needless to condescend upon particular instances: the way and manner of
his death plainly shews what his conduct had been, and from what
principle he had acted: for being seized with a terrible distemper
wherein he had the foretaste of hell both in body and soul; in body he
was so inflamed, that it is said, he was put in a large pipe of water,
and the water to shift successively as it warmed. But the horrors of his
awakened conscience they could by no means cool, but still he cried out
in despair, that he had damned his soul for the duke his master, till he
died.--_M. S. and Appendix to the Cloud_, &c.

GEORGE LORD JEFFERIES, an Englishman, was born in Wales about 1648. He
first studied the law, then he became serjeant of the city of London; he
next stepped to the recordership of the city; from thence he became
chief justice of the city of Chester; and in 1683, was made lord chief
justice of the king's bench. In this, as in all his other offices, he
behaved most indecently; for besides his being scandalously vitious, he
was almost every day drunk, besides a drunkenness of fury in his temper
by which he brought the lord Russel, and the famous Alg. Sidney unto
their ends. He also handled Mr. Baxter and others severely. But the most
tragical story of his life fell out 1685. After Monmouth was defeated
and himself and many of his little army taken, Jefferies was sent by his
master king James to the West as ordinary executioner to try the
prisoners; and here his behaviour was beyond any thing ever heard of, I
believe, in a Christian nation. He was perpetually after drink or in
rage, liker a fury than a judge: where no proof could be had, he
commanded the pannels to plead guilty, if they desired mercy; and then,
if they confest any thing, they were immediately hung up. In a few towns
in the west of England, he pronounced sentence of death on some 500 or
600 persons, 292 of them received this sentence in an hours space; and
of these 600 250 were executed; others had the benefit of his avarice;
for pardons were by him sold from 10 pound to 14000 guineas. He
sentenced the lady Lesly for harbouring a stranger one night. Miss Gaunt
was burnt. A poor man was hanged for selling three-pence worth of hay
to Monmouth's horse. Some were hanged at the stanchions of windows,
others had their bowels burnt and their bodies boiled in pitch, and hung
round the town. Bloody Kirk put in for part of the honour. At Taunton he
hanged nine without