Did the maledicent Bodyguard, getting (as was too inevitable) better malediction than he gave, load his musketoon, and threaten to fire; and actually fire? Were wise who wist!

those higher and peculiar attributes […] which constitute our proper humanity

There are several opinions as to what he meant But no one considers it a happy prognostic.

And the aforesaid merchants and likewise the aforesaid abbot and Thomas by their attorneys come, and the same merchants complain that the aforesaid Thomas, on Monday in the Eve of S. Martin in the 14th year of the reign of the now King, under colour of his bailivate and without warrant arrested cloths and other goods and merchandises of the aforesaid merchants in the fair of Westminster to the value of 500l.