Editing Shepton Mallet (section)

===Stuart era===
In 1675, a House of Correction was set up in Shepton Mallet.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.sheptonmallet.info/site/index.php?page_id=189 |work=Shepton Mallet Town Council |title=Historic Buildings of Shepton Mallet |access-date=30 August 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120118052345/http://www.sheptonmallet.info/site/index.php?page_id=189 |archive-date=18 January 2012}}</ref><ref name="Disney">{{Cite book |last=Disney|first=Francis |title=Shepton Mallet Prison (2nd ed.) |year=1992 |publisher=Published by the Author|isbn=0-9511470-2-1}} Also updated as a CD-ROM (2001), see [http://www.prison-history.co.uk "Shepton Mallet Prison: 390 years of prison regime"] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081120142419/http://prison-history.co.uk/ |date=20 November 2008}}</ref>

In the [[English Civil War]], the town supported the Parliament side, although Shepton appears largely to have escaped conflict apart from a bloodless confrontation in the market place on 1 August 1642 between Royalists under Sir [[Ralph Hopton]] and Parliament led by Colonel [[William Strode]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Ford |first=Eric |title=Shepton Mallet: An Historical and Postal Survey |year=1958 |publisher=Published by the Author |place=Oakhill, Somerset |pages=11–12}}</ref><ref name="davischap4">{{Cite book |last1=Davis |first1=Fred |last2= Blandford |first2=Alan |last3=Beckerleg |first3=Lewis |title=The Shepton Mallet Story (2nd ed.) |year=1977 |publisher=The Shepton Mallet Society |location=Oakhill, Somerset |isbn=978-0-9500568-1-4 |pages=44–49}} which contains a full account of the events of 1 August 1642.</ref> In 1645 Sir [[Thomas Fairfax, 3rd Lord Fairfax of Cameron|Thomas Fairfax]] led the [[New Model Army]] through the town on the way to capturing [[Bristol]],<ref name="bush"/> and in 1646 the church organ was apparently destroyed by [[Oliver Cromwell|Cromwellian]] soldiers.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Farbrother |first=John E. |title=Shepton Mallet: Notes on its History, Ancient, Descriptive and Natural |year=1872 |place=Bridgwater |publisher=Reprinted by Somerset County Library 1977 |isbn=0-9503615-3-4 |page=14|edition=Memorial }}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Ford |first=Eric |title=Shepton Mallet: An Historical and Postal Survey |year=1958 |publisher=Published by the Author |place=Oakhill, Somerset |page=19}}</ref>

During the [[Monmouth Rebellion]] of 1685, the [[James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth|Duke of Monmouth]] was welcomed when he passed through Shepton Mallet to stay at Longbridge House<ref>{{NHLE |num=1296498 |desc=Longbridge House |access-date=15 February 2010 }}</ref> in Cowl Street on the night of 23 June, with his men quartered around the town, before setting out for Bristol next day. Many Shepton men joined the cause, but Monmouth failed to take [[Bath, Somerset|Bath]] or [[Bristol]] and had to return to Shepton on 30 June. After the [[Battle of Sedgemoor]], the Duke fled, spent the night of 6 July at Downside, a mile north of Shepton, and was captured two days later. After the [[Bloody Assizes]], twelve local supporters of Monmouth were [[hanging|hanged]] and [[Hanged, drawn and quartered|quartered]] in the market place.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Farbrother |first=John E. |title=Shepton Mallet: Notes on its History, Ancient, Descriptive and Natural |year=1872 |place=Bridgwater |publisher=Reprinted by Somerset County Library 1977 |isbn=0-9503615-3-4 |pages=16–20|edition=Memorial}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Ford |first=Eric |title=Shepton Mallet: An Historical and Postal Survey |year=1958 |publisher=Published by the Author |place=Oakhill, Somerset |pages=13–14}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last1=Davis |first1=Fred |last2= Blandford |first2= Alan |last3=Beckerleg |first3=Lewis |title=The Shepton Mallet Story (2nd ed.) |year=1977 |publisher=The Shepton Mallet Society |location=Oakhill, Somerset |isbn=978-0-9500568-1-4 |pages=50–60}}</ref><ref name="scott">{{Cite book |title=The hidden places of Somerset |last=Scott |first=Shane |year=1995 |publisher=Travel Publishing Ltd |location=Aldermaston |isbn=1-902007-01-8 |page=56}}</ref>

In 1699 Edward Strode built [[almshouse]]s, close to the rectory that his family had built, to house the town's [[grammar school]], which lasted until 1900.<ref name="bush"/>