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thing abdrufe fhould appear, I trud, it will be attri— * 
buted rather to the nature of the cafe, than to any 
want of confideration or refpedt for your Lordfhip, or 
the Society, in, 
My Lord, 
Your Lordfhip's 
mod: obedient, 
Oftober 20, 1761. 
and mod humble fervant, 
Fran. Nicholls. 
To the Right Honourable the Earl of Macclesfield, 
Prefident of the Royal Socle y. 
My Lord, 
T HE circumdances attending the death of the 
late King being fuch, as are not (I apprehend) 
to be met with in any of the records of phyfical cafes, 
and fuch, as, from the nature of the parts concerned, 
are not eafily to be accounted for ; I prefume it will 
be agreeable to your Lordfhip, to the Society in 
which you prefide, and to the learned world in ge- 
neral, if I lay before your Lordfhip, and the Society, 
a minute detail of what occurred on that remarkable 
and melancholy occafion ; with fuch explanations, as 
arife from the circumdances of the cafe. 
According to the report of the pages then in wait- 
ing, about feven in the morning, Saturday, Octo- 
ber 25th, a noife was fomewhere heard, as if a large 
billet had tumbled down ; and, upon enquiry, his 
Majedy 
