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[Footnote 366: London Gazette, June 18, 1685; Wade's Confession, Hardwicke Papers.]

[Footnote 367: Lords' Journals, June 13,1685.]

[Footnote 368: Wade's Confession; Ferguson MS.; Axe Papers, Harl. MS.

6845, Oldmixon, 701, 702. Oldmixon, who was then a boy, lived very near the scene of these events.]

[Footnote 369: London Gazette, June 18, 1685; Lords' and Commons'

Journals, June 13 and 15; Dutch Despatch, 16-26.]

[Footnote 370: Oldmixon is wrong in saying that Fenwick carried up the bill. It was carried up, as appears from the Journals, by Lord Ancram.

See Delamere's Observations on the Attainder of the Late Duke of Monmouth.]

[Footnote 371: Commons' Journals of June 17, 18, and 19, 1685; Reresby's Memoirs.]

[Footnote 372: Commons' Journals, June 19, 29, 1685; Lord Lonsdale's Memoirs, 8, 9, Burnet, i. 639. The bill, as amended by the committee, will be found in Mr. Fox's historical work. Appendix iii. If Burnet's account be correct, the offences which, by the amended bill, were made punishable only with civil incapacities were, by the original bill, made capital.]

[Footnote 373: 1 Jac. II. c. 7; Lords' Journals, July 2, 1685.]

[Footnote 374: Lords' and Commons' Journals, July 2, 1685.]

[Footnote 375: Savage's edition of Toulmin's History of Taunton.]

[Footnote 376: Sprat's true Account; Toulmin's History of Taunton.]

[Footnote 377: Life and Death of Joseph Alleine, 1672; Nonconformists'

Memorial.]

[Footnote 378: Harl. MS. 7006; Oldmixon. 702; Eachard, iii. 763.]

[Footnote 379: Wade's Confession; Goodenough's Confession, Harl. MS.

1152, Oldmixon, 702. Ferguson's denial is quite undeserving of credit. A copy of the proclamation is in the Harl. MS. 7006.]

[Footnote 380: Copies of the last three proclamations are in the British Museum; Harl. MS. 7006. The first I have never seen; but it is mentioned by Wado.]

[Footnote 381: Grey's Narrative; Ferguson's MS., Eachard, iii. 754.]

[Footnote 382: Persecution Exposed, by John Whiting.]

[Footnote 383: Harl. MS. 6845.]

[Footnote 384: One of these weapons may still be seen in the tower.]

[Footnote 385: Grey's Narrative; Paschall's Narrative in the Appendix to Heywood's Vindication.]

[Footnote 386: Oldmixon, 702.]

[Footnote 387: North's Life of Guildford, 132. Accounts of Beaufort's progress through Wales and the neighbouring counties are in the London Gazettes of July 1684. Letter of Beaufort to Clarendon, June 19, 1685.]

[Footnote 388: Bishop Fell to Clarendon, June 20; Abingdon to Clarendon, June 20, 25, 26, 1685; Lansdowne MS. 846.]

[Footnote 389: Avaux, July 5-15, 6-16, 1685.]

[Footnote 390: Van Citters, June 30,/July 10, July 3-13, 21-31,1685; Avaux Neg. July 5-15, London Gazette, July 6.]

[Footnote 391: Barillon, July 6-16, 1685; Scott's preface to Albion and Albanius.]

[Footnote 392: Abingdon to Clarendon, June 29,1685; Life of Philip Henry, by Bates.]

[Footnote 393: London Gazette, June 22, and June 25,1685; Wade's Confession; Oldmixon, 703; Harl. MS. 6845.]

[Footnote 394: Wade's Confession.]

[Footnote 395: Wade's Confession; Oldmixon, 703; Harl. MS. 6845; Charge of Jeffreys to the grand jury of Bristol, Sept. 21, 1685.]

[Footnote 396: London Gazette, June 29, 1685; Wade's Confession.]

[Footnote 397: Wade's Confession.]

[Footnote 398: London Gazette, July 2,1685; Barillon, July 6-16; Wade's Confession.]

[Footnote 399: London Gazette, June 29,1685; Van Citters, June 30,/July 10,]

[Footnote 400: Harl. MS. 6845; Wade's Confession.]

[Footnote 401: Wade's Confession; Eachard, iii. 766.]

[Footnote 402: Wade's Confession.]

[Footnote 403: London Gazette, July 6, 1685; Van Citters, July 3-13, Oldmixon, 703.]

[Footnote 404: Wade's Confession.]

[Footnote 405: Matt. West. Flor. Hist., A. D. 788; MS. Chronicle quoted by Mr. Sharon Turner in the History of the Anglo-Saxons, book IV. chap.

xix; Drayton's Polyolbion, iii; Leland's Itinerary; Oldmixon, 703.

Oldmixon was then at Bridgewater, and probably saw the Duke on the church tower. The dish mentioned in the text is the property of Mr.

Stradling, who has taken laudable pain's to preserve the relics and traditions of the Western insurrection.]

[Footnote 406: Oldmixon, 703.]

[Footnote 407: Churchill to Clarendon, July 4, 1685.]

[Footnote 408: Oldmixon, 703; Observator, Aug. 1, 1685.]

[Footnote 409: Paschall's Narrative in Heywood's Appendix.]

[Footnote 410: Kennet, ed. 1719, iii. 432. I am forced to believe that this lamentable story is true. The Bishop declares that it was communicated to him in the year 1718 by a brave officer of the Blues, who had fought at Sedgemoor, and who had himself seen the poor girl depart in an agony of distress.]

[Footnote 411: Narrative of an officer of the Horse Guards in Kennet, ed. 1718, iii. 432; MS. Journal of the Western Rebellion, kept by Mr.