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desired that his Wig might be sent to the Barber to be combed out
genteelly. Also, among some nicknacks that he kept in a casket, he
looked out a purse made somewhat in the Scotch fashion, of sealskin, to
hold the money which he desired to give to the Executioner. At half
after nine he breakfasted very heartily of Minced Veal, which he hoped
would not indigest, he facetiously remarked, ordering Chocolate and
Coffee for his Friends, whose Health he drank himself in Wine-and-Water.
At eleven the Sheriffs sent to demand his Body, when he desired all
present, save we who were at the Door, to retire, that he might say a
short prayer. Presently he calls 'em again, saying, "I am ready." At the
bottom of the first Pair of Stairs from his Chamber, General Williamson,
the Commandant of the Garrison, invited him into his room to rest
himself. He complied most cheerfully, and in French desired that he
might be allowed to take leave of his Lady, and thank her for all the
civilities--for she had sent him victuals every day from her own Table,
dressed in the French fashion, which he much affected--which she had
shown him during his confinement. But the General told him, likewise in
French, that she was too much afflicted by his Lordship's Misfortunes to
bear the shock of parting with him, and so begged to be excused. Which
means, that she did not care about being pawed and mauled by this wicked
Old Satyr in his last Moments; though, with the curiosity natural to her
Sex, I saw with my own eyes Madame Williamson, in a new Hoop and a grand
silk Calash, and with half-a-dozen of her gossips, at a window of the
House on Tower Hill hard by the Sheriff's and overlooking the Scaffold.

Now we Warders closed up about him; and preceded and followed by
Foot-Soldiers, he was conveyed in the Governor's Coach to the Outward
Gate, and so delivered over to the Sheriffs, who, giving a Receipt for
his Body, conveyed him in another coach (hired for the two former Lords,
Kilmarnock and Balmerino) to the said House close to the Scaffold, in
which (the House) was a room lined with Black Cloth and hung with
Sconces.

A gentleman of a Pious Mien here beginning to read a Prayer for him, he
bade me help him up that he might Kneel. One of the Sheriffs then asked
him if he would take a Glass of Wine; but he said that he would prefer
Negus. But there was no warm water, unhappily, at hand, and says his
Lordship, with his old Grin, "The warm bluid is nae tappit