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 which afterwards proved of great service to him. He presently made so large a breach that he got into the Red Room over the castle, where he found a great nail, which was another very useful instrument. From thence he found his way into the Chapel, and after that into the entry between the Chapel and the lower leads, where as night had come on, he was forced to work in the dark. However, in half an hour, by the help of the great nail and the iron bar, he forced off the box of the lock, and opened the door, and let him in another yet more difficult, for it was not only locked but barred and bolted. When he had tried in vain to make this give way he wrenched the fillet from the main post and the box and staples came off with it. There was yet another door between him and the lower leads, but it being only bolted within, he opened it easily, and mounting the top of it, got over the wall to the upper leads.

His next consideration was how to get down, and finding the top of the turner's house, adjoining Newgate, was the most convenient place to light upon, he went back to the castle the same way he came, and