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Trying To Change A Sovereign.

And it didn't seem likely to come off . The day was wet . Perhaps the powder was damp , and the touch-paper of the set piece wouldn ' t ignite . Perhaps Messrs . Brock ' s workpeople had struck . " Bloody with spurring , fiery hot with haste , " a horseman galloped up the

hill . The watchers closed around him . He exhibited to them a yellow envelope which he had already torn open , and from which he had withdrawn a grey flimsy-looking document . It was a Post-Office Telegram form , and it bore these suggestive words in addition to the necessary addresses .

Cut Company in liquidation . all members made Contributories J copped Game up Fireworks postponed no

money returned meet at Dunchurch

The company dispersed , the horseman—only stopping to he sworn in at the Horns upon the Horns—dashed through Highgate , and was soon far off on the great northern road . But a , though not the , pyrotechnic display did come off , only not in London . A hundred miles away a few desperate men , hunted by the Posse comitatws

from Ashb y St . Leger , in far off Northamptonshire , through Dunchurch , haled from Coughton , were brought to bay at a farm-house known as Holbeach , in Staffordshire . As yet Oliver Cromwell had not delivered 'his famous injunction to " keep your powder dry , " and the ammunition of such of the scared members of the " Long " firm as were still at liberty was considerabl y wetted . Picture the scene . Within , around the hearth of the farm-house , some dozen frantic men . Without , catchpolls , and militia , and J . P . ' s , and sheriffs , and under-sheriffs , clamouring for admittance in the king ' s name .

"Dolts , dry your powder on the hearth , " screamed the head of the firm within . " Constables , set fire to the outbuildings , " roared the sheriff of the county without . In a box deposited upon the hearth was exposed a quantity of black granules . In the midst thereof a white linen bag holding some score of

pounds of powder more . There is a fiz , a bang , a roar ; fire within , fire without . Some half-a-dozen scorched , smudged , writhing figures prone on the floor—two or three of them desperately wounded—struggle to their feet , aword in hand . " Stand back to back * * * * And fight it to the last ! or words to that effect , shouts Mr . Catesby , only , yon see he couldn ' t quote Lord Macaulay , because that peer , like Townsend the runner , in the verse of the ballad I have used for a text at the head of this portion of my paper , " wasn ' t born till arter that , "

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THE LEGEND OF THE QUATUOR CORONATI. Article 1
A DESIRE. Article 7
THE MORAL AND RELIGIOUS ORIGIN OF FREEMASONRY: Article 8
A REVERIE BY THE SEA-SIDE. Article 12
THE LAST ATTEMPT: Article 13
FOTHERINGHAY CASTLE. Article 15
THE OLD CHARGES OF THE BRITISH FREEMASONS Article 21
FREEMASONRY ATTACKED AND DEFENDED. Article 24
BEATRICE. Article 26
THE WENTWORTH LITTLE MEMORIAL. Article 28
TRYING TO CHANGE A SOVEREIGN. Article 29
FRATERNITY THE TRUE MISSION. Article 40
NATURE. Article 42
NOTES ON LITERATURE, SCIENCE, AND ART. Article 42
LIGHT. Article 44
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Trying To Change A Sovereign.

And it didn't seem likely to come off . The day was wet . Perhaps the powder was damp , and the touch-paper of the set piece wouldn ' t ignite . Perhaps Messrs . Brock ' s workpeople had struck . " Bloody with spurring , fiery hot with haste , " a horseman galloped up the

hill . The watchers closed around him . He exhibited to them a yellow envelope which he had already torn open , and from which he had withdrawn a grey flimsy-looking document . It was a Post-Office Telegram form , and it bore these suggestive words in addition to the necessary addresses .

Cut Company in liquidation . all members made Contributories J copped Game up Fireworks postponed no

money returned meet at Dunchurch

The company dispersed , the horseman—only stopping to he sworn in at the Horns upon the Horns—dashed through Highgate , and was soon far off on the great northern road . But a , though not the , pyrotechnic display did come off , only not in London . A hundred miles away a few desperate men , hunted by the Posse comitatws

from Ashb y St . Leger , in far off Northamptonshire , through Dunchurch , haled from Coughton , were brought to bay at a farm-house known as Holbeach , in Staffordshire . As yet Oliver Cromwell had not delivered 'his famous injunction to " keep your powder dry , " and the ammunition of such of the scared members of the " Long " firm as were still at liberty was considerabl y wetted . Picture the scene . Within , around the hearth of the farm-house , some dozen frantic men . Without , catchpolls , and militia , and J . P . ' s , and sheriffs , and under-sheriffs , clamouring for admittance in the king ' s name .

"Dolts , dry your powder on the hearth , " screamed the head of the firm within . " Constables , set fire to the outbuildings , " roared the sheriff of the county without . In a box deposited upon the hearth was exposed a quantity of black granules . In the midst thereof a white linen bag holding some score of

pounds of powder more . There is a fiz , a bang , a roar ; fire within , fire without . Some half-a-dozen scorched , smudged , writhing figures prone on the floor—two or three of them desperately wounded—struggle to their feet , aword in hand . " Stand back to back * * * * And fight it to the last ! or words to that effect , shouts Mr . Catesby , only , yon see he couldn ' t quote Lord Macaulay , because that peer , like Townsend the runner , in the verse of the ballad I have used for a text at the head of this portion of my paper , " wasn ' t born till arter that , "

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