The security lights had been triggered and through the railings they had watched Manning roaming about, from time to time peering in at the downstairs windows of the lumpy red brick building that was said to have been alunaticasylum once.
Clare, who was born in 1793 and died in 1864 in Northampton General LunaticAsylum, is buried in St Botolph's churchyard, Helpston, Cambridgeshire, where there is a memorial to him.