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Iter Bellicosum: Adam Wheeler his Account of 1685

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 December 2009

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page 157 note 1 See Wolseley's, LordLife of Marlborough, vol. i, Ch. 37Google Scholar. But the reader must observe that Lord Wolseley's dates are as muddled as Wheeler's.

page 157 note 2 The battle was on Langmoor, not on Sedgemoor properly so called.

page 158 note 1 Hist., MSS. Comm., Ninth Report, p. 21.

page 158 note 2 Col. McKinnon, Origin and services of the Coldstream Guards.

page 159 note 1 June 16th was Tuesday.

page 159 note 1 Saturday was June 20th.

page 160 note 1 Probably Sunday June 21st.

page 160 note 2 Tuesday was June 23rd.

page 161 note 1 Correct date.

page 161 note 2 Monmouth was that day retreating to Wells. It means where his army had been drawn up, not that it was then there. But the armies had come very close together on July 1, 2, and if Churchill had been in command Sedgemoor would have been anticipated by four days.

page 164 note 1 The total is in fact 238

page 164 note 2 There used to be a mound, now levelled, near what had been the left wing of Monmouth's army, where the men were buried.