NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
Mean Temperature 60·67
[243] Daily papers.
[244] A few years ago it was unsafe to ring the ten bells in St. James’s steeple. It has been repaired—I cannot say its fine Saxon architecture either beautified or improved.
July 5.
Chronology.
On the fifth of July, 1685, the duke of Monmouth’s enterprise against James II. was ended by the battle of Sedgemoor, near Bridgwater, in Somersetshire. The duke’s army consisting of native followers attacked the king’s veteran troops, routed them, and would finally have conquered, if error in Monmouth as a leader, and the cowardice of lord Gray, one of his commanders, had not devoted them to defeat.