Other famous homes of Great Britain and their stories . djoining, where they sleep and mess, and 1 mount a chain ofsentries in a ring round the house extending to the gate near thetool-house in the Pleasure Ground. In this manner we shallcommand regularity, and something like system and think we shall be perfectly secure against attack in this evening 1 had some progress in putting the houseto rights and making it more as usual, for 1 found it scarcelyhabitable, and my own room full of people with guns mountedand full of litter and dirt. At night I went to see
Other famous homes of Great Britain and their stories . djoining, where they sleep and mess, and 1 mount a chain ofsentries in a ring round the house extending to the gate near thetool-house in the Pleasure Ground. In this manner we shallcommand regularity, and something like system and think we shall be perfectly secure against attack in this evening 1 had some progress in putting the houseto rights and making it more as usual, for 1 found it scarcelyhabitable, and my own room full of people with guns mountedand full of litter and dirt. At night I went to see that all myarrangements were carried properly into execution and foundthem well done ; on my return home, from not knowing thecountersign, 1 was taken prisoner by one of my own have heard of no fresh aggressions. isth October. My report of this morning was that twomen had been taken last night, who pretended to be gentlemen,and who said it would be very disagreeable to be taken beforeone who would know them, and offered 20 sovereigns to my. THE LINCOLN TERRACE, CLUMBER 157 158 Clumber people to let them go ; they refused their money, but told themas they saw they were gentlemen they would liberate could have been more unfortunate; there can be nodoubt that they were incendiaries, and that they were the verypeople we had been looking for, and who had been frequentlyseen in various parts evidently bent upon mischief. I hear to-daythat disturbance is expected at Mansfield, and that a Troop ofHussars, which had been ordered to Worksop, had been counter-ordered to Mansfield. Nottingham is in a feverish state but quietfor the present. 16th October. I have had a great many people here to-daywho all report that things are quiet for the present. One reportarrived that there was a rising in Sheffield and that Lord Wharn-cliffes house had been burnt down. This night a man cameand sent me in a letter saying that he came from Nottinghamand wished to tell me the litt
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