yo General History of Bath. 



Bath even before the receipt of the official tidings, and he 

 and his Consort, Mary of Modena, several times visited 

 the city. 



James Duke of Monmouth landed at Lyme 

 Monmouth's j^ • ^^ ^^^ ^j^ j^ jgjg ^nd thence 



Rebellion. " -r .. 



marched to Bridport and Taunton. His 

 further course was towards Glastonbury and Wells, at which 

 latter town he outraged the feelings of the Canons by 

 breaking the church furniture, trying to burn the organ, and 

 stabling his horses in the Cathedral. 



From Wells, Monmouth marched towards Bath, but the 

 citizens strengthened their walls, called out the Militia, and 

 replied to his summons by a defiance. Fearing to attack 

 either Bath or Bristol, Monmouth, after a skirmish at 

 Keynsham, went to Norton St. Phillips, and thence to 

 Frome, where he was well received. Thence he retreated to 

 Bridgewater, and was defeated at Sedgemoor. The citizens 

 rang their bells on the news of this victory, and made a 

 bonfire when, a few days afterwards, Monmouth was taken 

 at Ringwood. 



Then commenced the " Bloody Assize," the remembrance 

 of which will never die out in the West country. Jeffreys sat 

 at Southampton, Dorchester, Exeter, Taunton, and Wells, 

 and heads and parboiled quarters of his victims polluted the 

 air in every town and village' and country road. Three 

 hundred and thirty-three prisoners were condemned to death 

 (of these 251 were actually executed), seven hundred and 

 forty-nine were sold as slaves to speculators and sent to the 

 West Indian Plantations, and many more were whipped from 

 market to market. Some of the citizens were apparently 

 implicated, for the M:iyor sent witnesses from Bath to give 

 evidence against the rebels at Wells, and received a war- 



