crowd and went into an upper room which faced towards the street the windows however in with those of every other room in ihe house were up inside in order that out of doors all might appear quite dark they laid him on a in this chamber perfectly insensible but john immediately a surgeon who took from him a large quantity of blood he came to himself as he was for the time too weak to walk they had no difficulty in persuading him to remain there all night and got him to bed without loss of a minute that done they gave him cordial and some toast and presently a pretty strong ht under the influence of which he � soon fell into a and for a time forgot his troubles the who was a very hearty old and a worthy man had no of going to bed himself for he had received several threatening from the and had indeed gone out that evening to try and gather from the conversation of the mob whether his house was to be the next attacked he sat all night in an easy chair in the same room � a little now and then � and received from time to time the reports of john and two or three other persons in his employ who went out into the streets as and for whose entertainment an ample allowance of good cheer which the old despite his anxiety now and then attacked himself was set forth in an adjoining chamber these accounts were of a sufficiently alarming nature from the first but as ihe night wore on they grew so much worse and involved such a fearful amount of riot and destruction that in comparison with these new tidings all the previous to nothing the first intelligence that came was of the taking of and the escape of all the prisoners whose track as they made up and into the adjacent streets was proclaimed to those citizens who were shut up in their houses by the rattling of their chains which formed a dismal concert h and was heard in every direction as though so many were at work the flames too shone so brightly through the s that the rooms and below were nearly as light as in broad day while the distant shouting of the mob seemed to shake the very walls and at length they were heard approaching the house and some minutes of terrible anxiety ensued they came close up and stopped before it but after giving three loud went on and although they returned several times that night creating new each time they did nothing there having their hands full shortly after ey had gone away for the first time one of the came running in with the news that they had stopped before lord s house in square soon afterwards there came another and another and then the first returned again and so by little and little their tale was this � that the mob gathering round lord s house had called on those within to open the door and receiving no reply for lord and lady were at that moment escaping by the forced an entrance according to their usual custom that they then began to the house with great fury and setting fire to it in several parts involved in a common ruin the whole of the furniture the plate and jewels a gallery of pictures the collection of ever possessed by any one private person in the world and worse than all because nothing could replace this loss the great law library on almost every page of which were notes in the judge s own hand of value � being the results of tiie study and experience of his whole life that while they were howling and round the fire a troop of soldiers with a magistrate among them came up and being too late for the mischief was by that time done began to the crowd that the riot act being read and the crowd still resisting the soldiers received orders to fire and their shot dead at the first discharge six men and a woman and wounded many persons and again fired another but over the people s heads it was supposed as none were seen to fall that thereupon and by the shrieks and tumult the crowd began to and the soldiers went away leaving the killed and wounded on the ground which they had no sooner done the came back and taking up the dead bodies and the wounded people formed into a rude procession the bodies in the front that in this order they off with a horrible merriment fixing weapons in the dead men s hands to make them look as if alive and preceded by a fellow ringing lord s dinner bell with all his might the reported further that this party meeting with some others who had been at similar work elsewhere they all united into one and off a few men with the killed and wounded marched away to lord s country seat at wood between and bent upon destroying that house likewise and lighting up a great fire there which from that height should be seen all over london but in this they were disappointed for a party of horse having arrived before them they retreated faster than they went and came straight back to town there being now a great many parties in the streets each went to work according to its humour and a dozen houses were quickly blazing including those of sir john and two and four in � one of the greatest in london � which were all burning at the same time and burned until they went out of themselves for the people cut the engine and would not suffer the to play upon the flames at one house near they found in one of the rooms some birds 