Bloody denouement An illustration depicting the execution of the Duke of Monmouth. Some 1,400 men and women were put on trial in the “Bloody Assizes” that followed his failed rebellion
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In 1649, John Lisle had been one of the judges at Charles I’s trial. Thirty-six years later, the tables had turned and Lisle’s own wife, Alice, stood accused of the crime of treason. She would endure the same fate as the king.