February 7, 1677, about one in the morning, the lord chancellor Finch’s mace was stolen out of his house in Queen-street; the seal laid under his pillow, so the thief missed it. The famous thief that did it was Thomas Sadler, he was soon after taken, and hanged for it at Tyburn on the 16th of March.[54]
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
Mean Temperature 37·37.
[54] Life of Ant. a Wood.
February 8.
1826.—Ash Wednesday,