"Who talks of the Parliament ?" he exclaimed. “I promise you, enough has been found in this house to convict twenty plotters-Here be arms, and that good store. Bring them in, Captain."

"The very same," exclaimed the Captain, approaching," which I mention in my printed Narrative of Information, lodged before the Honourable House of Commons; they were commissioned from old Vander Huys of Rotterdam, by or ders of Don John of Austria, for the service of the Jesuits."

"Now, by this light," said Sir Geoffrey," they are the pikes, musketoons, and pistols, that have been hidden in the garret ever since Nasebyfight !"

"And here," said the Captain's yoke-fellow, Everett," are proper priest's trappings-antiphoners, and missals, and copes, I warrant you— ay, and proper pictures too, for Papists to mutter and bow over."

"Now plague on thy snuffling whine," said Sir Geoffrey; "here is a rascal will swear my grandmother's old farthingale to be priest's vestments, and the story book of Owlenspiegel, a Popish missal !"

"But how's this, Master Bridgenorth?" said Topham, addressing the magistrate; " your honour has been as busy as we have; and you have caught another knave while we recovered these toys."

"I think, sir," said Julian, "if you look into your warrant, which, if I mistake not, names the persons whom you are directed to arrest, you find you have no title to apprehend me."

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"Sir," said the officer, puffing with importance, "I do not know who you are; but I would you were the best man in England, that I might teach you the respect due to the warrant of the House. Sir, there steps not the man within the British seás, but I will arrest him on authority of this bit of parchment; and I do arrest you accordingly.

What do you accuse him of, gentlemen ?" Dangerfield swaggered forward, and peeping under Julian's hat, "Stop my vital breath," he exclaimed, "but I have seen you before, my friend, an I could but think where; but my memory is not worth a bean, since I have been obliged to use it so much of late, in the behalf of the poor state.

But I do know the fellow; and I have seen him amongst the Papists-I'll take that on my assured damnation."

Why, Captain Dangerfield," said the Captain's smoother, but more dangerous associate,— "verily, it is the same youth whom we saw at the horse merchant's yesterday; and we had matter against him then, only Master Topham did not desire us to bring it out."

"Ye may bring out what ye will against him now," said Topham, “ for he hath blasphemed the warrant of the House. I think

him somewhere ?"

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"Ay, verily," said Everett, "I have seen him amongst the seminary pupils at Saint Omer's-he was who but he with the regents there."

Nay, Master Everett, collect yourself," said Topham; "for, as I think, you said you saw him at a consult of the Jesuits in London."

"It was I said so, Master Topham,” said the undaunted Dangerfield; " and mine is the tongue that will swear it."

"Good Master Topham," said Bridgenorth,

you may suspend further inquiry at present,

as it doth but fatigue and perplex the memory of the King's witnesses."

"You are wrong, Master Bridgenorth-clearly wrong. It doth but keep them in wind-only breathes them like greyhounds before a coursing match."

"Be it so," said Bridgenorth, with his usual indifference of manner; "but at present this youth must stand committed upon a warrant, which I will presently sign, of having assaulted me while in discharge of my duty as a magistrate, for the rescue of a person legally attached. Did you not hear the report of a pistol ?"

"I will swear to it," said Everett.

"And I," said Dangerfield. "While we were making search in the cellar, I heard something very like a pistol-shot; but I conceived it to be the drawing of a long-corked bottle of sack, to see whether there were any Popish reliques in the inside on't."

“A pistol-shot !” exclaimed Topham; “ here might have been a second Sir Edmondbury Godfrey's matter.-Oh, thou real spawn of the red old dragon! for he too would have resisted the

House's warrant, had we not taken him something at unawares.-Master Bridgenorth, you are a judicious magistrate, and a worthy servant of the state-I would we had many such sound Protestant justices. Shall I have this young fellow away with his parents-what think you ?—or will you keep him for re-examination ?"

"Master Bridgenorth," said Lady Peveril, in spite of her husband's efforts to interrupt her, "for God's sake, if ever you knew what it was to love one of the many children you have lost, or her who is now left to you, do not pursue your vengeance to the blood of my poor boy! I will forgive you all the rest-all the distress you have wrought all the yet greater misery with which you threaten us; but do not be extreme with one who never can have offended you. Believe, that if your ears are shut against the cry of a despairing mother, those which are open to the complaint of all who sorrow, will hear my petition and your answer."

The agony of mind and of voice with which Lady Peveril uttered these words, seemed to thrill through all present, though most of them were but