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^ my foul, and pardon the crime l the people of all ranks continued
< have committed ; l never disclosed their curses. Several persons laid
< my intention to any one.' hold on the ropes and pulled thens
When the 2d wedge was driveu, he with the utmost eagerness; and one
Said with horrid cries and shrieks, ' I of the noblesse, who was near the cri-
< am a sinner, lknow no more than I minal, alighted from his horse, that
< have declared, l beeseech the court it might he put in the place of one
' not to drive my foul to defpair t Oh which was tired with drawing him.
^ Godl accept these torments in satis- At length, when he had bern drawts
< faction for my sins !' for a full hour by tbe horSes, without
The third wedge was then driven berng dismembered, tbe people rushlower
near his See:, at which a univer- ing on in crowds, threw themfelven
Sal Sweat covered bis body, and be upon him, and with Swords, knives,
Sainted. Being quite SpeechleSs, he sticks, and other weapons, the^strucko
was released, Some water thrown up- tore, and mangled his limbs ; and vieon
his face, and wine Sorced down his lently forcing them Srom the executhroat,
by which he Soon recovered, tioner, they dragged them through
and was conducted to chapel by the the street, with the utmost eagernese
executioner. and rage, and burnt them in the dis-
He was then left with two dectors serent parts of the city.
of the Sotbonne, that they might perform
the duties of their office with An AccouNT of the REVENUES and
him, and to them he again declared Foacts of the Ga ass AN EmptaEo
upon oath, that he had faid all he wish RsMAaas.
knew,and that no one -^d incited him
to commit the murder. ^ a ^HE state and condition of Ger-
At three in the afternoon, May ay, 2- many heing now afubjest very
16to, he was brought Srom the cha- much inquired into, we shall give onr
pel and put into a tumbril, when the readers the Sallowing account of tho
croud was So great, that it was with revenues of the several princes and
the utmost difficulty the archers could state of that empire, with the numsorce
a passage ; and as Soon as the ber of forces each of them can raife a
prisoner appeared, that vast multitude first observing, that the calculationa
be^an to load him with execrations. of their annual revenues were mado
When ne had alcended the Scaffold, in German florins, which were Supthe
two doctors urged him to think poSed to be worth 3s. ast sterling each.
of his salvation now at the close of and that the king of Prussia, and som^
life, and 'to confess all he knew ; to others, were supposed to have largo
which he only anfwered as he had subsidies from France, England, or
done before. Fire and brimstone he- Holland.
ing put to his right hand, holding the
kmfe with which he stabhed the king, Annua/ revenues of the ecclesiastical Prinwhile
his breast and other fleshy parts ces, and the numher of forces fhry can
of bis body were rearing with red-hot raise.
pincers, he renewed his cries and prayers.
Afterwards by intervals, melt- Archbish. of Co-^
ed leed and Scalding nil, were poured logne ^
upon bis wounds • during which he - Triera
shrieked aloud, and continued his cries ' Mentz
and ejaculations. ^ Sal tz burg
He was then drawn by four horses, ^ Munster
far half an hour, by intervals, while Liege
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