'Didn't want his home burnt again – he'd just gotten a roof on it, finally, after twenty years. He was Lord Lieutenant thereabouts – that's a job that the King gives to the gents with the brownest noses of all – entitled him to command the local militia. Most Lord Lieutenants sit in London all the time, but after the Plague and the Fire, the countryside was in an uproar because of people like me, as I've been explaining, and so they were given the power to search for arms, imprison disorderly persons, and so on.'