Additional Note on the Duke of Grafton. One of the groups in the large picture adorning the Luttrell Collection broadside, "A Description of the late Rebellion in the West" (our p. 702), represents the ambush near Philip's Norton, into which the Duke of Grafton unwarily led the grenadiers of the First Foot Guards. Monmouth had lined the hedges with musketeers, on both sides of the road, and thus the Royal troops were exposed to a murderous cross-fire, through which they struggled until they were checked by a barricade, raised at the entrance to the village. Here they were met by a volley pointblank, and falling into utter confusion, with the volunteer cavalry close behind them, they turned and fled; the Duke of Grafton thus himself narrowly escaped being made prisoner by his half-brother, Monmouth. Feversham's mounted grenadiers alone saved Grafton from this mischance. It was on Saturday, June 27, 1685. On pp. 665, Note 5, and 705, Note 8, this Henry Fitzroy, Duke of Grafton, second son of Barbara Villiers, Countess of Castlemaine and Duchess of Cleveland, has been mentioned. In 1682 he became Vice-Admiral of England, and Colonel of the 1st Guards. At the siege of Cork, September 28, 1690, when fighting against his Uncle James, and approaching the shattered wall, he received a shot in the shoulder, or ribs, said to have been fired by a blacksmith in the old Postoffice Lane (the ground whereon he fell is still called Grafton Street). Of this wound he died soon afterwards, on the 9th of October. As it is very rare, the Editor gives here the old ballad (first learnt from his father, to whom it had been sung by his centenarian grandmother), telling of the funeral at Westminster Abbey. We possess a rough reprinted copy, a stall version, issued so late as 1738. The Duke of Grafton. S two men were a walking, down by the sea-side, O! the brave Duke of Grafton they straightway espied, "It is the brave Duke of Grafton that is now cast away." All things were made ready, his funeral for to be, In Westminster-Abbey 'tis now call'd by name, Appendix Note on Death of the Duke of Grafton. 739 (The fourth and fifth verses have been borrowed in the modern ballad of "Queen Jeanie," apocryphally traditional,' as given by G. R. Kinloch, and by Robert Bell "from a young gipsy." Compare Robert Jamieson's fragmentary "Death of Queen Jane," and Richard Johnson's original, before 1612, “When as King Henrie rul'd this land.") Less complimentary were the verses volunteered for his obsequies by Sir Fleetwood Shepherd; originally printed in open order : An Epitaph on the Duke of Grafton. DENEATH this place is 'stow'd his Grace, the Duke of Grafton ! BENEA As sharp a blade as e'er was made, or e'er had haft on. Mark'd with a Star, forg'd for War, Of mettle true, as ever drew, Or made a pass, at Lad or Lass. This natural son of Mars ne'er hung [back from scars], Or turn'd his Tail, though shot like Hail Flew 'bout his ears, through Pikes and Spears, So thick they hid the sun; he'd boldly lead them on, He valued not the balls of Gun, but scorn'd to run; Or Cannon Ball, nothing at all. Yet a bullet of Cork soon did his work: It has undone Great Cæsar's Son! A Statesman spoil'd, a Soldier foil'd! G- rot him that shot him: A Son of a W-o-e, I say no more. But it is left ambiguous whether the final designation refers to the Cork defending blacksmith or to Grafton; unto whom it is indisputably appropriate, not for his wit but for his courage, in the sense of Wycherley's famous apophthegm, which Barbara Villiers endorsed so warmly in 1672, because it indirectly complimented her children, this very Duke of Grafton included : When parents are slaves, their brats cannot be any other; Great Wits and great Braves have always a Punk for their mother. So they sang in handsome Wycherley's "Love in a Wood," the song commencing "A Spouse I do hate, for either she's false or she's jealous; It forms an appropriate epitaph for the days of the Merry Monarch. Accredited Authors of Roxburghe Ballads, etc., given complete in this Volume Argyle (Archibald Campbell), Ninth Earl of, 610. Author of Introductio ad Latinam Blasoniam, etc., 519. Bold, Henry, 89. Brome, Alexander, 59. Brown, Tom, 503. Buckingham (George Villiers), second Duke of, 657, 664. Dorset (Charles Sackville), sixth Earl of, 567, 568, bis. Drope, John (see p. 156: his "Yew Trees" deferred to next volume). D'Urfey, Tom (dramatist), 144, 263, 281, 335, 366, 486, 561, 613. F., C. (Author of Wit at a Venture, 1674), 205. Ferguson, Robert, 479, 488 (compare pp. 653, 654); 731. Hains, Joe, 294. Houghton, Thomas, 69 to 71. Jordan, Thomas, 177 (compare Addenda, p. xvi). Karl von Nirgends, Der Herr (suspected), Temp. Pref., xii. xiv. xv. Marvel, Andrew, M.P. for Hull, 688 Monmouth, (James Scott), Duke of, 392 and 394, very doubtful. Motteux, Pierre Antoine (dramatist), 563. Prior, Matthew, 84. Roscommon (Wentworth Dillon), Earl of, 13. Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 371. Rowley, Samuel (Dramatist), 393. Sackville, Charles (see Dorset). Sackville, The Honble. Colonel (Edward ?), 553. Say, Samuel, 386. Shepherd, Sir Fleetwood, 739. Shirley, James (dramatist), 578. Stepney, George, 707. Stevenson, Matthew, 558. Swift, Jonathan, 108. Taubman, Matthew, 22, 34 to 40, 90 to 92, 151, 170, 248. Wharton, The Honble. William, 451. [This cut, used for "A Suffolk Miracle," belongs to a set: compare p. 613.] Inder Df First Lines, Burdens, Titles, and Tunes. Prefatory Note.-This list includes first-lines, burdens, titles, sub-titles (viz. secondary titles), and tunes; distinguishing the ballads that are merely alluded to in passing, as "mentioned," from those whereof the opening verse or other portion is given, as "quoted": while the absence of either sign shows those that are given complete. First Lines are clearly separated, by being within double quotational commas. Tunes are marked as such. Burdens, choruses, or refrains are so entitled, and marked in Italic type. Most ballads were originally printed without being dated; but we have endeavoured throughout Vols. IV. and V. to supply this deficiency, within square brackets, from careful study of external and internal evidence. Every clue of printer's name or initials, tune, burden, or allusion to contemporary event, becomes valuable in these investigations, since we re-arrange our materials chronologically, so far as practicable.-J. W. EBSWORTH. A Beggar I will be (There was a jovial Beggar) A begging we will go, will go, etc. A brimmer to the King! "A Butcher's son's Judge capital" A Mug, a Mug! "A pox on the factions of the City' PAGE tune, mentioned, 476 burden, and tune, 161, 714 end of burden, 90 mentioned, 437 burden, 172 "A Session of Lovers was held t'other day" (Lover's Sess.) quo., 569, 570, 705 "A Spouse I do hate." (By Wm. Wycherley, 1672.) "A Whig is a vermin of monstrous nature" "A widow young, whose name was Bess" quoted, 739 235 576 96; given, 107 Absalom and Achitophel title, mentioned or quoted, 7, 183, 217, 232, 286, Absalom Senior; or, Achitophel Transprosed 287, 435, 542, 708 title, 201; quoted, 636 title, quoted, 636 sub-title, 399; 406, 636 Achitophel Transprosed. (By Elkanah Settle.) sub-title, mentioned, 201, 636 "Adieu to my title of Saviour o' th' Nation!'" quoted, 189, 601 742 The Rorburghe Ballads' Index: "Adieu to the hopes of the Whigs of the State!" Adieu to the pleasures and follies of Love Advice in a Letter to Mr. Frank Villiers Advice in Bad Times, Good Advice to his Grace (the Duke of Monmouth) PAGE sub-title, mentioned, 468 title, quoted, 423, 424 title, mentioned, 244, 280, given, 281 Advice to the late Duke of Monmouth, The Country's "Alas! alas! I am undone "Alas! we Widows of the West" Algernon Sydney fills this tomb ". All hail to London's fair town!" "All ye gods, that are above' "All you, who this day's Jubilee attend" mentioned, 657, 659; given, 660 423 394 Althea ("When Love with unconfined wings") tune (Dancing Master), 690 mentioned, 156 And never will have done, till their heads are all promoted burden varies, 496 mentioned, 7; quoted, 159 burden, 202 ......burden (1st Addenda, xvi), 68 title, mentioned, And then grow enrag'd, when they hear of Ignoramus Anthem, (Early Version of) The National sub-title, 196 title, quoted, 233 sub-title, mentioned, 349 title, quoted, 389 title, mentioned, 32 quoted, 383 title, quoted, 598 title, 265 title, 610 sub-title, 611 Armstrong, Answer to Ferguson's Elegy on Sir Thomas title, quoted, 653 |