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LIFE OF SIR WILLIAM PETTY
chap. vi
William draws his sword and Vernon decamps, but hearing Sir William is still breathing vengeance, applies to the King's Bench for personal protection, and Sir William appears ultimately to have been forced to give securities that he would keep the peace, 'and neither prosecute the bastinado nor the suit.'
And thus did this affair, which so strangely illustrates the manners of the period, at length terminate.[1]
- ↑ 'The State of Matters between Sir William Petty and Colonel Vernon.' Petty MSS.
