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Rh her answers but in her line of defence. The wretch’s name was Elizabeth Plunkett, of Aire.”

I can only mention, for I have no particulars of them, André François Buckle, guillotined at Rochefort, March 14th, 1793; John Baptist Carr, executed, with sixteen other recusant priests, at Poitiers, March 18th, 1793; Charles Eliot, at Rennes, October 28th, 1793; Martin Glynn, Irish recusant priest, at Bordeaux, July 19th, 1794; John Joseph Goff, a deserter from the army, at Auxonne, June 15th, 1794; and Margaret Rose Gordon, born in France 1733, executed with six other nuns at Orange, July 15th, 1794.

Several persons bearing English names were acquitted by the tribunals or subjected to non-capital sentences. Joseph Joachim and Joseph Martin, sailors and prisoners of war, were condemned at St. Brieux to fifteen years' imprisonment for forging assignats. Captain John Bayer, John Fleet, Richard Westerman of Southampton, and eight other sailors from Jersey, wrecked in the cutter Felix, off Blainville, had a quantity of forged assignats in their possession, but were acquitted of intending to pass them. They were, however, ordered to be detained till exchanged. Marie Lesueur, of Jersey, who on business visits to France received money for refugee priests, was arrested at Flamainville (Manche) with 1700 francs of such money. She was convicted at Cherbourg May 11th,