Sentence:  Similarly, the burgesses for the city of Kilkenny were, on their return homewards from Parliament, made captive, and carried off <WSD>handlocked</WSD> by another servant of the Earl's, who swore at the time he led them away that he wished he had Henry VIII at one end of the handlock, and Viceroy Ormond at the other! 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  To restrain with, or as with, a handlock.