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A27410
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An impartial history of the life and death of George Lord Jeffreys late Lord Chancellor of England
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Dunton, John, 1659-1733.; Bent, James.
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1689
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Wing B1906; ESTC R31269
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taken of mens Abilities according to which the purchase for Life must be managed by two of his Favourites who had a small share the rest went into his Lordships Pocket according to the Actions of Rome where Sins of any kind may be pardoned for mony This indeed was a glorious Design in the Eve of Mother Church to root out Heresie by Executions and Transportations to make room for a pack here Expedition must be made to conclude at Wells for that a great Man being fallen our great Judge designing his Chair which in short he had has the Reward of fo eminent and extraordinary a piece of Service as he did for the Advancement of the Roman Catholicks Interest which is cruel always where it prevails Thus we leave the Town of Taunton after awarding Execution to many there and their Quarters to be scattered up and down the County and so we proceed to Wells where divers Prisoners that had been carried from Goal to Goal in expectation of Evidence against them were in Carts removed to Wells in which place to finish this Expedition the same Method as was at the former Assizes was also taken here by a severe Charge affronting the Gentlemen of this County as he had done in all the Counties before terrifying the Juries when any pleaded to make them to bring in the persons Guilty some of which being over-awed and it is doubted contrary to their Judgments which if so the Lord forgive them Here were many eminent and worthy persons that received the Sentence of Death but the Executions of the County being put together as you have before seen we make no particular Division of the Number here and the Number at Taunton the whole being recited before We shall therefore endeavour to be as brief as we can to give you what we think material and truly matter of Fact my Lord now being come to conclude this extraordinary Commission and in haste to be elevated maketh all manner of dispatch to repair to the King then at Windsor to give an Account of his Transactions and to receive the Reward of his meritorious Service in this Butchering of Protestants which is so acceptable to his Holiness and his bigotted Disciples as nothing can be more and indeed if you will believe them a Work that merits Heaven at last besides what Temporal Preferments are thought fit in this World. If this cruel Judge were a true Protestant his Case is much the worse being made use of as a Tool to destroy and carry on Popish Designs Thus the Affairs being ended the Country filled with Heads and Quarters of those that were Executed the rest that had not wherewith to purchase their Lives left in Custody in order to Transportation My Lord being come to the King to give an Account of his Affairs in the West the Great Seal being to be disposed of by the Death of the late Keeper he kiss'd the King's Hand for it and was made Lord Chancellor which was only an earnest of his Desert for so eminent and extraordinary a piece of Service so now that which remains is to give an Account of divers that had fled and hid themselves up and down in Holes and Privacies whose Friends made all Application to some great Men or other to procure their Pardoms some to this and others to such as they thought Favourites of the King but the Rewards must be assertained before any Application could be made Divers Lists being sent up and the Rewards assertained which amongst many of them put together did amount to considerable so that it was now who could find a Friend to relieve his distressed Relations which were forced to wander up and down in Caves and Deserts for fear of being taken But this Misfortune attended the Agents that unless my Lord Chancellour were used by his Creatures that were allowed by him so to do other Applications commonly met with Disappointments which caused an Emulation among the great Men one supposing to have deserved the King's Ear as well as the other which caused other Measures to be taken though some were wheedled out of their mony At last came out a General Pardon with Exceptions very few if any of those that were solicited for not being excepted were of course pardoned but however divers Sums of Mony having been paid no Restitution to be had for from Hell is no Redemption A worthy Western Gentleman's purchase came to fifteen or sixteen hundred Guinea's which my Lord Chancellour had Amongst the Exceptions were a parcel of Taunton Girls some of which were Children of Eight or Ten years old however something was to be made of them if these Ladies were judged Guilty of Treason for presenting the Duke of Monmouth with Colours c. and for to preserve these from Trial they were given to Maids of Honour to make up their Christmas Box so that an Agent of theirs was sent down into the Country to compound with their Parents to preserve them from what might after follow if taken so that some according to Ability gave 100 l. others 50 l. all which however did not answer the Ladies first Expectations yet it did satisfie and they were accordingly pardoned Thus we have given you an Account of what hath happened on this Occasion being in every Point truth We might have farther Enlarged but that would have spoiled the Design and swoln our Pocket Companion to a Volume too big We shall therefore next proceed to give you a true and exact List of all them that were condemned and suffer'd in the West in the year 1685. under the Sentence of my Lord Chief Justice Jeffreys With the Names of the Towns where every Man was executed Bathe 6. WAlter Baker Thomas Clotworthy Henry Body Thomas Collins Gerrard Bryant John Carter Philipsnorton 12. Robert Cook Henry Portridge Edward Creaves George Pether John Caswell Thomas Peirce Thomas Hayward John Richards John Hellier John Staple Edward Beere John Smith Froome 12. Francis Smith John Humphrey Samuel Vill alias Vile George Hasty Thomas Star Robert Man Philip Usher Thomas Pearle Robert Beamant Lawrence Lott William Clement Thomas Lott Bruton 3. James Feildsen Richard Bole. Humphrey Braden Wincanton 6. John Howel William Holland Richard Harvey Hugh Holland John Tucker Thomas Bowden Shepton-Mallet 13. Stephen Mallet John Hildworth Joseph Smith John Ashwood John Gilham Jun. Thomas Smith Giles Bramble John Dorchester Senior Richard Chinn John Combe William Cruise John Groves Pensford 12. Roger Cornelius Henry Russel John Starr George Knight Humphry Edwards Robert Wine William Pierce William Clerk alias Chick Arther Sullway Preston Bevis George Adams Richard Finier Wrington 3. Alexander Key Joshua French. David Boyse Wells 8. William Mead John Sheperd Thomas Coade Abraham Bend Robert Doleman William Durston Thomas Durston William Plumley Uivelscomb 3. William Ruscomb Robert Combe Thomas Pierce Tuton upon Mendip 2. Peter Prance William Watkins Chard 12. Edward Foote Abraham Pill John Knight William Davy William Williams Henry Easterbrook John Gervis James