Note 477 — XLI.—SITE OF WELD HOUSE.

“Finding them, however, to be too numerous, they ventured to apprehend only some few that stood outmost, and hurrying them away as fast as they could, by the time they were well within my gates, the rest made after them, attempted to break open my doors, fell upon the watchmen, broke their halberts, flung brickbats and stones up against my house, cried out: ‘This is the grand justice that hangs and quarters us all, and caused Jones and Wright to be executed the last sessions,’ divided themselves into two parties, sent one to beset the back lane behind my garden, having information given them that I sent prisoners out that way to avoid a rescue, and had not the Horse Guards opportunely fell in upon them, as they lay battering before my house, it had not been in my power to have prevented a further mischief.” (Letter from Humphrey Weld to the Earl of Craven in Calendar of State Papers, Domestic, 1671, pp. 241–2).