. The queen's comrade; the life and times of Sarah, duchess of Marlborough. eland. Before this could be formallypresented to him, William prorogued Parliament onApril ist, 1700, and refrained for the first time formany years from making a speech from the throne. But the Commons had not yet finished with thedemands which were particularly obnoxious to theKing, for in the following year, 1701, they obliged himto apply the fifty thousand per annum they had votedfor King Jamess Queen, and which under variouspretences William had retained, as well as the incomethat reverted to the Crown from the Du
. The queen's comrade; the life and times of Sarah, duchess of Marlborough. eland. Before this could be formallypresented to him, William prorogued Parliament onApril ist, 1700, and refrained for the first time formany years from making a speech from the throne. But the Commons had not yet finished with thedemands which were particularly obnoxious to theKing, for in the following year, 1701, they obliged himto apply the fifty thousand per annum they had votedfor King Jamess Queen, and which under variouspretences William had retained, as well as the incomethat reverted to the Crown from the Duke ofGloucesters death, to the payment of the public debts. Continual vexation preyed upon his health whichhad never been robust, and was now rapidly , speaking of him in June 1701, says his bodywas wasted, his legs swollen, his voice like that of agrasshopper, weakened by an asthma, the most dis-couraging of all diseases, because at every draught ofbreath it reminds the sufferer, and those who see him,that it may be his last. Though knowing he had but. WILLIAM IIL Page 280.] Dn IRa^clttte 281 a short time to live, he concealed his condition fromthe public. He was however obliged to consult hisphysicians, and on one occasion when he asked what he thought of the painful complaint he,William, suffered in his legs, the sturdy Jacobiteanswered I would not have Your Majesties two legsfor your three kingdoms, which so displeased theKing that he forbade the doctors further attendance, amatter of little importance to Radcliffe, who once saidhe hated William and Mary so unfeignedly that heshould certainly have the credit of poisoning them,therefore he wanted none of their custom, not he. It was not until the following year that Williamsend came. On a mild day towards the end of February,he mounted his horse at Kensington with the intentionof riding to Hampton Court. Arriving at the HomePark, and still mounted, he went to inspect a canal hewas having cut t
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