CHAPTER VIII.

(1746.)

Colonel Towneley――King’s Evidence――Towneley’s Trial――Conviction―― Captain Fletcher――The Manchester Officers――‘Jemmy Dawson’―― The Jacobite Press――The Condemned Jacobites――Painful Partings――Within Prison Walls――The Last Morning――Via Dolorosa――At Kennington Common――Behaviour――Execution――Heads and Bodies――Other Trials――A Mad Jacobite――Sir John Wedderburn ‘Bishop’ Coppock 166