See how the good master Flowerdew excelleth therein, sprinkling them abroad from the watering-pot of the gospel.

Verily, when my mind is too feeble to grasp his argument, my memory lays fast hold upon the hard names, and while I hold by them, I have it all in a nutshell.' Fortified occasionally by a pottle of ale, and keeping their spirits constantly stirred by much talking, they had been all day occupied in searching the Catholic houses of the neighbourhood for arms.

What authority they had for it never came to be clearly understood.

Plainly they believed themselves possessed of all that was needful, or such men would never have dared it.

As it was, they prosecuted it with such a bold front, that not until they were gone did it occur to some, who had yielded what arms they possessed, to question whether they had done wisely in acknowledging such fellows as parliamentary officials without demanding their warrant.