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 1677, when he obtained permission from the King to do so, together with a pardon of all his offences. Notwithstanding this he is said to have joined the rebels against the Government, and being accused in 1683 of complicity in the Rye House Plot, was tried and condemned to death, which sentence was carried out on Tower Hill 7th December, 1683. Much controversy has existed as to the justice of this sentence. "Sidney's Discourses on Government" were first printed in 1698, and again in 1772, with his Letters, Trial, and Memoirs, by Thomas Hollis, Esq.

[See "Biographia Britannica" and Histories of the Period.]

SAMUEL FOART SIMMONS,

PHYSICIAN,

Was a native of Sandwich. He was educated in France, and studied physic at Edinburgh and London. After visiting various parts of the continent, where he made the acquaintance of Haller at Berne, he settled in London, and became a member of the Learned Societies. He became sole Editor of the Medical Journal, and was the author of several medical works, and of a "Life of William Hunter." He gave great attention to mental disorders, and was consulted on the case of George III. He died in 1813.

[See "Gentleman's Magazine" 1813.]

SIMON OF FAVERSHAM,

May be presumed, from his name, to be a Kentish man. Leland informs us that he was eminent in philosophy and