Dr. John Lambe, reprieved from his death sentence for the rape of Joan Seager, rents a house in London for a year and a quarter. On Friday, June 13, 1628, he is attacked by an angry mob while leaving the Fortune Playhouse. Though he flees, they catch up with him and "had him downe, and with stones and cudgels, and other weapons had so beaten him, that his skull was broken, one of his eyes hung out of his head, and all partes of his body bruised and wounded so much, that no part was left to receiue a wound." He dies of his injuries the following morning.(20-21)