Fire and furies, do a set of boozingtipstaves think to take the man who outwitted Jeffreys and slipped through Kirke's lambs?
It would have been fun to have seen his surprise the next morning when he read in the paper that he had been bowing to jail-birds, and then I would like to have cheated the tipstaves out of just one more friendly good-by.
After a short struggle, he was overpowered, and, on his refusing to walk, he was carried out of the House on the shoulders of the tipstaves and constables.
Two tipstaves thereupon rudely seized him by the arms.
Then followed the sheriffs in their carriages, with their tipstaves walking beside them.
Some little time was allowed the prisoners for preparation, and such of them as had papers and manifestoes delivered them to the sheriffs, by whom they were handed to the tipstaves to be distributed among the crowd.
