An inquest sate on the bodies, and came to a decision which strongly indicated the temper of the public mind.

The jury found that certain loyal and well disposed persons, who had gone to put down the meetings of traitors and public enemies at a mass house, had been wilfully murdered by the soldiers; and this strange verdict was signed by all the jurors.

The ecclesiastics at Clerkenwell, naturally alarmed by these symptoms of popular feeling, were desirous to place their property in safety.

They succeeded in removing most of their furniture before any report of their intentions got abroad.

But at length the suspicions of the rabble were excited.