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I'm struggling with the wordplay on quite a few answers, though they seem to be right (unless I have constructed an entirely new puzzle). Could anyone explain:
18d Prisoner in Bury, born in Toulouse? I have INTERNEE. Was thinking IN T and E from Toulouse NEE born.???
13a One adjusts canvas showing old woman in group including governor. I have MAINSHEET, which I know is a sail on a ship hence canvas, and MA being an old woman but the rest?

INTER is "bury", NEE is "born" in French

MA IN SET with HE for governor (His Excellency)

Technically the mansheet is the rope used to adjust the sail, not the sail itself (there are only two "ropes" on a sailing ship; all the other rope-like things have different names)

I now feel extremely foolish regarding internee and thank you for explaining mainsheet! There are several others - perhaps I'd better have another think before I ask for an explanation. But on the bright side - at leas they were the right answers!

I hesitate to ask, but any explanations for:
57a Tie up rebel leader, arresting start of this procession = MOTORCADE
25a Lecturer touring City with a male doctor, a solid figure = DECAHEDRON
7d Proper motor yacht crossing lake sough of Norwich, say = SEEMLY

25a Lecturer touring City with a male doctor, a solid figure = DECAHEDRON
don = lecturer
a he dr = male doctor
ec = city

Norwich is a cathedral city, so its sough is a SEE, then Motor Yacht around Lake

Hi Mary; Like you I got answers without parsing fully - 7d could be SEE (bishopric) with MY (motor Yacht) crossing L (lake)

MOOR is "tie up" (a boat); Jack CADE was a revolting peasant, around start of This (I think that was the word)