Portraits, memoirs, and characters, of remarkable persons, from the revolution in 1688 to the end of the reign of George II Collected from the most authentic accounts extant . to please theilliterate jurymen, who could not comprehend orappreciate properly the force and sense of Aramsreasoning.—Left to himself, and dreading the ex-posure of a public execution, he resolved to put an •24 MEMOIRS OF [GEORGE n. end to liis existence by his own hand; and themorning appointed for his execution being come,the keeper went to his cell to bring him out, and tohis great surprise found him almost expiring,
Portraits, memoirs, and characters, of remarkable persons, from the revolution in 1688 to the end of the reign of George II Collected from the most authentic accounts extant . to please theilliterate jurymen, who could not comprehend orappreciate properly the force and sense of Aramsreasoning.—Left to himself, and dreading the ex-posure of a public execution, he resolved to put an •24 MEMOIRS OF [GEORGE n. end to liis existence by his own hand; and themorning appointed for his execution being come,the keeper went to his cell to bring him out, and tohis great surprise found him almost expiring, havingwith a razor cut his left arm., above the elbow, anda little above the wrist, but missed the artery, bywhich means he had lost so much blood, that he wasrendered very weak: a surgeon was sent for, whopresently stopped the bleeding, and he was carriedto the place of execution ; where, though he wasquite sensible, yet so feeble that he could not stand ;a clergyman prayed with him, but being in so weaka condition, he was incapable of giving any was executed, and his body carried to Knares-borough Forest, where it was hung in chains, Au-gust, PUBLIC LIBRARY ASTQfl, /CUNDA.
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