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PLOTS AND PLOTTERS.
Mr.Wilding left Monmouth's army at Lyme on Sunday, the 14th of June, and rejoined it at Bridgwater exactly three weeks later.

In the meanwhile a good deal had happened, yet the happenings on every hand had fallen far short of the expectations aroused in Mr.Wilding's mind, now by one circumstance, now by another.

In reaching London he had experienced no difficulty.

Men travelling in that direction were not subjected to the scrutiny that fell to the share of those travelling from it towards the West, or, rather, to the scrutiny ordained by the Government; for Wilding had more than one opportunity of observing how very lax and indifferent were the constables and tything-men--particularly in Somerset and Wiltshire--in the performance of this duty.