences
left
suddenly,
at
the
end
of
the
year--and
the
house
was
pulled
down.
Some
old
political
papers
of
the
Great
Rebellion,
and
a
monkey's
skull,
not
exhibited
to
any
anatomist,
are
said
to
have
been
discovered
under
the
floor
of
the
lobby,
or
of
one
of
the
rooms.
Mrs.
Ricketts
adds
sadly,
"The
unbelief
of
Chancellor
Hoadley
went
nearest
my
heart,"
as
he
had
previously
a
high
opinion
of
her
veracity.
The
Bishop
of
St.
Asaph
was
incredulous,
"on
the
ground
that
such
means
were
unworthy
of
the
Deity
to
employ".
Probably
a
modern
bishop
would
say
that
there
were
no
noises
at
all,
that
every
one
who
heard
the
sounds
was
under
the
influence
of
"suggestion,"
caused
first
in
Mrs.
Ricketts'
own
mind
by
vague
tales
of
a
gentleman
in
drab
seen
by
the
servants.
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