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.
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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. ... 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.
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descriptionPage 1
AN
ACCOUNT
OF THE
PROCEEDINGS
Against the
Rebels, and other Prisoners,
IN THE
WEST.
* 1.1 ALice Lisle, Widow, indicted for harbouring
John Hicks, a Rebel, &c. tried, found Guilty, and executed.
* 1.10 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.
...
descriptionPage 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,
* 1.11 Prisoners discharged for want of Evi∣dence.
Humbly proposed for His Majesty's Gra∣cious
Pardon.
JAmes Cox
descriptionPage 10
* 1.16 Prisoners fined at Exeter for Words,
and other Misdemeanors, 13.
For speaking seditious
Words severally fined,
and whip'd.
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,
* 1.17 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
...
descriptionPage 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
...
descriptionPage 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
* 1.18 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
...
descriptionPage 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
descriptionPage 14
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
...
descriptionPage 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
* 1.19 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
...
descriptionPage 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
...
descriptionPage 17
Jos. Newberry, reprieved
John Smith
John Cloade
Jonas Crosse
John Bragg
William Hutchins
John Mitchell
Edward Vildey
* 1.20 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
* 1.21 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
descriptionPage 18
* 1.22 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
* 1.23 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
descriptionPage 19
Prisoners bailed at Taunton.
RIchard Tirrill
William Whaites
* 1.24 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
...
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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.
descriptionPage 21
* 1.25 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
...
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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
* 1.26 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
...
descriptionPage 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
...
descriptionPage 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
...
descriptionPage 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
...
descriptionPage 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.
* 1.27 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
...
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Thomas Doleman
Robert Carter
Edward Halsey
William Broadbear
Edward Chedsey
John Hill
Thomas Trott
William Collier
John Parsons
John Rotherton
John Arnold
* 1.28 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
* 1.29 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
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* 1.30 Prisoners designed for Execution, yet
omitted in the Warrant for Execu∣tion, 5.