ohn Lisle; he was called to the bar, and
became a bencher of the Middle Temple. He sat in the Long Parliament for
Winchester, was one of the managers of Charles I.'s trial, and is said
to have drawn up the form of the sentence. He became President of the
High Court of Justice in 1654, sat in the Parliament of that year, and
was appointed one of the Commissioners of the Exchequer. He appears to
have been a consistent follower of Cromwell, and became a member of his
House of Lords in 1657. He left England on the Restoration and fled to
Lausanne, where he was murdered by an Irish Royalist in 1664. He
sentenced John Penruddock, the father of the Colonel Penruddock of this
trial, to death in 1655 for his participation in an unsuccessful rising
against the Commonwealth in Wiltshire.

Alice Lisle, commonly called Lady Lisle, was tried for high treason at
Winchester on 27th August 1685, before Lord Chief-Justice Jeffreys,[53]
during his notorious 'Bloody Assize.' The charge against her was that
knowing one George Hicks, a popular dissenting minister, to have been in
Monmouth's army at Sedgemoor she entertained and concealed him in her
house at Moyles Court. To convict her it was necessary to prove that
Hicks had been in Monmouth's army, that she knew it, and that she
entertained and concealed him. The prosecution was conducted by
Pollexfen,[54] Mundy, and Corriton, as far at least as it was not
conducted by Jeffreys. Lady Lisle, according to the custom of the time,
was not allowed counsel, though no doubt she had opportunities for
receiving legal advice during the course of the trial. Hicks was
afterwards tried, and hanged at Glastonbury.[55]

The first three witnesses were Pope, Fitzherbert, and Taylor, who were
visited by Hicks and Monmouth's chaplain, apparently for more or less
charitable purposes, when they were prisoners to Monmouth's Army in Sir
Thomas Bridge's stables at Keynsham. Two of them also spoke to having
seen him actually in Monmouth's Army.

_James Dunne_ was then sworn.

POLLEXFEN--If your lordship please to observe, the times will
fall out to be very material in this case: the battle at
Kings-Edgemore was the sixth of July; three or four days
afterwards was the taking of Monmouth, and my lord Grey at
Ringwood; upon the 26th of July, ten or twelve days after the
taking of Monmouth, was this message sent by Dunne to Mrs.
Lisle: so we call Dunne to prove what message he carried u