rs will be found in the Bloody Assizes.]
[Footnote 450: Bloody Assizes; Locke's Western Rebellion; Lord
Lonsdale's Memoirs; Account of the Battle of Sedgemoor in the Hardwicke
Papers. The story in the Life of James the Second, ii. 43; is not taken
from the King's manuscripts, and sufficiently refutes itself.]
[Footnote 451: Bloody Assizes; Locke's Western Rebellion, Humble
Petition of Widows and Fatherless Children in the West of England;
Panegyric on Lord Jeffreys.]
[Footnote 452: As to the Hewlings, I have followed Kiffin's Memoirs, and
Mr. Hewling Luson's narrative, which will be found in the second edition
of the Hughes Correspondence, vol. ii. Appendix. The accounts in Locke's
Western Rebellion and in the Panegyric on Jeffreys are full of errors.
Great part of the account in the Bloody Assizes was written by Kiffin,
and agrees word for word with his Memoirs.]
[Footnote 453: See Tutchin's account of his own case in the Bloody
Assizes.]
[Footnote 454: Sunderland to Jeffreys, Sept. 14, 1685; Jeffreys to the
King, Sept. 19, 1685, in the State Paper Office.]
[Footnote 455: The best account of the sufferings of those rebels
who were sentenced to transportation is to be found in a very curious
narrative written by John Coad, an honest, Godfearing carpenter who
joined Monmouth, was badly wounded at Philip's Norton, was tried by
Jeffreys, and was sent to Jamaica. The original manuscript was kindly
lent to me by Mr. Phippard, to whom it belongs.]
[Footnote 456: In the Treasury records of the autumn of 1685 are several
letters directing search to be made for trifles of this sort.]
[Footnote 457: Commons' Journals, Oct. 9, Nov. 10, Dec 26, 1690;
Oldmixon, 706. Panegyrie on Jeffreys.]
[Footnote 458: Life and Death of Lord Jeffreys; Panegyric on Jeffreys;
Kiffin's Memoirs.]
[Footnote 459: Burnet, i 368; Evelyn's Diary, Feb. 4, 1684-5, July 13,
1686. In one of the satires of that time are these lines:
"When Duchess, she was gentle, mild, and civil;
When Queen, she proved a raging furious devil."]
[Footnote 460: Sunderland to Jeffreys, Sept. 14, 1685.]
[Footnote 461: Locke's Western Rebellion; Toulmin's History of Taunton,
edited by Savage, Letter of the Duke of Somerset to Sir F. Warre; Letter
of Sunderland to Penn, Feb. 13, 1685-6, from the State Paper Office, in
the Mackintosh Collection. (1848.)---- The letter of Sunderland is as
follows:--
"Whitehall, Feb. 13, 1685-6.
"Mr. P
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