to confine them during the king's pleasure. On the death of the king (William III), a fresh act extended the imprisonment during the reign of Queen Anne. During this long lapse of time repeated applications were made to judges, but the release of the prisoners was always bitterly opposed by the law officers. Bernardi's doctors certified that imprisonment was killing him; he was said to suffer from fits and the constant trouble of an old wound. Nevertheless he lived on; and when in his sixty-eighth year he married, in Newgate, a second, "virtuous, kind, and loving wife, who proved a true helpmeet," supporting him by her good management, and keeping his heart from breaking in the "English Bastile." Bernardi had ten children born in Newgate of this second wife. The imprisonment continued through the reigns of George I and II. Frequent petitions were unheeded, and finally Bernardi died in Newgate in 1736, the last survivor, after forty years' incarceration, and aged eighty-two. FOOTNOTES: [136:1] "Secret History of the Rebels in Newgate: giving an account of their daily behaviour from their commitment to their gaol delivery." Taken from "the diary of a gentleman in the same prison"—one who was evidently no particular admirer of theirs. [137:1] It will be remembered that Mr. Forster's want of generalship lost the battle of Prestonpans. [140:1] For this Dalton was convicted and fined fifty marks, with imprisonment for one year, also to find security for three more years. [144:1] Parson Paul was the Rev. William Paul, M. A., vicar of Orton-on-the-Hill, in Leicestershire. He met the rebels at Preston, and performed service there, praying for the Pretender as King James the Third. When the royal troops invested Preston, Mr. Paul escaped "in coloured clothes, a long wig, a laced hat, and a sword by his side." He came to London, and was recognized in St. James's Park by a Leicestershire magistrate, who apprehended him, and he was committed to Newgate. [144:2] One of the Halls of Otterburn, Northumberland, and a magistrate for the county. He joined the Pretender early, and was one of his most active and staunch supporters. [153:1] According to the deposition of Harris, the informer, Bernardi came with Rookwood to London on purpose to meet Barclay, the chief conspirator. CHAPTER VI NOTABLE EXECUTIONS