4 AN OLD HAMPSHIRE MANOR HOUSE. 



Proclamation of Parliament — "That the Council of State, do 

 forthwith take order, for stopping all the ports, to the end, that 

 none of those, who are ordered to be apprehended, as having sat in 

 judgment, upon the late king's majesty, may make his escape, 

 beyond the seas." Among these persons occur the name of John 

 Lisle and sixty-five others. 



From Burnet's History, vol. iii., we read : — " That Lisle, went 

 at the time of the restoration, beyond sea, and lived at Lausanne, 

 where three desperate Irishmen, hoping by such a service, to make 

 their fortunes, killed him, as he was going to church, and the 

 assassins, being well mounted, and ill pursued, got into France. 

 His lady was known to be much affected Avith the king's death, 

 and not easily reconciled to her husband, for the share he had in it." 



We do not know the date of this assassination, but ^Nloyle's 

 Court again comes into notice, when Alice Lisle, the widow of 

 Colonel Lisle, was residing with her family on her estate there at 

 the time of the Duke of Monmouth's ill-starred attempt to ensure 

 the Protestant succession by landing in the neighbourhood of 

 Charmouth, in Dorsetshire. 



One of the sons of Dame Alice Lisle, as she was by courtesy 

 styled as widow of one of Cromwell's Lords, was serving in the 

 army of James II. at Sedgmoor, the first and last battle, 

 which destroyed all hope of success to Monmouth's expedition, 

 whose followers dispersed and fled in all directions, while he 

 himself, probably endeavouring to reach Southampton and so to 

 get beyond the seas, was taken not many days after the battle in a 

 miserable plight in the parish of Cranborne at no great distance 

 from Moyle's Court. 



The battle of Sedgmoor took place on tlu? 6th of July, 1685, 

 and on or about the 25fch of that month a messenger from War- 

 minster, named Dunn, arrived at Moyle's Court to ask Dame Alice 

 if she would receive and .shelter one Hickes, whom she believed 

 and stated on her trial to have only been amenable to the law for 

 preaching as a Nonconformist. Whatever may have been the reply 

 of Dame Alice to this request Hickes, of Keynsham, near Bath, 



