CAPTURE OF THE DUKE OF MONMOUTH.
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Mr. Editor,—Having noticed the letter of Mr. John Bruce, in your Miscellany, I beg leave to inform him that the ash tree under which Monmouth was taken is still standing on the Woodland estate, now the property of the Earl of Shaftesbury.
I shall be happy at some future day, if it suits your purpose, to collect and send you such particulars as may be gained on the spot respecting it, and the incidents of the capture.
We have still in the Town Hall here the chain in which it is said Jefferies sat at the Bloody Assize.
A. D. M.
Dorcester, 3d Nov. 1849.
[We shall gladly receive the particulars which our Correspondent proposed to collect and forward.]