LOB'S POUND. A prison. Dr. Grey, in his notes on Hudibras,
explains it to allude to one Doctor Lob, a dissenting
preacher, who used to hold forth when conventicles were
prohibited, and had made himself a retreat by means of a
trap door at the bottom of his pulpit. Once being pursued
by the officers of justice, they followed him through
divers subterraneous passages, till they got into a dark
cell, from whence they could not find their way out, but
calling to some of their companions, swore they had got
into Lob's Pound.