An account of the proceedings against the rebels, and other prisoners, tried before the Lord Chief Justice Jefferies: and other judges in the west of England, in 1685. for taking arms under the Duke of Monmouth. ... To which is prefix'd, the Duke of Monmouth's, the Earl of Argyle's, and the Pretender's declarations, that the reader may the better judge of the cause of the several rebellions.

Defoe, Daniel, attributed name. 1661?-1731,

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AN ACCOUNT OF THE PROCEEDINGS Against the Rebels, and other Prisoners, Tried before the Lord Chief Justice Jefferies, and other Judges in the West of England, in 1685. for taking Arms under the Duke of Monmouth.

With a compleat List of all the Persons that suffered, the Counties they suffered in, the Crimes they were tried for, and the Punish∣ments inflicted on them.

Also an Account of what was done against those in Scotland, who took Arms there under the Earl of Argyle, &c. and against the Protestants in Ire∣land, by the late King James, and his Deputy Tyrconnel.

Published from an Original Manuscript.

To which is prefix'd, The Duke of Monmouth's, the Earl of Argyle's, and the Pretender's Declarations, that the Reader may the better judge of the Cause of the several Rebellions.

With what Measure you meet, it shall be measured to you again,
Mat. 7. 2.

The Third Edition.

LONDON: Printed for Andrew Bell, at the Cross Keys and Bible in Cornhill, near Stock's Market; and J Baker, and Tho. Warner, at the Black Boy in Pater-noster-row. 1716. Price One Shilling.

Page iii

INTRODUCTION.

THE Faction now having lost all Hopes of Success by their unnatural Rebellion, they apply themselves with the utmost Industry and Malice to cry down the Proceedings of Ju∣stice against the Rebels who are taken, as Barba∣rous and cruel, and having no Precedent in Hi∣story. This Clamour is so very ill founded, and so remote from Truth, that it might be justly thought needless to give it any Answer; but since it is made use of by the Party farther to in∣cense the ignorant Mob against the Government, it can't be thought amiss to convict our Adversa∣ries of Falshood, by putting them in mind of the barbarous Cruelty of the late King James II. a∣gainst those who took Arms under the Duke of Monmouth, and the Earl of Argyle in Scotland; and likewise of that Prince's Barbarity to the Protestants in Ireland, after the Revolution.

These Things are still remember'd by Thou∣sands of Eye-Witnesses, and therefore can admit of no Contradiction, but from such as have bid Defiance to Truth, because they know the Inte∣rest of Tyranny and Popery, which they espouse, can never be supported by any other Methods than Cruelty and Falshood.

Page iv I shall begin with the Proceedings in that King's Reign against those who took Arms in the West of England under the Duke of Monmouth. The Lists of those who were executed, or other∣wise punish'd on that Account, are in the follow∣ing Treatise, and more large and exact than what has yet been published; so that I shall say nothing of them here, but proceed to give some Account of the Difference betwixt that and the present Rebellion.

Every one knows, that those who join'd the Duke of Monmouth did not do it till after King James II. had declared himself a Papist, and con∣trary to Law encourag'd those of his own Per∣swasion to set up their Worship publickly; and he had likewise in an arbitrary and tyrannical Manner invaded our Civil Liberties, as may be seen by the Duke of Monmouth's Declaration, and that of the Earl of Argyle.

The DECLARATION of James Duke of Monmouth, and the No∣blemen, Gentlemen, and others, now in Arms for the Defence and Vindication of the Protestant Reli∣gion, and the Laws, Rights, and Privileges of England.

' AS Government was originally instituted by God, and this or that Form of it chosen and submitted to by Men, for the Peace, Happiness, and Security of the Governed, and not for the private Interest, and personal Page v Greatness of those that rule; so that Govern∣ment hath always been esteemed the best, where the Supreme Magistrates have been invested with all the Power and Prerogatives that might capacitate them, not only to preserve the Peo∣ple from Violence and Oppression, but to pro∣mote their Prosperity; and yet, where no∣thing was to belong to them by the Rules of the Constitution, that might enable them to injure and oppress them. And it hath been the Glory of England, above most other Nations, that the Prince had all entrusted with him that was necessary, either for the advancing the Welfare of the People, or for his own Prote∣ction in the Discharge of the Office; and withal stood so limited and restrained by the Funda∣mental Terms of the Constitution, that with∣out a Violation of his own Oath, as well as the Rules and Measures of the Government, he could do them no Hurt, nor exercise any Act of Authority, but through the Administration of such Hands as stood obnoxious to be punished in case they transgressed: So that according to the primitive Frame of the Government, the Prerogatives of the Crown, and the Privileges of the Subject, are so far from jostling one a∣nother, that the Rights reserved unto the Peo∣ple tended to render the King Honourable and Great, and the Prerogatives settled on the Prince were in order to the Subjects Protection and Safety. But all Human Things being sub∣ject to Perversion, as well as Decay, it hath been the Fate of the English Government to be often changed, and wrested from what it was in the first Settlement and Institution. And we are particularly compelled to say, that all the Boundaries of the Government have of late Page vi been broken, and nothing less unattempted for turning our limited Monarchy into an absolute Tyranny: For such hath been the Transaction of Affairs within this Nation for several Years last past, that though the Protestant Religion and Liberties of the People were fenced and hedged about by as many Laws, as the Wisdom of Man can devise for their Preservation against Popery and Arbitrary Power, our Religion hath been all along countermined by popish Counsels, and our Privileges ravished from us by Fraud and Violence. And more especially the whole Course and Series of the Life of the D. of Y. hath been but one continued Conspi∣racy against the Reformed Religion, and the Rights of the Nation: For, whoever considers his contriving the burning of London, his insti∣gating a Confederacy with France, and a War with Holland, fomenting the Popish Plot, and encouraging the Murther of Sir Ed. Godfrey, his charging Treason against Protestants, sub∣orning Witnesses to swear the Patriots of our Religion and Liberties out of their Lives; his hiring execrable Villains to assassinate the late Earl of Essex, and causing those others to be clandestinely cut off in Hopes to conceal it; his advising and procuring the Prorogation and Dissolution of Parliaments, in order to prevent their looking into his Crimes, and that he might escape the Justice of the Nation; such can i∣magine nothing so black and horrid in it self, or so ruinous and destructive to Religion and the Kingdom, which we may not expect from him.'

' The very Tyrannies which he hath exerci∣sed since he snatched the Crown from his Bro∣ther's Head, do leave none under a Possibility Page vii of flattering themselves with Hopes of Safety, either in their Consciences, Persons, or E∣states: For, in Defiance of all the Laws and Statutes of the Realm, made for the Security of the Reformed Protestant Religion, he not only began his Reign with a bare-fac'd Avow∣ing himself of the Romish Religion, but call'd in Multitudes of Priests and Jesuits, for whom the Law makes it Treason to come into this King∣dom; and hath impower'd them to exercise I∣dolatries: And besides his being daily present at the Worship of the Mass, he hath publickly assisted at the greatest Fopperies of their Su∣perstition. Neither hath he been more tender in trampling upon the Laws which concern our Properties, seeing in two Proclamations, whereof the one requires the collecting of the Customs, and the other the continuing that part of the Excise which was to expire at the late King's Death; he hath violently, and a∣gainst all the Law of the Land, broken in up∣on our Estates. Neither is it any Extenuation of his Tyranny, that he is countenanced in it by an extrajudicial Opinion of seven or eight suborned and forsworn Judges; but rather de∣claring the Greatness and Extent of the Conspi∣racy against our Rights; and that there is no Means left for our Relief, but by Force of Arms: For, advancing those to the Bench that were the Scandal of the Bar; and constituting those very Men to declare the Laws, who are ac∣cused and branded in Parliament for pervert∣ing them, we were precluded all Hopes of Ju∣stice in Westminster-Hall: And by packing Ju∣ries together by false Returns, new illegal Charters, and other corrupt Means, he doth at once deprive us of all Expectations of Succour Page viii where our Ancestors were wont to find it; and hopes to render that which ought to be the People's Fences against Tyranny, and the Con∣servator of their Liberties, the Means of sub∣verting all our Laws, and of establishing of his Arbitrariness, and confirming our Thraldom. So that unless we could be contented to see the Reformed Protestant Religion, and such as profess it, extirpated, Popish Superstition and Idolatry establish'd, the Laws of the Land trampled under Foot, the Liberties and Rights of the English People subverted, and all that is Sacred and Civil, or of Regard amongst Men of Virtue or Piety, violated; and unless we could be willing to be Slaves as well as Papists, and forget the Example of our Noble and Generous Ancestors, who conveyed our Privileges to us at the Expence of their Blood and Treasure; and withal, be unmindful of our Duty to God, our Country and Posterity; deaf to the Cries and Groans of our oppressed Friends, and be satisfied not only to see them and our selves imprison'd, robb'd, and murdered, but the Pro∣testant Interest throughout the whole World, betrayed to France and Rome; we are bound, as Men and Christians, and that in Discharge of our Duty to God, and our Country, and for the Satisfaction of the Protestant Nations round about us, to betake our selves to Arms; which we take Heaven and Earth to witness, we should not have done, had not the Malice of our Enemies deprived us of all other Means of Redress; and were not the Miseries that we al∣ready feel, and those which do further threaten us, worse than the Calamities of War. And it is not for any personal Injuries, or private Dis∣contents, nor in pursuance of any corrupt In∣terest, Page ix that we take our Swords in our Hands; but for vindicating our Religion, Laws and Rights, and rescuing our Country from Ruin and Destruction, and for the preserving our selves, Wives and Children, from Bondage and Idolatry. Wherefore, before God, Angels and Men, we stand acquitted from, and do charge upon our Enemies, all the Slaughter and De∣vastations that unavoidably accompany inte∣stine War.'

' Now, therefore, we do hereby solemnly de∣clare and proclaim War against J. D. of Y. as a Murderer, and an Assassin of innocent Men, a Traytor to the Nation, and a Tyrant over the People: And we would have none that ap∣pear under his Banner to flatter themselves with Expectation of Forgiveness, it being our firm Resolution to prosecute him, and his Adhe∣rents, without giving Way to Treaties and Ac∣commodations, until we have brought him and them to undergo what the Rule of the Constitution, and the Statutes of the Realm, as well as the Laws of Nature, Scripture, and Nations, adjudge to be Punishment due to the Enemies of God, Mankind, their Country, and all Things that are Honourable, Virtuous, and Good.'

' And though we cannot avoid being sensible that too many have, from Cowardise, Cove∣tousness and Ambition, co-operated to the subverting of our Religion, and enslaving their Country; yet we would have none, from a Despair of finding Mercy, persevere in their Crimes, nor continue the Ruin of the King∣dom: For we exclude none from the Benefit of Repentance, that will join with us in retrie∣ving that they have been accessary to the Loss Page x of: Nor do we design Revenge upon any, but the obstinate, and such as shall be found at this Juncture yielding Aid and Assistance to the said J. D. of Y.'

' And that we may both govern our selves in the Pursuit of this glorious Cause wherein we are engaged, and give Encouragement to all that shall assist us in so righteous and necessary an Undertaking, we do, in the Presence of the Lord, who knoweth the Secrets of all Hearts, and is the Avenger of Deceit and Falshood, proclaim and publish what we aim at; and for the obtaining whereof, we have both determi∣ned to venture, and are ready to lay down our Lives. And though we are not come into the Field to introduce Anarchy and Confusion, or for laying aside any Part of the Old English Go∣vernment, yet our Purposes and Resolutions are, to reduce Things to that Temperament and Ballance, that future Rulers may remain able to do all the Good that can be either desi∣red or expected from them: and that it may not be in their Power to invade the Rights, and infringe the Liberties of the People.'

' And whereas our Religion, the most valua∣ble thing we lay claim unto, hath been shaken by unjust Laws, undermined by Popish Coun∣sels, and is now in Danger to be subverted, we are therefore resolved to spend our Blood for preserving it to our selves and Posterity: Nor will we lay down our Arms till we see it esta∣blished and secured beyond all Probability of being supplanted and overthrown, and until all the Penal Laws against all Protestant Dissenters be repealed, and legal Provision made against their being disturbed, by reason of their Consciences, and for their enjoying Page xi an equal Liberty with other Protestants.'

' And that the Meekness and Purity of our Principles, and the Moderation and Righte∣ousness of our End may appear unto all Men, we do declare, That we will not make War up∣on or destroy any for their Religion, how false and erroneous soever: So that the very Papists, provided they withdraw from the Tents of our Enemies, and be not found Guil∣ty of conspiring our Destruction, or Abettors of them that seek it, have nothing to fear or apprehend from us, except what may hinder their altering our Laws, and endangering our Persons in the Profession of the Reformed Do∣ctrine, and Exercise of our Christian Worship.'

' Our Resolution in the next Place is, To maintain all the just Rights and Privileges of Parliament, and to have Parliaments annually chosen and held, and not prorogued, dissolved, or discontinued within the Year, before Peti∣tions be first answered, and Grievances redres∣sed.'

' And seeing many of the Miseries under which the Nation doth groan, arise from dis∣placing such out of the Number of Judges as would not, for the promoting Popish and Ar∣bitrary Designs, wrest and misapply the Laws, and from constituting Corrupt and Mercenary Men in their Rooms, on purpose to stretch the Laws beyond the Reason and Intention of them; and to declare that for Law which is not; we can neither with Silence pass over the mention∣ing of them; nor should we have Peace in our selves, if we did not endeavour to prevent the like Mischief in Time to come. For by Reason of ill Men's being advanced to the Bench, and holding their Places only durante bene placito, Page xii many Persons have been condemned in exorbi∣tant Fines for no Crimes, or for very small ones: Many Statutes made for the Safety of the Subject, particularly the Habeas Corpus Act, have been wickedly eluded, to the Oppression of the Innocent and Loyal Men. The Popish Lords that were impeached in Parliament for a most hellish Conspiracy, have, to the sub∣verting the Rights of the House of Lords, been discharged, and set free. The imposing a Mayor and Sheriffs upon the City of London, by Fraud and Violence, have been justified, and those who in discharge of their Duty op∣posed it, illegally prosecuted, and arbitrarily punished. London, and other Cities and Cor∣porations, have been robbed of their Char∣ters, upon unrighteous Judgments of pretended Forfeitures. Sir Thomas Armstrong executed without being allowed the Benefit of a Tryal. Colonel Algernoon Sidney condemn'd to die up∣on the Deposition of one scandalous Witness. And that Loyal and Excellent Person, the late William Lord Russel, murthered for alledged Crimes; in reference to which, if all had been true which was sworn against him, yet there was nothing which according to Law could have reached his Life. Upon the Considera∣tions aforesaid, we further declare, that we will have Care taken for the future, for the debar∣ring ignorant, scandalous, and mercenary Men from the Administration of Justice; and that the Judges shall hold their Places by the anci∣ent Tenure of quam diu se bene gesserint; and to leave it to the Wisdom of a Parliament, to set∣tle some Way and Method for the Approbation of such as shall be advanced to the Degree and Dignity of Judges.'

Page xiii ' And forasmuch as the Invasion made on the Right of Cities, Burroughs, and Towns Cor∣porate; the Seisure of their Charters, whether by Surrender, or upon pretence of Forfeiture, have been wholly arbitrary and illegal; we likewise therefore declare, we will, to our ut∣most, endeavour to see them repossessed in what they formerly had, and could legally lay claim to; and that we do esteem all Judgments given against them, and all Surrenders made by a cor∣rupt and perjured Party amongst them, null and void in Law; and do hold and declare their old Charters, notwithstanding the new ones lately granted, to be good and valid: And ac∣cordingly we do invite and encourage all ho∣nest Burgesses and Free-men to re-assume the Rights and Privileges, which by Virtue of the said old Charters, belonged to their several and respective Corporations; and to deliver them∣selves from those late Parasites, and Instru∣ments of Tyranny set up to oppress them.'

' Moreover, for the restoring the Kingdom to its Primitive Condition of Freedom and Safety, we will have the Corporation and Militia Acts repealed: And all Outlawries of Treason against any Person whatsoever, upon the late pretend∣ed Portestant Plot, reversed; and also, all other Outlawries, Banishments, Warrants, Judg∣ments, Imprisonments, and injurious Proceed∣ings against any other Persons, upon any of the Penal Statutes made against Protestant Dis∣senters, made null and void. And we will have new Laws enacted for placing the Electi∣on of Sheriffs in the Freeholders of the several Countries, for settling the Militia in the several Shires, and for preventing all Military standing Forces, except what shall be raised and kept up Page xiv by Authority and Consent of Parliament.'

' And whereas several Gentlemen and others, who have been worthy and zealous Assertors of the Protestant Interest, and Laws of the Kingdom, are now in Custody in divers Places within the Realm, upon most unjust Accusati∣ons, Pretences, Proceedings and Judgments; we do hereby further declare the said Imprison∣ments to be illegal; and that in case any Vio∣lence shall be offered to them, or any of them, we will revenge it to the utmost upon such of our Enemies as shall fall into our Hands.'

' And whereas the said J. D. of Y. in order to the expenditing the Idolatrous and Bloody De∣signs of the Papists, the gratifying his own boundless Ambition after a Crown, and to hin∣der Enquiry into the Assassination of Arthur Earl of Essex, hath poyson'd the late King, and thereby manifested his Ingratitude, as well as Cruelty to the World, in murthering a Brother who had almost ruin'd himself to preserve and protect him from Punishment; We do there∣fore further declare, That for the aforesaid villanous and unnatural Crime, and other his Crimes before mentioned, and in pursuance of the Resolution of both House of Parliament, who voted to revenge the King's Death, in case he came to an untimely End, we will prose∣cute the said J. D. of Y. till we have brought him to suffer what the Law adjudged to be the Punishment of so execrable a Fact.'

' And in a more particular manner, His Grace the Duke of Manmouth, being sensible of the barbarous and horried Parricide committed upon his Father, doth resolve to pursue the said J. D. of Y. as a mortal and bloody Enemy; and will endeavour, as well with his own Hand, as Page xv by the Assistance of his Friends, and the Law, to have Justice executed upon him.'

' And the said James Duke of Monmouth, the now Head and Captain-General of the Prote∣stant Forces in this Kingdom, assembled for the End aforesaid, from the Generousness of his own Nature, and the Love he bears to these Nations, whose Welfare and Settlement he in∣finitely prefers to whatsoever concerns himself, doth not at present insist upon his Title, but leaves the Determination thereof to the Wis∣dom, Justice, and Authority of a Parliament legally chosen, and acting with Freedom; and in the mean time doth profess and declare, by all that is sacred, That he will, in Conjun∣ction with the People of England, employ all the Abilities bestowed upon him by God and Nature, for the Re-establishment and Preserva∣tion of the Protestant Reformed Religion in these Kingdoms, and for restoring the Subjects of the same to a free Exercise thereof, in Op∣position to Popery, and the Consequences of it, Tyranny and Slavery. To the obtaining of which End, he doth hereby Promise and Ob∣lige himself to the People of England, to con∣sent unto, and promote the passing into Laws all the Methods aforesaid; that it may never more be in the Power of any single Person on the Throne, to deprive their Subjects of their Rights, and to subvert the Fundamental Laws of the Government design'd for their Preservation.'

' And whereas the Nobility and Gentry, and Commons of Scotland, are now in Arms upon the like Motives and Inducements that we are, and in Prosecution of Ends agreeable with ours, we do therefore approve the Justice of their Cause, com∣mend their Zeal and Courage, expecting their, Page xvi and promising our Assistance, for carrying on that Glorious Work we are jointly engaged in; being obliged, avoiding Tediousness, to omit the recounting many Oppressions under which that Kingdom hath groaned, and the giving a De∣duction of the several Steps that have been ta∣ken for introducing of Popery and Tyranny. We think fit, therefore, to signifie both to our Coun∣try-men and Foreigners, that we intend a larger Testimony and Remonstrance of the Grievances, Persecutions, Cruelties and Tyrannies, we have of late lain under; and therein a full and more particular Account of the unparallel'd Crimes of the D. of Y. And we make our Appeal unto GOD, and all Protestant Kings, Princes, States, and People, concerning the Justice of our Cause, and the Necessity we are reduced unto of ha∣ving our Recourse to Arms. And as we do be∣seech, require and adjure all sincere Protestants, and true English Men, to be assisting to us against the Enemies of the Gospel, Rights of the Na∣tion, and Liberties of Mankind; so we are con∣fident of obtaining the utmost Aid and Succour which they can yield us with their Prayers, Persons, and Estates, for the dethroning the said Tyrant, &c. Nor do we doubt being justi∣fied, countenanced, and assisted by all Prote∣stant Kings, Princes, and Common-wealths, who either regard the Gospel of Jesus Christ, or their own Interest. And above all, our De∣pendance and Trust is upon the Lord of Hosts, in whose Name we go forth, and to whom we commit our Cause, and refer the Decision be∣twixt us and our Enemies in the Day of Battle. Now let us play the Men for our People, and for the Cities of our GOD; and the Lord do that which seemeth good unto him.'

Page xvii

A DECLARATION of Archibald, Earl of Argyle, Lord Kintyre, Cowall, Campbell and Lorn, He∣ritable Sheriff, and Lieutenant of the Shires of Argyle and Tarbette, and Heritable Justice General of the said Shires.

' I Shall not publish my Case published alrea∣dy in Print, in Latin, and in Dutch, and more largely in English; nor mean I to repeat the printed Declaration emitted by several No∣blemen, Gentlemen, and others of both Nati∣ons now in Arms, because the Sufferings of me and my Family, are therein mention'd. I have thought it fit for me to declare for my self, that as I go to Arms with those who have appointed me to conduct them, for no private and personal End, only for those contained in the said Declaration, which I have concerted with them, and approved of; so I do claim no Interest, but what I had before the Pretended Forfeiture of my Family, and have a sufficient Right to.'

' And that I do freely (and as a Christian) forgive all personal Injuries against my Person and Family, to all that shall not oppose, but join and concur with us in our present Under∣taking, for the Ends mentioned in the said De∣claration; and hereby I oblige my self never to pursue them in Judgment, nor out of Judgment. And I do further declare, That obtaining the Page xviii quiet and peaceable Possession of what belong'd to my Father and my self, before our pretend∣ed Forfeitures, I shall satisfy all Debts due by my Father and my self, as any Heir or Debtor can be obliged.'

' And as my Faithfulness to his late Majesty, and his Government; hath sufficiently appear'd to all unbyassed Persons, void of Malice, so I do with Grief acknowledge my Fault in too much complying with, and conniving at the Methods that have been taken to bring us to the sad Condition we are now in, though God knows never concurring in the Design.'

' I have now with God's Strength suffer'd pa∣tiently my unjust Sentence and Banishment 3 Years and half, and have never offered to make any Uproar, or Defence by Arms, to disturb the Peace upon my private Concern; but the King being now dead, and the Duke of York having taken off his Mask, and abandoned and invaded our Religion and Liberties, resolving to enter into the Government, and exercising it contrary to Law, I think it not only just, but my Duty to God and my Country, to use my utmost Endeavours to oppose and redress his Usurpations and Tyranny.'

' And therefore being assisted and furnished very nobly by several good Protestants, and in∣vited and accompanied by several of both Na∣tions to lead them, I resolve, as God shall ena∣ble me, to use their Assistance of all Kinds, towards the Ends exprest in the said Declaration.'

' And I do hereby earnestly Invite and Obtest all honest Protestants, and particularly all my Friends, and Blood Relations, to concur with us in the said Declaration; and as I have writ∣ten several Letters, so having no other Way Page xix fully to intimate my Mind otherwise, I do hereby require all my Vassals any where, and all within my several Jurisdictions, with their fencible Men within their Command, to go to Arms, and to join and concur with us accord∣ing to the said Declaration, as they shall be an∣swerable at their Peril; and that they obey the particular Orders they shall receive from me, from Time to come.'

By these 'tis plain that those unfortunate Lords, and others who join'd them, took up Arms in Defence of our Religion and Liberties, which were then invaded, and as it afterwards appear'd, were design'd to be totally subverted.

But the present Rebellion is rais'd in Oppositi∣on to our Laws for maintaining the Protestant Succession, and British Liberties, which James II. had destroy'd as far as he cou'd, and wou'd in all Probability have compleated the Ruin of them, had not God by a wonderful Turn of Providence spirited the Nations to call in the Prince of Orange to their Rescue. Nor would the Pretender have fail'd to prosecute the same wicked Designs which had been set on Foot by his supposed Fa∣ther; as will appear by his Declaration publish'd at Perth, as follows;

The Pretender's Declaration.

' JAmes VIII. by the Grace of God, of Scotland, England, France and Ireland, King, Defen∣der of the Faith, &c.

to all Our Loving Sub∣jects, of what Degree or Quality soever, Greet∣ing.

As we are firmly resolved never to lose any Opportunity of asserting Our undoubted Page xx Title to the Imperial Crown of these Realms, and of endeavouring to get the Possession of that Right which is devolved upon Us by the Laws of God and Man; so must We, in Justice to the Sentiments of Our own Heart, declare, That nothing in the World can give Us so great Satisfaction, as to owe to the Endeavours of Our Loyal Subjects both Our own and their Restoration to that happy Settlement which can alone deliver this Church and Nation from the Calamities which they lie at present under, and from these future Miseries which must be the Consequences of the present Usurpation. During the Life of Our dear Sister, of Glorious Memory, the Happiness which our People enjoyed, softened, in some Degree, the Hard∣ship of our own Fate; and we must further confess that when we reflected on the Good∣ness of her Nature, and her Inclination to Ju∣stice, We could not but perswade Our self, that she intended to establish and perpetuate the Peace which she had given to these Kingdoms, by destroying for ever all Competition to the Succession of the Crown, and by consenting to us, at last, the Enjoyment of that Inheri∣tance out of which we had been so long kept, which her Conscience must inform Her was our Due, and which her Principles must lead her to desire, that We might obtain. But since the Time, it pleased God to put a Period to her Life, and not to suffer Us to throw Our self, as We then firmly purposed to have done, upon Our People; We have not been able to look upon the present Condition of Our Kingdoms, or to consider their future Prospect, without all the Horror and Indignation which ought to fill the Breast of every Scotsman. We have be∣held Page xxi a Foreign Family, Aliens to our Country, distant in Blood, and Strangers even to our Language, ascend the Throne. We have seen the Reins of Government put into the Hands of a Faction, and that Authority which was de∣sign'd for the Protection of all, exercised by a few of the worst, to the Oppression of the best and greatest Number of Our Subjects. Our Sister has not been left at Rest in her Grave, her Name has been scurrilously abused, her Glory, as far as in these People lay, inso∣lently defaced, and her faithful Servants inhu∣manly persecuted. A Parliament has been pro∣cured by the most unwarrantable Influences, and by the grossest Corruptions to serve the vilest Ends, and they, who ought to be the Guardians of the Liberties of the People, are become the Instruments of Tyranny: Whilst the principal Powers engaged in the late Wars, do enjoy the Blessings of Peace, and are atten∣tive to discharge their Debts, and ease their People; Great Britain, in the midst of Peace, feels all the Load of War. New Debts are contracted, new Armies are raised at Home, Dutch Forces are brought into these King∣doms, and by taking Possession of the Dutchy of Bremen, in Violation of the Publick Faith, a Door is opened by the Usurper, to let in an Inundation of Foreigners from abroad, and to reduce these Nations to the State of a Province, to one of the most inconsiderable Provinces of the Empire.'

' These are some few of the many real Evils into which these Kingdoms have been betray∣ed, under Pretence of being rescued and se∣cured from Dangers purely imaginary; and these are such Consequences of abandoning Page xxii the old Constitution, as we perswade Our selves very many of those who promoted the present unjust and illegal Settlement never intended.'

' We observe, with the utmost Satisfaction, that the Generality of Our Subjects are awa∣ken'd with a just Sense of their Danger, and that they shew themselves resolv'd to take such Measures as may effectually rescue them from that Bondage which has, by the Artifice of a few designing Men, and the Concurrence of ma∣ny unhappy Causes, been brought upon them.'

' We adore the Wisdom of Divine Provi∣dence, which has opened a Way to our Resto∣ration, by the Success of those very Measures that were laid to disappoint Us for ever: And We must earnestly conjure all Our Loving Subjects, not to suffer that Spirit to faint or die away, which has been so miraculously rai∣sed in all Parts of our Kingdom; but to pursue, with all the Vigour and Hopes of Success, which so Just and Righteous a Cause ought to inspire, those Methods, which the Finger of God seems to point out to them.'

' We are coming to take Our Part in all the Dangers and Difficulties to which any of Our Subjects, from the Greatest down to the Mean∣est, may be exposed, on this important Occa∣sion, to relieve our Subjects in Scotland from the Hardships they groan under, on account of the late unhappy Union; and to restore the Kingdom to its Ancient, Free, and Indepen∣dent State. We have before our Eyes the Ex∣ample of Our Royal Grandfather, who sell a Sacrifice to Rebellion; and of Our Royal Un∣cle, who, by a Train of Miracles, escaped the Rage of Barbarous and Blood-thirsty Rebels, and lived to exercise his Clemency towards those Page xxiii who had waged War against his Father and himself; who had driven him to seek Shelter in Foreign Lands, and who had even set a Price upon his Head.'

' We see the same Instances of Cruelty renew∣ed against Us, by Men of the same Principles, without any other Reason, than the Conscious∣ness of their own Guilt, and the implacable Ma∣lice of their own Hearts: For in the Account of such Men, it's a Crime sufficient to be their King; but God forbid that we should tread in these Steps, or that the Cause of a Lawsul Prince, and an Injuried People, should be carried on like that of Tyranny and Usurpation, and owe its Support to Assassins. We shall copy after the Patterns above-mentioned, and be ready with the former of Our Royal Ancestors, to Seal the Cause of our Country, if such be the Will of Heaven, with Our Blood: But we hope for better Things, we hope for the latter, to see our just Rights, and those of the Church and People of Scotland, once more settled in a Free and Independent Scots Parliament, on their an∣cient Foundation; to such a Parliament, which we will immediately call, shall we entirely re∣fer Our, and their Interests, being sensible that these Interests rightly understood, are always the same: Let the Civil, as well as Religious Rights of all our Subjects, receive a Confirma∣tion in such a Parliament; let Consciences tru∣ly tender be indulged; let Property of every Kind be better than ever secured; let an Act of General Grace and Amnesty, extinguish the Faults, even of the most Guilty; if possible, let the very Remembrance of all which have preceeded this happy Moment, be utterly blot∣ted out, that our Subjects may be united to Us, Page xxiv and to each other, in the strictest Bonds of Af∣fection, as well as Interest.'

' And that nothing may be omitted, which is in Our Power to contribute to this desirable End; we do, by these Presents, absolutely and effectually, for Us, Our Heirs and Suc∣cessors, Pardon, Remit and Discharge all Crimes of High-Treason, Misprision of Trea∣son, and all other Crimes and Offences what∣soever done or committed against Us, or Our Royal Father of blessed Memory, by any of Our Subjects, of what Degree or Quality soever, who shall, at, or after Our Landing, and before they engage in any Action against Us, or Our For∣ces, from that Time, lay hold on Mercy, and return to that Duty and Allegiance they owe to Us, their only Rightful and Lawful Sovereign.'

' By the joint Endeavours of Us and Our Par∣liament, urged by these Motives, and directed to these Views, we may hope to see the Peace and Flourishing Estate of this Kingdom, in a short Time restor'd; and we shall be equally forward to concert with our Parliament such further Measures as may be thought necessary for leaving the same to future Generations.'

' And we hereby require all Sheriffs of Shires, Stewarts of Stewartries, and their Deputies, and Magistrates of Burghs, to publish this Our Declaration, immediately after it shall come to their Hands, in the usual Place and Man∣ner, under the Pain of being proceeded against for Failure thereof, and forfeiting the Benefit of our General Pardon.'

Given under Our Sign-Manual and Privy-Sig∣net at Our Court at Commercy, the 25th Day of October, in the 15th Year of Our Reign.

Page xxv It is to be observed, That the Declarations by the Duke of Monmouth, and the Earl of Argyle, insist on such Acts of Tyranny committed by James II. as all the World knew to be true, whereas the Pretender, and those who have now rebell'd for the Support of his Claim, have no such Thing to charge upon King GEORGE, but traiterously misrepresent the legal Methods which he has taken, with Consent of Parliament, for the Defence of our Religion and Liberties, and retrieving the Honour of the Nation, on purpose to inflame the High-Church Mob.

It also deserves a Remark, that tho' the Duke of Monmouth was so weak as to be prevail'd on by the Importunity of those who join'd him, to take the Title of King, yet he did not posi∣tively assert this Title to the Crown in his Decla∣ration, but left it to be Determined by Parlia∣ment; whereas King James II. never offer'd to submit the Examination of the Pretender's Birth to a Parliament, to whom the Prince of Orange referr'd it, but on the contrary, abandon'd the Kingdom, with his Queen, the Pretender, and all the material Witnesses, as if he had been con∣scious to himself, that such an Examination wou'd have fully discover'd the Cheat. Nor has the Pretender offer'd to make any Proof of his Le∣gitimacy, or even to give such a feign'd Secu∣rity for our Religion and Liberties as James II. did, but on the contrary did absolutely refuse the Scots Coronation Oath that was in Force be∣fore the Union of the Crowns, because it oblig'd him to maintain the Protestant Religion, as esta∣blish'd in that Nation in the Reign of Mary Queen of Scots, and confirm'd by her Son James VI. of Scotland, and the First of Great Britain.

Page xxvi This is enough to shew the Difference betwixt the Causes of the Rebellion against King James II. and that against King GEORGE; and tho' the latter has been much more universal and for∣midable than the other, it will appear by the following Accounts, that the Proceedings against the present Rebels, have been kept within the due Bounds of Law, and temper'd with great Clemency, whereas those against the Rebels in the Time of James II. did not only exceed Law, but were carred on with such Barbarity as is shocking to Human Nature.

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AN ACCOUNT OF THE PROCEEDINGS Against the Rebels, and other Prisoners, IN THE WEST.

* ALice Lisle, Widow, indicted for harbouring John Hicks, a Rebel, &c. tried, found Guilty, and executed.

Convicted for speaking se∣ditious Words, seve∣rally fin'd and whipt.

Wilts, ss. For High-Treason none Indicted.

RIchard White,
William Ingram,
Stephen Moore,
John Palmer,
Morrice Morgan,
Benjamin Buckler,

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Dorset, ss. Prisoners executed for High Treason. In all Seventy four.

SAmuel Hilliard
Matthew Bragg
Benjamin Gray
Thomas Smith
Henry Ford
John Game
Joseph Speed
George Seaward
Joh. Foane, alias Fawne
Phillip Levermore
Robert Pinney
John Wills
Thomas Welch
Abraham Holmes
Josias Ascue
William Hewling
Leonard Jackson
John Haves
John Kidd
John Marders
Sampson Larke
Christoph. Bettescombe
Samuel Glisson
Henry Watts
Robert Bull
John Bull
Benjamin Sandford
John Lee
William Quintin
Thomas Clapp
〈◊〉 Cooke
George Collyer
John Beaumont, sen.
Thomas Forte
John Beavis
Tristram Elliott
Robert Slade
William Lancaster
John Burridge
John Hartley
George Smith
George Willmott
John Robins
Edward Leggatt
Roger Satchell
William Harte
John Leggatt
Francis Skinner
William Alston
George Puckeridge
Benjamin Temple
Thomas Tyler
Robert Machell
Henry Rowe
John Lawrence
Michael Abbott
Richard Hall
John Savage
Robert Whorwood
William Dilling
Andrew Tozer
William Hardiman
Page 3 Thomas Jenkins
Robert Salter
Samuel Waldron
John Pulling
Andrew Ellis, alias Cos∣sens
Josias Restorick
William Martin
Nicholas Hoare
Samuel Robins
William Cox, sen.
John Holloway
Adam Hawley

Dorset, ss. Prisoners convicted for High Treason, to be delivered to Sir William Booth, to be Transported, being in all One Hundred.

EDward Luther
John Downe
Benjamin Crow
Thomas Bennett
John Fisher
John Manning
Robert Lumbard
William Wadford
Richard Keech
George Plumley
Thomas Allen
John Reason
John Spearing
Matthew Porter
Robert Spurway
John Edwards
John Hardyman
Bernard Bryant
John Minifie
John White
James Pomeroy
Robert Shale
Thomas Hore
Peter Row
John Loveridge
Elias Stephens
John Bridle
Thomas Parsons
Nicholas Palmer
Thomas Williams
Matthew Hutchins
Nicholas Smith
Emanuel Collins
Roger Hobbs
John Gay
Joseph Hallett
Nathaniel Webber
Edward Morton
James Salter
William Loveridge
Ambrose Ashford
Roger French
Page 4 Nicholas Warren
William Wills
John Pryor
William Tucker
William Browne
Samuel Lawrence
John Hutchins
William Clarke
John Browne
Robert Burridge
Henry Tutcher
Thomas Burridge
John Allambridge
Thomas Cornelius
Humfrey Molton
Edward Willmott
William Williams
Thomas Marshall
Richard Paull
Joseph Paull
Hugh Willmott
John Johnson
Richard Allens
John Pitts
Stephen Gammage
Andrew Rapson
William Cossens
Jasper Diamond
Thomas Gregory
John Allen
Robert Hellyer
Thomas Allen
Thomas Best
Thomas Hellyer
John Long
William Bennett
John Markes
John Mitchell
John Madders
Thomas Hallett
John Alston
George Macey
John Pinney
Charles Strong
William Feade
William Saunders
James Spence
John Wilson
Edward Adams
John Adams
Arthur Lush
John Hutchins
Thomas Townsend
Thomas Bovett
John Truren
James Fowler
John White
Francis Langbridge

Dorset, ss. Prisoners to be transported, to be deli∣vered to Jerome Nipho, in all 62.

JOhn Mogridge
Thomas Quick
Nicholas Salter
Francis Smith
Richard Greene
William Marthers
Page 5 John Facey
William Greenway
Richard Daniel
Peter Kent
Christopher Jewell
Abraham Thomas
John Baker
Samuel Prison
Robert Clarke
George Ebdon
Samuel Dolbeare
Benjamin Whicker
John Whicker
John Hitchcock
Thomas Forcey
William Giles
Joseph Gage
Robert Mullins
Robert Bryant, alias Hooper
Charles Broughton
Richard Parker
John Hayne
John Connet
Bernard Lowman
John Heathfield
Edward Ven
Richard Pyne
Thomas Pester
John Sam
Henry Symes
William Deale
William Haynes
Thomas Francklyn
William Gappy
Mallachy Mallack, re∣prieved
Azariah Pinney
John Bovett
Robert Sandy
Thomas Dolling
Edward Marsh
John Eastmont
John Vincent
Allen England
Robert Vater
John Piew
Oliver Hobbs
Phillip Cox
Peter Ticken
William Clarke
Walter Osborne, repr.
Richard Hoare
Robert Fawne
Bartholomew Barge
Daniel Parker
Edward Wale
Peter Bagwell

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Dorset, ss. Prisoners to be delivered to Sir Chri∣stopher Musgrave for Transporta∣tion, &c. 16.

THomas England
Francis Pucket
William Combden
John Lock
John Gardiner
William Lush
John Sturrick
Samuel Paull
Robert White
John Woodward
William Sellwood
John Shinler
Matthew Elliott
John James, alias Jeane
John Sprake
John Bagwell

Dorset, ss. Prisoners who had Certificates allow'd pursuant to his Majesty's Gracious Proclamation, 27.

RIchard Dammer
John Butcher, ju∣nior
Seth Gough
Phillip Andrewes
John Bowditch
John Burridge
William Knight
Jacob Baker
Samuel Stoodley
George Rickman
Richard Burridge
James Pitts
Nicholas Hellyer
William Hardy
Thomas Calway
William White
Samuel Cossens
Nicholas Bartlett
John Butcher, senior
Daniel Butter
John Perkins
Adam Clarke
Robert Halston
Richard Stone
David Gardiner
William Rooper
John Rooper

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Dorset, ss. Prisoners humbly proposed for his Ma∣jesty's gracious Pardon, 25.

THomas Gammidge
Stephen Cook
Nathaniel Swasfield
Reginold Clotworthy
Abel Pinnell
John Beaumont, junior
John Glover
John Trottle
Joseph Phelpes
Zachary Drower
George Stuckey
Amos Lacey
Robert Dale
Edward Towills
Edward Lane
Andrew Billing
Thomas Cookeney
Henry Beasley
Thomas Moore
Thomas Greenway, ju∣nior
John Skinner
John Hippesley
Humfrey Phelpes
Thomas Berry
John Minifie

Dorset, ss. Prisoners remaining in Custody, 6.

EDward Wale
Bartholom. Barge
Thomas Lawrence
William Cox, junior
Richard Cox
William Hawkins

Dorset, ss. Prisoners convicted for speaking scanda∣lous Words, and for other Misdemea∣nors, fined, and had corporal Punish∣ment.

RIchard Hollyday, for conducting the Lord Gray from Gillingham to Ringwood, after the Fight at Weston, to be whip'd twice, fin'd a Mark, and to find Sureties for the good Behaviour for a Year.
Page 8 Hugh Green, for publishing Monmouth's Declara∣tion, fined 1000 l. and committed till paid, and to find Sureties for the good Behaviour during Life.
William Wiseman, for publishing a seditious Libel, to be whipt at Dorchester, and at every Market Town in the Country.
For speaking seditious Words, severally fined and whipt.
- Edward Jervis,
- William Holman,
- Henry Allen,
- Thomas Pitts,
- John Dober,
- Richard Moores,

Dorset, ss. Prisoners discharged for want of Evi∣dence.

GAbriel Wise
Robert Boulstone
Richard Stronge
John Stronge
Francis Greenfield
James Carter
George Turner
Thomas Loveridge
Edward Staple
John Mitchell
William Burt
William Bennett
Nicholas Clotworthy
John Mitchell
Hugh Critchell

Dorset, ss. Prisoners continued in Goal not indicted.

WIlliam Jenkins
Richard Platt
William Platt
Robert Orchard
Thomas Parberv
Lionel Whiffen
John Davy
John Hart
William Davys

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Devon, ss. Prisoners executed at Exeter for High-Treason, 14 in all.

JOhn Foweracres
Thomas Hobbs
John Oliver
Henry Knight
Samuel Potts
John Knowles
William Parsons
Thomas Quinten
Thomas Broughton
John Gosling
John Sprake
William Clegg
John Rosse
Tim. Dunkin, repriev'd

Devon, ss. Prisoners to be transported for High-Treason, for whom a Warrant is de∣livered to Jerome Nipho, 7 in all.

ABraham Hunt
Christ. Cooper
Edmond Bovett
John Follett
Peter Bird
John Kemplin
Walter Teape, repr.

Devon, ss. Prisoners convicted remaining in Custody.

RObert Drower, re∣prieved
William Siller, junior
Elias Holman, reprieved
Thomas Connett

Humbly proposed for His Majesty's Gra∣cious Pardon.

JAmes Cox

For speaking seditious Words severally fined, and whip'd.

Page 10Devon, ss. Prisoners fined at Exeter for Words, and other Misdemeanors, 13.

LEwis James,
William Andrigge,
Samuel Staple,
William Fisher,
William Hadder
Stephen Burrough,
William Curtis,
Henry Abbott,
John Holmes
Humfrey Bidgood,
Robert Crane,
Giles Gardiner,
John Smalridge,

Somerset, ss. Taunton Prisoners to be executed for High-Treason, who were convicted at Taunton, 145.

SImon Hamlyn
William Cooper
William Gatchell
John D•yer
James Gale
Henry Edney
Hugh Ashley
John Herring
William Gillett
Thomas Lissant
John Sharpe
William Pocock
Pearce Morren
Christopher Stephens
George Condick
Robert Allen
John Fricker
Robert Hill
Richard Bovett
John Hucker
Nicholas Adams
Richard Stephens
Robert Halsewell
John Bussell
Page 11 Thomas Blackmore
WIlliam Lashley
John Walrond
John Masters
David Langwell
Osmond Barrett
Matthew Crosse
Edmond Burford
John Mortimore
John Stephens
Richard Culverwell
Robert Townsend
Humfrey Mitchell
Merrick Thomas
Nicholas Collins, senior
Edmond Fort
Jos. Bellamy, reprieved
Francis Foxwell
George Pitcher
Barnaby Devericks
Francis Priest
Barnard Thatcher
William Johnson
Thomas England
Thomas Hurford
John Savage
William Davison
John Williams
Edmond Gillard
Jonathan England
Oliver Powell
Charles Chappell
Richard Bowdon
Roger Prance
John Pattrum
William Watkins
John Spore
Roger Burnell
William Pether
Joseph Kellaway
Benjamin Hewling
William Jenkins
Henry Lisle
John Winter
Andrew Rownsell
John Phildrey
Robert Perratt
Abraham Annesley
Arthur Mathews
Robert Fawne
Weston Hillary
John Burgen
Philip Bovett
Peter Warren
James Whetham
William Ruscombe
Cornelius Hurford
John Parsons
Thomas Davys
William Satchell
Humfrey Peirce
Nicholas Venting
Thomas Peirce
Robert Read
John Sellwood
Robert Combe
John Jeanes
William Sully
John Basely
John Lloyd
Henry Thompson
George Gillard
John Lockston
Arthur Williams
Page 12 Rob. Janes, alias Evans
Hugh Starke
Francis Bartlett
John Trecky
Simon Hawkins
Robert Hyne
Archibald Johnson
James Maxwell
Richard Ingram
John Trott
Roger Guppy
John Knight
Isaiah Davvs
William Williams
John Jervis
Richard Sweet
Richard Ash
Samuel Garnish
William Mogridge
John Hurman
Hugh Rooper, reprieved
Richard Harris
Nicholas Stodgell
Henry Luckwell
Humfrey Hitchcocke
William Godfrey
Abraham Pill
William Davy
Henry Eastabrooke
James Every
James Durnett
Edward Warren
Simon Crosse
Stephen Newman
Robert Luckis
William Rock
Thomas Barnard
William Wellen
John Parsons
Joh. Glover, alias Tucker
Thomas Trock
Lewis Harris
Edward Halsewell
John Evans
Howell Thomas
George Baddy
Henry Lawrence

Somerset, ss. Prisoners to be delivered to Sir Chri∣stopher Musgrave for Transporta∣tion, 84.

William Edwards
James Combes
John Hooper
John Smith
Bernard Periam
Robert Shoesmith
John Trimmore
Jacob King
John Pope
Thomas Whittye
William Hayes
Josias Hart
Walter Blew
John Gardiner
Page 13 Robert Barge
Edward Lugg
John Furber
John Lyde
Thomas Cutler
William Hooper
Henry Hooper
Elisha Davys
Richard Lang
Thomas Bray
Thomas Adams
William Goodland
Alexander Townsend
John Hensley
Samuel Hensley
Isaac Kingston
William Row
Hugh Gill
James Glanvill
Henry Wrentmore
Thomas Crosse
John Hoare
Tobias Dryer
William Bayly
Richard Masters
John Gibbs
William Spreate
William Croft
John Hacker, jun.
Robert Bradbeare
Joseph Lacey
Nathaniel Musgrave
Thomas Curtis
William Page
Robert Mead
Samuel Saxbee
John Fowler, sen.
John Fowler, jun.
Richard Perkins
Humfrey Slade
William Venting
William Tapscott
Benjamin Sparke
Bartholomew Davy
Robert Brookes
William Norman
Andrew Boyte
John Grace
James Soper
Thomas Howell
Peter Shorland
George Ley
Humfrey Saunders
John Butfeild
Samuel Tottell
Edward Eves
Thomas Debnam
Thomas Hendy
Giles Crane
Walter Phillips
Richard Drake
Matthew Pottle
George Robertson
John Metyard
Henry Hamett
James Gollop
William Bull
Andrew Nabrick
George Smith
Thomas Markes

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Prisoners to be delivered to the Queen's Order for Transportation, 100.

DAniel Rutter
Jeremiah Poole
John Baker
Robert Pearce
Leonard Staple
Edward Kent
Charles Bennett
John Parsons
John Gibbs
John Bryor
Thomas Gould
John Hartey
William Pitts
James Webb
Nicholas Collins, jun.
Richard King
Emanuel Marchant
William Marchant
John Slade
Samuel Bond
John Rogers
Barnard Loveridge
Percival Nowis
William Saunders
William Verryard
Henry Chambers
Thomas Rowsewell
John Crane
Charles Burridge
William Leigh
John Robins
Luke Porter
Thomas Priest
Cornelius Radford
Phillip Cheeke
Robert Earle
John Mogridge
Henry Randall
James Maynard
John Culverwell
George Trubbs
Silvester Lyde
Matthew Cooke
William Phelpes
Elias Lockbeare
Silvester Poole
Thomas Moore
Lawrence Priest
William Gould
Henry Priest
Enoch Gould
John Bennett
John Baker
Samuel Mountstephen
Thomas Buglar
Stephen Jeffreyes
John Morse
William Scurrier
John England
Jacob Powell
John Godsall
John Andrewes
Page 15 Samuel Sweeting
George Rowsell
Edward Bellamy
William Crosse
Jonas Browne
John Crosse
Christopher Knight
Thomas Meade
John Needs
Thomas Pitt
Robert Richards
Christopher Row
Matthew Craft, jun.
Richard Peircy
John Miller
George Snow
Samuel Collins
John Cockram
James Cockram
Christopher Holbyn
John Marwood
John Timothy
Thomas Austin
Moses Osborne
Walter Hacker
Randal Babington
John Knight
Job Hunt
William Woodcock
John Adams
Thomas Pomfrett
James Patten
Thomas Bambury
James Clift
John Chamberlyn
Humfrey Justin
Isaack Dyer
Richard Symons

Dorset, ss. Prisoners at Taunton convicted of High Treason, to be transported by Sir William Booth, 100.

RIchard Stephens
Richard Edgar
Charles Lucas
George Gray
John Bartlett
John Stoodley
Robert Paull
Robert Mitchell
John Gale
Bartholomew Randall
John Rogers
William Hayne
William Barnard
Thomas Matthews
Henry Meyor
John Bressett
Richard Allen
John Poole
Page 16 John Burges
John Farmer
Richard Bickham
Henry Gibbons
John Busson
George Nowell
Morris Furse, alias Vosse
Humfrey Trump
John Warren
George Warren
Humfrey Pope
Osmond Read
Henry Quant
William Burroughs
William Daw
William Parker
Robert Sease
Thomas Middleton
James Helman
John Bray
Ambrose Winter
Lawrence Hussey
Robert Seaman
Edward Lyde
John Chappel
Robert Easton
John Walter
Thomas Brock
George Mullens
Daniel Pomeroy
Jeremiah Atkins
Samuel Proone
John Edwards
George Mihill
William Drew
Thomas Dennis
John Avoake
William Tiverton
Joseph Vinicott
John Seymore
John Leaker
Simon Poole
John Wall
Richard Wadham
Stephen Rodway
Francis Came
Michael Powell
John Kerle
Thomas Galhampton
George Carrow
Abraham Pollard
John Budge
William Harvey
William Hall
William Phippen
John Chilcot
Robert Coward
John Cantlebury
William Woolridge
William Smith
John Smith
William Meade
George Keell
Edward Councell
Joseph Wickham
John Harris
Justinian Guppy
William Combe
James Baker
Thomas Gammage
William Walter
Robert Teap
Timothy Hawker
William Smith
Page 17 Jos. Newberry, reprieved
John Smith
John Cloade
Jonas Crosse
John Bragg
William Hutchins
John Mitchell
Edward Vildey

Somerset, ss. Taunton. Prisoners (who had Certificates pursuant to his Majesty's Proclamation, which were allowed) to be pardoned, 20.

RAymond Quire
Joseph Quire
Richard Irish, jun.
Joseph Sminney
Richard Gill
John browne
John Irish
Robert Dunne
George Lumbard
Thomas Lumbard
Thomas Sminney
Joseph Irish
Francis Deane
Samuel Newberry
James Norman
John Hagley
Osmond Burbidge
Richard Gornelius
John Sminney, jun.
John Prickman

Somerset, ss. Taunton. Prisoners humbly proposed to his Maje∣jesty for his Gracious Pardon, 23.

RObert Fulford
William Farmer
William Coleburne
Daniel Norcott
Thomas Reeves
Benjamin Nott
Henry Reeves
Thomas Worrall
William Court
Abraham Hull
William Saunders
Henry Hodges
Francis Jervis
Thomas Crew
Thomas Gooding
William Moggeridge
John Dutch
John Keell
Robert Dyer
Richard Reynolds
Thomas Bartlett
John Gray
William Reeves

Page 18

Somerset, ss. Taunton. Prisoners in Goal omitted in the War∣rant for Execution, altho' designed to be executed, 15.

JOseph Cooper
John Bates
Samuel Dare
George Miller
James Smith
Edward Way
John Chapple
John Rossiter
Gideon Dare
John Satchell
John Pacey
William Sherborne
Henry Webb
Thomas Redwood
Alegen Leversedge

Taunton. Prisoners remaining in Goal till further Order, 33.

GEorge Wells
Samuel Harvey
Robert Clarke
John Ham
James Indoe
Samuel Adams
John Turle
James Turle
John Northam
Thomas Bagley
Stephen Hellman
James Ferring
John G••…ing
Moses Waggstaffe
Robert Hampton
Richard Edghill
Francis Gardiner
Robert Jenkins
Tobias Hacker
Thomas Clarke
Daniel Hallett
Thomas Parsons
Lewis Hagley
William Martyn
James Edmonds
William Searle
John Bisse
Roger Caswell
William Baker
Humfrey Gillard
Thomas Cornish
William Reives
John Mead

Page 19

Prisoners bailed at Taunton.

RIchard Tirrill
William Whaites

Somerset ss. Wells. Prisoners to be executed for High-Treason, 100.

WAlter Baker
Henry Body
Jerrard Bryant
Thomas Collins
Thomas Clotworthy
John Carter
Robert Cooke
Edward Cruse
John Caswell
Thomas Heyward
John Hellyer
Edward Keare
Henry Partridge
George Petter
Thomas Peirce
John Richards
John Staple
John Smith
Francis Smith
Samuel Vill, alias Vile
Thomas Warr
Phillip Usher
Richard Evans
John Tincknell
Robert Beamont
Hugh Goodenough
John Humfreys
George Hussey
Robert Man
William Mangell
Thomas Paul
John Scarr
Lawrence Lott
Thomas Lott
James Feild, sen.
Humfrey Peadon
Richard Bole
Robert Francis
John Howell
Richard Harvey
John Tucker
William Holland
Hugh Holland
Thomas Bowden
Richard Chynn
William Cruise
Page 20 Thomas Pavier
John Holdesworth
John Ashwood, reprie∣ved
Thomas Smith
John Dorchester, sen.
John Combe
John Greaves
Arthur Sallaway
George Adams
Henry Russell
George Knight
Robert Wine
William Cheek, alias Chick
Preston Beavis
Richard Finnier
Roger Cornelius
Humfrey Edmonds
Richard Peirce
Joseph Smith
John Gilham, jun.
Giles Bramble
Alexander Key
William Mead Glover
David Boyce
Joshua French
Samuel Cox
Charles Speak
William Plumley
Jacob Tripp
James Pyes
William Mead
John Broome, reprieved
William Somerton
Thomas Duston
John Sheppard
Abraham Bond
Edward Tippett
Thomas Burrell
Thomas Hillary
John Gill, sen.
John Hicks
Thomas Monday
John Butcher
Richard Pierce
Israel Bryant
Roger Hoare, reprieved
Phillip Cambridge
William Duston
William Clement
Tristram Clarke
Thomas Coade
Robert Doleman
Robert Thatcher.

Page 21

Somerset ss. Wells. Prisoners to be transported, and deli∣vered to Sir William Stapleton, 102.

RIchard Allwood
Jacob Adams
Samuel Blackmore
John Browne
James Broughton
Charles Baker
Thomas Brigwood
John Bright
William Bush
Thomas Browne
Francis Bagwell
John Browne
John Bartlett
James Bickley
Robert Court
John Classey
John Couche
Samuel Clarke
John Clarke
John Collins
John Coleman
Henry Collins
John Cox
Nicholas Connings
Robert Clarke
Benjamin Keeble
Richard Chaplin
Joseph Cowes
John Coleburne
William Coles
Thomas Churchhouse
Peter Drayton
James Dew
William Dew
Simon Dyer
Thomas Daniell
Richard Denham
Richard Dyer
Francis Dunning
John Denning
Phillip England
William England
Richard Easton
Richard Edghill
James Ellford
Cornelius Elliot
John Ervin
Thomas Ferris
Edward Ford
Samuel Farmer
Arthur Ford
Walter Freston
Richard Foweracres
John Fowler
John Foster
William Feare
Page 22 Francis Gamling
Joseph Gale
James Jerman
Thomas Gamlin
Nehemiah Goffe
William Guppy
Edward Goodman
Peter Goodgroome
John Holmes
John Henson
Thomas Hooper
Thomas Herring
Thomas Hutchins
Humfrey Hodge
Robert Hannam
Richard Howells
Edward Harris
Andrew Howard
John Hull
Moses Higwell
Thomas Humfreys
Francis Hales
William Higden
George Halfeyard
Josias Howard
James Harman
Thomas Hill
William Jackson
Joseph Jermyn
John Jones
Richard Jacob
Charles Jones
William Johnson
Samuel Knight
Phillip Keeping
William Key
John Lewis
John Larkham
John Lock
John Lawrence
William Lock
John Langford
Paul Morse
Henry Quick
Samuel Farmer
Arthur Ford

Somerset, ss. Wells. Prisoners delivered to Sir Philip Howard for Transportation, 200.

GAbriel Smart
Henry Cook
Isaac Pryor
William Eyres
James Paine
Nicholas Kelford
John Butcher
Christopher Candy
John Bennet
Thomas Orchard
Nathaniel Dennick
Humfrey Davyes
Henry Syms
Jonathan Drew
John Jones
Robert Millerd
Page 23 Robert Stuckey
Pasche Stuckey
James Field, junior
Israel Balster
John Hussey
Andrew Staley
John Reynolls
Arthur Everard
Robert Reeves
Robert Norton
Edmond Hurd
Thomas Hurd
Thomas Lawrence
George Hallet
Giles Whittle
John Hart
John Lawrence
James Aymes
Samuel Ellworthy
John Holloway
James Hurd
John Feild
John Weech
William Staunton
Thomas Salisbury
* Thomas Andersey,
reprieved
James Heale
Robert Beaton
Simon Chynn
John Portnell
James Pullman
Thomas Mills
Joshua Salley
Ambrose Vineing
Peter Durden
Joseph Hawker
Thomas Snook
Henry Snook
George Harding
William Chynn
Nicholas Davidge
John Hanning
James Moore
Henry Miles
James Wake
John Attwood
William Lacey
Adam Smith
Robert Beale
* Richard Hoare, re∣prieved
Christopher Gray
John Woodrow
Anthony Woodrow
Roger Cole
Edward Vile
Philip Lacey
William Best
Edward Willmott
William Prowse
Christopher Masters
William Lane
John Crowder
Thomas Rodbeard
James Best
Robert Best
John Stower
Thomas Laver
John Baker
Edward Vagg
Robert Clarke
Joseph Robins
Thomas Pittard
Page 24 Timothy Toleman
James Sheppard
James Ellford
John Harwood
Roger Channing
Thomas Channing
* James Baker, reprieved
Charles Paple
John Webb
George Allen
John Palmer
Robert Burridge
John Morley
Humfrey Maundry
James Moody
Thomas Mitchell
Ralph Middleton
William Merrick
Edward Mitchell
John Muttlebury
Joseph Mullens
Roger Mortimor
Nathaniel Weale
Baldwin Parker
William Preist
Andrew Palmer
Silus Phillipps
John Popes
Francis Plomer
James Parker
James Peirce
John Palmer
George Russell
Christopher Richards
Henry Rookes
William Read
Alexander Robinson
Argentine Rust
Robert Smith
Robert Sly
William Sheppard
William Smith
William Sherry
John Symon
Francis Savage
William Selfe
George Searle
John Saunders
Jonathan Sutton
* James Smith, reprieved
John Say
Jonas Say
Richard Spiller
Richard Sellwood
Richard Syms
John Skiff
Thomas Tuckey
Richard Tapper
Richard Turner
John Tilley
Lewis Tricks
Peter Wellis
Robert Wilkins
Richard Willcox
John Williams, senior
John Williams, junior
John Worrall
Joseph Warren
Thomas Walter
William Warren
Richard West
Robert Willis
John Watts
Stephen Walsh
Page 25 Richard Young
Matthew Woodland
Thomas Waggott
Edward Kemp
Hugh Banton
William Cotworthy
Thomas Carden
Edward Gilbert
William Greenland
Thomas Goodson
Richard Hooper
Henry Hunt
William Harris
Robert Jennings
Richard Lyne
William Lyneing
John Lush
Charles Mason
Richard Miller
Thomas Norton
James Norvill
John Stone
Henry Roper
Francis Carter
John Fathers
John Laver
Shadreck Morley
Matthew Pryor
Nicholas Gill
John Hurle
John Lease, alias Gam∣lin
Samuel Denham
John Oram
Robert Heyward
John Helps
John Peircy
Richard Willmott
Thomas Speed
* Robert Drower, Elias Holman, in Exeter Goal; John Rosseter, Allegen Leversedge, in Taun∣ton Goal; to be transported for Thomas Andersey, Richard Hoare, James Smith, James Baker.

Prisoners delivered for Transportation to Jeremy Nipho, 33.

JOhn Jolliffe
Robert Peirce
John Dodds
Henry Pittman
Nathaniel Beaton
Peter Cordelion
William Biggs
William Pittman
John Cook
John Harcombe
John Collins
Nathaniel Standerwick
Richard Dyke
John De•••…m, reprieved
Abraham Gooden
John Mead, reprieved
Page 26 John Brice
Andrew Holcombe
John Hooper
Thomas Venner
Lawrence Caswell
Thomas Chinn, reprie∣ved
Samuel Weaver
Robert Batt
John Gould
John Hooper
John Cooke
John Johnson
John Wills
Rich. Nash, alias Lissant
John Foot
John Reeves
John Gill, junior
Thomas Body, James Price, Samuel Davison, to be transported in the place of John Denham, John Mead, Thomas Chinn.

Somerset, ss. Wells. Prisoners delivered to Captain John Price for Transportation, 50.

EDward Rawbone
Thomas Nashion
Richard Wiseman
Thomas Eglin
Richard Snook
Thomas Lockyer
Moses Moore
Samuel Ruddle
John Parsons
Robert Mudford, alias Mumford
John Bishopp
John Sprake
Thomas Viles
David Thomas
William Powell
William Prowse
Robert Sweet, junior
Edward Hody
John Wythyman, jun.
Joseph Witherell
William Sweet
Josiah Gillham
John Partridge
John Bramble
James Bramble
George Butcher
Edward Abbott
Matthew Goodman
Benjamin Trask
Henry Noon
John Key
Philip Smith
John Westlake
William Redbeard
John Dumett
John Quick
Thomas Saunders
William Chilcott
Thomas Vile
Page 27 Thomas Doleman
Robert Carter
Edward Halsey
William Broadbear
Edward Chedsey
John Hill
Thomas Trott
William Collier
John Parsons
John Rotherton
John Arnold

Somerset, ss. Wells. Prisoners who had Certificates allowed pursuant to his Majesty's gracious Declaration, 6.

JOhn Willey
William Gauler
William Buckler
Richard Fisher
John Pitt
John Denham

Somerset, ss. Wells. Prisoners humbly proposed for his Ma∣jesty's Gracious Pardon, 26.

STephen Benchfield
George Blanch∣flower
Richard Beadon
Christopher Bray
John Cotterell
Edward Day
Robert Harris
Simon Hussey
John Moore
Thomas Napper
James Standard
John Woolnington
William Hellyer
John Patten
John Bishopp
William Ashford, jun.
John Dorchester, jun.
Henry Grange
Robert Upcott
John Crocker
John Commer
Richard Napper
James Pitts, junior
John Brock
Christopher Wernell
Henry Norton

Page 28

Somerset, ss. Wells. Prisoners designed for Execution, yet omitted in the Warrant for Execu∣tion, 5.

JOhn Bird
Edward Merrick
William Oustler, senior
James Price
Thomas Body

Wells, ss. Prisoners remaining in Custody, &c.

EDward Hamond, alias Hamwood
John Willey
Richard Adams
James Norman
Robert Daw
William Russell
George Bisse
Samuel Davison
William Aplin

Prisoners remaining in Custody for want of Evidence.

WIlliam Phippett
Richard Bray
Thomas Bishopp
Alexander Pinney
Richard Millward
James Russell
William Eades

Wells, ss. Prisoners convict for Misdemeanors, fined and imprisoned, and who had corporal Punishment.

Severally fin'd 13 s. 4 d. for speaking treasonable Words. Ordered to be whip'd at five several Market Towns.
- JAmes Oasyn,
- William Williams,
- Thomas Austey,
- Samuel Vyney,
- Leonard Gosse,
Henry Gatchell, for the like fin'd 100 l.

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Witnesses for the King left in Custody.

WIlliam Wiltshire
David Tole
John Keeping
Christopher Rossiter
William Pussey
Thomas Dare
Simon Long
John Jones
Thomas Sexton, alias Randall Furnivall
Joseph Strong
Samuel Storey
John Smith
William Williams
Richard Tanner

Prisoners bound each for the other, for their Appearances at the next Assizes, and for the good Behaviour in 100 l. each.

WIlliam Okey
John Rogers
Thomas Wilkins
Samuel Trent
Francis Malo
Roger Grey
Henry Woodford
James Norvile
John Blackley
Walter Fidoe
David Cole
Abraham King
Stephen Hellyer
Ralph Smith
Robert Portlock
William Dymock
John Brewer
John Cole
Thomas Farr
James Westcott
Anthony Manning
John Townsend
Thomas Davyes
Thomas Williams
William Heyward
John Norman
James Pownell
Phillip Browne
Henry Turner
John Balston
William Tar
William Shinler
Page 30 John Watts
Thomas Gilling
Matthew Tucker
Benjamin Short
John Thompson
John Patten
William White
Richard Badge
Andrew Tapper
Walter Thomas, alias Bisse
James Rowsell
Henry Bedlar
Richard Cornelius
Roger Baker
Peter Brewer
John Swinney
John Moor
Arthur Lowdam
John Melldrome
Robert Rawe
Edward Bishopp
Daniel Wooton
John Pucker
Robert Seagard
Thomas Carpenter
Henry Virgin
Rowland Oakely
James Cole
Thomas Satchell
Jeoffry Castland
Thomas Tayler
David Tucker
Thomas Ashford
John Taylor
Henry Satchell
William Cannaday
Francis Phippen
Francis Jennings
Arthur Jeoffrys
Richard Skinner
William Old
William Cole
John Mitchell
Robert Wantsey
Thomas Forster
William Griffen
William Bragg
John Bowring
John Yorke
Thomas Ollvard
John Marks
Edward Baker
John Spender
William Oustler
Nicholas Forward
Peter White
James Pitts
William Combe
Joseph Simkins
William Channing
Mathias Channing
William Saunders
John Patten
John Rowsell
Thomas Browne
Jedediah Hurd
William Pryor
Francis Hellier
William Lush
John Hewlett
Richard Steer
Christopher Osmond
John Shinler
Page 31 Thomas Jolliffe
Richard Tanner
John Mead
Lancellot Cox
James Thomas
Stephen Thompson
Henry Buckle
Samuel Pack
Richard Smithyer
Richard Walters
William Walters
Jeoffrey Phippet
John Doeling
Samuel Dwelley
George Parsons
Thomas Ellis
John Andrewes
Nathaniel Lockyer
Edward Craydon
Thomas Busterell
Robert Sands
William Hewlett
Andrew Ousely
John Sheire
Samuel Prowse
Nicholas Gandry
Richard Gibbs
Samuel Sheppard
Robert Game
John Lyde
William Raymond
George Raymond
Thomas Lockyer
George Smith
William Cossens

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〈◊〉 Account of what was done against those in Scotland, who took Arms there under the Earl of Argyle, &c. and a∣gainst the Protestants in Ire∣land, by the late King James, and his Deputy Tyrconnel.

IT is proper in the next Place, to give a brief Account how the Scots, who took Arms in their own Country against the Tyranny of King Charles and King James II. were treat∣ed. There were several Insurrections there, oc∣casion'd by the barbarous Oppression of the Pres∣byterians, for not conforming to the Tyranny in Church and State then set up, which they protested they could not in Conscience do, since that Government was not only contrary to the Fundamental Laws of the Nation, but to their Principles, and the solemn Obligations which the King and Kingdom lay under by Oaths a∣gainst it; and that it was attended by such an un∣limited Prerogative given the King by a pack'd Parliament, as empower'd him by Virtue of his Supremacy, which they called an inherent Right Page 33 to the Crown,

' That he and his Successors might settle, enact, and emit such Constitutions, Acts, and Orders, concerning the Administrati∣on of the External Government of the Church, and the Persons employed in the same, and concerning all Ecclesiastical Meetings, and Matters to be proposed and determin'd there∣in, as they in their Royal Wisdom should think fit.'

These are the very Words of the first Act of the 2d Sessions of the first Parliament of Charles II. and of the first Act of the second Parliament.

To force a Conformity to this sort of Govern∣ment in Church and State, which King Charles II. had solemnly abjur'd at his taking the Crown of Scotland upon him, High Commission Courts were not only set up by the Prerogative, which acted contrary to Law, but Soldiers were em∣ploy'd to oppress, pillage, harrass, imprison, fine, and confine, beat and bind like Beasts, those who refus'd it. Sir James Turner, a bloody and atheistical Man, commanded in three such Expeditions against the Western Shires of Scotland, in 1663, 1665, and 1666. where he and his Troops exacted from the poor People of Galloway and Nithsdale, for their Nonconformity, betwixt 4 and 5000 l. Sterling, besides the great Charge they were at by giving free Quarters, and Mo∣ney, to the Soldiers, to forbear the Barbarities which they practised on their Persons and Fa∣milies. There was also levied by way of Fine, without any Crime alledged, from 132 Gentle∣men, and others, near 7000 l. Sterling, besides free Quarters to the Soldiers sent to levy it, which amounted to as much; and notwithstand∣ing the Money which was paid to those barbarous Troops to make them forbear Cruelties, it was their common Custom to destroy all the Provi∣sions Page 34 and Substance of those they quartered upon, and to fill the Bellies of their Servants and Dogs, before they would suffer the poor Families to eat any of their own Provisions; nor did they be∣have themselves thus only to those who did not conform, but to many Gentlemen and others who did; it being plainly the Design of the Court to ruin the West of Scotland; because that Part of the Kingdom had always, from the Time of the Reformation, signalized their Zeal for their Religion and Liberty. It was usual with them af∣ter they had ruin'd the Tenants to quarter upon their Landlords; and thus they harrass'd and plunder'd that Part of the Country three Times successively in the Years above-mention'd: And besides the Money thus exacted, they forced Peo∣ple to give Bonds for such other Sums as they thought fit, by which they beggar'd abundance of Families. And when any complain'd to the commanding Officer of those Inhumanities, they were commonly beaten, or otherwise barbarously treated. The Soldiers did likewise behave themselves so atheistically, that they publickly mock'd at all Religion, utter'd most horrible Curses and Oaths, ravish'd Women, and in short, their Behaviour was more like Savages and Pa∣gans than civilized Men and Christians: and af∣ter they had thus ruin'd the Country, they extor∣ted Certificates from the People, That they had been civilly used, on purpose to prevent their making Application to the Government for Re∣dress; and when they had nothing left to pay what the Soldiers demanded, they were barba∣rously used in their Persons, and carried to Pri∣sons, tied Hand and Foot, like Beasts. After the Country had been 7 Months thus oppress'd in Sir James's third Expedition, three Country-men Page 35 met four of his Soldiers carrying a poor old Man, one of their Neighbours, in that Manner to Dumfries; they begg'd the Soldiers to unty him, who, instead of doing it, attack'd the Country∣men with their Swords, but were worsted in the Scuffle, one of them wounded, and the other three threw down their Arms. This encourag'd these Men, with some others, to attack 10 or 12 more of the Soldiers, who were in like manner oppressing the People in that same Parish, and these they also disarmed, having kill'd one that made an obstinate Resistance. The Neighbour∣hood knowing that Sir James would take a terri∣ble Revenge upon them, about 54 of them took Horse, and with a few Footmen marched to Dumfries, where they took Sir James, and dis∣arm'd his Men. Having done this, they march∣ed to the West, where the People were oppress'd in the like Manner, and being join'd by others, came at last to be 7 or 800. Upon this Lieute∣nant General Dalzeel was ordered to march a∣gainst them with the regular Troops, they were declared Rebels, and order'd to lay down their Arms within 24 Hours after the Proclamation was published, without the least Assurance of Pardon, and all the Subjects were ordered to as∣sist the General, on pain of Rebellion. This poor Handful being thus made desperate, they march∣ed within two Miles of Edinburgh, and a Cessa∣tion was agreed between the General and them for one Night, until their Grievances and Peti∣tion might be presented by him to the Council. This made them secure, and the General, con∣trary to Agreement, surpriz'd them just at the Time when his Messenger was delivering their Petition to the Council. They made a stout Re∣sistance, and repuls'd his advanced Troops three Page 36 Times, but being vastly inferior in Number, and fatigued with long Marches, Hunger, Rain and Cold, they were defeated on the 28th of Novem∣ber, 1666. 40 of 'em kill'd, and above 130 of them taken, many of whom were executed with the greatest Cruelty and Barbarity, and some of them tortured by an Engine called a Boot, to make them discover others, and such as had gi∣ven them any Assistance or Relief. Besides, it was made Treason for any one to harbour such of them as had escaped. This was the first In∣surrection in Scotland, known by the Name of Pentland-Hills, which was the Place where they fought.

These Barbarities served only to incense the Country, and to make the People of the Western Shires more averse to Conformity than before. This occasion'd many severe Laws to force them to a Compliance, which not having the design'd Effect, an Army of barbarous Highlanders was twice brought down upon the Country, which they plunder's, treated the People with all sort of Inhumanity, garrison'd Gentlemen's Houses contrary to Law, impos'd Bonds and Oaths upon the People without Authority of Parliament, and committed such other Outrages, as if they had been in an Enemies Country. But all this not prevailing with the People to conform, or to abstain from Worship in the Fields, when they could not do it in Houses, Troops were employ∣ed to attack the People where-ever they were as∣sembled, which oblig'd them frequently to stand on their Defence, and all that did so being made Guilty of Death, this brought on the second In∣surrection at Bothwell-bridge, in 1679. where the poor oppressed People being vastly out-number'd by the King's Army, under the Command of the Page 37 Duke of Monmouth, about 300 of 'em, after a stout Resistance, were kill'd, the rest put to flight, and above 1000 taken, and carried to E∣dinburgh, where they were a long time kept in an open Church-yard without any Shelter from Cold or Rain; several Ministers and others were executed, and about 1700 taken there, and at other Places before, sold for Slaves to America, and other Parts, 200 of which were cast away near Orkney, thro' the Barbarity of the Captain of the Ship, who order'd them to be kept under Hatches, when his Ship struck, otherwise they might have escaped as well as he, and his Men, and about 50 others of their Fellow Prisoners.

The Country was made a perfect Scene of Hor∣ror and Cruelty, by the Pursuits which were made after those who escaped from the Field, and the proscribing, or putting to Death such as were found to give them any Relief, though their nearest Relations. And Acts were made to make it Death for any Presbyterian Ministers to preach, or People to hear them, in House or Field.

These barbarous Oppressions made a Part of the People so mad, that some of them thought themselves absolved from giving any further O∣bedience to King Charles II. or those commission∣ed under him; and therefore took upon them to declare, That he had forfeited his Crown by his Perjury and Tyranny, and that they would no more own him as their Sovereign. Though this was known to be contrary to the declared Princi∣ples of the Presbyterians, and perfectly inconsi∣stent with what they held themselves to be obli∣ged to by the Solemn League and Covenant, which bound them to maintain the King's just Preroga∣tive, and the Authority of Parliaments, from Page 38 whom their Kings derived their Authority, and without whose Consent they held they could not be depriv'd of it; yet the Practice of those few desperate Men was made a Handle to oppress all the Presbyterians, and to impose new Oaths and Bonds upon them. In the mean time that Hand∣ful of Men who had thus thrown off the King's Authority, were pursued from Place to Place, and kill'd without any Tryal, where-ever they were found; and the Soldiers had an illegal Power given them by the Council to tender a Bond or Oath, to all that they pleased, to dis∣own the Declaration of those Men; and if they refused it, they were presently to kill them; and thus they murder'd, without any Trial, about 78 People, in several Parts of the Country, and in such a barbarous Manner, that they would not allow those poor People Time to recommend themselves to God, before they were shot or stabb'd, but answer'd them with this atheistical Sarcasm, What the Devil have you been doing so many Years? Ha'n't you had Time enough to pray in the Caves and Mountains!

The murmuring Faction cannot pretend that the present Rebels were forced by any such Ex∣tremities as these, to take Arms, nor have they any Ground to complain of any such Inquisitor∣like Proceedings against their Friends; and 'tis well for them 'tis so; otherwise there had been such a Havock long e'er now among the High∣Church Party, that few or none of them would have been left to belch out Lies and Treason eve∣ry Day against the Government.

I come now to the last Insurrection in Scot∣land, before the Revolution, which was that un∣der the Earl of Argyle, already mention'd: The Causes of it are to be seen in his Declaration, Page 39 as above, so that there's little more to be said of it, but that his Lordship not being able to raise above 2000 Men, because of the Precautions which the Government had taken against him upon the early Notice they had of his Design, he only wander'd about for 6 or 7 Weeks, in the Western Highlands, where being block'd up by the King's Men of War, and straiten'd for Pro∣visions, abundance of his Men deserted; and com∣ing at last towards Dumbarton and Glasgow, he was intercepted by a numerous Army; and his Men perceiving that the Enemy was ten times their Number, and being also wearied out with long Marches, want of Provisions, and Sleep, most of them withdrew in the Night, and the few that kept together, were, after some Skir∣mishes with a Party of the Enemy, whom they defeated, obliged likewise to disperse; the Earl himself, with a few more, were taken, and exe∣cuted at Edinburgh, as about 20 of his Men were at his Seat at Innerary in the Highlands; and ma∣ny others taken up afterwards on Suspicion, or o∣therwise, were banish'd to America.

'Tis observable, That the Earl was not execu∣ted upon the Account of this Rebellion; but be∣cause of an Explanation which he offered of the Test that had been made, for all those in Places of Power and Trust, when the Parliament of Scotland settled the Succession upon the Duke of York: This was so much the more extraordinary, that several of the Episcopal Party had been al∣low'd to take it with such Explanations, because it was contradictory in it self, and were never called in question for it: But the Reason why the Earl was pick'd out to be a Sacrifice, was the Greatness of his Quality and Power, which the Court knew would make it difficult for them Page 40 to 〈…〉 their P••…ish and Tyrannical Designs 〈◊〉 Scotland, so long as a person of his Weight and Interest in the ••••…try was left in being.

After his 〈◊〉, James II. thought he might do what 〈◊〉 would in Scotland: He persecuted the Presbyterians with the Height of Barbarity, and overturn'd the Constitution by an arbitrary Pro∣clamation, Feb. 12. 168•. wherein he granted an unlimited Toleration by his Sovereign Autho∣rity, Prerog•tive Royal, and Absolute Power, which he alledg'd all his Subjects ought to obey without Re∣serve: This, with other things mentioned in the 〈◊〉 Declaration of Rights, brought on the Re∣volution there, as appears by the 13th Act of their Convention, Apr. 11. 1689, wherein they charge him with having invaded the Fundamen∣tal Constitution of the Kingdom; That he alter∣ed it from a legal limitted Monarchy to an arbi∣trary despotick Power; and in a publick Procla∣mation asserted an absolute Power to annul all the Laws, and particularly arraign'd those which establish'd the Protestant Religion.

I come next to take a View of King James II's Administration in Ireland. Soon after his Acces∣sion to the British Throne, he sent that bigotted Papist and Tyrant, the Earl of Tyrconnel, to be Lord Lieutenant of that Kingdom, at the Re∣quest of the Popish Clergy there, who, in their letter to the King, of July, 1625. said,

' That Tyr∣connel was the Person that did first espouse, and chiefly maintain their Cause for the last 25 Years, and was the only Man on whose Forti∣tude and Popularity they durst with Chear∣fulness own their Lovalty, and assert his Ma∣jesty's interest: Therefore they prayed, That his Majesty would be pleased to lodge his Au∣thority in his Hands, to the Terror of the Fa∣ction, meaning the Protestants.'

Page 41 Tyrconnel fully answered their Expectations, and in a little Time cashier'd the Protestant Ar∣my in Ireland, which consisted of about 7000 Men, and form'd another of Papists, most of whom were the Descendants, or near Relations of those that had been attainted for the Rebellion and Massacre in 1641, or had signalized them∣selves by notorious Villanies, and implacable Hatred to the English, and Protestant Interest in that Nation.

In the next Place he set up Judges there, who were engaged by Interest and Inclination to destroy the Protestant Religion; and one of them, called Rice, a prosligate Papist, who was advanced to be Lord Chief Baron, had the Im∣pudence to declare, he would draw a Coach and six Horses through the Act of Settlement, which was the Chief Security the Protestants had in that Kingdom. Sir Alexander Fitton, who had been convicted of Forgery at Westminster-Hall, and Chester, and fin'd for it by the Lords in Parlia∣ment, was taken out of Goal, and made Lord High Chancellor of Ireland, because he turned Papist; and was so zealous to shew himself a true Convert, that he several times declared with the Height of Impudence from the Bench, That the Irish Protestants were all Rogues, and that there was not one among 40000 of 'em, but was a Traytor, Re∣bel and Villain.

The Privy Council in Ireland was compos'd of a Majority of Papisis; so that the Protestants na∣med as Members of it, declined to act; because they were sensible that they could do their Religi∣on and the English Interest no manner of Service.

There wanted nothing else but to model a House of Commons to the Designs of the Court, and in order to that the Charters of all Corpora∣tions Page 42 were seiz'd by Quo Warranto's, without a∣ny Cause or Shadow of Law; so that the Magi∣stracies of Corporations were fill'd up with Pa∣pists, and Men of desperate, or no Fortunes; and the new Charters had a Clause by which the chief Governour was impower'd to turn out and put in whom he pleased, without shewing a Rea∣son.

The Protestant Clergy were oppressed by Tyr∣connel, and the Popish Priests did openly demand the Tythes belonging to them, and forbad their People to pay the Tythes to the Protestant In∣cumbents, on Pain of Damnation. This pass'd afterwards into an Act, by which the Papists were to pay their Tythes only to their own Priests; and afterwards, as any Protestant Bi∣shop or Clergyman died, Papists were put into their Places by the King's Privy Signet, or Sign Manual.

In the next Place Tyrconnel stopp'd the Salaries of the University of Dublin, because they would not, contrary to the Laws and their Oaths, admit a vicious ignorant Papist into a vacant Fellow∣ship; and when King James arrived there after the Revolution, the Protestant Vice President, Fellows and Scholars, were all turn'd out, their Furniture, Library, Communion Plate, and e∣very thing belonging to the College was taken a∣way, the House made a Garrison, and their Chambers made Prisons for Protestants; tho' King James had promised to preserve their Liberties and Properties, and rather augment than diminish the Privileges which had been granted them by his Predecessors. At last most of the Churches in and about Dublin, were seiz'd on by the Government, and an Order was issu∣ed, forbidding more than 5 Protestants to meet, Page 43 under Pain of Death, so that all religious Assem∣blies through the whole Kingdom, were prohi∣bited to Protestants.

To complete their Ruin, an Act of Attainder was pass'd in Parliament, in order to which, eve∣ry Member of the House of Commons returned the Names of all such Protestant Gentlemen as lived near them, or in the County or Borough for which he served; or if he was a Stranger to any of them, he sent to the Country for Infor∣mation about them. When the Bill was present∣ed to the King for his Assent, the Speaker told him, That many were attainted in that Act up∣on such Evidence as satisfied the House, and the rest upon Common Fame.

In this Act, no fewer were attainted than two Archbishops, one Duke, 17 Earls, 7 Countesses, 28 Viscounts, 2 Viscountesses, 7 Bishops, 18 Ba∣rons, 33 Baronets, 51 Knights, 83 Clergymen, 2182 Esquires and Gentlemen, and all of 'em un∣heard, declared and adjudged Traytors, convict∣ed and attainted of High-Treason, and adjudged to suffer the Pains of Death and Forseiture. The famous Proscription of Rome during the last Tri∣umvirate, came not up in some Respects to the Horror of this; for there were condemned in this little Kingdom more than double the Number that were proscribed through the vast Bounds of the Roman Empire. And to make this of Ireland yet the more terrible, and to put the Persons at∣tainted out of a Possibility of escaping, the Act it self was concealed, and no Protestant allow'd a Copy of it, till four Months after it was past: Whereas in that of Rome, the Names of the Per∣sons proscribed were affixed upon all the publick Places of the City, and the very Day the Proscrip∣tion was concerted; and thereby Opportunity Page 44 was given to many of the noblest Families in Rome, to preserve themselves by a speedy Flight for better Times.

The Conclusion.

LET our Murmerers speak from their Con∣sciences, if they have any: Can the most abandon'd of them have the Face to say, That there is not a very great Difference betwixt the Cause of those who took Arms against Tyranny and Popery in the three Nations, during the Reigns of King Charles and King James II. and of such as have taken Arms to set up an Impostor, and to bring in Tyranny and Popery in the Reign of King G E O R G E. Is there not a very great Difference betwixt those who ventur'd their Lives and Fortunes to save Us from the Slavery of France, and Idolatry of Rome, and those who would have delivered us up in Chains to both.

And as the Difference betwixt the Causes is remarkable, the Difference betwixt the Conduct of the Parties is no less so. Can Envy and Ma∣lice charge the Whigs in those Reigns to have join'd with Papists in pulling down Places of Protestant Worship, whilst Mass-Houses pass'd untouched? Can they be charged to have join∣ed with Papists to insult Prince and Parliament, in order to interrupt the Course of Justice a∣gainst an Incendiary, for preaching Sedition and Treason? Can they be charged with a Rebelli∣on to screen a Ministry from Justice, who had betrayed their Religion, their Liberty, their Country, their Trade, their Sovereign, and all Europe, into the Hands of France? Can they be Page 45 charged with taking Arms for Ministers who had perswaded their Sovereign to break Oaths and Leagues, to betray our Allies in Council and Cam• and to utter the grossest Contradictions and •alshoods from the Throne? Can they be charged with concurring in a Design to defeat a Protestant Succession, and set a Papist on the Throne by execrable Tricks and Perjuries, and particularly by taking Oaths to the Government, on purpose to undermine it. Or can they be charged, when in Arms, with burning and plun∣dering their Native Country, or to have join'd with Domestick and Foreign Papists, to set up a Popish Pretender, and murther and dethrone a Protestant King, and his whole Royal Family.

The Faction, tho' Case-harden'd to the great∣est Degree, can't charge such Things upon those who took Arms against the Male-Administrations of King Charles II. and King James II.

Then, as to the Difference betwixt the Treat∣ment of those who took Arms against those Prin∣ces, and our present Rebels, can the Faction have the Impudence to say, That our Generals have treated the present Rebels, as Kirk did those who took Arms under the Duke of Mon∣mouth, when he ordered 90 of the poor wounded Prisoners to be immediately hang'd at Taunton, without allowing their poor Wives and Children to speak to them, and at the same time made his Pipes to play, his Drums to beat, and his Trum∣pets to found, that the People might not hear what they said at the Place of Execution; after which he order'd their Quarters to be boil'd in Pitch, and set up in several Parts of the Town; for which, when he was afterwards question'd, he pleaded the Orders of the King and his Gene∣ral.

Page 46 Can they say that our Judges have hector'd Ju∣ries to bring in any of the Rebels Guilty, after they had three times acquitted them: as Jefferies did in the Case of the Lady Lisle?

Can they say that our Judges have trapanned any of the Rebels to confess themselves Guilty, in Hopes of Pardon, as Jefferies did, and then hang them up afterwards by Scores, without al∣lowing them Time to prepare for Death?

Can they say that our Judges have extorted a∣ny Sums from the Rebels for procuring them Par∣dons, or much less that they have extorted 14500l. from any Rebel of Note for a Pardon, as he did in order to purchase himself an Estate?

Can they say that our Judges have condemn'd above 500 Persons upon very slight, or no Evi∣dence, as he did at Taunton and Wells, where a∣bove 239 were executed, and their Quarters dis∣pers'd in the principal Places and Roads of the Country?

Can they say that our Judges have prosecuted Girls of 8 or 9 Years old for High-Treason, be∣cause they presented a few Colours to the Rebels, as Jefferies did, and forc'd their Parents to pay as much for their Pardon as would have made them handsome Fortunes?

Let them look upon the Lists above, and com∣pare them with the Lists of those tryed lately at Liverpoole, and publish'd in the Flying-Post of Feb. 14. and then tell us, whether the Clemency of King James II. or that of King GEORGE is the greatest.

Let them turn their Eyes to the abovemen∣tion'd Accounts of the Proceedings against the Rebels in Scotland, in the Reigns of the two Bro∣thers, and see if they can find such Barbarities now as were practis'd there at that Time.

Page 47 Have any of the present Rebels been tortur'd with Boots and Thumbkins to make them disco∣ver the rest, and who gave them any Relief or Encouragement?

Can they tell us of any that have been pro∣scrib'd, or put to Death for entertaining the pre∣sent Rebels, tho' their nearest Relations?

Let them tell us, if they can, where any of the present Rebels have been drown'd on purpose, under the Pretence of being transported to Fo∣reign Plantations.

Can they give us any Instances that the pre∣sent Rebels have been examin'd upon captious Questions by Privy-Councils and Judges, and hang'd for not answering such Questions, as was practis'd in Scotland?

Can they tell us of any Parties of Soldiers sent out to murder those whom they met in the Fields and Roads, that would not disown the Preten∣der's Declaration or Title. And let them tell us if they can, whether Inn-keepers and Hostlers are empower'd to examine their Guests and Tra∣vellers upon such Questions; and of Magistrates being empower'd to hang such Persons immedi∣ately, as had not Certificates of their having dis∣own'd the Pretender and his Title, or would not do it when brought before them?

Have the present Rebels, taken in the Act, been exposed without Cover to the Rigour of the Season by Hundreds together, and left to strave, as those that were taken at Bothwell-Bridge in Scotland?

Let them next take a Tour to Ireland, and find out Instances there, where the Pretender's Friends have been attainted in Parliament upon Common Fame, and the Act concealed that they might have no Opportunity to make their Es∣cape.

Page 48 A great deal more might be said of the Inhu∣man and Barbarous Proceedings of those Reigns; but this is more than enough to convict our Mur∣murers of Falshood, who cry out against the gentle Methods of Justice now made use of to punish such as have rais'd the most unnatural and ill-grounded Rebellion that was ever heard of up∣on Earth.

I shall conclude with one Rebuke to the Jaco∣bite Females, who take upon them to make Treason their ordinary Tattle, that 'tis well for them that they don't live under such an Admi∣nistration, as that of Charles and James II. in Scot∣land, when poor Country Girls were hang'd with∣out Mercy, for saying that Charles had forfeited his Title to the Crown by breaking the Original Contract, or Covenant, on which he took it, and that James being a profess'd Papist, had no Right to the Crown, because it was coutrary to the Fundamental Laws of the Nation, and particu∣larly that of King James VI. which obliged al• their Princes to swear at their Coronation that they were Protestants, would maintain that Reli∣gion, as then established, and abolish all false Religion, Idolatry, and Heresy. I would also advise those Jacobite Ladies who make so bold with the present Government at their Tea-Ta∣bles, &c. and discover so much Inclination to fa∣vour the Rebels, to remember what the Lady Lisle, and Mrs. Gaunt suffer'd, for Crimes of a far less Nature in the Eye of the Law, as it then stood, or rather was wrested.

FINIS.

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