By the Rev. S. E. V, FILLEUL, M.A. 



f .Read Dec. 14th, 1903.) 



TN consequence of a letter on the Bloody Assize recently 

 published in the County Chronicle, in which an 

 erroneous quotation from the All Saints' Parish 

 Register was given, I thought that it would be 

 well to correct it, and therefore sent a few lines to 

 the same paper the following week. 



It is natural that this error should have been 

 made from the ambiguous language of " Hutchins' 

 History" on Page 378 of the znd Volume, 

 3rd Edition. Here, amongst the names of some deceased 

 parishioners of note, extracted from the register of burials of 

 the i yth century, occurs the statement in italics "Sixteen 

 prisoners, Monmouth's followers." This has been wrongly 

 taken to mean either that these actual words are written in the 

 register, or that the register gives the names of 16 persons 

 executed at Dorchester by Judge Jeffreys' orders at the Bloody 

 Assize. If it had been so, this record would have been valuable 

 as settling the question of how many out of the 74 sentenced to 

 death actually suffered in Dorchester. These were probably 



