1. BL, Add. 41,804, ff. 257–257v. Tabitha Smith was probably referring to William Stanley, ninth Earl of Derby (c. 1655–1702) who was lord lieutenant for Cheshire and Lancashire.
2. BL, Add. 41,804, ff. 258–9.
3. Ibid., ff. 260, 262, 263.
4. The story of Tabitha Smith was reported to Secretary of State, Charles Middleton (BL, Add. 41, 804, ff. 257–63). There were at least two “James Smiths” in the Rebellion. One, a cloth worker, was tried in Taunton and sent to Jamaica. The other, a yeoman, was still at large. While neither of them fit Richard’s information, it is possible that one of them was Tabitha’s husband. W. MacDonald Wigfield, The Monmouth Rebels, 1685 (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1985), p. 157; CSPD, James II, 1: 428, 430.
5. Chapter 2 describes women who helped supply Monmouth’s army. On the tradition of women cross-dressing and joining armies, see Rudolf M. Dekker and Lotte C. van de Pol, eds., The Tradition of Female Transvestism in Early Modern Europe (New York: Palgrave, 1997).