"Talkest thou of nothing but of Ladies?"

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5 Mr. Poulteney; second son of Sir William Poulteney, who had been removed from the Commission of the Peace for Middlesex, in 1681. The son fought a duel, in July, 1682, with one Mr. Howard, and gave him a mortal wound causing death soon after. The cause was "a gentlewoman which the said Mr. Poulteney hath married." In September, 1689, he displaced Dr. Wynne, who had been Secretary to the Lord Shrewsbury (as Secretary of State).

6 One Forster (male) is connected with Lady Henrietta, in a MS. Satyr: Harriot will doe the thing, what e'er it cost her,

But first intends to get the sneaking Forster.

Probably Forster of Dotayl, Shropshire.

7 "Earl Barkley's daughter Harriot" is the notorious Lady Henrietta, sister of Lucy and of Mary (the wife of Ford Lord Grey of Werk), who intrigued with her sister's husband. See Howell's State Trials, ix. 127, and frequent references in our pages. "Liberal" Grey coveted his undeceased-wife's-sister "Hen." James Forbes, a Scotchman, is Dryden's Phaleg, Absalom and Achitophel : Here Phaleg, the lay Hebronite, is come, 'Cause like the rest he could not stay at home; Who from his own possessions could not drain An omer even of Hebronitish grain.

[i.e. Scottish.

[E. of Derby.

[tost in a blanket.

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James Forbes, clerk of the green cloth, was knighted by Dutch William in 1689, as reward for his former factiousness. Such doings were quite en règle.

9 This Mr. Charlton was a gentleman of £2000 per annum, against whose serving on the jury Sir George Jeffereys took exception, at Hicks Hall Sessions, October 10, 1681. The Sheriff resisted the order of Jeffereys; altercation and adjournment followed. Charlton was one who proffered bail for Shaftesbury, in November. Probably the same person as the Francis Charlton, who was afterwards taken at Oxford, for the Rye-House Plot, in August, 1683; and again summoned by proclamation in 1685. His outlawry was reversed in April, 1689. There was a John Charlton, informed against by Lord Grey and Goodenough, but the accusation came to nothing.

10 John Gibbons was Monmouth's "man," valet or page, who on the 20th of February, 168, arrested Count Königsmark at Gravesend (see p. 115). Gibbons was implicated in the Rye-House Plot, being privy to the assassination scheme, and thus compromising his master, Monmouth.

11 Sir Richard Mason of Worcester Park, near Epsom, who in 1688 "married his daughter to one Mr. Brownlow of the Temple; the lady having 16007. portion, and the gentleman giving 3007. a year pin-money, and 20007. a year jointure." 12 Ford Lord Grey of Werk, and Sir Thomas Armstrong. See Note 7, also pp. 28, 75, 102, and the pages devoted later to the Rye-House Plot.

More Advice from Sir Roger Martin.

"His neighbour Fenw[ick], with his antick face,
These forty years has studied French grimace;
In ogling Cartwright his delight does place.
Yet, so unhappy does his passion prove,
She takes it all for dotage, not for Love:
While poor Frank Villiers, full of awful fears.
And tender Love, has follow'd many years,
Yet no reward his constant Passion claims,
But that he may enjoy her in his Dreams.
His Sister does him service with her Friend,
But Mistress Nancy to her cost does find
Her feeble charms are by her Friends out-shin'd;
Yet strives by Art her comrade to out-do,
Counterfeit Beauty must give place to true:
And yet the meanest Beauty claims a part,
E'en Swan can move with her old rotten heart."

-Satirical Letter to C. W.

HAVING given Sir Roger Martin's Remonstrance to the Duke of

Monmouth, from an early manuscript, we owe it to the enlightened reader of Court Scandals in the olden time to here subjoin another piece of hitherto unprinted "Advice" from the same Censor Morum; but without pledging ourselves to any declaration that he and he alone was the responsible author. Children and lampoons were of doubtful parentage, both within the lustre of Whitehall and in more dusky purlieus. If we conscientiously weeded out all spurious growths, our English garden of life and literature would show many bare places. An expurgated Burke or Debrett would be of as little value as a Mason-College certificate of merit in Art or Letters. Our present business is to "trot out" the associates of Monmouth, whose characters were, unfortunately, for the most part "shady": he having chosen them sympathetically for that qualification.

In the following musical squib, to which Sir Roger Martin's name is attached in our manuscript, mention is made of Frank Villiers's lively sister Nancy; of "King John" Sheffield, Lord Mulgrave; of Phil Kirke (see p. 219); of Katy Newport (not Kate Brett, who died earlier); of Berkeley (the "Harriot" of our Monmouth's "foolish fancy "); of Jack D'Arcy, Lord Conyers Darcy's son, who dangled after Lady Betty Kildare, née Jones, had a weakness for old Guy's young wife, if not an actually criminal intrigue with her, and was accused of having designs on the Duchess of Grafton. These small impeachments did not disturb the fellowship with the respective husbands. Lady Cartwright also is here mentioned (whom we believe to be Sir George Cartwright's widow); and "the old Italian Dutchess," Hortensia Mancini, Duchess of Mazarine, on whom a life of excitement in gambling and gallantry brought

The Tune of " Here's a Health to Betty!"

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premature grey hairs. "Dimple" represents Henry Herbert; Bellingham is assigned as lover to Kate in a satirical Letter to Julian; O that kind Fate would order 't so, that Bellingham might do so too, [i.e. marry. And, with his folly and estate, oblige the world and marry Kate!

How many then full sail would enter, that in that port now dare not venture: But tho' he's Fop enough to woo, present, and treat, and keep ado,

When he should wed-he won't come to.

The tune known as Here's a Health to Betty belonged to a Country Dance, but we have not yet found the original words. Tom D'Urfey set fresh lines to the tune, and printed them with the music (which is in Popular Music, p. 367). His verses are entitled, "The Female Quarrel; or, a Lampoon upon Phillida and Chloris." exposed the frailties of her friend Chloris. It begins,

Of all our modern stories, To minuets sung, or Borees,

Phillida had

None stir the mood, as late the feud, 'Twixt Phillida and Chloris.

The same tune was used for the Pepysian Ballad, "One morning bright," with its burden and title of Fourpence half-penny farthing.

Note on <<

Magpies, Rooks, and Jack Daws," on p. 195.

A ballad on "The Magpies" gave its name to the tune of Dumb, dumb, dumb, or I am the Duke of Norfolk, in "Some Nonsense" (see Vol. IV. p. 564). "Rook and Jack Daw" refer to a frustrated alliance of the little Nancy, whom Charles Sackville Earl of Dorset thus satirized:

Mrs. Anne Booke, when she lost Sir John Dawe.

L'

Ike a true Irish Merlin yt has lost her flight,

Little Nancy sate mumping and sullen all night,
Tho' if Jack Daw escap'd her, ye loss is not great,

She may yet catch a Woodcock, and yts better meat.

An early note in the manuscript Epigram adds "she was married after to Lord Dorset." But this appears to be an error. Dorset's first wife was Elizabeth, widow of Charles Berkeley, the Earl of Falmouth (killed in 1665); she was daughter of Colonel Hervey Bagot. Mulgrave describes her as "a teeming widow, but a barren wife." Nor can it be Dorset's second wife, for she was Mary Compton, second daughter of James, the third Earl of Northampton.

Thus Dorset, purring like a thoughtful Cat,
Marry'd, but wiser Puss, ne'er thought of that;
And first he worry'd her with railing rhyme,
Like Pembroke's mastiffs at his kindest time,
Then for one night sold all his slavish life,
A teeming widow, but a barren wife.

Note to second verse of the Advice, on next page.

The close sequence of Phil Kirke after Mulgrave's nickname is ominous. Mrs. Kirke protested her innocence, but before July 8th her husband had severely wounded Mulgrave on her account, and "she was turn'd out of St. James's,' and took "a very private sanctuary in Whitehall." Moll Kirke was in Paris married to Sir Thomas Vernon. Probably it was the same Kirke who (as second) dangerously wounded Captain Par in a duel, 6 Dec., 1681. Phil Kirke is not the Colonel Kirke, governor of Tangier in 168, whom we shall meet at Bridgewater, the Shepherd of "Kirke's Lambs:" his name being Percy.

[From an Early Manuscript, Trowbesh Collection.]

Advice in a Letter to Mr. Frank Villiers.

TO THE TUNE OF, Here's a Health to Betty.

[Lady Henrietta B.

Barkley ne're will leave it ;

Propose, and she'l receive it;

Jack Darcy knows where 'tis she blows,
And will make affidavit.

Dear Frank, you ha'n't the art right
To please my Lady Cartwright:

Yet don't despair, for one so fair

In time may play her part right.

But tho' her beauty much is,
Contempt's a thing that touches;
And, if she scorn, you'd best return
То your old Italian Dutchess.

Now to conclude, at parting,
All I have writ is certain,

And so I end, your faithfull friend
And servant, Roger Martin.

WE

The Whigs' Downfall.

"There are a Crue of Rogues infest the Town
would undermine the Crown,

The Whiggs, the Whiggs, the Whiggs,

The Whiggs I mean: Let all true Britains sing-
"They may be hang'd, may be hang'd, may be hang'd,

May be hang'd, and so God save the King!'

-New Catch, to the Tune of, There dwells a Pretty Maid.

E have written concerning the never-exhausted popularity of the tune, Hey, Boys, up go we! (Vol. IV. p. 260, etc.), but give other examples of its employment here on pp. 147 and 162.

"Wi. Williams" (see pp. 29, 224), is named in the following Loyal Song. Mr. William Williams, of Gray's Inn, Counsellor-atLaw, and Recorder of Chester, had been Speaker of the Commons, in October, 1679. Soon after, Sir Robert Peyton became entangled in a mesh by Mrs. Cellier with Thomas Dangerfield, and was expelled the House. Peyton quarrelled with Williams, and challenged him, but only got into fresh trouble, since the other, instead of fighting, swore the peace against him, and had him arrested on warrant. That Peyton had actually caned or "batooned " him, as asserted in the song, is by no means improbable. In Whig Sheriffs' elections Williams and Polloxfen were on their side. Having under orders licensed Dangerfield's Narrative, he got into trouble, and was censured, with actions against him. Williams, like other "liberal "minded men, ratted to the Court, and was made Solicitor-General in 1687. These self-elected Tribunes of Radical hot-beds are always the same: the noisiest Demagogues are greedy of place and plunder. They turn their coats, when bribed sufficiently, like Sir William Williams, late Speaker of the Commons.

While enjoying the lampoons that circulated in 1681 and 1682 against the factious Whigs, who in their opposition to the Court had indulged in the grossest personal attacks and seditious intrigues, we are by no means called upon to condone the faults of their enemies, when resisting or punishing them by straining the law against them in the very way which the Whigs had hitherto monopolized, by means of vexatious prosecutions, questionable testimony, and packed juries obedient to time-serving Judges. We only ask for fair remembrance that nearly every expedient which deserves censure had been previously employed against the Tories with merciless rigour and unprincipled selfishness. Whig tyranny brought about the reaction, many persons sincerely agreeing with the curt declaration of the contemporary Loyal Song, "Fanatick Zeal,"

The old Proverb doth us tell that Each Dog will have his day,
And Whig has had his too; for which he'll soundly pay :
So a Tory, I will be, will be, will be, and a Tory I will be.