Jo Ais^ OLb itAMPSHIRfe MANOR SOUSE. 



The Lord Chief Justice cliarged to the utmost against her, and 

 three times refused to take the verdict of the Jury— in her favour 

 ■ — until they obeyed his mandate, and found her guilty, when he 

 immediately passed sentence upon her, condemning her to be 

 burned the same day. " During the passing of the sentence," says 

 Burnet, " the only person not concerned, was the lady herself, who 

 was then past seventy, and was so little moved at it, that she fell 

 asleep." Petitions were at once forwarded to the King, especially 

 by her friends, the ladies St. John and Abergavenny. Strong 

 intercession was also made by many of the nobles and others about 

 the Court, but in vain, and the only indulgence shown by James 

 was, that in accordance with her own petition, instead of being 

 burnt, she should be beheaded, which sentence Avas carried into 

 effect in the Market Place, at Winchester, on Wednesday, the 2nd 

 of September, 1685. After the execution, the body was brought 

 back to Moyle's Court, and interred in the Churchyard, at 

 Ellingham. 



The whole of Dame Alice's property was at once confiscated as 

 that of an attainted felon, but it is clear that the whole process 

 against her was illegal. The men she took in for the liight had 

 never been tried for any offence, and were therefore, according to 

 law, innocent. That her conduct was not a treasonable ofi'ence, has 

 been argued at length, by Lord Macaulay. 



Howe\er, a few years later, on the petition of her daughter, 

 Tryphena, Avife of Richard Lloyd, and of Bridget Ussher, the 

 attainder was reversed, and the property restored to the Lisle 

 Family by Act of Parliament, dated William and Mary, 1689. 



Whereas Alicia Lisle, widow, in the month of August, in the first 

 year of the reign of the late King James the Second,, at a Sessions of 

 Oyer et Tcrminei', and Gaol Delivery, holden for the , County of 

 Southampton, in the City of Whachester, in the said County, by an 

 irregular and undue prosecution, Ayas indicted for, entertaining, 

 concealing, and comforting John Hicks, Clerk, a false traitor, 

 knowing him to be such, though the said John Hicks \yas not at 

 the trial of the said Alicia Lisle, attainted or convicted of any such 



