Your Historical Guidebook to the 17thCentury

Weymouth, September 25. 1685

Of the 60 men transported to Barbados on the Happy Return from Weymouth

Of the 18 Martyrs executed in Taunton on the orders of King James II

Of the 543 men at Wells awaiting this bloody Assize Court of Judge Jeffreys

Of the Six Martyrs executed in Wareham and Wells on the orders of Judge Jeffreys

Of the eleven Martyrs executed in Poole on the orders of Judge Jeffreys

The four martyrs that died at Taunton and the final list of verdicts from the Assize court.

A letter from Lord Chief Justice Jeffreys to King James II detailing the value of each rebel.

An account of the first day of the Taunton Assize court presided over by Lord Chief Justice Jeffreys

An account of the executions and a list of the martyrs at Sherborne on the orders of Lord Chief Justice Jeffreys

Of the twelve Martyrs executed in Weymouth on orders of Lord Jeffreys