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After the engagement at Seclgemoor, John Hicks, and 

 Richard Nelthorpe, a lawyer who had been outlawed for 

 his share in the Rye-house plot, sought refuge at her 

 house. [In the account of the trial, Lady Lisle is described 

 as "of Moyle's Court, near Fordingbridge."] "The same 

 womanly kindness," continues Macaulay, "which led her 

 to befriend the Royalists in their time of trouble, would 

 not allow her to refuse a meal and a hiding-place to the 

 misguided men who now entreated her to protect them. 

 She took them into her house, set meat before them, 

 and shewed them where they might take rest. The next 

 morning her dwelling was surrounded by soldiers; strict 

 search was made; Hicks was found concealed in the malt- 

 house, and Nelthorpe in the chimney." Lady Lisle was 

 also herself captured by Colonel Penruddock, brought to 

 trial for harbouring the fugitives, condemned by Jefferies, 

 and executed — thus adding another to the long list of 

 atrocities perpetrated by the "unjust judge."* From this 

 historical incident Ward has painted one of the frescoes 

 in the Houses of Parliament, in which picture may be 

 seen represented the Lady Lisle, John Hicks, and Richard 

 Nelthorpe. 



The following ejected ministers are also associated with 

 Kingsbridge. Of the Rev. George Hughes, the friend of 

 Crispin and Geffery, mention has already been made. 



Anthony Wood, in his "Athense Oxoniensis," says he 

 entered Corpus Christi College, Oxford, in 1619, and took 

 the degree of B.D. in 1633, about which time he became 

 vicar of St. Andrew's, Plymouth. Wood says that "he 

 exercised a kind of patriarchal sway in Devonshire," and 



* " In the first year of William and Mary, the attainder was removed, and 

 Lady Lisle's two daughters were restored to all their former rights." 



