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Be-Whig'd Steed-holder precursing Newmarket.

Then let all true Subjects sing,

and umed the power of all those
That won't shew Loyalty to their King,
and assist him against his Whiggish Foes:
Then in this our happy state,

In spight of Traytors' hate,
We will all Loyal still remain;

For since it is so,

They have wrought their overthrow,

Old Tony will ne'r enjoy his own again.
God preserve our Gracious King,

with the Royal Consort of his Bed,
And let all Loyal Subjects sing

that the Crown may remain on Charles's Head:
For we will drink his Health,

In spight of Common- Wealth,

And his Lawful Rights we will maintain ;
For since it is so,

They have wrought their overthrow,

Old Tony will ne'r enjoy his own again.

Finis.

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Newmarket.

"The child had been thinking how strange it was that horses, who were such fine honest creatures, should seem to make vagabonds of all the men they drew about them."-Master Humphrey's Clock, i. 200.

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OR several good reasons we are willing at this place to introduce Tom D'Urfey's Newmarket song of 1682. First, because we gave a different Newmarket Song ("To horse, brave Boys of Newmarket, to horse!") among our Bagford Ballads, p. 80; when the following ditty was mentioned. Second, because at the Newmarket meeting in March, 1682, the newly-returned Duke of York held a levée of his enthusiastic adherents, to the gratification of his brother, who held no petty jealousy. Third, because it was the very ease and freedom from formal precautions of "Old Rowley" at Newmarket in 1682 which caused the conspirators for his assassination to plot the destruction of himself and the Duke for the following spring, on their return from Newmarket when passing near the Rye-House, Hertfordshire.

We have had occasion (on our p. 4, and elsewhere) to notice the King's love of Horse-racing, both at Newmarket and Winchester. Sir John Reresby gives us several interesting particulars in regard to this meeting. Two days after the execution of Captain Vratz, Lieutenant John Stern and Borotzsky he records in his Diary:

March 12 [1682].-His Highness the Duke of York arrived at Newmarket from Scotland, which he had long endeavoured to get leave to do, some advising the King against it.

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March 16.-My Lord Halifax told me I must go with him the next day in his own coach to Newmarket, which I accepted as a great honour done to me March 17.-Except myself, there being nobody in the coach with his lordship, he discoursed with me, concerning his son," etc. Among other things he was saying how free he had been with the Duke of York in the point of changing his religion: for he had written to him that, except he became a Protestant, his friends would be obliged to leave him, like a garrison that one could no longer defend; and that his Highness's answer was, that then his case was more desperate than he understood it to be before, for that he could not alter his principles.

March 18.-We arrived before noon at Newmarket; this day I was presented to the Duke by my Lord Halifax, who was very kind to me in his expressions My Lord stayed there till the 26th. I lay in the same lodging with his Lordship. The King was so much pleased with the country, and so great a lover of the diversions which that place did afford, that he let himself down from Majesty to the very degree of a country gentleman. He mixed himself amongst the crowd, allowed every man to speak to him that pleased; went a hawking in the mornings, to cock-matches in the afternoons (if there were no horse-races), and to plays in the evenings, acted in a barn, and by very ordinary Bartlemewfair Comedians. The crowd was so great here by reason of the Duke's first arrival there, of every body coming to wait upon him, and of several 'Abhorrences' brought up and presented to the King from all parts of England, that there were not beds for the company.-Memoirs, 1875 edition, p. 245.

[Tom D'Urfey's Several New Songs; and 120 Loyal Songs; 1684.]

The New-Market Song.

SUNG TO THE KING THERE. TO THE TUNE OF, Old Sir Simon the King.

The Golfo is spread and bloom, and smile to see the Sun;

He Golden Age is come, the Winter storms are gone,

Who daily guilds each Grove, and calms the air and Seas;
Dame Nature seems in love, and all the world's at ease:
"You Rogue, go saddle Ball, I'll to New-Market scour;
You never mind when I call; I should have been there this hour."
For there is all sporting and game, without any Plotting of State,
From Whigs, and another such Sham, deliver us, deliver us, O Fate!
Let's be to each other a Prey; to be cheated be ev'ry one's Lot!
Or chous'd any sort of a way, but by another's puшep Plot.
Let Cullies that lose at the Race, go venture at Hazard and win;
And he that is bubbl'd at Dice, recover 't at Cocking again :

Let Jades that are founder'd be bought; let Jockeys play Crimp to make sport,
For faith! it was strange, methought, to see Tinker beat the Court.

Each corner of the Town rings with perpetual noise,

The "Oyster "-bawling Clown joyns with "Hot Pudding-Pyes!”
And both in consort keep, to vend their stinking ware;

The drowzy God of Sleep hath no dominion there.

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"Hey, boys!" the Jockeys roar, "if the Mare and the Gelding run, "I'll bet you five Guineys to four, he beats her, and gives half a stone." "Ged dimme! quoth Bully, "'tis done, or else I'm the son of a [Sc]ore; And fain would I meet with the man would offer it, would offer it once more." See, see the puurp Fate of the Town! a Fop that was starving of late, And scarcely could borrow a Crown, puts in to run for the Plate. Another makes chousing a Trade, and dreams of his Projects to come, And many a Crimp-match has made, by bribing another man's Groom.

The Town's-men are Whiggish, G. rot 'em! their hearts are but Loyal by fits; For, should you search to the bottom, they 're as nasty as their streets.

But now all hearts beware; see, see on yonder Downs! Beauty now tryumphs there, and at this distance wounds: In the Amazonian Wars thus all the Virgins shone,

And, like the glitt'ring Stars, paid homage to the Moon.

Love proves a Tyrant now, and there doth proudly dwell;

For each stubborn Heart must bow; he has found a new way to kill :

For ne'er was invented before such Charms of additional grace;

Nor has Divine Beauty such power, in ev'ry, in ev'ry fair Face.
"Ods but!" cries my Countrey-man John," was ever the like before seen?
By Hats and by Feathers they've on, I'se took 'em e'en all for men!
Embroider'd, and fine as the Sun, their Horses and trappings of Gold;
Such a sight I shall ne'er see again, if I live to a hundred years old."
This, this is the Country's discourse, all wond'ring at this rare sight;
Then, Roger, go saddle my Horse! for I will be there to-night.

By Tom D'Urfey.

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The often-mentioned Sir Simon the King is given in Popular Music of the Olden Time, p. 264. Mr. Chappell quotes from the Travels of Cosmo, third Grand-Duke of Tuscany: "Newmarket has in the present day [1669] been brought into repute by the King, who frequents it on account of the horse-races; having been before celebrated only for the market for victuals, which was held there, and was a very abundant one." One of three versions is in Pills, ii. 53.

The Whigs' Disloyal Feast Prohibited.

"A Royal Pair, with their illustrious train,
To London's joy, are now return'd again :
Great Charles did in the front appear,
And Princely York advanced in the rear.
The right Successor is return'd again,

Whom former Faction sent an Exile o'er the Main.
Then to the mighty Duke of York and Albany,
Now London, London, show thy Loyalty!"

-London's Joy and Loyalty. 1682.

A MONTH after the execution of Captain Vratz, Stern, and

Borotski (March 10th, 1684), the Duke of Monmouth went north, to the horse-races for the plate at Northampton, viz. on the 18th April. A great feast, packed by guinea tickets, was to be held by the Whig party on the 21st, at Haberdashers' Hall and Goldsmiths' Hall, whereat Monmouth, Shaftesbury, Essex, and others, with the Sheriffs, were expected to be present, and the popular sedition of their speeches was already discounted in the enthusiasm of their adherents. But the Court felt disinclined to allow such a rallying of its enemies, and two days before the date of the banquet an order appeared forbidding the meeting, as being "seditious and tending to raise distinctions and confederacies amongst his Majesty's subjects." The Lord Mayor was charged to prevent the unlawful assembly, which he did, and the city was well guarded by four companies of Train-bands, and several guards of constables or watchmen. The intent to spread disaffection at the projected meeting was unconcealed, for the guinea tickets bore a printed notice to the effect that,

It having pleased Almighty God by his wonderful providence to deliver and protect his Majestie's person, the Protestant Religion, and English liberties (hitherto) from the Hellish and frequent attempts of their enemies (the Papists), in testimony of thankfulnesse herein, and for the preserving and improving mutuall love and charity among such as are sensible thereof, you are desired to meet many of the loyall Protestant nobility, gentry, clergy, and citizens, on Fryday the 21 day of this instant Aprill, 1682, at St. Michael's Church in Cornhill, there to hear a Sermon, and from thence to goe to Haberdashers' Hall to Dinner, and to bring this with you.

Loyal wits made merry over the consternation, the flutter among the stewards, John Wilmore, Partridge, and the rest, after the purchase of provisions and preparation of harangues. There had been considerable merriment at Oxford, regarding a similar disappointment of Monmouth's party in the previous October; when John Lord Lovelace and Alderman William Wright figured meanly about Monmouth's unpaid Racing-Plate.

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The Whigs' Disappointment upon their intended Feast.

TO THE TUNE OF, Cook Lawrel.

Have you not heard of a Festival conven'd of late,

Compos'd of a pack of Notorious Dissenters,
Appointed by Tinkers in Whigland to meet,
To sign and to seal Covenanted Indentures?
The day was appointed, and all things prepar'd,
In order thereto, by the Sages o' th' Nation;
And a Reverend Sermon was then to be heard:
T'exhort 'em to th' Oath of Association.1
All sorts of Trades-men were bid to be there,
The Lords-Petitioners and Commoners' too;
But the Cooper 'fore all was to take the Chair,
To set forth the matter, as well he knew how.

The godly Gown-men all chain'd and fur'd,

Two Shrieves, and the De'il knows what of the Rabble,
Invited on purpose, and set on, and spur'd

To make a confusion worse than our old Babel.
The chief of the Feast was a Fop and a Mouth,
Cry'd up by the City Cooper, and Player,2
Whose name they'd extend from North unto South,
By the trick of a Black-Box to make him an Heir.3
For down into Durham an Envoy was sent,
Amongst the chief of the Northern Clergies,

To find out a writing to that very intent,

Who had thirty good Guineys to defray his charges.
The Reverend Titus was Chaplain o' th' Feast,
Brim-full of Plots, with Oaths to maintain them,
The De'il could afford them no such a guest,
'Mongst all the puшep Crew to entertain them.
Next came in Janeway, Curtis, Vile, and Care,5
With his Packet of Lies thrust under his arm;
Then Don Dangerfieldo, more subtle by far

Than poor Mother Cellier that acted no harm.

All sorts of Informers were bid to be there,
And the puшep Ignoramus Jurors too,
To participate of this Festival cheer,

By way of Thanksgiving for what they did do.

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1 Shaftesbury's Protestant Association, sworn to Exclude any Popish Successor. 2 Sir Thomas Player, City Chamberlain.

3 The fabulous Black-Box, supposed to contain the proofs of Monmouth's legitimacy. See Vol. IV. pp. 624, 625.

Dr. John Cosin, Bishop of Durham (1660 to 1674), was falsely reported to have held possession of the marriage certificate between Charles and Lucy Walter.

The publishers of scandalous libels, Richard Janeway, Langley Curtis, Thomas Vile, and Harry Care, with the weekly Packet of Advice from Rome. For Thomas Dangerfield, who died after his public whipping and injury by Robert Francis in 1685, see our Bagford Ballads, p. 707; for Madam Cellier, who is represented shielding herself from missiles, see p. 190 of our present volume.

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