Key, threatening to murder her if she offer’d to assist her Husband:  By this Time the Neighbourhood was alarm’d, and several Persons got to the Gaol Door, when Mrs. Oxenton, notwithstanding their Threats, at the utmost Hazard of her Life, open’d the same and caught hold of her Husband, who was almost spent, and with the Assistance of some Persons, got him out and lock’d the Door without suffering the Fellows to escape:  They continued cursing and swearing that they would murder the first Man that attempted to enter the Gaol.  In the mean Time Robert Hadsley, Esq., High-Sheriff, who lives about a Mile from the Town, was sent for, and came immediately; he parley’d with them some Time to no Purpose, then order’d Fire-Arms to be brought, and, in case they would not submit, to shoot at them, which these Desparadoes refusing to do, they accordingly fired on them, and Theophilus Dean receiving a Shot in the Groin, dropt; then they surrender’d, and the Sheriff instantly caus’d Bacon-Face to be hang’d on the Arch of the Sign Iron belonging to the Gaoler’s House, in the Sight of his Companions and great Numbers of People; the other three were directly put into a Cart and carried to the usual Place of Execution, and there hang’d before seven a Clock that Morning.”—­Lond.  Mag. July, 1741, p. 360.

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SATIRICAL MEDAL OF THE PRETENDER.

I am well acquainted with the medal described by Mr. Nightingale, and can confirm his statement of the difficulties which numismatists have experienced in attempting to explain the circumstances alluded to by the lobster which is the badge of “the order of the pretended Prince of Wales,” and upon which, on the other side of the medal, Father Petre is represented as riding with the young prince in his arms.  Upon other medals also the Jesuit appears carrying the prince, who is decorated, or amusing himself, with a windmill.  There is likewise a medal on which a Jesuit is represented concealed within a closet or alter, and raising or pushing up through the top the young prince to the view of the people, while Truth is opening the door and exposing the imposition.  Similar representations of the Jesuit’s interference occur upon caricatures and satirical prints executed in Holland.  Upon one, entitled, “Arlequin sur l’Hippogryphe, a la croisade Lojoliste,” the lobster, on which the Jesuit is mounted, carries a book in each claw; the young prince’s head is decorated with a windmill.  All these intimate the influence of Father Petre upon the proceedings of James II, and of the Jesuits in general in the imposition, as was by many supposed, of the pretended prince.  The imputation upon the legitimacy of the young child was occasioned in a great degree, and almost justified, by the pilgrimages and superstitious fooleries of his grandmother, increased by his mother’s choosing St. Francis Xavier as one of her ecclesiastical