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 been given for Ward. He was consequently unseated and the other candidate for whom a few votes had been cast got the seat.

(From a print in the British Museum.)

Apparently Ward had got into some political trouble; the "Dictionary of National Biography" suggests that it was in connection with the Jacobite rising in 1715. He had escaped to France before the Parliamentary inquiry, and in Paris he commenced the sale of the pills and drops which he afterwards made so famous in London. Ward had evidently not finished sowing his political wild oats, for he somehow became obnoxious to the French Government, and was only saved from a sojourn in the Bastille through the intervention of his friend, John Page, M.P. In 1733 he obtained a pardon from George II. and returned to England.