176 Records of the Rising in the West, A.D. 1655. 
We seem to be present at the trial, watching the chagrin of 
the Attorney-General, as the prosecution swerved, and fell through. 
Glynn with judicial calmness writes less strongly on the same point, 
“he thought the juries behaved very well,” it was the evidence that 
shrunk from its first purity—“ only one Mr. Zouche passed them a 
little too easy.”! The Zouches though acquitted were bound over to 
keep the peace for a year, with very good securities. This per- 
chance brought imprisonment. Mercurius Politicus, April 12th to 
19th, says 
‘¢ Two Zouches notoriously guilty and yet the petty jury acquitted, not with- 
standing the evidence was very full against them, specially against Henry Zouch 
by several witnesses ; But many of the Jury told the Court they were his tenants, 
such good consiences we find here to spare some for fayour only.” 
The Weekly Post, April 17th to 24th, has the same and then 
proceeds 
‘‘ Would not a Grand Jury be requisite to examine such cases? Sure I am there 
are many tenants better than their landlords.” 
And I suppose the writer would have added, not so these Salisbury 
Common Jurors. In any case we appreciate the praises Serjeant 
Glynn gave them. 
Mr. William Willoughby belonged to one of the oldest families 
in Dorsetshire ; an off-shoot of that of the Lord Willoughby de 
Brook. They were in Wiltshire early in the sixteenth century,and the 
name still lingers as marking certain localities at West Knoyle, 
where they resided. If he be the William Willoughby of the Vis- 
itation of 1623,? and it seems probable he was, he must have been 
at this time over 70 years of age; for in 1623 he had a son living 
aged 19. His name, it will be remembered, was amongst the Com- 
missioners originally nominated ; and he was also summoned on the 
Grand Jury of this very assize. He had married for his second wife, 
Mary Green, daughter of Mr. Richard Green of Mere, and brother ~ 
of the Richard included in this same indictment, and was “a fine old — 
English gentleman” of those days, 
13 Th., 3793 
® Hoare Mod. Wilts, Hund, Mere. 
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