Hurdles, with four, five, six wretches convicted of counterfeiting or mutilating the money of the realm, were dragged month after month up Holborn Hill.' But I cannot copy the whole chapter, wonderful as the writing is.

Suffice it to say that before the clippers could be rooted out, and confidence restored between buyer and seller, the greatest statesmen, the greatest financiers, and the greatest philosophers were all at their wits' end.
Kings' speeches, cabinet councils, bills of Parliament, and showers of pamphlets were all full in those days of the clipper and the coiner.

All John Locke's great intellect came short of grappling successfully with the terrible crisis the clipper of the coin had brought upon England.
Carry all that, then, over into the life of personal religion, after the manner of our Lord's parables, and after the manner of the _Pilgrim's Progress_ and the _Holy War_, and you will see what an able and impressive use John Bunyan will make of the shears of the coin-clippers of his day.

Macaulay has but made us ready to open and understand Bunyan.

'After this, my Lord apprehended Clip-Promise.