li^ OSWLSTRY TO RUABON* 



It was before the expiration of this period that 

 he was prefented with the hving of Chirk, for his 

 fentence had not precluded him from taking prefer- 

 ment. In his journey hither he was efcorted through 

 the different towns and villages on the road by fuch 

 multitudes of people, and treated all the way with 

 fuch magnificence, that during the progrefs even of 

 our princes fcarcely greater attentions have been 

 fliewn. — At Wrexharn above two thoufand perfons, 

 many of them of family and fortune, met and con- 

 duQied him ; and in his return to Oxford he was 

 brought into Shrewfbury by nearly five thoufand 

 horfemen, bendes an immenfe concourfe of people 

 on foot. Near Bridgenorth he was met by four 

 thoufand perfons on horfeback and three thoufand 

 footmen, moft of them wearing in their hats white 

 Isiiots edged with gold, and three gilded leaves of 

 laurel : the hedges for two miles from the town 

 were drefTed with flowers ; and each of the churches 

 was? adorned with flags and colours that cofl a con^ 

 fiderabk fum of money. 



Thefe attentions were highly flattering to Sache- 

 Verel ; but the favour he had thus obtained at length 

 fubfided, except at thofe times when the populace 

 \vas momentarily roufed, by his inflammatory dif- 

 Gourfe^s, to ads of violence againft the principles of 

 juftice and good government.-^He died on the 25th 

 of June 1724, perfevering in the fame fentiments to 

 the laft, 



Ch-irk 



