The New Hampshire Gazette And Historical Chronicle

London, July 30. 1766.

YESTERDAY expired, in a fit of desperate Frenzy, the once blazing William Pynsent, Esq; which Name he lately assum'd upon the Succession to an Estate which was-left him by a Mistake. He has for some Time labour'd under a Complication of Lust of Power and Pension : But it is thought the immediate Cause of his Death was a Fracture in his Head, follow'd with a Delirium, occasion'd by a Fall from a precipice, where he was scrambling for an higher Title and another Pension. He was led to this Rock by a Northern GUIDE. in whose conduct he placed more Confidence than in the experienced Affection of a Friend, whose Prudence and Virtue had often saved him. He will shortly be interr'd, in the usual State, in the Dormitory of his Political Predecessors, whose Virtues he equalled,and whose Example he has follow'd. All Ranks of People are in deep Disconsolation for an Accident so fa-tal to the Name of PATRIOTISM, this Event bringing to their Remembrance the like miserable End of another W. P. of famous Memory, who broke his Neck about 25 Years ago, and was buried in the same Grave. What is very remark-able, the Deceased bespoke a Shroud for himself, trim'd with Ermine, of the same Pattern used up-on the former Occasion.