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negociations and his general character. His ill fortune was 
caused, there is little doubt, by the escape of so many of his 
fellow-prisoners and the necessity the Government felt of making 
an example of someone. 
George Collingwood, of Northumberland, a Roman Catholic, 
was executed at Liverpool February 25th, 1716. Captain John 
Bruce, a Scottish Episcopalian, suffered at Lancaster October 
2nd, 1716. 
Captain Philip Lockhart was one of the four officers executed 
at Preston by order of the court-martial on a charge of desertion 
and having taken up arms against King George. He had served 
in Lord Mark Kerr’s regiment. He denied that he was guilty of 
desertion, since he had no commission from, nor trust under, 
the present Government, the regiment to which he belonged 
having been broken up several years ago in Spain. Yet he was 
condemned to be shot, and on December 2nd the sentence was 
carried out. 
Richard Gascoigne was a Catholic gentleman of good family, 
whose ancestors had served the Royal side during the troubled 
times. He found no merey, and was executed at Tyburn in the 
usual horrible manner. 
John Dalton, Esq., of Turnham Hall, Lancashire, was tried 
on May 80th, 1716, at the Marshalsea. He seems to have been 
an inoffensive, quiet man, and though a Roman Catholic, several 
Protestants came forward to speak for him. After a long trial, 
in which every effort was made to save him, he was found guilty. 
‘*« He begged the King’s pardon and desired the court to interceed 
with him for mercy.” This the Lord Chief Justice Parker pro- 
mised to do, though he told him clearly he ought to have taken the 
step earlier on and not have given them the trouble of a defence. 
His life was spared, and eventually he was liberated. Afterwards 
he redeemed his forfeited estate (an entailed one) for £6,000. 
Besides this trial of John Dalton, I have in my collection 
reports of the trials (on broadsides) of Richard Towneley, Esq., 
of Towneley, and Edward Tyldesley, Esq., of The Lodge. 
Towneley endeavoured to show he was amongst the rebels by 
accident and kept there by force. After half an hour's consider- 
ation the jury acquitted him. Tyldesley adopted much the same 
line of defence, and he was also acquitted. The real reason for 
their lucky escape was that their trial took place the day after 
the execution of Colonel Oxburg at Tyburn, which had been 
carried out in the usual barbarous and horrible manner, and his 
head placed on Temple Bar. So unwilling were the jury to have 
another such scene that they acquitted both prisoners, calling 
forth afterwards a strong reprimand from Baron Montague for 
their conduct. 
