In his study the agency pushed Mr.Wesley about, bumping him against the corner of his desk, and against his door.

He would ask for a conversation, but heard only "two or three feeble squeaks, a little louder than the chirping of a bird, but not like the noise of rats, which I have often heard".
Mr.Wesley had meant to leave home for a visit on Friday, 28th December, but the noises of the 27th were so loud that he stayed at home, inviting the Rev.Mr.Hoole, of Haxey, to view the performances.
"The noises were very boisterous and disturbing this night." Mr.
Hoole says (in 1726, confirmed by Mrs.Wesley, 12th January, 1717) that there were sounds of feet, trailing gowns, raps, and a noise as of planing boards: the disturbance finally went outside the house and died away.

Mr.Wesley seems to have paid his visit on the 30th, and notes, "1st January, 1717.

My family have had no disturbance since I went away." To judge by Mr.Wesley's letter to Sam, of 12th January, there was no trouble between the 29th of December and that date.

On the 19th of January, and the 30th of the same month, Sam wrote, full of curiosity, to his father and mother.