750 'Ihe HISTORY of the ' PuRITANs. VoL. II. Ki"g 're grace of God, I will look after thee. I know thou hafl: a mighty James !I. , d I r 1685 . ' party, an 1ee a great many of the brotherhood in corners, waiting ~ " to fee what will become of their mighty don, and a doctor of the " party [doCl:or Bates] at your elbow, but by the grace of almighty " God, I wi~l cru£? you all." Th~ cbiefjujiice having direCted the jury, they found htm gmlty, without going from the bar, and fined him five hundred marks, to lay in prifon till he paid it, and be bound to his good behaviour for feven years. Mr. Baxter continued in prifon about two years, and ~ben the court changed its meafures, his fine was remitted, and he was releafed. Duke of The rebellion of the duke of Afonmoutb, furnifhed the court with a p!Jufible Mon~wuth's handle, to carry the profecution ofthewbzgsanddi/fententoafurther extremi– rcbellton. ty. There was a confiderable number of englijh fugitives in Holland at this .time, fomeon political accounts, and others on the {core of religion. The king being apprehenfive of danger from thence, obliged the pt ioce of Orange to difmifs the duke of Monmouth from his court, and to break all thofe officers who had waited upon him, and who were in his fervice ; this precipitated the counfels of the malecontents, and made them refolve up– on a rafh and ill concerted invafion, which proved their ruin. The earl of Argy/e imagining all the ftots pre!byterians would revolt, failed to the north of Scotland with a very (mall force, and was defeated with the ef– fufion of very_ little blood, before the declaration which he brought with him, could have any effeCt. After him the duke of Monmouth, with the like precipitate rafbnefs, landed June I I with an inconfiderable force at Lyme in Dorjetjhire ; and though he was joined by great numbers in the weft country, he was defeated by the king's forces, mc1de prifoner, and executed on 'Tower-Hill; as was the earl of Argyle at Edinburgh. ]I ajfells the Though the body of the diifenters were not concerned in either of no_n-confor- thefe invafions, they fuffered confiderably on this occafion. Great num– mlils. bers of their chief merchants and tradefmen in the city, being taken up by warrants, and fecured in gaols, and in the public balls; as were ma– ny whig gentlemen, in York Ca.ftle, Hull, and the prifons in all parts of England, which had this good effect, that it kept them out of harms way, while many of their friends were ruined by joining the duke; fame from a perfuafion that the late king was marrie? to his mother; and others in hope of a deliverance from popery and arb1trary power. J tr • d The king elated with fuccefs refolved, to let both whigs and dz!Tenters errenes an . . 'JJ ~ Col. Kirk's feel the wei<Yht of the arm of a conqueror: H1s army hved upon freecruelties in quarters in ~he weft, and treated all who were fuppofed to be difaffeCl:ed, the Weft. with great rudenefs and violence. Some days after lJfonmouth's defeat, ~~;~e~'S. colonel Kirk ordered feveral of the pri~oners to be_ hung up at 'Taunton, without any trial or form of law, wb1le he and h1s company were ~ancmg,
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