suffering them to take leave of their wives and
children. At some places they cast off so many with a health to the
King, and a number more with a health to the Queen, drinking it at every
turn, and perceiving the shaking of their legs in the agonies of death,
they said, they were dancing, and called for music, and to every one
cast over a spring was played on pipes, hautboys, drums and trumpets,
with a huzza and a glass of wine. Jefferies sentenced one Tutchin for
changing his name to seven years imprisonment, and whipping through all
the market towns in the shire, which was once a fortnight during that
time; which made Mr. Tutchin petition the king for death. Many other
cruelties were then committed, but the foregoing swatch may suffice.
Jefferies returned to London, where his master James, for his good
services, made him lord chancellor. Being now above the reach or envy of
the people, he set himself to assist his master in bringing in popery;
but their mad hasty zeal spoiled the project, and so his master having
to flee his dominions, Jefferies, disguised in a seaman's dress in a
collier, essayed to escape after and in imitation of his master, but was
taken and severely drubbed by the populace, and then brought to the lord
mayor. Jefferies to be freed of the people, desired to be sent to the
Tower; because they were waiting with clubs upon him. The mayor seeing
this, and the chancellor in such a gloomy appearance, was so struck that
he fell into fits and soon died. Jefferies, being sent to the Tower,
continued with few either to pity or supply him. At last a barrel of
oysters being sent him, he thanked God he had yet some friends left: but
when tumbled out with or without oysters, a strong cord halter fell out,
which made him change countenance on the prospect of his future distiny.
A distemper with the gravel seized him, contracted through his former
intemperate wicked bloody life, and the horrors of an awakened
conscience; and at last, whether nature wrought out itself, or, if he
himself helped the fatal stroke, (as is most likely) is uncertain;
1689.--_Vide his life, and the Western Martyrology or Bloody Assizes_,
&c.

JOHN GRAHAM of Claverhouse in Angus, a branch of the house of Montrose,
another champion for the prince of the kingdom of darkness. To improve
the cruelty of his nature, he was sometime in the French service. He
returned to Scotland 1677. The vivacity of his genius soon recommended
him to Charles a