For a moment the rabble seemed to be overawed: but the exhortations of their chiefs revived their courage; and the sight of Hales, whom they well knew and bitterly hated, inflamed their fury.

His park was in the neighbourhood; and at that very moment a band of rioters was employed in pillaging his house and shooting his deer.

The multitude assured the King that they would not hurt him: but they refused to let him depart.

It chanced that the Earl of Winchelsea, a Protestant, but a zealous royalist, head of the Finch family, and a near kinsman of Nottingham, was then at Canterbury.

As soon as he learned what had happened he hastened to the coast, accompanied by some Kentish gentlemen.