violently, but the recorder cried, “Take him away!” and the prisoners were once more haled to Newgate. Edward Bushell, one of the above-mentioned jurors, who was committed to Newgate in default of payment of fine, subsequently sued out a Habeas Corpus, and was brought before Lord Chief Justice Vaughan, who decided in his favour, whereon he and the other jurymen were discharged from gaol. There were Roman Catholics too in Newgate, convicted of participation in the Popish plot. Samuel Smith the ordinary publishes in 1679 an account of the behaviour of fourteen of them, “late Popish malefactors, whilst in Newgate.” Among them were Whitehead, provincial, and Fenwick, procurator, of the Jesuits in England, and William Harcourt, pretended rector of London. The account contains a description of Mr. Smith’s efforts at conversion and ghostly comfort, which were better meant than successful. After the revolution of 1688 there was an active search after Romish priests, and many were arrested; among them two bishops, Ellis and Leyburn, were sent to Newgate. They were visited in gaol by Bishop Burnet, who found them in a wretched plight, and humanely ordered their situation to be improved. Other inmates of Newgate at this troublous period were the Ex-Lord Chief Justice Wright and several judges. It was Wright who had tried the seven bishops. Jeffries had had him made a judge, although the Lord Keeper styled him the most unfit person in the kingdom for that office. Macaulay says very few lawyers of the time surpassed him in turpitude and effrontery. He died miserably in Newgate about 1690, where he remained under a charge of attempting to subvert the Government. CHAPTER V. IN THE PRESS-YARD. Press-yard described--Charges for admission--Extortionate fees paid to turnkeys and governor--The latter’s perquisites--Night carousing in Press-yard--Penalty for excess--Days how spent--Arrival of Jacobite prisoners--Discussed by lower officials--Preparations for them--Their appearance and demeanour--High prices charged for gaol lodgings--They live royally--First executions abate their gaiety--Escapes--Keeper superseded by officials specially appointed by Lord Mayor--Strictness of new _régime_--A military guard mounts--Rioting and revels among the Jacobites once more checked by execution of members of the party--Rumours of an amnesty--Mr. Freeman, who fired a pistol in theatre when Prince of Wales was present, committed to Press-yard--Freeman’s violent conduct--Prisoners suffer from overcrowding and heat--Pardons--Rob Roy in Newgate--Other prisoners in Press-yard--Major Bernardi--His history and long detentions--Dies in gaol after forty years’ imprisonment.