mmitted within living
memory in England by an officer of James the Second, Steele, who was
indiscreetly and unseasonably forward to display his Whiggism, would
have made no allusion to that fact. For the case of Lebon, see the
Moniteur, 4 Messidor, l'an 3.]

[Footnote 440: Sunderland to Kirke, July 14 and 28, 1685. "His Majesty,"
says Sunderland, "commands me to signify to you his dislike of these
proceedings, and desires you to take care that no person concerned in
the rebellion be at large." It is but just to add that, in the same
letter, Kirke is blamed for allowing his soldiers to live at free
quarter.]

[Footnote 441: I should be very glad if I could give credit to the
popular story that Ken, immediately after the battle of Sedgemoor,
represented to the chiefs of the royal army the illegality of military
executions. He would, I doubt not, have exerted all his influence on
the side of law and of mercy, if he had been present. But there is no
trustworthy evidence that he was then in the West at all. Indeed what we
know about his proceedings at this time amounts very nearly to proof of
an alibi. It is certain from the Journals of the House of Lords that,
on the Thursday before the battle, he was at Westminster, it is equally
certain that, on the Monday after the battle, he was with Monmouth in
the Tower; and, in that age, a journey from London to Bridgewater and
back again was no light thing.]

[Footnote 442: North's Life of Guildford, 260, 263, 273; Mackintosh's
View of the Reign of James the Second, page 16, note; Letter of Jeffreys
to Sunderland, Sept. 5, 1685.]

[Footnote 443: See the preamble of the Act of Parliament reversing her
attainder.]

[Footnote 444: Trial of Alice Lisle in the Collection of State Trials;
Act of the First of William and Mary for annulling and making void
the Attainder of Alice Lisle widow; Burnet, i. 649; Caveat against the
Whigs.]

[Footnote 445: Bloody Assizes.]

[Footnote 446: Locke's Western Rebellion.]

[Footnote 447: This I can attest from my own childish recollections.]

[Footnote 448: Lord Lonsdale says seven hundred; Burnet six hundred. I
have followed the list which the Judges sent to the Treasury, and which
may still be seen there in the letter book of 1685. See the Bloody
Assizes, Locke's Western Rebellion; the Panegyric on Lord Jeffreys;
Burnet, i. 648; Eachard, iii. 775; Oldmixon, 705.]

[Footnote 449: Some of the prayers, exhortations, and hymns of the
suffere