The Regicide's Widow: Lady Alice Lisle And The Bloody Assize

Rebellion, persecution and injustice in Restoration England are themes of this colourful, passionate book about the last woman beheaded in England. Lady Alice Lisle was the widow of one of the men who sentenced Charles I to death. When she gave shelter to a clergyman involved in Monmouth's Rebellion, Judge Jeffreys, in the first Bloody Assize trial, showed no mercy.