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Trying To Change A Sovereign.
dustiest topmost shelves of the Lincoln ' s Inn and Bodleian libraries . The result of using the written examinations was that on two successive mornings the citizens had the cost and trouble of placing a man bearing a halbert at every door in the line of way of two dreary processions , in which blanched bound men , riding on wheelless sledges with their backs to the horses , and hangmen and their assistants with naked weaponslooped haltershideous flesh
, , forks , and cruel knives , facing their victims , played prominent parts . The procession on the first day halted at the West End of St . Paul ' s Cathedral , and after it had performed its business there , a cart , followed b y a howling mob , proceeding from that spot , drove up the Old Bailey to Newgate . Its destination was what afterwards became known as Jack Ketch ' s kitchen in
that cheerful building , and its contents I would rather not describe . The next day the second procession took a longer journey . It wended its way to the Palace Court Yard at distant Westminster . There the same dreary business took place that had occupied the previous morning in London ' s city , and there the hero of these pages , politely described by Sir Edward Coke as " the devil of the vault , " made his last bow to a public forWhom he had been a subject of interest for many months past , and that evening he and his fellow sufferers appeared upon Traitor ' s tower at the Southwark End of London Bridge , and on the summits of some of the city gates , like popular actors ,
IN SEVERAL PIECES !!! CHAPTER . THE LAST . SHOWING HOW THE CLERGY-CO-OPERATIVES CAME TO AN END . GOOD Mrs . Critchett saw with great satisfaction in her " WeeklLloyd ' s "
y that the two clerical members of the now disestablished " Long" firm had been captured at Hendlip House some time after that celebrated company had been compelled to discontinue its operations . She also read , shortl y after that , how one of them , Father Oldcorne , had died in public . A month or so elapsed and the worthy dame was transacting a little operation in " Regents " at the Borough Marketwhen she was hustled ba great and noisy crowd following
, y a cart going in the direction of Traitor ' s Tower . The good lady was swept on b y the mob and found her attention attracted to four vacant spikes on the summit , to which a man was clambering by aid of a ladder . This individual , when he had reached the roof , stooped to a companion below , who passed up to him certain very nasty looking black masses that appeared to be quarters of
venison very far gone and yet which presented some resemblance to human hands , and feet , and legs , and arms . When the spikes had been duly crowned with these "block ornaments " which the adorner contemplated with much satisfaction , the good soul enquired of a nei ghbour whose disjecta membra had been thus elevated . " Why it ' s old Father Garnet , the Popish priest , as they ' ve been topping this morning for the powder plot last November" said the bstander thus
, yaccosted . Mrs . Critchett looked long and intently at the ghastly relics . " And the Parsons too ! " she murmured , " to go in for takin' the bread out of the poor ratepaying shopkeepers' mouths . You greedy villain ! " she cried , as she shook her fist aloft , "THAT'S WHAT YOUR CLERGY CO-OPERATION HAS
BROUGHT YOU TO ! " THE END ,
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Trying To Change A Sovereign.
dustiest topmost shelves of the Lincoln ' s Inn and Bodleian libraries . The result of using the written examinations was that on two successive mornings the citizens had the cost and trouble of placing a man bearing a halbert at every door in the line of way of two dreary processions , in which blanched bound men , riding on wheelless sledges with their backs to the horses , and hangmen and their assistants with naked weaponslooped haltershideous flesh
, , forks , and cruel knives , facing their victims , played prominent parts . The procession on the first day halted at the West End of St . Paul ' s Cathedral , and after it had performed its business there , a cart , followed b y a howling mob , proceeding from that spot , drove up the Old Bailey to Newgate . Its destination was what afterwards became known as Jack Ketch ' s kitchen in
that cheerful building , and its contents I would rather not describe . The next day the second procession took a longer journey . It wended its way to the Palace Court Yard at distant Westminster . There the same dreary business took place that had occupied the previous morning in London ' s city , and there the hero of these pages , politely described by Sir Edward Coke as " the devil of the vault , " made his last bow to a public forWhom he had been a subject of interest for many months past , and that evening he and his fellow sufferers appeared upon Traitor ' s tower at the Southwark End of London Bridge , and on the summits of some of the city gates , like popular actors ,
IN SEVERAL PIECES !!! CHAPTER . THE LAST . SHOWING HOW THE CLERGY-CO-OPERATIVES CAME TO AN END . GOOD Mrs . Critchett saw with great satisfaction in her " WeeklLloyd ' s "
y that the two clerical members of the now disestablished " Long" firm had been captured at Hendlip House some time after that celebrated company had been compelled to discontinue its operations . She also read , shortl y after that , how one of them , Father Oldcorne , had died in public . A month or so elapsed and the worthy dame was transacting a little operation in " Regents " at the Borough Marketwhen she was hustled ba great and noisy crowd following
, y a cart going in the direction of Traitor ' s Tower . The good lady was swept on b y the mob and found her attention attracted to four vacant spikes on the summit , to which a man was clambering by aid of a ladder . This individual , when he had reached the roof , stooped to a companion below , who passed up to him certain very nasty looking black masses that appeared to be quarters of
venison very far gone and yet which presented some resemblance to human hands , and feet , and legs , and arms . When the spikes had been duly crowned with these "block ornaments " which the adorner contemplated with much satisfaction , the good soul enquired of a nei ghbour whose disjecta membra had been thus elevated . " Why it ' s old Father Garnet , the Popish priest , as they ' ve been topping this morning for the powder plot last November" said the bstander thus
, yaccosted . Mrs . Critchett looked long and intently at the ghastly relics . " And the Parsons too ! " she murmured , " to go in for takin' the bread out of the poor ratepaying shopkeepers' mouths . You greedy villain ! " she cried , as she shook her fist aloft , "THAT'S WHAT YOUR CLERGY CO-OPERATION HAS
BROUGHT YOU TO ! " THE END ,