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and was in no way shocked at the approach of death.” So the 
noble victim died, in the fifty-third year of his age ; constant to the 
last in his faith, and in his attachment to the exiled House of 
Stuart. 
Such was the sanguinary vengeance of George II. for a 
treasonable act committed in the reign of his father at a distance 
of no less than thirty years! The remains were taken in the 
coffin to the Nag’s Head, in Gray’s Inn lane, and from thence 
removed, “in the dead of night,” to a Mr. Walmsley’s, near 
Red Lion Square. His heart is said to have been embalmed and 
placed in a leaden casket, which was afterwards deposited, by his 
own desire, near the remains of his noble brother and ancestors at 
Dilston; and from Mr. Walmsley’s, the body was taken two 
nights afterwards, to be interred, as was supposed, in the church- 
yard of St. Giles-in-the-Fields, but, according to tradition, in 
reality to Abbot’s Stanstead, in Hertfordshire ; the funeral being 
conducted with all possible secrecy. f 
The following inscription in his memory was erected in the 
churchyard of St. Giles :— 
“Carolus Radcliffe, Comes de Derwentwater, 
Decollatus die 8 December 1746, Etatis 53. 
Requiescat in pace !” 
The vengeance of the first two Georges on the adherents of 
the House of Stuart, urged on by Walpole and his party, was 
resented by a few independent men. The Earl of Anglesea, in 
reference to the impeachment of the Earl of Oxford, in 1716, said 
that “such violent measures were disagreeable to the people, and 
it was to be feared would make the sceptre shake in the King’s 
hands.” But the king thought more of the security of his throne 
than of the Protestant faith which he was brought from Hanover 
to defend.* There were statesmen who were sincere and dis- 
interested in their efforts to stamp out the House of Stuart, and, as 
they also hoped, any future ascendancy of Romanism in England. 
* Not so, however, George III. He said he could lay down his crown, 
and live in a cottage, rather than violate his Coronation Oath to defend the 
Protestant Constitution, by virtue of which he reigned. 
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