3. After this there arose a debate betwixt the king and the queen about votes in the parliament; as the king had two votes, the queen would have one, and would needs be a parliamenter, or no peace without preferment. This matter was committed to George by the king; so it was agreed among the parliamenters, that the queen should be admitted into parliament for a day. Accordingly she came, and was received with all the honour and congratulations that was due and becoming her high station: but before any matter of consequence was brought to the board, George seated himself hard by the queen’s seat; all being silent, he rose up very quickly, lifted one of his legs, let a loud f----t, which set the whole house a-laughing; whereat the queen was greatly offended, and said, go, take the rogue and hang him, to which George answered, a fine parliamenter indeed, to hang a man for a sinless infirmity, and that’s a f----t. The queen being enraged at the affront put on her first appearance in parliament, went off in a passion, and never would countenance them more. But yet to be revenged on George, she would never give the king rest, till he delivered George into her hands, that he might be punished at her pleasure; which the king accordingly commanded to be done, knowing that George would rescue himself by some intrigue or other. No sooner was he delivered into her hands, but she and her maids of honour pronounced his doom, which was as follows:--As he had affronted the queen among so great an equipage, who ought to be honoured in chief above all women in the nation, that he should be stoned to death by the hands of women. Now the time being come that he had to die, according to their appointment, he was taken into a park, where a great number of women were waiting for him, with their aprons full of stones, to fall upon him, and put him to death according to the queen’s appointment. GEORGE’S SPEECH TO HIS EXECUTIONERS. Here’s a female band with bags of stones To kill a man for rumple groans: I’m clean of rapine, blood, and thefts, Could I convert my f----s to rifts? Since I, the first for f----s do die, Close up the place from whence they fly, To commit my crime, I think ye’ll scarce, If once you do cork up your a----. And now since women stones do carry, Men need not in the world tarry, Judge if such women be chaste complete, With forty stones between their f----; But since ’tis so ye will come on, The greatest w---- throw the first stone. When he had ended with these words, “The greatest w---- throw the first stone,” every one put it to another to cast the first stone, but knowing they would attain the character of a w---- for so doing, they all refused till the dying hour was past, and then he took a protest against them, and by that means he gained his life. After this he was admitted into the queen’s favour and presence, and attended the court as formerly.