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



" The Tryall and sentence of Death to be Drawn, Hanged and Quartered. 



Pronounced against 

 Mr. Mack [Mackes] an apothecary of Salisbury 

 Mr. John Thorp an Innkeeper of same town 

 Mr. Kensey a Chiourgeon of Newbury 

 and M.r. Dean and Mr. Lukes of Hungerford 

 upon a charge of High treason for conspiring together to take up arms and raise 

 new forces for the King of the Scots 



(London G. Horton 1655) April 19th written upon it." 



It contains a supposed resume of the indictment, and the law on 

 the subject; as that it was an offence against the Protector and the 

 present Government by the late ordinance, &c. 



Then follows the expression of the feelings of some of the prisoners. 

 Of Mackes when reaching " the place of restraint/'' The pamphlet 

 is written by some Royalist, and is of very little value ; it 

 says 



" he was not tried by a jury of the country and that Mr. Heyley [Hely] and 

 sundry other gentlemen of Salisbury are posting after the judges to get a reprieve I 

 for Mack[es]." 



Finally the Attorney- General writes from Dorchester 

 " I am also to represent Edmond Macke[s] from them, [the Commissioners] as 

 fit for mercy; it is conceived ill offices are done him by some at Salisbury, yet 

 some honest people spoke to me for him, to have spared proceedings against him, 

 though Mr. Richard Hill the Justice were one of them [who had done ill offices ?] 



Mr. Hill is mentioned just before as having been faithful and 

 active in the business. 



But I must leave the fate of Mackes and the others whom I have 

 not mentioned, in suspense, for nothing more do I know about them. 

 " Et jam tempzis eqiium Jumantia solvere colla" at the gates of 

 Exeter Castle. 



(To he Continued.) 



Note* — At the time this paper was origin ally penned I had not had the oppor- 

 tunity of seeing Mr. Waylen's account of the Rising in the West, published 

 many years ago in the Wiltshire Independent. It will appear, on comparison, 

 that the present records carry our knowledge still further ; and in some points 

 necessarily differ from the view Mr. Waylen presents to us. It is a matter for 

 regret that the whole of the valuable papers published by him in the Devizes or 

 other newspapers have not been collected and edited with notes and references. 

 Our debt of gratitude to him, at present large, would be vastly increased to the 

 mutual pleasure and profit of both parties. W, W, R. 



