Transportation after the Bloody Assizes of 1685
The full list of Transportation after the Bloody Assizes
After the Bloody Assizes of 1685, 856 men found guilty of Rebellion were sentenced to transportation as indentured convicts (no better than slaves). Rather than executing these men King James II selected these people and gave them to his friends who benefited their sale to plantation owners:
Gifted To | People | Value |
Sir William Booth | 195 | £ 2,925.00 |
Mr Heywood* | 14 | £ 210.00 |
Sir Philip Howard | 174 | £ 2,610.00 |
Sir Christopher Musgrave | 100 | £ 1,500.00 |
Mr Jerome Nipho | 104 | £ 1,560.00 |
The Queen | 100 | £ 1,500.00 |
Sir William Stapleton | 99 | £ 1,485.00 |
Mr White* | 70 | £ 1,050.00 |
* possibly Agents for Mr William Bridgemen
The following ships transported the Rebels to destinations in America and the West Indies:
Ship | Slaves | Destination |
Indeavour | 97 | St Kitts & Nevis |
Rebecca | 14 | Barbados |
Happy Return | 93 | Barbados |
John Friggat | 90 | Barbados |
Betty | 80 | Barbados |
Port Royal Merchant | 172 | Jamaica |
Constant Richard | 84 | Jamaica |
Jamaica Merchant | 182 | Barbados |
Exchange | 5 | Virginia |
Unknown | 39 | Multiple Destinations (Virginia?) |
Click here for the list of the 315 men and women martyred.
This list is based on the published lists or information found in J.D Muddiman “Bloody Assizes”, George Roberts “Life of James Duke of Monmouth vII”, Sir Edward Parry “The Bloody Assizes”, John Tutchin “The Western Martyrology”, Howells “State Trails v11, Hotten “The Original Lists”, Locke “The Western Rising” and cross referenced with the excellence work of W. Macdonald Wigfield “The Monmouth Rebels”.