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                             (  13  ) mad dog., and with fair speeches and u nceasing countenance, he began to expos- ulate with Tyler and was willing to con- descend to some dishonourable submissi- ons betwtixt sovereign and subject, to content him but the more he found the King pliable the more unreasonable the insult and the more unreasonable were his demands, and insolent his behaviour. Among many other villanous as well as unreasonable demands, the following was one, viz To have all law abolished ; af- firming with an execrable oath Before night all the laws of England should pass through this strait, clapping his hand to his mouth.

In the mean time Philpot had sent into the city to Sir Robert Knowles, who was left behind to keep the multitude quiet,
 * hen make known the King’s danger and

their own: conjuring them by their duty to the King and love to him to make all possible speed to their rescues, And then prompting the Lord Manor what to do having by Sir John Newton’s help drawn close together as many ol the King’s fol- lowers as were absent, he a: tended to the