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 menter indeed, to hang a man for a ſinleſs infirmity, and that's a fart. The Queen being ſo enraged at this affront put on her first propoſal to parliament, went off in a paſſion and never would countenance them any more. But yet to be revenged on George, ſhe would never give the King reſt till be delivered up George into her hands, that he might be puniſhed at her pleaſure: which the king accordingly commanded to be done, knowing that George would reſcue himſelf by ſome intrigue or other. No ſooner was ſhe deli- vered into her hands, to be at her diſpoſal, but ſhe and her Maries pronounced his doom, which is as follows: As he had affronted the Queen among ſo great an equipage, who ought to be honoured in chief, and above all women in the nation, that he ſhould be ſtoned to death by the hands of women. Now his time being come that he was to die, ac- cording to their appointment, he was taken into a park, where a great number of women was waiting upon him, with their aprons full of ſtones, to fall upon him, and to put him to death, according to the queen's appointment.

When he ended with theſe words, The greateſt whore ſhould throw the firſt ſtone, every one put it to another to caſt the firſt ſtone; but knowing they would attain the character of a whore for ſo doing, they all refuſed, till the dying hour was paſt, and then he took a proteſt againſt them, and by that mean gained his life.

After this he was admitted to the queen's favour and pre- ſence, attending the court as formerly. About this time the French king not knowing how to pick a quarrel with Great Britain, ſent a letter to the king, deſiring it to be read be- fore the Parliament, and the writing was as fellows: Will