[119] He was executed in July, 1734.
[120] Or the Palace of Orange in the Wood at the Hague. It was yielded to the Prince of Orange by his Treaty of Partition with the King of Prussia.
[121] Margaret, Daughter of Florence IV. Count of Holland. She was Countess of Henneberg.
[122] This belongs also to the Prince of Orange.
[123] This is an ignominious Punishment inflicted Abroad for such heinous Offences at deserve neither Banishment, nor Whipping, nor Death. The Criminal who suffers it, stands in a Shirt, with a Rope about the Neck, holding a burning Taper in one Hand, attended by the Executioner, and other inferior Officers of Justice, and in this Posture begs Pardon of the King, of Justice, and the Public, for the Offence committed.
[124] This most Excellent Princess departed this Life the 20th of Nov. 1737, to the infinite Regret of the King and Kingdom.
[125] His Governor is the Hon. Stephen Poyntz, Esq; and his Preceptor in the learned Languages Jenkin Thomas Philips, Esq; formerly Secretary to the Commissioners for the Fifty New Churches, and since preferr’d to be his Majesty’s Historiographer.
[126] Her Royal Highness, as is well known, is since married to the Prince of Orange.