And in the eighth month
following the twenty-one prisoners that remained were brought to
trial; a jury was found, who brought in a pretended verdict that
they were GUILTY OF A RIOT for only sitting peaceably together
without word or action, and though there was no proclamation made
nor they required to depart. But one of the jurymen afterwards did
confess he knew not what a riot was; yet the prisoners were fined a
noble apiece, and recommitted to prison during life (a hard
sentence) or the King's pleasure, or until they should pay the said
fines. William Woodhouse was forthwith discharged by his kinsman's
paying the fine and fees for him; Thomas Dell and Edward Moore also,
by other people of the world paying their fines and fees; and
shortly after, Stephen Pewsey, by the town and parish where he
lived, for fear his wife and children should become a charge upon
them. The other seventeen remained prisoners till King James's
proclamation of pardon; whose names were Thomas and William Sexton,
Timothy Child, Robert Moor, Richard James, William and Robert
Aldridge, John Ellis, George Salter, John Smith, William Tanner,
William Batchelor, John Dolbin, Andrew Brothers, Richard Baldwin,
John Jennings, and Robert Austin.
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