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that you upon your salvation should pretend ignorance in the
    business, when since that time, ever since last night, there has
    been but too much discovered how far you were concerned: no it
    is not unknown who were sent for upon the Monday night, in order
    to have that rebellious seditious fellow to preach to them, what
    directions were given to come through the orchard the back and
    private way, what orders were given for provision and how the
    horses were appointed to be disposed of.

After exhortations to all the prisoners to repent, the Court awards

    that you Mrs. Lisle be conveyed from hence to the place from
    whence you came, and from thence you are to be drawn on a hurdle
    to the place of execution, where your body is to be burnt alive
    till you be dead. And may the Lord have mercy on your soul.

The rest of the prisoners then had the usual judgment as in cases of
felony.

    LORD CHIEF-JUSTICE--Look you, Mrs. Lisle, when I left his
    majesty he was pleased to remit the time of all executions to
    me; that whenever I found any obstinacy or impenitence I might
    order the executions with what speed I should think best;
    therefore Mr. Sheriff, take notice you are to prepare for this
    execution of this gentlewoman this afternoon. But on that, I
    give you, the prisoner, this intimation; we that are the judges
    shall stay in town an hour or two; you shall have pen, ink and
    paper, brought you, and if in the mean time you employ that pen,
    ink and paper, and this hour or two well (you understand what I
    mean) it may be you may hear further from us, in a deferring the
    execution.

On the intercession of 'some divines of the church of Winchester'
execution was respited till 2nd of September; and her sentence was
afterwards commuted to beheading. She was accordingly beheaded on the
afternoon of the 2nd of September 1685 in the market-place of
Winchester.

In 1689, on the petition of her daughters Mrs. Lloyd and Mrs. Askew, her
attainder was annulled by Act of Parliament on the ground that the
verdict was 'injuriously extorted and procured by the menaces and
violences and other illegal practices of George Lord Jeffreys, baron of
Wem, then Lord Chief-Justice of the King's Bench.'[63]

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State Trials, Political and Social. Volume 1 (of 2)

Trials -- Great Britain

that you upon your salvation should pretend ignorance in the
    business, when since that time, ever since last night, there has
    been but too much discovered how far you were concerned: no it
    is not unknown who were sent for upon the Monday night, in order
    to have that rebellious seditious fellow to preach to them, what
    directions were given to come through the orchard the back and
    private way, what orders were given for provision and how the
    horses were appointed to be disposed of.

After exhortations to all the prisoners to repent, the Court awards

    that you Mrs. Lisle be conveyed from hence to the place from
    whence you came, and from thence you are to be drawn on a hurdle
    to the place of execution, where your body is to be burnt alive
    till you be dead. And may the Lord have mercy on your soul.

The rest of the prisoners then had the usual judgment as in cases of
felony.

    LORD CHIEF-JUSTICE--Look you, Mrs. Lisle, when I left his
    majesty he was pleased to remit the time of all executions to
    me; that whenever I found any obstinacy or impenitence I might
    order the executions with what speed I should think best;
    therefore Mr. Sheriff, take notice you are to prepare for this
    execution of this gentlewoman this afternoon. But on that, I
    give you, the prisoner, this intimation; we that are the judges
    shall stay in town an hour or two; you shall have pen, ink and
    paper, brought you, and if in the mean time you employ that pen,
    ink and paper, and this hour or two well (you understand what I
    mean) it may be you may hear further from us, in a deferring the
    execution.

On the intercession of 'some divines of the church of Winchester'
execution was respited till 2nd of September; and her sentence was
afterwards commuted to beheading. She was accordingly beheaded on the
afternoon of the 2nd of September 1685 in the market-place of
Winchester.

In 1689, on the petition of her daughters Mrs. Lloyd and Mrs. Askew, her
attainder was annulled by Act of Parliament on the ground that the
verdict was 'injuriously extorted and procured by the menaces and
violences and other illegal practices of George Lord Jeffreys, baron of
Wem, then Lord Chief-Justice of the King's Bench.'[63]

FOOTNOTES:

Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.

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