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Re: The Bloody Assizes of 1685 - are many of the victims' names known?
« Reply #9 on: Tuesday 20 October 20 14:19 BST (UK) »
Just read about Hester in Mike Rendell's "Trailblazing Women of the Georgian Era". Brought back memories of a visit to to Honiton lace museum just a few years ago.

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Re: The Bloody Assizes of 1685 - are many of the victims' names known?
« Reply #10 on: Tuesday 20 October 20 14:56 BST (UK) »
Hi again, Hanes Teulu!
Thanks very much for that link, I've just had a read of Chapter 7 and what Hester PINNEY achieved in her lifetime.  To see the bursting of the South Sea Bubble coming before it actually happened shows real business acumen.  So many others ruined by it all.
What an impressive person Hester must have been.  Lord Shaftesbury must surely have known of her, might even have met her, as he was closely associated with George Booth according to my book: "The First Earl of Shaftesbury" by K.H.D. Haley, pub in 1968.
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« Reply #11 on: Tuesday 20 October 20 15:03 BST (UK) »
Had she led the Rebellion might have been a different result!

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« Reply #12 on: Tuesday 20 October 20 15:12 BST (UK) »
A Boudicca or Joan of Arc of The West Country in other words!
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