Tale of two nonsailors 2nd September 1685, execution by beheading of Alice Lisle, the last woman in England to be judicially sentenced with beheading. Lisle was accused and convicted of harbouring fugitives after the defeat of the Monmouth Rebellion at the Battle of Sedgemoor. The members of the rebellion were tried during the ‘Bloody Assizes’ in Winchester, presided over by Baron George Jeffreys, known to history as the ‘hanging judge’. It is estimated that during the assizes Jeffreys gave the sentence of execution for treason, to 700 of those involved, or in Lisle’s case those who had sheltered the fugitives. Three years after the Monmouth Rebellion, during the ‘Glorious Revolution’ of 1688, Jeffreys was captured trying to flee London, while disguised as a sailor. Ironically he was pointed out by one of his judicial victims, and captured. Terrified of the crowd, containing many who had received his judgment, Jeffrey’s pleaded to be protected from them. He died the following year in the Tower of London. 3rd September 1838, American social reformer, abolitionist, writer and orator Frederick Douglass escapes from slavery disguised as a sailor. Forced to work for "slave-breaker." Edward Covey, Douglass on this day escaped by boarding a northbound train of the Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad, aided by Anna Murray, a free black woman from Baltimore, who Dougass had met the previous year and fallen in love with. Provided by Murray with money, papers and the sailors uniform, the couple upon Douglass successful escape marry and settle in New Bedford, Massachusetts, moving to Lynn, Massachusetts, in 1841. In 1845 Douglass published his account as the ‘Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave’. #17thcentury #19thcentury #jamesii #execution #hangingjudgejeffries #toweroflondon #bloodyassizes #frederickdouglass #slavery #abolition #abolitionist #sailor #weirdhistory #history #historical #historylovers #historygeek #historic #historicconnections #historicalconnections #strangehistory https://www.instagram.com/p/CEwWN9hgLTD/?igshid=l46f6y9wzln9