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these were George Collingwood of Easlington, a Northumbrian 
gentleman, who was much beloved in his county; and also John 
Hunter, of the same county. At Preston Captain Shaftoe and 
several prisoners of note suffered death before Lord Derwentwater. 
Others at Lancaster, Wigan, Garstang, and Manchester; and more 
at Tyburn ; the privilege of decapitation being alone conferred on 
Lords Derwentwater and Kenmure. 
Hanoverian vengeance was not satiated for some time after 
these executions ; but the last who suffered in England were John 
Bruce of Preston, and four others, who were executed at Lancaster. 
Many died in Newgate, and great numbers were transported to the 
American plantations. 
Charles Radcliffe was brought to London with many more 
of the rebel chiefs. The Lords were committed to the Tower, and 
he with others, to Newgate. On the 8th May, 1716, he was 
arraigned at the Exchequer Bar at Westminster, for high treason, 
to which he pleaded not guilty. On the 18th of the same month, 
he was brought there again, and tried upon the indictment, and 
having but little to say in his defence, he was found guilty. A few 
days after, he and eleven more of the chiefs, were carried to 
Westminster in six coaches, in order to have sentence of death 
passed upon them. It happened that when the coach which 
contained Mr. Radcliffe came into Fleet-street, his majesty King 
George I. was then passing along in his coach on his way to 
Hanover, for the first time since his ascension to the throne. This 
obliged Mr. Radcliffe’s coach to stop, which happening opposite a 
distiller’s shop, the third door on the right towards Temple Bar, 
he called for half a pint of aniseed, which he himself, his fellow- 
prisoners, and a servant of Newgate, drank,* and then proceeded 
to Westminster, where sentence of death was pronounced upon 
him. | 
He was several times respited, and perhaps might have been 
pardoned’; but not caring to trust to an event so doubtful, he 
began to entertain thoughts of making his escape, which he 
* One might almost fancy that he pledged King George, and wished him 
well to Hanover, 
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