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



John Woodward followed,, the same paper says 

 ** John Woodward, another of the risers was next hanged who said nothing at 

 all to the people, nor did anything but what was in private ; and so all the rest; 

 the highwaymen was speedily hanged one after another speaking very little." * 



Did Woodward, thus silent, carry to the grave the secret of his 

 innocence ? If so, he resembled that other horse stealer of many 

 years since, who died vicariously at Salisbury for his son-in-law. 1 



What became of John Deane? He was apparently of a better 

 position in life, than most if not all of the condemned at Salisbury. 

 The only child of his mother ; as we have seen. 



There are the following notices of him in the Weekly Intelligencer, 

 May 8th, 1655 :— 

 " Deane reprieved and in town ; " 

 and 



" Letters from Sarum that Kensey and Deane suffered last Thursday." 



Cum favore vita we must leave him, and hope he enjoyed many 

 another days' hunting with Lord Sands ; besides the one immediately 

 before the rising. 2 



In the Thurloe Papers is preserved Mackes' petition to the Com- 

 missioners of assize, after sentence, which tells us that 



" Your petitioner the very same day as hee engaged in the rebellion, and in a 

 fewe howers after he went forth with the partye, returned back and rendered 

 himselfe prisoner, and went and submitted himselfe to his highnes the Lord 

 Protector and made an ingenious confession before him and his counsell of those 

 that were the chief actors [himself?] in the design." 



He then proceeded to say that he conceived that since his sub- 

 mission some false information had been given against him, that he 

 had not made a full confession, which he utterly denied in the pre- 

 sence of God ; and concluded by a prayer to their honors to intercede 

 with the Lord Protector for him. 3 



He appears to have had a friend in the Attorney- General, who, 

 before the trial, wrote 



" Indeed I am somewhat troubled concerning Macke; I have examined him, and 

 can discover noe more then what he hath informed you, and doe really beleeve 



t Perfect Proceedings, May 3rd to 10th, 1655. 



1 Dowding's Statistics of crime in Wilts. 

 2 3Th., 648. 3 Ibid, 375. 



