Russel meanwhile lay at Honiton, till reenforced by Sir William Herbert and Lord Gray with some German horse, and some Italian arquebusiers under Battista Spinola.

He then resolved to attempt the relief of Exeter, which was now reduced to extremities.

He attacked the rebels, drove them from all their posts, did great execution upon them, both in the action and pursuit,[***] and took many prisoners.

Arundel and the other leaders were sent to London, tried, and executed.

Many of the inferior sort were put to death by martial law:[****] the vicar of St.Thomas, one of the principal incendiaries, was hanged on the top of his own steeple, arrayed in his Popish weeds, with his beads at his girdle.[v] * Hayward, p.292.Holingshed, p.1003.Fox, vol.ii, p.
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