He also opened his commission at Taunton and Wells; and every where carried consternation along with him.
The juries were so struck with his menaces, that they gave their verdict with precipitation; and many innocent persons, it is said, were involved with the guilty.

And on the whole, besides those who were butchered by the military commanders, two hundred and fifty-one are computed to have fallen by the hand of justice.

The whole country was strowed with the heads and limbs of traitors.

Every village almost beheld the dead carcass of a wretched inhabitant.

And all the rigors of justice, unabated by any appearance of clemency, were fully displayed to the people by the inhuman Jefferies.
Of all the executions, during this dismal period, the most remarkable were those of Mrs.Gaunt and Lady Lisle, who had been accused of harboring traitors.