Ontario Public School History of England : Authorized by the Minister of Education for Ontario for Use in Forms IV and V of the Public Schools . f England, and to assisthim in dethroning James. But the Scots did not rise;Argyle was captured and executed. So ruthless did thepersecution of the Covenanters now become, that, in thesouth of Scotland, these years were afterwards known asthe killing time. In the meantime, Monmouth had landed at Lyme Regison the Dorsetshire coast, and was soon joined by five or sixthousand of the country people. He boldly claimed thetitle of king; but the nobility and
Ontario Public School History of England : Authorized by the Minister of Education for Ontario for Use in Forms IV and V of the Public Schools . f England, and to assisthim in dethroning James. But the Scots did not rise;Argyle was captured and executed. So ruthless did thepersecution of the Covenanters now become, that, in thesouth of Scotland, these years were afterwards known asthe killing time. In the meantime, Monmouth had landed at Lyme Regison the Dorsetshire coast, and was soon joined by five or sixthousand of the country people. He boldly claimed thetitle of king; but the nobility and gentlemen kept awayfrom him. At Sedgemoor he attacked the royal army andwas badly defeated. Many of his followers were caught andhanged at once, and he himself was taken prisoner. Broughtinto the presence of James, he pleaded hard for mercy, butin vain; he was ordered to the block. The execution of the leader of the rebellion was no morethan could have been expected; but on the country peoplewho had supported him, a pitiless revenge was taken byColonel Kirke and his ferocious soldiers, Kirkes Lambs. James II 1685] THE HOUSE OF STUART 189. Lord Jeffreys Much worse than even this was the tour of the chief justiceof England, George Jeffreys, who went about through therebelHous districts holding a courtwhich became known as theBloody Assizes. The trials ofthe victims were the merestmockery. More than threehundred were put to death, andmore than eight hundred weresold to slavery in the West Indianplantations. When Jeffreys re-turned to London, he was raisedto the office of lord chancellor. 193. Arbitrary rule of James.—The aim of James, during the firstpart of his reign, was to restoreto the Roman Catholics the free exercise of their religion, andto employ them in the government and in the army, withoutin any way relaxing the laws against the Protestant advantage of the rebellion under Monmouth, he hadlargely increased the standing army, and had granted,contrary
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