Highways and byways in Surrey . run after as a phy-sician that he felt able to be intolerably rude to his patients,even if they happened to be kings and queens. William theThird never forgave him for telling him that he would not ownhis Majestys dropsical legs for the three kingdoms. QueenAnne refused to make him her court physician, but sent forhim when she was dying. He would not leave Carshalton,pleading the gout; and he lived and died in angry Queen never recovered, and the doctor did not dare toshow his face in London. Carshaltons greatest man lies in a nameless grave. Admiral
Highways and byways in Surrey . run after as a phy-sician that he felt able to be intolerably rude to his patients,even if they happened to be kings and queens. William theThird never forgave him for telling him that he would not ownhis Majestys dropsical legs for the three kingdoms. QueenAnne refused to make him her court physician, but sent forhim when she was dying. He would not leave Carshalton,pleading the gout; and he lived and died in angry Queen never recovered, and the doctor did not dare toshow his face in London. Carshaltons greatest man lies in a nameless grave. AdmiralSir Edward Whitaker, leader of the assault which first madeGibraltar a British fortress, used to spend his summers atCarshalton, and was buried in Carshalton churchyard, but the TAKING GIBRALTAR 371 slab which marked his grave was moved and lost when thechurch was enlarged. He was forty-four when with CaptainJumper and Captain Hicks he led his men against the redoubt,and he was as brilliant a fighter as he was a poor speller. I. quote from a letter he wrote describing the siege and assaultto his friend Sir Richard Haddock, Comptroller of the Navy,a day or two after the action :— There was three small ships in the old mold, one of which annoyed ourcamp by firing amongst them. One having about 10 guns, lying close to B B 2 372 SPELLING EXCUSED CH. xxxv the mold, and just under a great bastion at the north corner of the tovvne,I proposed to Sir (jeorge the burning lier in the night. He liked itt:accordingly ordered what boats I would have to my assistance : and about12 at night I did itt effectually, w the loss of but one man, and 5 or 6wounded. July 23.—At 4 this morning, adm Byng began \v his ships to cannonade,a Dutch rear-adm and 5 or 6 ships of thairs along w^ him, w:^ made anoble noise, being within half shott of the town. My ship, not being uponservice, I desired Sir George to make me his aducon to carry his commands,from tyme to tyme, to adm Byng, which he did. .
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