There were other attempts, such as that of Mr. Robertson, who tried to make off in a clergyman’s habit, but was discovered and stopped before he had passed one of the doors; and of Mr. Ramsay, who escaped with the crowd that came to hear the condemned sermon. Now and then there was the concerted action of a number, as when the prisoners thronged about the gates in order to make their escape; “and to promote the design the High Church cobbler fought with one of the servants, which occasioned a great disturbance and confusion.” Trouble, again, was only prevented by timely warning that there was a design to convey large iron crows to the rebels, by which they might beat open the gaol and escape. The most important and about the last of the rebel escapes was that of Mr. Ratcliffe, brother of the unfortunate Lord Derwentwater. This was effected so easily, indeed, with so much cool impudence, that connivance must assuredly have been bought. Mr. Ratcliffe seized his opportunity one day when he was paying a visit to Captain Dalziel and others on the master’s side. At the gate he met by previous agreement a “cane-jobber,” or person who sold walking-sticks, and who had once been an inmate of Newgate himself. Mr. Ratcliffe paused for a time and bargained for a cane, after which he passed under the iron chain at the gate, and upon the cane-seller’s saying that he was no prisoner, the turnkey and guard suffered Ratcliffe to get off. The author of the ‘History of the Press-Yard’ says that Mr. Ratcliffe bribed the officer, “which,” as another writer adds, “must be owned to be the readiest way to turn both lock and key.”