Aftermath of the Monmouth Rebellion in 1685
Jeffreys
made all the West an Aceldama; some places quite depopulated and
nothing to be seen in ’em but forsaken walls, unlucky gibbets and
ghostly carkases. The trees were loaden almost as thick with quarters
as leaves; the houses and steeples covered as close with heads as at
other times with crows or ravens. Nothing could be liker hell than all
those parts; nothing so like the devil as he. Caldrons hizzing,
carkases boyling, pitch and tar sparkling and glowing, blood and limbs
boyling and tearing and mangling, and he the great director of all.
Western Martyrology
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