196 THE HISTOEY OF THE EOYAL BUCKHOUNDS. 



ui-ged his horse to strike into a gallop just at the spot where a mole 

 had been at work. Sorrel stumbled on the mole-hill, and went 

 down on his knees. The King fell off, and broke his collar bone. 

 The bone was set ; and he returned to Kensington in his coach. 

 The jolting of the rough roads of that time made it necessary to 

 reduce the fracture again. To a young and vigorous man such an 

 accident would have been a trifle. But the frame of William was 

 not in a condition to bear even the slightest shock." * — Hist. Eng- 

 land, ch. XXV. 



'■ Kensington, Feb. 28. His Majesty had last week an un- 

 happy Accident by a Fall from his Horse in Hunting ; but is, 

 God be praised, very well again." — London Gazette, Feb. 26 — 

 March 2, 1701-2. 



" As the King was taking the Divertisement of Hunting a Deer 

 near Hampton Town on Saturday last his Horse slipt, so that His 

 Majesty fell, and had the misfortune to hurt his Collar Bone, after 

 which he Dined at Hampton Court, and at night came in his Coach to 

 Kensington, where he rested well that Night, and did Hkewise on 

 Sunday night."— Pos^ Boy, Feb. %\, 1701-2. 



" On Saturday last as the King was hunting near Hampton 

 Court, his horse fell with him, by which His Majesty's Collar-bone 

 was hvirt, but immediately set right again." — Flying Post, Feb. #j. 



" London, February 25. His Majesty is, God be thanked, very 

 well, notwathstanding the fall he got on Saturday a Hunting." — 

 The Post Man, February ||. 



" London, March 10. On the 8th Instant, about 8 a Clock in 

 the Morning, King William III. of ever blessed Memory, departed 

 this Life at his Palace of Kensington, after a Fortnight's Inchspo- 

 sition. It was occasioned by his Horse's falling with him as he was 

 a Hunting near Hampton-Court on Satiu'day the 21st of February 

 last. . . . "—The Flying Post, March y^, 1702. 



" On Saturday last, as his majestie was hunting a stagg near 

 Kingston upon Thames, his horse fell with him and broke his coUar 

 bone ; which was soon after sett, and is now pretty well again, and 

 is expected in few dayes at the house of peers to passe what bills are 

 ready." — LuttreWs Diary, Februaiy, 1701-2, vol. v., p. 145. 



" The unhappy Accident that occassion'd his Majesty's Sickness 



* Macaulay does not give any authority for this statement. It would be 

 interesting; to know the source from which it was derived. 



