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Jack Hall, of Otterburn—whose trial is also on the broadsides, 
though under the name of Thomas Hall—was not so fortunate ; 
he was condemned, and being specially exempted from the 
general reprieve, suffered the extreme penalty of the law along 
with the Rev. William Paul. 
Robert Talbot's trial will also be found on the sheet. He, 
along with that fine old soldier Brigadier MacIntosh and six 
others, knocked down the warders, seized the guard, and escaped 
out of Newgate the day before their trial was to have taken place. 
As ill-luck would have it, he was retaken, tried, and condemned ; 
the others got clear off. I think 1 am correct in saying that his 
life was spared by the general reprieve of July 7th, 1716. Only 
six in all were executed in London, and most if not all of these 
would have saved their lives if they would have consented to take 
the oath of allegiance. 
We now return to Lancashire. Early in January, 1716, a 
commission of oyer and terminer was sent down to the Whig 
town of Liverpool to try such of the prisoners as were there and 
at Chester. The choice of Liverpool as a Whig stronghold seems 
to us in these days rather a curious one, as, during the nineteenth 
century, except perhaps in the first few years, it has been notori- 
ously Tory. But in 1716 the opposite was the case, and it was 
in Manchester that High Church non-jurant Toryism held sway, 
and was continually a thorn in the side of the Hanoverian 
Government. On the outbreak of the rebellion the townspeople 
had roughly fortified the place, the sailors dragging up cannon 
from the ships for the defences. As showing the liberal and 
tolerant sentiment of the Church party in Manchester, I may 
mention that within a few years of this time, on the deaths of 
my ancestors, Matthew Nicholson and his wife Dorothy, which 
occurred within a week—they belonging to the Presbyterian 
body, as the Arian Congregation was then called—a funeral 
sermon was preached for them by the rector in the parish church. 
On January 11th, the Rev. Samuel Peploe, M.A., vicar of 
Preston, preached before the judges, high sheriff, gentlemen of 
the grand jury, the mayor, and other gentlemen. A copy of this 
discourse, and others that I propose to read you notes from, were 
presented to the Free Reference Library by Sir Thomas Baker, 
with a number of rare and curious tracts and books, which form 
a collection of extreme value to those interested in the history or 
literature of this time. 
Peploe points out the evident advantage to Papists in joining 
in this rebellion, but that for Protestants and Churchmen to sup- 
port a Roman Catholic Pretender is inexcusable. We find him 
alluding to the Pretender (as do all these writers) as ‘indeed of 
a disputed family.’ The supposititious birth of the son of James 
the Second seems then to have been treated as a fact by the 
