The Monmouth Rebellion

The Monmouth Rebellion: "England's West Country, including Somerset, was a Protestant stronghold at the time of the death of the Protestant King Charles II in February 1685. The new King, Charles' brother James, Duke of York, was Roman Catholic. Charles II's Protestant but illegitimate son, James Scott, the Duke of Monmouth, got the idea that all England would support him in a Protestant rising. Monmouth landed in the West Country and encouraged a Protestant revolt with a rabble of brave but untrained West Country yokels and miners, with plans to capture Bristol and then march on London to claim the throne. The Monmouth Rebellion, which lasted all of five weeks, was a bloodbath for the Protestant rebels, both in battle at Sedgemoor, and afterwards at the 'Bloody Assizes' - the trials conducted by Chief Justice George Jeffreys. The Duke himself was taken to London and executed.
James II's pitiless treatment of Monmouth's followers shocked the country. Over a thousand were condemned to death or slavery in the West Indian Plantations. "

I wonder if any of my distant cousins were involved ?