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Rh which appointment Hamilton Place, Piccadilly, derives its name. By letters patent of the 15th May, 1672, he granted him a pension of 850l. per annum; but this he did not live very long to enjoy. In the engagement against the Dutch, 4th June, 1673, he had one of his legs taken off by a cannon-ball, and dying on the 6th, was buried next day, as the register records, in Westminster Abbey.

"1673, Coll. Hamilton, rec$d$ his death wound in y$e$ engagem$t$ ag$st$ y$e$ Dutch, was b$d$ w$thn$ y$e$ north mon$t$ door, June 7."

It deserves to be told, to the credit of the king, that he was not forgetful of the widow and children of James Hamilton. I have letters patent before me, dated 20th July, 1673, granting a yearly pension of 850l. to Mrs. Hamilton, in trust for her three sons, and a yearly pension of 500l. for herself. Mrs. Hamilton died in 1709, aged seventy-two. Of her three sons, James, the eldest, was sixth Earl of Abercorn; George, the second, was killed at the battle of Steinkirk, in 1692; and William, the youngest, settled at Bocton Place, near Lenham, in Kent, and acquired a large property there. And this is all I have been able to discover of the