Depositions Relating to the Monmouth Incident: William Tildesley

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Date:May 1685

Description:Another account of events is included amongst papers relating to this case, given by William Tildesley a ‘yeoman’ from ‘the county of Stafford’. William states ‘that he had heard that there was a gent lost in a wood neer[e] unto Trentham who mett with a wood cutter & that the said wood cutter did lett him the way to Trentham & that the said wood cutter should declare that he had seen that face before but it was soe disvigerd with Hair [he] thought him to be like the Duke of Munmouth’