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JACOB LEISLER, 517

hoped they would act aa such. Turning to Milborne, he ex-
claimed, ‘“‘why must you diet you have been but as a servant,
doing my will; and, as I am a dying man, I declare before
God and the world, that what I have done was for King Wil-
liam and Queen Mary, the defense of the protestant religion,
and the good of the country.’? Having again professed his
reliance on God, he signified his readiness to depart, and his
sufferings were soon ended.

The populace, overawed by the soldiers, wera dreadfully
agitated by this painful spectacle. The shrieks of fainting
women were terrible to hear; and the torrents of rain added
to the gloom and horror of the scene, When the prisoner was
dead, his garments were ent in pieces by the crowd, and his
hair was divided as the precious relies of a martyr. At the
aame hour, and in the same town, the members of the council
and the judges were revelling in beastly triumph, and with
them the governor, insensible at his cups, was delayed until
the execution was over!

After his death his son appealed to the king; the attainder
was reversed and his estate restored to his family,

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