In the evening he returned to Kensington in his coach, and the two ends of the fractured bone having been disunited by the jolting of the carriage, were replaced under the inspection of Bidloo, his physician.

He seemed to be in a fair way of recovering till the first day of March, when his knee appeared to be inflamed, with great pain and weakness.

Next day he granted a commission under the great seal to several peers, for passing the bills to which both houses of parliament had agreed; namely, the act of attainder against the pretended prince of Wales, and another in favour of the quakers, enacting, That their solemn affirmation and declaration should be accepted instead of an oath in the usual form.
{WILLIAM, 1688-1701.} HIS DEATH AND CHARACTER.
On the fourth day of March the king was so well recovered of his lameness that he took several turns in the gallery at Kensington; but sitting down on a couch where he fell asleep, he was seized with a shivering, which terminated in a fever and diarrhoea.

He was attended by sir Thomas Millington, sir Richard Black-more, sir Theodore Colledon, Dr.Bidloo, and other eminent physicians; but their prescriptions proved ineffectual.

On the sixth he granted another commission for passing the bill for the malt tax, and the act of abjuration; and being so weak that he could not write his name, he, in presence of the lord-keeper and the clerks of parliament, applied a stamp prepared for the purpose.