... with the demand, but proclaimed Sloughter's appointment, and ordered Ingoldsby's troops to be quartered in the city. There was great excitement in the city between the aristocracy and democracy. Bayard and others of the old council were in prison. Leisler was, for a time, besieged in the fort, and some lives were lost; and because he refused to give up the fort at the first summons of Ingoldsby...