they would, in the mean time, enquire after the securities, to know if they were substantial. So in the morning I went to meet them at the Lord Mayor's, where they told me, they did not approve of taking a security on a bond, but if Mr. Muggleton would assign over his houses, they would take them, and give him six months for the payment. I told them No; for when once a Sheriff had got possession of a man's estate, it was hard to get it again.' Pray, then,' said Sir Thomas Stamp, let us have our money; what interest are you willing to allow me for the six months, if I procure the money to-morrow: Sir John Peak told me, he would allow me after the rate of six per cent. I told him I would not have it so; but if he would allow me after the rate of ten per cent. I would pay it on the morrow. 'I will allow it, then,' said he. With that I went and told Mr. Muggleton what I had to do, who approved of it very well, and sent me to borrow the money; accordingly I did, and the next morning went with the money to the Lord Mayor, Sheriffs, and Court of Aldermen at Guildhall, and took two men with me for bail for his good behaviour. The Court beginning to fill, I went to Sir John Peak, to have my business dispatched, who immediately sent to Captain Richardson for the copy of the commitment, but word was brought the Captain was out of town, and they could not get at it; then he sent to Mr. Tanner, the Clerk of the Peace, and ordered him to send it; his man sent word he was not at home, and he dare not send it without his order: whereupon I told Sir John Peak

Peak I did believe all that was done a mere trick, for how dare your servants,' said I, 'send you such petty answers, if it were not by your consent. Pray,' said he, stay a little, and you shall see to the contrary.' So away he sends another messenger to Mr. Tanner's, and bid him tell him if he did not send away the copy of Mr. Muggleton's commitment quickly he would send him to prison; this message brought his clerk; but before he came, the Court of Aldermen broke up, and Sir John Peak told me it could not be done till the sitting of the next Court, which would not be till three weeks time. Sir,' said I, if I have not him out this day he shall lay there for ever.' Why,' said he, 'what

would you have me to do?' Sir,' said I,'invite the Lord Mayor and two or three Aldermen to a private table, to drink a bottle of wine, and it may as well be done before them as the whole Court.' '1 will do it,' said he, because you shall see how willing I am to serve you:' so to a private table he invites the Lord Mayor and some of the Aldermen, where they had bottles of wine and tobacco laying before them; then I and the two people who were to be bail went into the room :--- What are you?' said the Lord Mayor; I replied, My Lord, I am come to bail Mr. Muggleton out of Newgate.' 'Will the bail,' said he, 'swear themselves worth £300. a-piece, and all their debts paid?'What necessity is there for that,' said I, Why,' replied the Lord Mayor, do you think I will take less than £300. of two men for £500. ?' I do not know what your Lordship means by £500.' Why,' said he, is not his fine £500, ?'---' True, my Lord; but I do

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not put in bail for the fine; I come to pay that: I have money in Court ready for it: your Lordship may ask the Sheriff that sits there, if he be not satisfied.' Then' said the Lord Mayor to the bail, Mr. Butterill, and Mr. Clark the farrier, you shall promise that Mr. Muggleton shall appear the first day of the general sessions of gaol delivery of Newgate, on pain of £200. a-piece, to be levied on your goods and chattels.' No, but they shall not,' said I'Why so?' said the Lord Mayor; I replied, because it was contrary to law:' with that one of the Aldermen stood up in a passion and said, Will you pretend to teach my Lord Mayor law? I told him that was none of my business, but I would prefer my own memory equally with the Lord Mayor's, or his either, and that it was contrary to the sentence he received, and that I would have no secondary impositions laid upon him. Pray,' said the Lord Mayor, you that know so well, what is the sentence?" My Lord, his sentence was to stand upon the pillory three times, and to pay a fine of £500. and to give security for his good be haviour during life; if during life no necessity for appearance till a default be made.' What,' said the Lord Mayor, are you one of his gang? That is no business of your's to ask, my Lord; neither did I come here to be catchechised; 'You talk too saucy to my Lord,' said one of the Aldermen. Not at all, Sir,' said I, for I did not come here to discourse on religion, but law.' Who is this man?' said the Lord Mayor to Sir John Peak, who replied, he is Mr. Muggleton's solicitor.' Are you willing,' said the Lord Mayor, that he shall appear or no; I told him I would

I would not go no other way than what the law directed.' Upon which Sir Robert Hanson and Sir John Peak whispered me out of the room, and kept me in talk, while the Lord Mayor, and Mr. Lightfoot, his attorney, persuaded my friends to be bound for his appearance, at the Old Bailey; when I perceived this, I was extremely troubled, but how to help it I could not tell: So having done at Guildhall, I went with the Sheriff to his house, to pay the money; before I let him have it, I told him I expected he would promise me that he should discharge Mr. Muggleton from that appearance, at the Old Bailey; he told me that could not be avoided now, but, at their appearance, he would discharge both him and his bail : I told him that would not do, for unless he would promise me he should not appear, I would carry the money back again; he hearing me say this, made me a promise to discharge him without his personal appearance. Dinner being over, and some private discourse between Sir John and I, gave me a release from the Lord Mayor, and an order signed by both the Sheriffs, to Captain Richardson, for his discharge, upon sight thereof: I told the Sheriff I did believe the Captain would not obey their order, he told me he would stay at home three hours on purpose for me, and if in that time I could not have him discharged, desired me to come and acquaint him, and he would go to Newgate himself, and lay Captain Richardson by the heels, and put Mr. Muggleton out; so giving him hearty thanks for his kindness, I took my leave, and about four o'clock in the afternoon I got to

Newgate, where I went to the keeper and demanded Mr. Muggleton, the keeper was a little surprised, thinking he had made all sure for his longer confinement; so after a little pausing, he told me he would send to the Sheriffs', to know if that was their hand writing, which, if they owned, I should have him discharged; so away he sent a messenger, but we heard no more of him till seven o'clock; then I went to the keeper again, to know the reason of his long stay, he told me he did believe Mr. Muggleton could not be discharged that night; I told him unless he did discharge him, both him and his captain should sit in the stocks, in their own prison, on the morrow, and that the Sheriff had so promised me: he hearing me say so, within half an hour discharged him from the prison of hell. The sessions coming on, it was much talked of in the City of London, that Mr. Muggleton was to be brought again to the Old Bailey: I being then at Braintree, in Essex, came speedily up to London, to prevent it, and as I was going to Sir John Peak's, I met him accidentally near the Poultry, who, seeing me, made his coach stop, and took me into it, where I began to attack him with falsehood for his breach of promise; he told me he could not help it, the Lord Mayor would have it so, or take the forfeiture of his recognizance: I told him he suffered the recognizance to be for feited, and I would sue him for the money I paid him, and besides, I told him Mr. Muggleton was gone out of town, and I could not tell when he would come back again. Can't you get somebody to appear for him, and I will order it so, that shall

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