MAny and great have been the Expectations of the Peo­ple about the Event of the Commitment of the late Lord Chancellour to the Tower, and their Wishes have been as various, as they have been affected to him: Many (who had entertain'd a just Indignation against him for his late ill Conduct of Affairs) longed for his being brought to his Tryal, that he might receive that Justice that his Irregularities that he was committed for were thought to have deserved. But Di­vine Providence has disappointed them herein, by calling him to a higher Bar, where he must give a just Account of all his Actions, and receive that just Reward that is due to him for the same, unless he has prevented it by his Repentance, and God's Infinite Mercy. As to the Manner of his Death, it was as followeth:

He has been very much tormented with his old Distemper, the Stone and Rheumatism, almost ever since he has been in the Tower; and there has not been any help wanting, that Skill or Art could invent, for the continuation of his Life; but it has been all as ineffectual and vain, as the Supplications of the Distressed were sometimes to him, in the time of his Power: For about this Month last past he has been in a very languishing condition, still wasting away more and more, in which time he has hardly been in a capacity to take any thing to sustain Na­ture, unless a little Sack to revive it when it has been almost spent; about three Weeks since, he had a mind to a bit of Salmon, which he had, but could not digest it, nor scarce any thing else, unless a poach'd Egg: So he continued decaying till the Eighteenth of this Instant A­pril 1689, when about half an hour after Three a Clock in the Mor­ning he dyed, in the forty first Year of his Age; after having lived to see many ambitious Designs disappointed, and their Most Gracious Majesties King WILLIAM and Queen MART Seated on the Throne. Whom God long preserve.