176 Records of the Rising in the West, A.D. 1655. 



We seem to be present at the trial, watching 1 the chagrin of 

 the Attorney-General, as the prosecution swerved, and fell through. 

 Glynn with judicial calmness writes less strongly on the same point, 

 "he thought the juries behaved very well/' it was the evidence that 

 shrunk from its first purity — " only one Mr. Zouche passed them a 

 little too easy." 1 The Zouches though acquitted were bound over to 

 keep the peace for a year, with very good securities. This per- 

 chance brought imprisonment. Mercurius Politicus, April 12th to 

 19th, says 



" Two Zouches notoriously guilty and yet the petty jury acquitted, not with- 

 standing the evidence was very lull against them, specially against Henry Zouch 

 by several witnesses ; But many of the Jury told the Court they were his tenants, 

 such good consiences we find here to spare some for favour only." 



The Weehly Post, April 17th to 24th, has the same and then 

 proceeds 



" Would not a Grand Jury be requisite to examine such cases ? Sure I am there 

 are many tenants better than their landlords." 



And I suppose the writer would have added, not so these Salisbury 

 Common Jurors. In any case we appreciate the praises Serjeant 

 Glynn gave them. 



Mr. William Willoughby belonged to one of the oldest families 

 in Dorsetshire ; an off-shoot of that of the Lord Willoughby de 

 Brook. They were in Wiltshire early in the sixteenth century, and the 

 name still lingers as marking certain localities at West Knoyle, 

 where they resided. If he be the William Willoughby of the Vis- 

 itation of 1623, 2 and it seems probable he was, he must have been 

 at this time over 70 years of age ; for in 1623 he had a son living 

 aged 19. His name, it will be remembered, was amongst the Com- 

 missioners originally nominated; and he was also summoned on the 

 Grand Jury of this very assize. He had married for his second wife, 

 Mary Green, daughter of Mr. Richard Green of Mere, and brother 

 of the Richard included in this same indictment, and was <( a fine old 

 English gentleman" of those days, 



l 3 Th., 379. 

 2 Hoare Mod. Wilts, Hund. Mere. 



