toefé informed that this day had been fiied on té arreft them, and were therefore ready prepared and affembled near the houfe of John Lyon; who was waiting for them : they came in bands of tta and twenty, and* as they marched up; they formed in the ftreet : when they were all affembled, they tore full four hundred. John Lyon matched off as fierce as a lion, faying, k Let us ladvance againft thefe traitors, who wifh to ruin the town of Ghent* I thought all thôfe fine fpceches which Gilbert Matthew brought back the other day were only meant for ' our deftriiftion, and to lull us afleep j but we will make him pay deafly for them.' He and his roiit advanced haftily : they iricfreafed very much by the way \ for there were thofe who joined him that had not as yet put On the white hoods, who cried ouf, c Treafon ! treafon V They marched* by a roundabout way and a narrow ftreet, to the corn market where the bai-liff, who reprefented the carl, had pofted himfelf. Gilbert Matthew and his brethren, the moment they faw John Lyon and thé white hoods enter the market-place, left the bailiff, and ran away as Faft as they could 5 and neither order nor array Was obferved, except by the men at arms whom the bailiff had brought thither. Immediately on the arrival of John Lyon in the ' market-place, with the white hopds, a large body of them advanced towards the bailiff ; anl£ with-out faying a word, he was feized, thrown on the ground and flaio. The banner of the earl was then dragged through the dirt, and torn to pieces j 12 but •115