<sod>One of them, however, Alexander  Lumsden by name, proving to be [[Scots]] by  birth,  was acquitted (after the initial hysteria began to diminish, the judges accepted that the statute  27 Eliz. c.2 did not apply to Scots or  Irish priests). <ref>Kenyon p.205, although  this  did not save the  unfortunate Fr Charles Mahoney,   an Irish  Franciscan who was executed for treason even though he proved that at the time of his arrest he had been passing through England  on his way to France. </ref> Another, David  Kemish, who was a very old man and  too ill to defend himself, was remanded in custody, so, Scroggs remarked, "that the world may  not say we are  grown barbarous and inhumane",  and  he died in prison ten days later.<ref>Kenyon p.220</ref> All the others were sentenced to be [[hanged, drawn, and quartered]], but J.P. Kenyon, in his definitive account of the [[Popish Plot]], concludes that they were all reprieved (Corker certainly was since he survived until 1715, while Colonel Starkey was at liberty by November 1680, although we hear of him in prison again in 1683).<ref>Kenyon p.223</ref><eod>
<sod>One of them, however, Alexander  Lumsden by name, proving to be [[Scottish people|Scots]] by  birth,  was acquitted (after the initial hysteria began to diminish, the judges accepted that the statute  27 Eliz. c.2 did not apply to Scots or  Irish priests). <ref>Kenyon p.205, although  this  did not save the  unfortunate Fr Charles Mahoney,   an Irish  Franciscan who was executed for treason even though he proved that at the time of his arrest he had been passing through England  on his way to France. </ref> Another, David  Kemish, who was a very old man and  too ill to defend himself, was remanded in custody, so, Scroggs remarked, "that the world may  not say we are  grown barbarous and inhumane",  and  he died in prison ten days later.<ref>Kenyon p.220</ref> All the others were sentenced to be [[hanged, drawn, and quartered]], but J.P. Kenyon, in his definitive account of the [[Popish Plot]], concludes that they were all reprieved (Corker certainly was since he survived until 1715, while Colonel Starkey was at liberty by November 1680, although we hear of him in prison again in 1683).<ref>Kenyon p.223</ref><eod>