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trifle later date. In the upper room of the tower then, 

 over the entrance gateway of Archbishop Abbot's 

 hospital, the unfortunate Duke of Monmouth was lodged 

 on his way to London after his defeat at Sedgemoor. 

 The melancholy journey from Ringwood — where Mon- 

 mouth was kept for five days after his capture — to London 

 occupied the better part of a week, ended at Vauxhall, 

 and thus gave another interesting personage to the 









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Portsmouth Road. In the coach with the Duke was an 

 officer, whose orders were to stab the prisoner if a rescue 

 were attempted. The captive himself made no attempt 

 however for liberty ; the large body of regular troops and 

 militia who served as guard probably convinced him of 

 the utter hopelessness of any such attempt, if the utter 

 prostration from which he was suffering had not made 

 even an attempt impossible. Monmouth indeed was 

 unnerved to such an extent that through the whole of 



