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Show 358 ATROCIOUS JUDGES. (A. D. 1G89. that he should speedily be brought to trial for his misdeeds; but, amid ' t the tirring events which rapidly follow d, he was allowed quieLly to langui h out the remainder of his mi. erable exi tence. -While the election. were proceeding for the Convention Parliament- while the two hou es were Rtruggling re. pccting the "abdication" or "desertion" of the thronewhile men were occupied with di cu ing the "declaration of rights"- while preparations were making for the coronation of the new sovereigns- while curio ity wa keenly alive in watching their demeanor, and while alarm were . pre ad by the adherence of Ireland to the exiled king- the national indignation, which at fir t burst forth so violcnLiy against the crimes of Jeffreys, almo t entirely ub ided, and little desire was evin ed to . ee him punished as he deserved. However, con iderable en ·ation was excited by the news that he wa. no more. He breathed hi. la ·t in the Tower of London, on the 1 !Jth of April, 1689, at thirty-ave minutes past four in the morning. Tho. e who take a vague impression of events, without attention to dates, may suppo. ·e, from the crowded vici situde of his career, that he mu ·t have pas ed his grand climacteric, but he was still only in the forty-fir t year of l1i:s age. On the me('(ing of the Convention Parliament, attcmpt8 were made to attaint the late Chancellor Jeffrey , to prevent his heirs from itting in l'arliament, and to charge his estates with compensation to tho'e whom he had injured; b11t they all iitiled, and no mark of public ccn ·ure was set upon his memory b yond excepting him, with some other judges, from th.e act of indemnity pas ed at the commencement of the new reign. We have no very distinct account of him in domestic life .A. D. 1089.] GEORGE JEFFREYS . 35V I t I · fi . t wi.f .e whom 11 e 11 a d e poused so geuerou ~Iy, flavin()' o us 1 ' • 1 tered the Jnar-o f 1 . death he again el within three months rotn lfCll . I oice "'"1"' the widow of' a Tl object o ns c l < riecl state. le 1 ,,, rrhtcr of Sir Thomas 1 . '.\ gentleman, an<. uc"l.Uo . Monl<>omcry me . (' Loo<lon and for o I l been lord lnn,yot o ' Bludworth, who m< . _ I am orry to f 1 ·t rcpresentatn · many years one o t le et y . 1 . ) ·ond Lady J effrcy ' 1 ·c·tnclal about t le ::;ce . say there wa. muc l :s < l 'th '"' full-rrrown clulcl. . . t d ha. n prem,,j.,. ,tUl''-" ) r \VI <II b . l ... and ·he PIc en c . -.' . bly reminded of t ll:s I I as once diS<lgt ce.t It i ~ related t Hl.L le w '" 11 . t iem'tlc he said to mishkc : when cro s-cxa, mi'n inr0r a. 1ppan '- ' , "" " Quick ' . . ck in your answct . J her "Madam, you urc very qUI t 'O quick a . your ' , . . , J . h 0 " I was 11 o s as I am, Sir George, cue : ' l . , till ·aiu to have en- ~ 1 arnao·c , le I:s lady." Even alter t w m " l other lovcr8, while her couragcd S1. r J o 11 11 "Trevor ' •l \1. R., an( . u l · rr in l11s cups. , husband wa 111 u g 111 o . . , , b t of the e only one . b Loth Ius WIV ' u lie hacl elnl<.lren y . 11 . This was .John I d •:tnd surviv '<. um. b son "rcw up to man IOO ' < •• , l celebrity only y " rr,, who ha acqun t . , the second Lord Jeurey ' . . f drinkinrr, and lor I . f t l c . in the powct o b l having rivalled liS a 1 1 . . . lcrl'll} 1 tcd the fun<'ra . t f intOX1CUll011, 1l1 having, when m a sta c o , . : l a8 we have ccn, lo of Dry<len, the poet · Ilewa"'m._uuc, . ,.,.0.") 1 _ , but d yinrr m 11 .,, f. tl e Farl of l)ctnLro'" o ex-the daughter o 1 J · ff. , h •tp pily becmn witlwut male 1·. su ·, tl•. e title of Je 1 Y· h' icb his fath r, l>Y- . . t d l·u·ae e~ tates, w B k tinct. lie ~;l',>i l <.hs 'lpa ~ 0 . 1 · hropshire, uc -- such unju:--t i: :.t~Jic nleans, 1l d. . J. (a. cquire<. 111 incrham ·hire, and Lcicesters1ure. tl e middle stature, his "' . thcr above 1 . · In his person Jelfrcy. wa ra intemperance) inclunng C01nplex.i on ("u ef 'o re, 1· t w't'-.., bloated by There was great to fair and he wa o f a come ly 'a pp. eaIr ance. l 1- ·ch mirrht brec( a ' . I twulk e Wul o animation in J1is eye, WIL 1 a 1 . e Ilis brow was SL1Sp·l C·1 0ll of insincerity an<.1 I Ul· kinab- ma tc · |
