Andrew White, indicted, proved, reprieved before judgment, and banished.

Richard Copley, condemned and banished.

Richard Worthington, found guiltie and banished.

Edmond Cole, Peter Wright, and William Morgan, indicted, proved, and sent beyond sea.

Philip Morgan, executed at Tyburne.

Edmond Ensher, als.  Arrow, indicted, condemned, reprieved by the parliament and banished.

Thomas Budd, als.  Peto, als.  Gray, condemned, reprieved by the lord mayor of London, and others, justices, and since retaken by order of the councell of state, and is now in Newgate.

George Baker, als.  Macham, indicted, proved guiltie, and now in Newgate.

Peter Beale, als.  Wright, executed at Tyburne.

George Sage, indicted by us, and found guiltie, and since is dead.

James Wadsworth.

Francis Newton.

Thomas Mayo.

Robert de Luke.”

This catalogue tells a fearful but instructive tale; inasmuch as it shows how wantonly men can sport with the lives of their fellow-men, if it suit the purpose of a great political party.  The patriots, to enlist in their favour the religious prejudices of the people, represented the king as the patron of popery, because he sent the priests into banishment, instead of delivering them to the knife of the executioner.  Hence, when they became lords of the ascendant, they were bound to make proof of their orthodoxy; and almost every execution mentioned above took place by their order in 1642, or 1643.  After that time they began to listen to the voice of humanity, and adopted the very expedient which they had so clamorously condemned.  They banished, instead of hanging and quartering.

NOTE H, p. 493.

Revenue of the Protector.

When the parliament, in 1654, undertook to settle an annual sum on the protector, Oliver Cromwell, the following, according to the statement of the sub-committee, was the amount of the revenue in the three kingdoms:—­

Excise and customs in England . . . . . . . . . . .  L80,000
Excise and customs in Scotland  . . . . . . . . . .  10,000
Excise and customs in Ireland . . . . . . . . . . .  20,000
Monthly assessments in England (at 60,0001.)  . . . 720,000
Monthly assessments in Ireland (at 8,0001.) . . . .  96,000
Monthly assessments in Scotland (at 8,0001.)  . . .  96,000
Crown revenue in Guernsey and Jersey  . . . . . . .   2,000
Crown revenue in Scotland . . . . . . . . . . . . .   9,000
Estates of papists and delinquents in England . . .  60,000
Estates of papists and delinquents in Scotland  . .  30,000
Rent of houses belonging to the crown . . . . . . .   1,250
Post-office . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  10,000
Exchequer revenue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  20,000
Probate of wills  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  10,000
Coinage of tin  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   2,000
Wine licenses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  10,000
Forest of Dean  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   4,000
Fines on alienations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  20,000
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L1,200,000

[From the original report in the collection of Thomas Lloyd, Esq.]