Collectanea. Third series / edited by Montagu Burrows.

Date:
1896
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Collectanea. Third series / edited by Montagu Burrows. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    which will be a great addition to the King’s army, besides a thousand foot more which will be with them to morrow. Your Lordship will find in the Gazette an account of the affaires of Scotland; God be thank’d all the heads of that Rebellion are now taken; I hope those of our English Rebellion will quickly meet with the same fate. On Satturday Dangerfield was whipp’d to Tyburne, and comming back from thence in a coach with the Keeper of New- gate, in Holborne one Mr. Francis a Barrister of Gray’s Inn, run up to the coach, and struck at Dangerfield with a stick, the ferrule of which struck into his eye, the eye immediately fell out, and by the time he gott to Newgate, he fell into terrible payn, and delirious, and yesterday in the forenoon he dyed; Francis is apprehended, and now in Newgate; the Coroner’s Enquest have returned it rourther; and Francis will speedily be tryed for his barbarous villany. I have nothing further to acquaint your Lordship with at present; and am with great respect. My Lord, Your Lordship’s Most faithfull humble Servant CLARENDON. C.P.S. For the Right Honorable The Earle of Abingdon For his Majesty’s free service. At Oxford.