was
succeeded by a butcher named Rose. But in four months Rose himself was
hanged at Tyburn, and Ketch was reinstated. Luttrell's Diary, January
20, and May 28, 1686. See a curious note by Dr. Grey, on Hudibras, part
iii. canto ii. line 1534.]

[Footnote 431: Account of the execution of Monmouth, signed by the
divines who attended him; Buccleuch MS; Burnet, i. 646; Van Citters,
July 17-27,1685, Luttrell's Diary; Evelyn's Diary, July 15; Barillon,
July 19-29.]

[Footnote 432: I cannot refrain from expressing my disgust at the
barbarous stupidity which has transformed this most interesting little
church into the likeness of a meetinghouse in a manufacturing town.]

[Footnote 433: Observator, August 1, 1685; Gazette de France, Nov. 2,
1686; Letter from Humphrey Wanley, dated Aug. 25, 1698, in the Aubrey
Collection; Voltaire, Dict. Phil. There are, in the Pepysian Collection,
several ballads written after Monmouth's death which represent him as
living, and predict his speedy return. I will give two specimens.

"Though this is a dismal story
Of the fall of my design,
Yet I'll come again in glory,
If I live till eighty-nine:
For I'll have a stronger army
And of ammunition store."

Again;

"Then shall Monmouth in his glories
Unto his English friends appear,
And will stifle all such stories
As are vended everywhere.
"They'll see I was not so degraded,
To be taken gathering pease,
Or in a cock of hay up braided.
What strange stories now are these!"]

[Footnote 434: London Gazette, August 3, 1685; the Battle of Sedgemoor,
a Farce.]

[Footnote 435: Pepys's Diary, kept at Tangier; Historical Records of the
Second or Queen's Royal Regiment of Foot.]

[Footnote 436: Bloody Assizes, Burnet, i. 647; Luttrell's Diary, July
15, 1685; Locke's Western Rebellion; Toulmin's History of Taunton,
edited by Savage.]

[Footnote 437: Luttrell's Diary, July 15, 1685; Toulmin's Hist. of
Taunton.]

[Footnote 438: Oldmixon, 705; Life and Errors of John Dunton, chap.
vii.]

[Footnote 439: The silence of Whig writers so credulous and so
malevolent as Oldmixon and the compilers of the Western Martyrology
would alone seem to me to settle the question. It also deserves to be
remarked that the story of Rhynsault is told by Steele in the Spectator,
No. 491. Surely it is hardly possible to believe that, if a crime
exactly resembling that of Rhynsault had been co