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.
369 London Gazette, June 18, 1685; Lords' and Commons' Journals, June 13 and 15; Dutch Despatch, 16-26.
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.
371 Commons' Journals of June 17, 18, and 19, 1685; Reresby's Memoirs.
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.
373 1 Jac. II. c. 7; Lords' Journals, July 2, 1685.
374 Lords' and Commons' Journals, July 2, 1685.
375 Savage's edition of Toulmin's History of Taunton.
376 Sprat's true Account; Toulmin's History of Taunton.
377 Life and Death of Joseph Alleine, 1672; Nonconformists' Memorial.
378 Harl. MS. 7006; Oldmixon. 702; Eachard, iii. 763.
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.
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.
381 Grey's Narrative; Ferguson's MS., Eachard, iii. 754.
382 Persecution Exposed, by John Whiting.
383 Harl. MS. 6845.
384 One of these weapons may still be seen in the tower.
385 Grey's Narrative; Paschall's Narrative in the Appendix to Heywood's Vindication.
386 Oldmixon, 702.
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.
388 Bishop Fell to Clarendon, June 20; Abingdon to Clarendon, June 20, 25, 26, 1685; Lansdowne MS. 846.
389 Avaux, July 5-15, 6-16, 1685.
390 Van Citters, June 30,/July 10, July 3-13, 21-31,1685; Avaux Neg. July 5-15, London Gazette, July 6.
391 Barillon, July 6-16, 1685; Scott's preface to Albion and Albanius.
392 Abingdon to Clarendon, June 29,1685; Life of Philip Henry, by Bates.
393 London Gazette, June 22, and June 25,1685; Wade's Confession; Oldmixon, 703; Harl. MS. 6845.
394 Wade's Confession.
395 Wade's Confession; Oldmixon, 703; Harl. MS. 6845; Charge of Jeffreys to the grand jury of Bristol, Sept. 21, 1685.
396 London Gazette, June 29, 1685; Wade's Confession.
397 Wade's Confession.
398 London Gazette, July 2,1685; Barillon, July 6-16; Wade's Confession.
399 London Gazette, June 29,1685; Van Citters, June 30,/July 10, 400 Harl. MS. 6845; Wade's Confession.
401 Wade's Confession; Eachard, iii. 766.
402 Wade's Confession.
403 London Gazette, July 6, 1685; Van Citters, July 3-13, Oldmixon, 703.
404 Wade's Confession.
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.
406 Oldmixon, 703.
407 Churchill to Clarendon, July 4, 1685.
408 Oldmixon, 703; Observator, Aug. 1, 1685.
409 Paschall's Narrative in Heywood's Appendix.
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.
411 Narrative of an officer of the Horse Guards in Kennet, ed.
1718, iii. 432; MS. Journal of the Western Rebellion, kept by Mr.
Edward Dummer, Dryden's Hind and Panther, part II. The lines of Dryden are remarkable:
"Such were the pleasing triumphs of the sky For James's late nocturnal victory.
The fireworks which his angels made above.
The pledge of his almighty patron's love, I saw myself the lambent easy light Gild the brown horror and dispel the night.
The messenger with speed the tidings bore.
News which three labouring nations did restore;But heaven's own Nuntius was arrived before.'
412 It has been said by several writers, and among them by Pennant, that the district in London called Soho derived its name from the watchword of Monmouth's army at Sedgemoor. Mention of Soho Fields will be found in many books printed before the Western insurrection; for example, in Chamberlayne's State of England, 1684.
413 There is a warrant of James directing that forty pounds should be paid to Sergeant Weems, of Dumbarton's regiment, "for good service in the action at Sedgemoor in firing the great guns against the rebels." Historical Record of the First or Royal Regiment of Foot.
414 James the Second's account of the battle of Sedgemoor in Lord Hardwicke's State Papers; Wade's Confession; Ferguson's MS.
