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on the banks of the Avon, which fpreads, 

 near it, into a large piece of water, full of little 

 iilands, and frequented by fwans. 



Somewhere near this part of the river the 

 duke of Monmouth is faid to have been taken, 

 on the eighth of July 1685, after his defeat 

 at Sedgmore, near Bridgwater. Thus far he 

 had travelled in difguife, and generally by 

 night; feeding on pulfe, and green corn, 

 which he found growing in the fields. But I 

 think the account more probable, that he was 

 taken near Woodlands in Dorfetfliire*. It was 

 thought however, that he intended to have 

 fecured himfelf in the woods of New-foreft, 

 with which he was well acquainted from 

 having frequently hunted in them. I have 

 heard a tradition, that his body after his 

 execution, was fent down into the foreft, and 

 buried privately in Boldre-church-yard ; but I 

 find no ground for the furmife. The regifter 

 of the year is yet extant, in which no notice is 

 taken of any fuch burial ; unlefs he were 



* See Hutching's hift. of Dorfet, p, 60, and 499. 



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