IOO HISTORY OF HARTING. 



over your people : and may all those perish that ever 

 lift up a thought against y r - Majesty's life, or for dis- 

 turbing the peace of your government. 



" Your Majesty's most unfortunate Subject, 



"FORD GREY." 



Thus out of two nooses, the Ryehouse Plot and the 

 Sedgemoor Rebellion, did Ford Lord Grey extricate 

 his neck, the second time by a barleycorn, in the space 

 of two years. He was fined heavily. Rochester the 

 prime minister had 40,000 from him, or as Burnet 

 says, 16,000. Evelyn enters under Jan. I, 1687: 

 " A seal to confirm a gift of 4000 per annum for 99 

 years to the Lord Treasurer out of the Post Office, and 

 i ,700 for ever out of Lord Greys estate'' Others had 

 smaller slices out of Lord Grey. He gave his evidence 

 to the king on express condition that no one should 

 die on account of it. 



It is probable that at this time Judge Jeffries, just 

 in the height of his work at the Bloody Assizes, 

 determined to make a grab at Up Park. Burrell* says, 

 " I found in the Surveyor General's Office, letter 2, 

 p. 54, a petition from Lord Chancellor Jeffries to the 

 Crown for the grant of Up Park in the county of 

 Sussex, forfeited by Lord Grey. But no notice appears 

 to have been made in consequence of that petition." 

 And in another three years time another Up Park had 

 arisen for Lord Grey in a triumph of its own ; and 

 Jeffries' head (who died from the treatment of the 

 mob and from internal disease) was lying with Mon- 

 mouth's in St. Peter's Chapel at the Tower ! 



Henceforth the life of Ford Lord Grey was peaceful, 

 and, as soon as the Revolution of 1688 brought in the 

 Protestant and Dutch ascendancy, exalted to high 

 honour. Meanwhile it is not a little remarkable that 

 the very year following his Sedgemoor downfall and 



* Burrell MSS., 5705, page 22. 



