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 .