Date:May 1685
Description:The depositions relating to this incident suggest that the Duke of Monmouth visited Trentham Hall in disguise in May 1685. Trentham Hall was the Staffordshire seat of Sir William Leveson Gower and his family, and therefore Sir William was suspected of treasonably harbouring a traitor to the King. The deposition of Thomas Pershall outlines the incident. Pershall states that ‘upon wenesday the twent[iet]h of May 1685 amoungst other things discourseings of the Duke of Munmouth’ he told Sir Bryan Broughton ‘of an idle report (which I did not beleiue) that the Duke should come in a disguies to Trentham’.
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Amongst Sir William’s personal papers are a number of documents relating to an incident involving the ...
The depositions relating to this incident suggest that the Duke of Monmouth visited Trentham Hall in ...
Another account of events is included amongst papers relating to this case, given by William Tildesley ...
The depositions suggest that a man named Bryan Broughton was at the root of the accusations against ...
A letter from Thomas Rawlins to Lady Jane Leveson (d. 1696), William’s wife, suggests that the authorities ...
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