Mr. Harlakenden, a man from Essex, lives in a house with a chamber over "a Tomb-House." The chamber was occupied by "his Butler, Robert Crow, and William, his Coach-man." At two in the morning, every night, "there was always the sound of a great Bell tolling." This is verified when Mr. Harlakenden sleeps in the chamber one night, and rises at one a clock. When the bell tolls at two, he is in "a Fright and Sweat." When his servants wake, they say, "Hark, Tom is at his Sport," which reassures Mr. Harlakenden.(157)

Mr. Thomas Shepherd, "with some other Ministers, and good People," visits Mr. Harlakenden in his house at Colne Priory, where within a chamber built above a tomb-house, "the sound of a great Bell" could be heard tolling every night at two in the morning. The ministers gather and "spent a Night in Prayer, and had some respect to the place," and so by "serving God, to cast out the Devil." After the night of prayers, "never was any such noise heard in the Chamber."(158)