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such ideas from youth to grey-grown years, still 
as an Englishman, and a lover of truth, I am 
nothing loth to be disenchanted of my dream, 
should it be one. I now ask for information on 
these matters, from some of the many accom- 
plished readers of “‘N. & Q.,” better read in 
statistics, and less anti-English in their feelings 
than Cardinal Wiseman, whose lectures on the 
Concordat would, to my thinking, have sounded 
better on a platform than in a pulpit. D.L, 
ILLUSTRATIONS OF MACAULAY, 
Parties excepted from James's Proclamation of 
Pardon. — Valph, in his History of England, 
states that the number of those who were excepted 
in King James II.’s proclamation of pardon of his 
subjects on March 10, 1685, was 138, and names 
seventeen only. But in the proclamation given 
on the day mentioned, there are 147 persons 
enumerated. It would be interesting to ascertain 
how many of these have been noticed in historical 
or biographical works. The following proclama- 
tion is No, 270. in the Collection of Proclamations, 
Broadsides, Ballads, and Poems, presented to the 
Chetham Library, Manchester, by James O. Hal- 
liwell, Esq,, F.R.S, Breviorurcar, CueTuam. 
“A Proclamation of the Kings Majesties most Gracious and 
General Pardon, 
«James. . 
“Whereas soon after our coronation, we had given 
order for preparing of a bill, containing our most gracious, 
general, and free pardon to our loving subjects, with in- 
tention to have passed the same into an act in the first 
session of our parliament, but were unhappily prevented 
therein by the late most unnatural rebellion; which since 
it hath pleased Almighty God, by his blessing upon our 
arms, to suppress, we haye thought fit to renew our 
princely intentions of grace and mercy to our subjects, 
especially considering the stedfast loyalty of the far 
greater number of our subjects, who continued firm in 
their obedience to us, notwithstanding that rebellion: 
And being perswaded that many of those who joyned 
themselves in that rebellion being poor labourers and 
handicraftsmen, were drawn and seduced thereinto by 
the subtile and crafty insinuations of some ill-disposed 
persons of greater note and quality than themselves, and 
not from their own evil rancour of mind, and traiterous 
aversion to us or our government, whose condition we in 
our princely clemency commiserating; And to the end 
their fears and despair of our merey may not betray them 
to evil and lewd courses of life, but that they may with 
safety return to their obedience to us, and to their former 
habitations, labours, and imployments. And that the 
minds of other our subjects may be quieted; and that all 
fears and jealousies which may concern their security for 
any matter since our reign, or in the reign of our late 
dearly beloved brother, be removed and wholly taken 
away, as much as in us lies, we of our especial grace and 
tenderness to our people, do hereby publish and declare 
this our most royal and gracious pardon; And we do 
hereby for us, our heirs and successors, pardon, acquit, 
release, and discharge, all and every our subjects (except 
bodies politick and incorporate, and such other persons 
who shall be herein or hereby excepted) of this our realm 
of England, dominion of Wales, and the town of Berwick- 
upon-Tweed, their heirs, executors, and administrators, 
them and every of them against us, our heirs and suc- 
cessors, of, and from all manner of treasons, felonies, mis- 
prisions of treason or felony, treasonable or seditious 
words or libels, seditious and unlawful meetings and con- 
venticles, all offences whereby any person may be charged 
with the penalty and danger of premunire; All riots, 
routs, offences, contempts, trespasses, and misdemeanours, 
and all judgments and conyictions for not coming to 
church, and of, and from the forfeitures and penalties for 
the same, or any of them heretofore had, committed or 
done, except as herein or hereby after is excepted. And 
our will and pleasure is, that neither our said subjects, 
nor any of them, nor the heirs, executors, or adminis 
trators of any of them, be, or shall be sued, vexed, or dis- 
quieted in their bodies, goods or chattels, lands or tene- 
ments, for any manner of matter, cause, contempt, mis- 
demeanour, forfeiture, offence, or any other thing heretofore 
suffered, done, or committed, or omitted against us or our 
late brother, his or our crown; dignity, prerogative, laws 
or statutes, and not herein or hereby after excepted, 
And that this our grant of general pardon, by the general 
words, clauses, and sentences before rehearsed, shall be 
reputed, deemed, adjudged, expounded, allowed, and 
taken in all manner of our courts and elsewhere, most 
beneficially and liberally for our said subjects, thereby 
pardoned in all things not hereafter excepted, as if their 
particular persons and crimes had herein been at large 
and fully expressed. , 
“Mrs. Mary Bird, Mrs. Mary Mead, Mrs. Susan Peck, 
Mrs. Elizabeth Barns, Mrs. Mary Burridge, Mrs. Hannah 
Burridge, Mrs, Grace Herring, Mrs. Anne Herring, Mrs. 
Mary Waters, Mrs. Sarah Waters, Mrs. Elizabeth Ger- 
main, Mrs. Grace Germain, Mrs. Hannah Whetham, Mrs. 
Easter Whitham, Mrs. Susan Tyler, Mrs. Mary Goodwyn, 
Mrs. Sarah Longham, Mrs, Margery Sympson, Mrs, 
Sarah Reynolds, Mrs. Mary Hucklebridge, Mrs. Mar- 
garet Hucklebridge, Mrs, Mary Baker, Mrs. Mary Tan- 
ner, Mrs. Anne Tanner, Mrs. Elizabeth Gammon, Mrs. 
Sarah Stacy, Mrs. Hannah Stacy, Mrs. Elizabeth Dyke, 
Mrs. Elizabeth Baker, Mrs. Mary Smith, Mrs, Mary 
Page, Mrs. Elizabeth March, Mrs. Hannah Grove, Mrs, 
Elizabeth Bisgood of Taunton, John Tucker of Shepton 
Mallet, John Bennet of Alisbeere, Gent., John Greenway 
of Crewkern, Thomas Skinner of Dawlish, Esq., John 
alias Robert Moor of Haychurch, William Way of Combe 
S. Nicholas, Robert Hucker of Taunton, —— Penn of 
Shepton Mallet, Thomas Hooper, Edward Keetch, Wil- 
liam Parbury, Green, William Hussey, William 
Strode of Street, Esq., Mary Bath of Wrington, George 
Lege of the same, Edward Rogers of Banwell, John 
Rogers of the same, Ralph Green, William Jobbins, 
Manning, Whinnell, John Baker of Banwell, 
— Worms of Warminster, —— Worms of the same, 
William Pardoe, Nicholas Smith, John Edwards, John 
Collier, Henry Coles of Bridgwater, Richard Blucock of 
Stoke Gursey, Henry Ireton, John Cragg alias Smith, 
Mary Jennings, James Hooper, John Bennet, Joseph 
Gatch, William Thompson of London, Humphrey Aldwin 
of the same, Thomas Love, alias Alexander, of the same, 
Richard Tucker of Bishop’s Hnll, William Crab of 
Aishill, Gent., Francis Gough of the same, Francis 
Vaughan of Criston, Esq., Laurence French of Chard, 
Edward Matthews of Lincoln’s Inn, Esq., Hugh Cross, 
Senior, of Bishop’s Hull, Samuel Bernardiston, Benedict 
Hack of Culliton, Henry Quick of Uppolry, John Combe 
of Luppit, Henry Gatchil, Nicholas Hore, George Pippen 
of Dalyerton, Gent., Abraham Carie of Taunton, John 
Huish of the same, Peter Terry of the same, Richard 
