text:  He vowed the justices were all in a conspiracy against him; that they were constantly intruding into his grounds notwithstanding his warnings that spring-guns were set in the premises; that on one occasion a tall fellow of a sheriff's officer had made his way into his house and served him with a writ of _fieri facias_ even in the midst of one of his assemblies a disgrace he never could get over; that he could not walk ten yards in any direction or saunter for an instant at the corner of a street without being ordered by a policeman to move on; in short that he lived in perpetual terror and anxiety--and all this because he had done his best to save them and their children from the awful scourge of deboshed and despotical ushers