AX OLD HAMPSHIRE MANOR HOUSE. 



and another fugitive from the field of Sedgmoor named Nelthorpc, 

 accompanied by the messenger Dunn, appear to have made their 

 Avay across from Warminster, tlirough Deverill, Chihnark, Sutton, 

 Fovant, and Chalk, to ]\Iartin, on the borders of Wiltshire, 

 wliere they were entertained l)y a Mr. Fane. It would appear 

 that Dunn had arranged with Colonel Penruddocke, on the part of 

 the authorities, to waylay and arrest the party at some point on 

 the road, but for some reason, possibly with the design to implicate 

 Dame Alice, he deferred any interference until they were safely 

 housed at Moyle's Court, one Barter acting as guide. 



Crossing the river Avon at Fordingbridge they reached their 

 destination about ten o'clock at night on the 28th of July, and, 

 having turned their horses loose at the gate, they were taken into 

 the house by the steward of Dame Alice. It appears, however, 

 that they had but a very short interview with the owner of the 

 mansion in an upstair room, where tliey supped. 



According to Burnet—" She knew Hickes, and treated him 

 civilly, not asking from whence they came, but Ilickes told, what 

 brought them thither, for they had been, with the Duke of Mon- 

 mouth. Upon which, she went out of the room, immediately, and 

 ordered her chief servant, to send an information, to the next 

 justice of the peace, and in the meanwhile to suffer them to make 

 their escape." During the niglit, however, Moyle's Court was 

 surrounded by Colonel Penruddocke and some soldiers, and Ilickes 

 and Nelthorpe were found secreted, the one in the malthou&e and 

 the other in one of the chambers near that in which they had 

 supped ; and, being both taken, they were subsequently hung at 

 Glastonbury. John Hickes is styled clerk, but he was probably a 

 dissenting minister. Nelthorpe was a lawyer who had been con- 

 cerned in the Rye House plot. 



For this offence Alice Lisle was at once conveyed to Winchester, 

 on a pillion behind a trooper, and when the writer came to Moyle's 

 Court about 1872 the old people at Gorely, a short distance on the 

 road towards "Winchester, used to tell how that their ancestors had 

 handed down that the horse having cast a shoe at that place Alice 



