Lisle, ALICIA, the aged widow of one of Cromwell's lords, was beheaded at Winchester on 2d September 1685 for having sheltered one Nelthrop, a rebel fugitive from Sedgemoor. Thirty-six years before, at Charles I.'s execution, she had said that her 'blood leaped within her to see the tyrant fall.'
Lisle, ALICIA
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 6: Humber to Malta, p. 652
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