[The History of England from the Accession of James II. by Thomas Babington Macaulay]@TWC D-Link bookThe History of England from the Accession of James II. CHAPTER XXV 154/182
May God be pleased to grant you a speedy recovery. I am unalterably your good friend, William." Those were the last lines of that long correspondence. On the twentieth of February William was ambling on a favourite horse, named Sorrel, through the park of Hampton Court.
He urged 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.
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