He had never seen her face, but she had, the year before, lent his wife, when in distress, sixteen shillings, the rent of flax-ground, and he would stand her friend now.
'He kept back the mob: they agreed to send him to the house with a deputation of six, to know the truth, and to ask for arms.

The six men went to the back door and summoned the housekeeper; one of them pointed his blunderbuss at her, and told her that she must fetch all the arms in the house; she said she had none.

Her champion asked her to say if she remembered him.

"No," to her knowledge she had never seen his face.

He asked if she remembered having lent a woman money to pay her rent of flaxground the year before.