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crime ; and by a verdict, injuriously extorted and procured by the 

 menaces and violences and other illegal practices of George, Lord 

 Jefferies, Baron of Wem, then Lord Chief Justice of the King's 

 Bench, and Chief Commissioner of Oyer and Terminer, and Gaol 

 Delivery within the said County, was convicted, attainted, and 

 executed for High Treason : May it therefore please your Most 

 Excellent Majesties at the humble petition of Tryphena Lloyd, and 

 Bridget Ussher, daughters of the said Alicia Lisle : That it be 

 declared and enacted, by the authority of this present Parliament, 

 and be it enacted, by the King and Queen's Most Excellent 

 Majesties, by, and with the advice and consent of the Lords, 

 Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons in this present Parliament 

 assembled, and by the authority of the same : That the said 

 conviction, judgment, and attainder of the said Alicia Lisle be, and 

 are hereby repealed, reversed, made, and declared null and void to 

 all intents, constructions, and purposes whatever, as if no such 

 conviction, judgment, or attainder had ever been had or made, and 

 that no corruption of blood, or other penalty, or forfeiture of 

 honours, dignities, lands, goods, or chattels be by the said conviction 

 or attainder incurred, any law, usage, or custom to the contrary, 

 notwithstanding. 



Tlie Property attached to Moyle's Court, consisting of the 

 Parishes of Ellingham and Ibbesley, and extending from Ringwood 

 to within a short distance of Fordingbridge, and from the CroAvn 

 Lands of the 2^ew Forest to the river Avon, remained in the family 

 of the Lisles until the beginning of this century, when, upon the 

 death of Mr. Charles Lisle, the estates were sold to the owner of the 

 property on the other bank of the river, and with it passed into the 

 hands of the Earl of Xormanton, avIiosc son is the present 

 possessor. 



When the present occupier and writer of these notes came to 

 Moyle's Court about twenty-four years ago, the house had been 

 uninhabited for nearly half-a-century, and the architects called in 

 had given their opinion that nothing could be done with the place 

 but pull it down. A great part of the old house had been already 



