text:  After many attempts to obtain a hearing it became obvious that all chance of doing so in the schoolhouse was at an end; and so the usher the justices and the rest adjourned to the next ale-house where they had the usher's commission quietly read over in presence of the landlord and the waiter and handed him over the keys of the house before the same witnesses; of all which and of their previous deforcement by a mob of rapscallions they took care to have an instrument regularly drawn out by a notary-public