South London . fore got safely ashoreon the other side, and the bailiffs turned back with a gooddeal of cursing. Once ashore, the fugitive made straight toMint Street, as to a Levitical City which was also a City ofRefuge. I know not what became of him afterwards. Itwas a hive where all the bees were busy. Jones could noteat the bread of idleness : he therefore, one may certainlyconclude, became a rogue by profession and in due coursemet his fate bravely with white ribbons round his cap, anorange in one hand, a Prayer-book in the other, and a largenosegay in his shirt front. Here is another st
South London . fore got safely ashoreon the other side, and the bailiffs turned back with a gooddeal of cursing. Once ashore, the fugitive made straight toMint Street, as to a Levitical City which was also a City ofRefuge. I know not what became of him afterwards. Itwas a hive where all the bees were busy. Jones could noteat the bread of idleness : he therefore, one may certainlyconclude, became a rogue by profession and in due coursemet his fate bravely with white ribbons round his cap, anorange in one hand, a Prayer-book in the other, and a largenosegay in his shirt front. Here is another story of the same Eighteenth CenturySanctuary. It will seem incredible that the Executive shouldhave been so incapable, but the story is literally true. Things being in so satisfactory and settled a condition, THE LATER SANCTUARY 245 the Law being so triumphantly defied, at the Mint in South-wark, some of the residents or collegians naturally desired togo farther afield, and to establish more Sanctuaries or Lavv-. MINT STREET, BOROUGH 246 SOUTH LONDON defying colonies on the other side of the river, which wasreported to be ripe for these settlements. No reports ofMeetings, Proceedings, and Resolutions held and passed onthe subject have come down to us. However, that mattersvery little. Every great movement, we know, is the work ofone man. Therefore there arose a Prophet—the Prophet asRogue. He perceived, understood, and presently began topreach that a * long felt want—call it rather a need—existed, which it was his duty to supply. The old Sanctuariesof North London, he pointed out, had fallen into was deplorably respectable : bailiffs had been seen inMilford Lane : the trade of counterfeit rings was no longercarried on in St. Martins. And, though there were certainlytaverns in Clerkenwell which bailiffs regarded with a usefulrespect, it could not be denied that London needed a newSanctuary. This need he called upon his friends and fellow-residents in the Mint
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