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band of a liuiidred and fifty horsemen, rode into the 

 city at four o'clock in the morning of L4th IMarcli. 

 They seized the Judges of Assize in their beds, opened 

 the doors of the prison, and imprisoned the judges in 

 the place of the released convicts. Then, finding the 

 citizens too timid to join them in their revolt against 

 Cromwell, they sjoed across country, into Devon, 

 where they were captured. 



Charles the Second was welcomed by Salisbury's 

 citizens, just as they welcomed every one else ; 

 practising with much success St. Paul's admiraljle 

 precept, to be ' all things to all men.' When James 

 the Second came here, on his way to meet, and fight, 

 the Prince of Orange, he was escorted, with every 

 show of deference and respect, to his lodgings at the 

 Bishop's Palace by the Mayor, and when he had 

 slunk away, and the Prince came, less than four weeks 

 later, and was lodged in the same house, the same 

 Mayor did precisely the same thing. 



From the beginning of the seventeenth century 

 onward the citizens began to dearly love kings and 

 great personages, or, if they did not love them, 

 effectually pretended to do so. When plague ravaged 

 the city of London, no one coming from that direc- 

 tion was allowed to enter Salisbury, and even 

 Salisbury's own citizens returning home from that 

 infected centre were obliged to remain outside for 

 three months, while goods were not permitted to be 

 brouo-ht nearer than Three Mile Hill. But Charles 

 the Second and his Court, flying from London from 

 the disease, were welcomed all the same ! 



