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CONTENTS.
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Encounter of the Rebels with the Militia at Axminster; News of the Rebellion carried to London; Loyalty of the Parliament 520
Reception of Monmouth at Taunton 524
He takes the Title of King 527
His Reception at Bridgewater 531
Preparations of the Government to oppose him 532
His Design on Bristol 535
He relinquishes that Design 536
Skirmish at Philip's Norton; Despondence of Monmouth 538
He returns to Bridgewater; The Royal Army encamps at Sedgemoor 540
Battle of Sedgemoor 544
Pursuit of the Rebels 550
Military Executions; Flight of Monmouth 551
His Capture 553
His Letter to the King; He is carried to London 555
His Interview with the King 556
His Execution 560
His Memory cherished by the Common People 563
Cruelties of the Soldiers in the West; Kirke 566
Jeffreys sets out on the Western Circuit 571
Trial of Alice Lisle 572
The Bloody Assizes 576
Abraham Holmes 579
Christopher Battiscombe; The Hewlings 580
Punishment of Tutchin 581
Rebels Transported 582
Confiscation and Extortion 583
Rapacity of the Queen and her Ladies 585
Grey; Cochrane; Storey 591
Wade, Goodenough, and Ferguson 591
Jeffreys made Lord Chancellor 593
Trial and Execution of Cornish 594
Trials and Executions of Fernley and Elizabeth Gaunt 596
Trial and Execution of Bateman 598
Persecution of the Protestant Dissenters 599