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[[File:Cock lane ghost.png|250px|thumb|alt=A monochrome illustration of a narrow street, viewed from a corner, or intersection. A large three-storey building is visible on the right of the image. The ground floor has three windows, the first and second floors have two windows each. The roof appears to contain a row of windows, for a loft space.  The word "KING" is written between the first and second floors, and a sign, "Gas meter maker" hangs above the ground floor windows.|A 19th-centu(contracted; show full)k]], [[Lady Northumberland]], [[Lady Mary Coke]] and [[Francis Seymour-Conway, 1st Marquess of Hertford|Lord Hertford]].  After struggling through the throngs of interested visitors, they were ultimately disappointed; the ''[[Public Advertiser]]'' observed that "the noise is now generally deferred till seven in the morning, it being necessary to vary the time, that the imposition may be the better carried on".<ref>{{Harvnb|Grant|1965|pp=55–56}}</ref>

==Exposure==

Together withAldrich and [[Lord Dartmouth]], Aldrich now began to draw together the people who would be involved in his investigation.  They chose the matron of a local [[Lying-in Hospital|lying-in hospital]] as principal [[lady-in-waiting]], the critic and controversialist Bishop [[John Douglas (bishop)|John Douglas]], and Doctor George Macaulay.  A Captain Wilkinson was also included on the committee; Wilkinsonhe had attended one séance, armed with a pistol and a stick—the pistolformer for shooting the source of the knocking, and the sticklatter for making his escape (the Gghost had remained silent on that occasion).  James Penn and John Moore were also on the committee, but its most prominent member was Dr [[Samuel Johnson]],<ref>{{Harvnb|Grant|1965|pp=56–57}}</ref> who documented the séance, held on 1&nbsp;February 1762:

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