Certain it is that he kept no garrison that would suffice to offer a stout defence against a strong band, although the precaution was taken of keeping a watchman, night and day, in one of the turrets.

The sound of his horn was heard by the horsemen, as soon as they began to descend the hill.
"A pest on the knave!" Lord Grey exclaimed.

"He will slip through our fingers, yet." It was scarce a minute later when a mounted man was seen to dash out, at full speed, from the other side of the building.

He was evidently well mounted; and although the pursuit was hotly kept up, for two miles, he gained the forest while they were still a quarter of a mile behind him, and was lost to view; for although they beat the wood for some distance, they could find no traces of him.
When passing by the house, a detachment of a hundred men were ordered to surround it, and to suffer none to enter or leave it.

On the return of the pursuing party the house was entered, and ransacked from end to end.