http://www.executedtoday.com/2009/09/02/1685-dame-alice-lisle-first-victim-of-the-bloody-assizes/ Sat, 20 Mar 2010 01:15:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 http://www.executedtoday.com/2009/09/02/1685-dame-alice-lisle-first-victim-of-the-bloody-assizes/#comment-12839 ExecutedToday.com » 1685: James Scott, Duke of Monmouth Sat, 09 Jan 2010 17:48:18 +0000 http://www.executedtoday.com/?p=4886#comment-12839 [...] Monmouth’s hopes had been raised, however, and he proceeded to invade England at Dorset with a somewhat ragtag army that was routed by the Protestant royal troops who remained loyal to James at the Battle of Sedgemoor — not quite the last battle fought on English soil, but the last consequential one (the last fought with pitchforks makes a livelier distinction). Monmouth was caught trying to get away in a shepherd’s disguise. Other fugitives of his cause were hunted mercilessly. [...] [...] Monmouth’s hopes had been raised, however, and he proceeded to invade England at Dorset with a somewhat ragtag army that was routed by the Protestant royal troops who remained loyal to James at the Battle of Sedgemoor — not quite the last battle fought on English soil, but the last consequential one (the last fought with pitchforks makes a livelier distinction). Monmouth was caught trying to get away in a shepherd’s disguise. Other fugitives of his cause were hunted mercilessly. [...]

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