Exeter, July 15. 1685
Yesterday the Rebel leader Richard Goodenough was captured near Ilfracombe is now held in Exeter.
Yesterday the Rebel leader Richard Goodenough was captured near Ilfracombe is now held in Exeter.
This day the late Duke of Monmouth being attainted of High Treason by Act of Parliament, was Beheaded on a Scaffold for that purpose erected on Tower Hill.
This evening the Duke of Monmouth and Lord Grey were carried to the Tower in Kings Barges, guarded by several other Barges with Soldiers.
The King proclaims that all subjects MUST attend services of solemn thanksgiving on the 26 July 1685 to celebrate His Victory over the Rebels.
As the Rebels are completely broken, dispersed or taken, the Kings forces go into quarters and Militia dismissed. The Duke of Monmouth and Lord Grey will be this night at Farnham
His Majesty has just now received an account that the Duke of Monmouth was taken in Dorestshire, and is in the hands of my Lord Lumley.
This very morning the King received an account that the Lord Grey was taken yesterday in at Ringwood being secured by my Lord Lumley.
The News is that there has been a mighty Battle in a place called Sedgemoor and his Majesties forces are victorious.
The Rebels sack and pillage Wells and are now in Bridgwater and 3 Scotch Regiments have marched from London.
Louis XIV remarks that as the Duke of Monmouth has lost his vessels and has no city to retire to, he will soon meet with the same fate as the Earl of Argyll