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constables were succeeded by charges of the yeomanry, 

 and the contest resulted in the capture of twenty-two 

 rioters, who were locked up in Fisherton Gaol. The 

 next day a number of rioters were surprised in the 

 ' Green Dragon Inn,' Alderbury, and marched off to 

 prison ; and the day after, twenty-five were taken in 

 a fight near Tisbury, after one of their number had 

 been killed. There were no fewer than three hundred 

 and thirty prisoners awaiting trial when the Special 

 Commissioners arrived for that purpose on 27tli Decem- 

 ber. Many of the prisoners were transported, and 

 others had short terms of imprisonment ; l)ut a 

 leader, called ' Commander ' Coote, who was captured 

 by two constables at the Compasses, Rockl)ourn, was 

 hano-ed at AVinchester. 



XXVIII 



And now for some little- known literary laud- 

 marks. Salisbury, of course, is the scene of some 

 passages in Martin Clnizzleivit ; but it is outside the 

 city that we must go, on the road to Southampton, 

 to find the residence of that eminent architect, Mr. 

 Pecksniff; or the ' Blue Dragon,' where Tom Pinch's 

 friend, Mrs. Lupin, was landlady. St. Mary's 

 Grange, four miles from Salisbury, is the real name 

 of Mr. Pecksniff's home, but the house is only 

 vaguely indicated in the novel. It is different with 

 the ' Blue Dragon,' which is an undoubted portrait 

 of the ' Green Dragon Inn,' at Alderbury, despite the 



