m Vii i^'W i(!; f: lUAA. ■I 'i^-^ v\\ \ >\Vv ?1{ V.I §-^„ POLITICAL BALLADS VOL. 1. LONDON PRINTED BY 6P0TTISW00DE AND CO. NEW-STREET SQUARE POLITICAL BALLADS OF THE Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries ANNOTATED BY W. WALKER WILKINS " More solid things do not show the complexion of the times so luell as Ballads and Libels"— Selien's Table-Tallc In Two Vols. VOLUME THE FIRST LONDON LONGMAN, GREEN, LONGMAN, AND ROBERTS MDCCCLX PREFACE Nearly one hundred and fifty years have elapfed fince the laft Colle£lion of State Poems was pub- lifhed. And that collection, which was comprifed originally in two, but afterwards augmented to four volumes, relates only to a period of our hiflory extending over little more than half a century — namely, from the ufurpation of Cromwell to the acceflion of Queen Anne. But for the fa6t that the volumes in queftion are " by various hands," and therefore reprefent more fully than any others the fatirical wit of the limited period to which they refer, they would fcarcely deferve a pafTmg notice, fo very partial and inaccurate are the contents of them. They contain, moreover, few political ballads, properly fo called ; but confift almoft entirely of long and infipid " poems," chiefly from the pens of Buckingham, Rochefter, and other exalted per- fonages, who exercifed in their day confiderable A 3 VI PREFACE. influence about the Court, and in the government of the country, and who, rather as an exercife of a fuppofed neceflary accompHfhment than from any bafer motive, occafionally amufed themfelves with ridicuHng the foibles of majefty, and expofing the intrigues of their rivals for his confidence. Such writers are manifeftly no exponents of the popular mind : the vaft majority of their compofitions have long fince fallen into neglect, almoft oblivion, and are never likely again to intereft, much lefs influence, any clafs of readers. Whilft every other department of literature has been thoroughly explored, amplified, and varioufly illuflirated, our modern Political Songs and Ballads — the beft popular illuftrations of hiftory — con- ftitute the folitary exception to the general rule. Two caufes in particular may be afligned for the Angular indifi^erence with which fuch compofitions have been hitherto treated. In the firfl; place, they are fo diflrifely fcattered as to render hopelefs any attempt by a fingle individual to make, if fuch a thing were defirable, an entire colledtion of them, or indeed any approximation to it ; and fecondly, their rarely pofi^efTing any literary merit. There are, however, few compofitions more PREFACE. vii interefting in themfelves, or that offer more valu- able material to the hiftorical inquirer, than thefe ephemeral produdions. Referring to an age lefs faftidious in its taftes and expreffions than our own, too many of them, it cannot be denied, are not only faulty in conftrudion, but alfo obje6lionable in matter. Yet thefe are not the only criteria by which they fhould be judged. The ordinary rules of criticifm, indeed, do not apply to them. They are the emphatic fongs of a liberty-loving people; they contain the out-pourings of unconquerable fpirits, the unequivocal fentiments of refolute men ; in a word, they are the rude but moft expreffive monu- ments of the great political ftruggles in which our jealous anceftors were engaged ; and on that account they merit, if not our critical admiration, at all events deliverance from abfolute oblivion. In the abfence of thefe artlefs effufions, our focial hiftory would be incomplete. They exhibit as well the manners as the feelings of paft generations. The ftudent, by looking narrowly into them, may often- times be enabled to deduce moft important con- clufions refpeding the origin and iffue of former infurreftions and fadlions ; juft in the fame manner as the geologift, who, deteding on the furface of A 4 viii PREFACE. the fedimentary rock the latent impreffions of fome primeval ftorm, or the footprints of races long extindl, determines the courfe of the one and the character of the other. " The popular fongs of a nation (remarks an able writer on Political Literature) conftltute one of the moft palpable manifeftations of its political feelings and fympathies ; and this is more ftrikingly the cafe, if other legitimate channels for the expreffion of public fentiment be choked or dried up by the repreflive hand of power. The fong-writer is an ubiquitous and privileged character. He purfues his avocation in the family circle, in the workfhop, in the tavern, at the gay feftival, in the fqualid alley, in the barrack-room, and in the mefs-room of the failor. His ftrains are hearty, bold, and genial ; the embodiment of thought, emotion, and melody. The popular fong is eafy, fimple, and born of the incidents of the day. It is the intelledtual perfonifi- cation of the feelings and opinions of a people. It is the delight of the multitude, the joy and folace of the many. It laughs in derifion at defpotic power, lightens the focial burdens of life, and in- fpires the patriot with hope. Of the popular fatirical fong much has been written, but nothing PREFACE. ix definitely fettled. There is a fchifm among critics on its nature and charafter. It is a compound of delicate effences and incommunicable graces which bids defiance to definition. But we know that popular fongs muft be the energetic and faithful tranfcripts of general experience and feelings. Their neceffary charaderiftics are fancy, paffion, dramatic effedl, rapidity, and pathos. They are not transferable ; the popular fatire and humour of one country cannot be adequately relifhed by another ; nor, in the fame country, are fuch pro- ductions fo influential on public opinion in fubfe- quent periods of its hifl:ory, as when they firft appeared. Time blunts the inftrument, and deadens the national perceptions of the witty and ridiculous." The real value and importance of fuch ephemeral productions may be beft difcerned in the volumes of the late Lord Macaulay, the only native hiftorian who has thought them worthy of his particular fl:udy and ufe. It is no difparagement to the literary fame of that difliinguiflied writer, to aflirm that they have imparted to his pages a vitality which the profoundeft knowledge of the principles of human adtion, combined with the greateft erudi- PREFACE. tion and the higheft defcriptive pov/ers, could never have effedled without them. It was from thefe long- negledled picture-writings of great hiftorical fcenes, and of the celebrated individuals who are crowded in them — " in their habit as they lived " — that he derived fo much of his wonderfully minute know- ledge of all that related to the flirring times of the feventeenth and eighteenth centuries. To thefe defpifed and inexhauftible fources of information, he was principally indebted for his life-like delineations of charafter ; for his defcriptions of popular com- motions ; and, not unfrequently, for his knowledge of the motives by which public men were a6luated, at particular conjun6lures, in their condud:. The admirable ufe made of them by Lord Macaulay, in his hiftorical fragment and efTays, has fuggefted the idea of collecting and republifhing the following fpecimens. They have been gleaned from exceedingly rare (not a few, I believe, unique) fingle-fheets and broadfides, old manufcripts, and contemporary journals, in the national and other libraries. A few have been extracted from very fcarce volumes, which were publifhed at the clofe of the feventeenth or early in the eighteenth cen- tury; and fewer ftill have been derived from more PREFACE. xi modern books, in order to give a greater complete- nefs to the feries. Thus by far the larger portion will be entirely new to the generality of readers. In my fele6lion of the Ballads I have been guided (fo far, that is, as the limited means at my difpofal would admit) by a defire to reproduce fuch only as are particularly charafteriftic or illuftrative of the periods to which they refpedively refer ; and, at the fame time are not unfitted to meet the general eye. Licentioufnefs, unfortunately, as every literary antiquary knows, is the rule rather than the exception with this clafs of popular com- pofitions. It is almoft unnecefTary to ftate that the names of the various parties alluded to in thefe pages are rarely to be found in the original broadfides, or in the early volumes whence they have been obtained. Sometimes names of individuals have been omitted altogether, at others their initials only have been given, for reafons too obvious to mention. In reftoring them (which was by no means the leaft onerous part of my editorial labours), without the ufual diftinguifhing brackets, I have been led to do fo fimply to avoid fatiguing the eye of the reader, and disfiguring almoft every page with very needlefs xii PREFACE. additions. As a guarantee, however, for accuracy in thefe important refpeds, I beg to afTure the reader that, in every doubtful inftance, I have never relied exclufively upon my own judgment, but in- variably have fought that of fome literary friend better qualified than myfelf to folve the difficulty. I feel confident, therefore, that no error of the kind referred to will be deteded in the following pages. My original intention was to include in the prefent colle(5tion the moft celebrated political ballads referring to the reigns of the laft two Georges ; but finding my prefcribed limits would not admit of anything like juftice being done to them, I have been relu6lantly compelled to abandon that part of my fcheme. Should, however, the prefent feries happily meet with the approbation of the public, I fhall furnifh with pleafure the re- maining inftalment, in the fhape of an additional volume. London, 06lober, i860. CONTENTS or THE FIRST VOLUME. A. D. 1 641. 1643. 1644. 1646. 1647. 1648. CHARLES L The Organ's Echo ..... On the Army marching from London . When the King enjoys his own again . A Prognoftication on Will Laud, late Archbifhop of Canter bury ...... A Mad World, my Mafters .... The New Litany ..... The Parliament ..... The Anarchic, or the Blefled Reformation fince 1640 On his Majefty coming to Holmby The Members' Juftification .... The Cryes of Weftminfter .... I Thank You Twice ..... Prattle Your Pleafure (under the Rofe) The Old Proteftant's Litany .... The Cities Welcome to Colonel Rich and Colonel Baxter The Puritan ...... PAGE 3 7 10 13 19 23 28 3Z 38 40 43 54 57 59 65 71 XIV CONTENTS OF A. D. 1649. r652. 1653- 1654. 1655. 1657. 1659. 1660. THE COMMONWEALTH. A Coffin for King Charles, a Crown for Cromwell, and a Pit for the People . The Dominion of the Sword A Salt Tear The Stated New Coin Upon the General Pardon pafied by The Houfe out of Doors The Parliament Routed The Sale of Rebellion's Houfe-hold A Chriftmas Song . A Jolt on Michaelmas Day A Free Parliament Litany . The Protedling Brewer A Ballad . A New Ballad to an Old Tune Win at Firft, and Lofe at Laft . 79 . 89 . 91 - , 95 the Rump 96 . 100 . 105 Stuff . III . 117 . 121 . 125 . 132 . 13s . 138 . 144 e^ 1660. 1661. 1663. 1666. 1674. 1676. CHARLES IL The Noble Progrefs . . . . -153 A Ballad . . . . . • -159 The Cavalier's Complaint . . . . .162 An Echo to the Cavalier's Complaint . • .165 A Turn-coat of the Times . . . . .167 The Old Cloak . . . . . -173 Clarendon's Houfe Warming . . • " ^77 On the Lord Mayor and Court of Aldermen prefenting the King and the Duke of York with a Copy of their Freedom 185 The Hiftory of Infipids . . . • .190 THE FIRST VOLUME. XV A. D. 1678. The Geneva Ballad .... —Titus Telltroth ..... Information ..... 1679. On the Lord Chancellor's Speech to Parhament A New Satirical Ballad of the Licentioufnefs of the Times Geneva and Rome ; or, the Zeal of both boiling over 1680. The Loyal Tories Delight .... 1679. The King's Vows ..... 1683. The Loyal Sheriffs of London and Middlefex, upon their Eledlion . ..... London's Lamentation for the Lofs of their Charter . Vienna's Triumph ..... Damon's Fall ..... 203 207 213 216 219 224 227 231 236 241 245 249 C^ 1687. A Short Litany . . . ■ • 255 1688. The Advice ..... 258 The Catholic Ballad .... 261 1687. The True Proteftant Litany . 268 1688. Private Occurrences .... 270 ,^ Lilli Burlero ..... 275 A New Song of an Orange . . . • 279 POLITICAL BALLADS G^ CHARLES I. VOL. I, THE ORGAN'S ECHO. (To the tune of the Cathedral Service.) [Sovithey, the ableft apologift of Laud, ftates that libels and ballads againft the Archbifliop "were hawked and fung through ftreets, and caricatures exhibited, in which he was reprefented as caged, or chained to a poft ; and with fuch things the rabble made fport at taverns and alehoufes, being as drunk with malice as with the liquor they fwilled in." This is doubtlefs one of the ballads referred to. The original broadlide whence it is copied is fur- mounted with a rude woodcut of the unfortunate Archbifhop bound to a poft, with a pair of expanded wings on his flioulders, fignificant of his defire to efcape. " Neile of Winchefter and Laud of London (fays Carlyle) were a frightfully ceremonial pair of bifhops j the fountain they of innumerable tendencies to papiftry and the old clothes of Babylon." In juftice, however, to the memory of the Archbifhop, it fliould be added that whilft his great reverence for antiquity and fondnefs for the pomps and ceremonies of religion expofed him to the hatred an 1 perferution of the fanatical Puritans, his jealous guai dianfhip of the interefts of the Church of England rendered him equally obnoxious to the Papal Court, where his judicial murder was regarded as more likely to advance than retard the Roman Catholic caufe in this country"! EMENTO MORI, I'll tell you a ftrange ftory, Will make you all forry, For our old friend William ; Alas, poor William. B 2 4 POLITICAL BALLADS. 1641. As he was in his bravery, And thought to bring us all in flavery, The Parliament found out his knavery, And fo fell William ; Aias, poor William. His pope-like domineering, And fome other tricks appearing, Provoked Sir Edward Deering*, To blame the old prelate ; Alas, poor prelate. Some fay he was in hope. To bring England again to th' Pope ; But now he's in danger of an axe or a rope ; Farewell old Canterbury ; Alas, poor Canterbury. There's another of the fame litter, Whofe breech cannot choofe but twitter. He was againft all goodnefs fo bitter, 'Twas the Bifhop of Ely.f Alas, poor Ely. * Alluding to Sir Edward's fpeech in Parliament (Seffion 1640) on the government of the Church, in which he accufed Laud and other prelates of obtruding new canon laws upon the laity, after the fafhion of Rome. t Dr. Matthew Wren, previoudy Birtiop of Norwich, but now of Ely, who was deprived 5th July, 1641, and committed to the Tower for " high mifdemeanours " in the laft mentioned diocefe. ,641. CHARLES I. And all the reft of that lordly crew, Their great infolencies are like to rue, As foon as Parliament their lives do view, Come down, brave prelates ; Alas, poor prelates. You know likewife in this two or three year, Many a one for Lamb* paid very dear. But now he begins to ftink for fear ; Therefore take heed Doctor Lamb ; Alas, poor Doctor Lamb. Then there is alfo one Doctor Duckf, The proverb fays, What's worfe than ill luck ; We hope the Parliament his feathers will pluck. For being fo bufy. Doctor Duck; Alas, poor Doctor Duck. Deans and Chapters with their retinue. Are not like long for to continue. They have fo abufed their great revenue ; That down muft ceremonies ; Alas, popifh ceremonies. * Dr. Lamb, a high churchman, and preacher of St. Mary Hall, in Oxford J he furvived the Rebellion, and died (1664) re6lor of St. Andrew's, Holborn. t Dr. Arthur Duck, Chancellor of Wells and London. He was one of the " fuffering " clergy, and died 1648. B 3 POLITICAL BALLADS. 1641 Ecclefiaftical courts are down too, they fay, England may be glad of that happy day. They have, of late, borne fuch a great (way, That farewell thofe poor pro6tors ; Alas, poor pro6tors. And now the papifts are at their wits ends. To fee the downfall of fo many friends. But they fhall all rue it ere the Parliament ends, Believe it, Roman Catholics ; Alas, poor Catholics. There is another that hardly thrives, Which many men of life deprives. He was in Newgate for having two wives. It is the young hangman ; Alas, poor hangman.* * Whether Derrick or Brandon is here referred to matters nothing j the fai5t of affociating fuch a funftionary with prelates and deans is charafteriftic of the period. 1641. CHARLES I. ON THE ARMY MARCHING FROM LONDON. [The Parliament adjourned itfelf on the 3rd and reaflembled on the 20th September, 1641. In that interval all clafles were greatly- agitated by the movements of the Royalifts, whom they feared might furprile the capital. To fecure their own perfons from infult, as well as to reftrain thofe who fecretly fympathifed with the King, the Parliament demanded a guard from the Earl of Eflex, before the Army fet forth, which was immediately granted. The ballad — a royalift's effufion — ridicules the pretenfions and fears of the Parliamentary leaders.] OME tell me what you lack, That the knaves in a pack, You will not fee forthcoming : Love you treafon fo well, That you'll neither buy nor fell, But keep a noife with your drumming. What do you guard, * With your watch and ward, Your own ware or wife's thing .'' If up come the blades, Down go all your trades, They'll not leave you a dead or a live thing. B 4 POLITICAL BALLADS. ,641. What do your prophets fay ? When will come that very day, That all your money Ihall be paid in ? Great Strafford he is dead*, You have cut off his head. And the Bifhops are all laid in.f Yet ftill you grow poor, As any common w , That long hath been without her jading ; None will come and buy, You may learn to fwear and lie. As you were wont to do with your trading. Yet ftill I do find, There's fomething in the wind. That long hath been a-framing ; O that is flat and plain. The Parliament muft reign, And you'll have a king by naming. * The earl fuffered 12th May, 1641. f The prelates here alluded to were thofe who, at the inftigation of Williams, Archbifhop of York, forwarded a declaration to the Lords, complaining that they were unable to travel in fafety to their places in Parliament, and at the fame time protefting againft the validity of any refolutions, &c., pafTed in their abfence. For this prelatical declaration, eleven of its fubfcribers, including the Arch- bifliop, were, by a vote of the Lower Houfe, committed to the Tower, and charged with high treafon ! i64i. CHARLES I. We may fee how they can, From a woman take a man, If fo they pleafe to declare him ; But let them take heed, For the King is king indeed. And the foldiers cannot fpare him. Is it nothing, do you think. Twenty-four in a clink. Kings to make up his fucceffion : Befides you have as good, Three princes of his blood. And three kingdoms in pofTeflion. His virtues to ye. Something, too, fhould be, If that you could amend them ; But inftead of chafte and jufl, You'll have cruelty & luft — Marry, another King Harry God fend you ! 10 POLITICAL BALLADS. 1643. N{lWHEN THE KING ENJOYS HIS OWN AGAIN. iOv^; pi. i ^ . iX . — BY MARTIN PARKER. [There are ieveral verfions of this celebrated ballad extant ; this is the original one. Ritfon included it in his Collection of Ancient Songs, but was unaware of the fa6l that Martin Parker (who he defcribes as a mere Grub Street fcribbler and great ballad-monger of Charles the Firft's time) was the author of it. In reference to it, he remarks : " It is with particular pleafure that the editor is enabled to reftore to the public the original words of the moft famous and popular air ever heard of in this country. Invented to fupport the declining intereft of the royal martyr, it ferved afterwards with more fuccefs to keep up the fpirits of the Cavaliers, and promote the reftoration of his fon ; an event it was employed to celebrate all over the kingdom. At the Revolution [of 1688] it of courfe became an inherent of the exiled family, whofe caufe it never deferted."] HAT Booker* can prognofticate, Concerning kings or kingdoms' fate .'' I think myfelf to be as wife As he that gazeth on the fkies : * Booker, Pond, Rivers, Swallow, Dove, and Dade, whofe names occur in this and the following ftanza, were the moft famous aftro- logers and almanac makers in the feventeenth century. i643. CHARLES L ii My ikill goes beyond, The depth of a Pond, Or Rivers in the greateft rain ; Whereby I can tell, All things will be well. When the king enjoys his own again. There's neither Swallow, Dove, nor Dade, Can foar more high, nor deeper wade ; Nor {how a reafon from the ftars. What caufeth peace or civil wars : The man in the moon May wear out his fhoon. By running after Charles his wain ; But all's to no end. For the times will nQt mend. Till the king enjoys his own again. Though for a time we fee Whitehall With cobwebs hanging on the wall, Inftead of filk and filver brave, Which formerly it ufed to have ; With rich perfume In every room. Delightful to that princely train. Which again you fhall fee. When the time it fhall be. That the king enjoys his own again. 12 POLITICAL BALLADS. 1643. Full forty years the royal crown Hath been his father's and his own ; And is there any one but he, That in the fame ftiould fharer be ? For who better may The fceptre fway, Than he that hath fuch right to reign ? Then let's hope for a peace, For the wars will not ceafe. Till the king enjoys his own again. Till then upon Ararat's hill My Hope fhall caft her anchor ftill. Until I fee fome peaceful dove Bring home the branch I dearly love : Then will I wait, Till the waters abate. Which now difturb my troubled brain, Elfe never rejoice. Till I hear the voice. That the king enjoys his own again. 1644. CHARLES I. ^3 A PROGNOSTICATION ON WILL LAUD, LATE ARCHBISHOP OF ' CANTERBURY, WRITTEN A.D. 1 64I , WHICH ACCORDINGLY IS COME TO PASS. [The date of this ballad is 1644, and was probably written fliortly after the fate of the Archbifliop was made known. His trial lafted from the 12th March, 1643-4, to the 29th July, 1644. The bill of attainder againft him was palled on the 4th January, 1644-5, ^"d he fuffered on Tower Hill with great firmnefs on the loth of the fame month.] Y little lord, methinks 'tis ftrange, That you fhould fufFer fuch a change. In fuch a little fpace. You, that fo proudly t'other day, Did rule the king, and country fway, Muft budge to 'nother place. Remember now from whence you came. And that your grandfires of your name. Were dreflers of old cloth.* * The Archbilhop's father was a clothier at Reading. 14 POLITICAL BALLADS. 1644. Go, bid the dead men bring their fhears, And drefs your coat to fave your ears, Or pawn your head for both. The wind fhakes cedars that are tall. An haughty mind muft have a fall, You are but low I fee ; And good it had been for you ftill. If both your body, mind, and will. In equal fhape fhould be. The king by heark'ning to your charms, Hugg'd our deftruction in his arms, And gates to foes did ope ; Your ftaff would ftrike his fceptre down. Your mitre would o'ertop the crown. If you {hould be a Pope. But you that did fo firmly ftand. To bring in Popery in this land. Have miff'd your hellifh aim ; Your faints fall down, your angels fly. Your crofTes on yourfelf do lie. Your craft will be your fhame. We fcorn that Popes with crozier ftaves,- Mitres, or keys, fhould make us flaves. And to their feet to bend : 1 644. GHvjR. LrLo I. The Pope and his malicious crew, We hope to handle all, like you. And brino; them to an end. t) The filenc'd clergy, void of fear. In your damnation will bear {hare, And fpeak their mind at large : Your cheefe-cake cap and magpie gown, That make fuch ftrife in ev'ry town, Muft now defray your charge. Within this fix years fix ears have Been cropt off worthy men and grave. For fpeaking what was true ; But if your fubtle head and ears Can fatisfy thofe fix of theirs, Expect but what's your due. Poor people that have felt your rod, Yield laud to the devil *, praise to God, For freeing them from thrall ; Your little grace, for want of grace, Muft lofe your patriarchal place. And have no grace at all. * Armftrong, the king's jefter, once afked permiffion of his Ma- jefty to fay grace at dinner, when the Archbirtiop was prefent, which requeft being granted him, he exclaimed " All praife to the Lord, and little laud to the devil ! " a witticifm that was never forgotten by the vulgar in the times of the Rebellion. [6 POLITICAL BALLADS. 1644. Your white lawn lleeves that were the wings Whereon you foared to lofty things, Muft be your fins to fwim ; Th' Archbishop's y^^ by Thames muft go, With him unto the Tower below. There to be rack'd like him. Your oath cuts deep, your lies hurt fore. Your canons made Scot's cannons roar. But now I hope you'll find. That there are cannons in the Tower, Will quickly batter down your power. And fink your haughty mind. The Commonalty have made a vow. No oath, no canons to allow. No Bi {hop's Common Prayer ; No lazy prelates that fhall fpend Such great revenues to no end, But virtue to impair. Dumb dogs that wallow in fuch ftore. That would fuffice above a fcore, Paftors of upright will ; Now they'll make all the biftiops teach," And you muft in the pulpit preach. That ftands on Tower Hill. 1644- CHARLES I. 17 When the young lads to you did come, You knew their meaning by the drum, You had better yielded then * ; Your head and body then might have One death, one burial, and one grave. By boys — but two by men. But you that by your judgments clear Will make five quarters in a year. And hang them on the gates That head fhall ftand upon the bridge. When your's fhall under Traitor's trudge. And fmile on your milT'd pates. The little JVren\ that foar'd fo high Thought on his wings away to fly. Like Finch J , I know not whither ; But now the fubtle wh\r\y-TVind- Dehanke § hath left the bird behind. You two muft flock together. * Five hundred London apprentices marched to Lambeth Palace to felze him ; but the Archbifliop, being apprifed of their defign, efFe(5l:ed his efcape. One of the ringleaders, a tailor, was hung for this attempt. f See ante, p. 4. X Lord-Keeper Finch, who, to fave his life, fled beyond fea, and did not return till the Reftoration. § Sir Francis Windebanke, Secretary of State, and (fays White- lock) " a great intimate of Archbifliop Laud, having been queftioned VOL. I. *C i8 POLITICAL BALL JDS. 1644. A bifhop's head, a deputy's breaft, A Finch's tongue, a IFren from 's neft, Will fet the Devil on foot ; He's like to have a dainty difli. At once both flefli and fowl and fifh. And Duck and Lamb to boot. But this I fay, that your lew^d life Did fill both Church and State v^^ith llrife, And trample on the Crow^n ; Like a bleff'd martyr you v^^ill die, For Church's good ; fhe rifes high. When fuch as you fall down. for reprieving Jefuits and priefts, and fufpefled of worfe matters, to prevent any farther trial, he efcaped into France [1640], where he remained to his death (as is reported) a profefled papift." 'Tf^f 1646. CHARLES I. 19 A MAD WORLD, MY MASTERS. [This ballad illuftrates the confufion of the times by expofmg the various expedients of the Commons to make themfelves feared. In a fimilar fpirit, Marchmont Needham wrote, a few months later, in his Mercuriiu Pragmaticus : " O goodly kirk that we have got Of Loudon's information ; What thanks we owe unto the Scot For our bleft Reformation ! The Crown and Sceptre out of date, The Mitre low doth lie ; While we are governed by a ftate. And hug Democracy. We have no King, we are all kings. And each doth do his pleafure ; And therefore 'tis we act fuch things. And fin beyond all meafure. When we have toil'd ourfelves in vain, For to be njlers all, We muft entreat our Soveraign For to be Principal ! ''] E have a King and yet no king, , For he hath loft his power ; For 'gainft his will his fubjeils are Imprifon'd in the Tower. We had fome laws (but now no laws) By which he held his crown j c 2 20 POLITICJL BALLADS. 1646. And we had eftates and liberties, But now they're voted down. We had religion, but of late, That's beaten down with clubs ; Whilft that profanenefs authoriPd Is belch'd forth in tubs. We were free fubje6ls born, but now We are by force made (laves, By fome whom we did count our friends, But in the end prov'd knaves. And now to fuch a grievous height Are our misfortunes grown, That our eftates are took away, ^j tricks before ne'er known. For there are agents fent abroad Moft humbly for to crave Our alms ; but if they are deny'd, And of us nothing have ; Then by a vote ex tempore We are to prifon fent, Mark'd with the name of enemy. To King and Parliament : 1646. CHARLES I. 21 And during our imprlfonment, Their lawlefs bulls do thunder, A licence to their foldiers, Our houfes for to plunder : And if their hounds do chance to fmell A man whofe fortunes are Of fome account, whofe purfe is full, Which now is fomewhat rare ; A monjier now delinquent* term'd, He is declar'd to be, And that his lands, as well as goods, Sequefter'd ought to be. As if our prifons were too good. He is to Yarmouth fent, By virtue of a warrant from The King and Parliament. Thus in our royal fovereign's name. And eke his power infuf'd. And by the virtue of the fame. He and all his abuPd. * Thofe who had been moft noted for their adherence to the maxims of the Court or the principles of Laud were voted delin- quents, and thereby kept in awe by the Commons, who, according as they conduced themfelves towards that irrefponfible body, could profecute or leave them unmolefted. c 3 XI POLITICAL BALLADS. 1646. For by this means his caftles now Are in the power of thofe, Who treach'roufly with might and main. Do ftrive him to depofe. Arife, therefore, brave Britifh men, Fight for your King and State, Againft thofe trait'rous men that ftrive. This realm to ruinate. 'Tis Pym, 'tis Pym*, and his colleagues. That did our woe engender ; Nought but their lives can end our woes. And us in fafety render. * John Pym, the noted parliamentarian, who died in 1643. I 1646. CHARLES I. 23 THE NEW LITANY. [Satirical pieces In the form of a Litany originated, and were very common, in the times of the Rebellion. They were fo conftrufted to give additional annoyance to the Puritans and Prelbyterians, whofe rabid oppofition to all eftablifhed forms, whether in matters pertaining to religion or the ftate, was invariably bafed on a plea of confcience. The Ne-xv Litany expofes the tyranny and hypocrify of the now " omnipotent " Parliament.] ROM an extempore prayer and a godly ditty, From the churlifh government of a city, From the power of a country committee *, Libera nos, Do^ninc. From the Turk, the Pope, and the Scottifh nation f. From being govern'd by proclamation J, And from an old Proteftant, quite out of fafliion. Libera^ l^c. * During the war, the difcretionary powers of the Country Com- mittees were excufed from a plea of necefllty ; but the nation was reduced to defpair when it faw neither end put to their duration nor bounds to their authority. Thefe committees could fequefter, fine, imprifon, and corporally punifh, without law or remedy. f The Scots, who had been fummoned to the aid of the Parlia- ment, committed depredations upon friend and foe alike. X The King had prohibited, by proclamation (17th Oct. 1643), all commerce with London and other quarters of the Parliamentary forces. c 4 24 POLITICAL BALL JDS. ,646. From meddling with thofe that are out of our reaches, From a fighting prieft, and a foldier that preaches, From an ignoramus that writes, and a woman that teaches, Libera^ &'c. From the doctrine of depofmg of a king. From the D'lreSlory*^ or any fuch thing. From a fine new marriage without a ring, Libera^ ilfc. From a city that yields at the firft fummons. From plund'ring goods, either man or woman's. Or having to do with the Houfe of Commons, Libera J &"€. From a ftumbling horfe that tumbles o'er and o'er. From ufhering a lady or walking before. From an Englifli-Irifh Rebel f, newly come o'er. Libera J iffc. * The Directory for the public worfhip of God, agreed upon by the Affembly of Divines at Weftminfter, 1644, which was fubfti- tuted for the book, of Common Prayer. Of that famous Synod, Marchmont Needham, when a Royaliit, wrote : " Only one text may 'fcape their hands. Since they have ta'en fuch pains : To lay their lords in iron bands. And bind their kings in chains ! " \ The Earl of Thomond, who, when Lord Forbes was def- patched to Munfter, was (fays Ludlow) " unwilling to oppofe the Englifh intereft, and no lefs to make the (Irifh) rebels his enemies, chofe to withdraw himfelf into England." Though he bore offices under the Cromwells, yet he profeffed all loyalty to the Stuarts. 1646. CHARLES I. 25 From compounding, or hanging in a filken altar, From oaths and covenants, and being pounded in a mortar, From contributions, or free-quarter. Libera^ ^c. From mouldy bread, and mufty beer, From a holiday's faft and a Friday's cheer, From a brother-hood, and a flie-cavalier *, Liber a J iffc. From Nick Neuter, for you, and for you. From Thomas Turn-coat, that will never prove true, From a reverend Rabbi that's worfe than a Jew, Libera, iffc. From a Country-Juftice that ftill looks big, From fwallowing up the Italian fig. Or learning of the Scottifh jig. Libera, &c. From being taken in a difguife. From believing of the printed lies. From the Devil and from the Excifef, Libera, &c. * Alluding, probably, to the warlike lady Anne, wife of Sir Wm. Ingleby, of Ripley, Yorkshire, who accompanied her hufband throughout the civil war. f The excife was one of the principal and moft obnoxious taxes levied by the Long Parliament. It was firft introduced in 1643, by 26 POLITICAL BALLADS. 1646. From a broken pate with a pint pot, For fighting for I know not what, And from a friend as falfe as a Scot, Libera^ i^c. From one that fpeaks no fenfe, yet talks all that he can, From an old woman and a Parliament man. From an Anabaptift and a Prefbyter man. Libera^ ^c. From Irifh rebels and Welfh hubbub-men. From Independents and their tub-men, From fheriffs' bailiffs, and their club-men. Libera^ &c. From one that cares not what he faith. From trufting one that never payeth. From a private preacher and a public faith. Libera., i^c. From a vapouring horfe and a Roundhead in buff. From roaring Jack Cavee, with money little enough. From beads and fuch idolatrous ftuff, Libera, ^Jfc. Pym, who (according to Marchmont Needham) borrowed the idea from Holland : " Free-quarter is a tedious thing, And fo is the excife ; None can deliver us but the King From this d — d Dutch device." ,646. POLITICAL BALLADS. 27 From holydays, and all that's holy, From May-poles and fiddlers, and all that's jolly, From Latin or learning, fince that is folly. Libera^ is'c. And now to make an end of all, I wifh the Roundheads had a fall. Or elfe were hanged in Goldfmiths' Hall*, Amen. Benedicat Dominus. * Where the Royalifts compounded for their eftates. 28 POLITICAL BALLADS. 1647 THE PARLIAMENT. BY J^''V D 4 40 POLITICAL BALLADS. 1647. THE MEMBERS' JUSTIFICATION. [On the 23rd June, 1647, the army prefented itfelf before Weftminfter, and charged with high treafon Denzil, Holies, Glyn, Waller, and eight more of the leading Prefbyterians, and infifted upon their being expelled the House. The obnoxious members accord- ingly withdrew j and the greater number of them, fuspefting the intentions of their opponents, quitted the kingdom, and fought a refuge in Holland and elfewhere.] EN HOLLIS is a gallant man, And was for them too crafty ; What he pretended for the king, Was for the members' fafety. Sir Stapleton's * a firm brave boy. Although his fpoufe is courtly. He went to York, and labor's loft, He could not bring Frank Wortley.f The Parliament hath fitten clofe. As ere did knight in faddle ; For they have fitten full fix years, And now their eggs prove addle. * Sir Philip Stapleton, M.P. for Heydon, YorkHiire. ' He was one of thofe that fled, and died of the plague fhortly afterwards at C alals. f Sir F. Wortley, Bart, of Wortley, Yorkfhire, a ftout Royalift, then a prifoner in the Tower. 1 647. CHARLES I. 41 Brave Fairfax did himfelf befiege Poor Frank, and him hath undone, Yet loft more men in taking him. Than he did taking London : Now whither is Will Waller gone ? * To fea with Prince-Elector j Will he forfake his lady fo. And leave her no protector ? The Parliament, &c. Jack Maynard f is a loyal blade. Yet blind as any beetle ; He purchafes the bifhops' lands, Yet fcarce can fee Paul's fteeple. Both Glyn and Harlow [^ are for Wales, And Lewis § for his madams ; Thefe Britons will not change their bloods With Noah's, or fcarce with Adam's. The Parliament, Sic. * Sir William Waller, the well-known Parliament general ; he was one of thole who fled his country. f Sir John Maynard, with Jo. Glynn, M.P. for Caernarvon, Ser- jeant-at-arms, and Recorder of London, remained behind. They were both committed to the Tower, on the charge of high treafon, in the following September. X Col. Edw. Harley (not Harlow), M.P. for Herefordshire, and brother to Sir Robt. Harley. § Sir Wm. Lewis, M.P. for Petersfield, Hants. He fled over fea. 42 POLITICAL BALLADS. 1647. Clotworthy * is a zealous man, Yet hath his purfe well lined ; So hath Wat Longt yet he's, we know, Religioufly inclined : But Nichols X is for Pluto's court, In inqueft of his father, Or his uncle Pym, there he found, Stroud, Hampden, Pym, together. The Parliament, &c. Thefe three have Pluto's Mercury fent, And wonder they prove fuch men. To make three kingdoms one poor State, And do it worfe than Dutchmen. Their Synod § now fits in great fear. And fo does Jack Prefbyter j|. That we fhall have a king again. And once more fee a mitre. Yet they have fitten wondrous clofe, As ere did knight in faddle. For they have fitten full feven years. And now their eggs prove addle. * Sir John Clotworthy alfo pafled out of the kingdom. He it was who framed the charge againft the unfortunate Earl of Strafford. He was one of the Commiffioners to treat with the over-bearing army. f Walter Long, M.P. for Bath ; he accompanied HolFis and Sir P. Stapleton to France. X Anthony Nichols, M.P. for Boffmey, Cornwall ; he was ar- retted while attempting to put to fea. § The Synod for the SupprefTion of Blafphemies, &c. II The proverbial name of the Prefbyterian party. 1 647. CHARLES I. 43 THE CRYES OF WESTMINSTER ; Or a IVhole Pack of Parliamentary Knavery Opened and Set to Sale. [This fcurrilous broadfide was publifhed 22nd Feb., 1647, when the Parliament, having finally triumphed over the King, and fe- cured him in the Hie of Wight, difgufted the moderate party by ftriftly prohibiting (17th Jan.) all communication with him. Asa palliation of their condu6l they publifhed their famous Declaration (15th Feb.), which afterwards ferved as a model for the impeach- ment of Charles in their High Court of Juftice. At no period during the Rebellion were fo many ballads and pamphlets publifhed againft the dominant powers as at this. In vain the Parliament ordered them to be burned by the hand of the common hangman, and offered rewards for the discovery of their authors. The Cryes of Wejlminjier, which was included, doubtlefs, amongft thofe jufl re- ferred to, is abfolutely decent compared with "The Parliamenfs Ten Commandments, A Ne-iv Tejiament of our Lords and Sa'viours the Houfe of Commons , Sec. &c.] OME, cuftomers, come : Pray fee what you lack, Here's Parliament wares of all forts in my pack. Who buys any Parliament Privileges — My new Privileges ? 44 POLITICAL BALLADS. 1647. 'Twill teach you many pretty things^ And raife you above gods and kings. Thefe are the cryes of JVeJiminJler^ That are heard both far and near^ But a while^ I pray^ stand by^ And you J})all hear another cry. Who buys the Parliament's Declaration againft the King ? New, new, new. 'Twill furely unblind your eyes, That you may read a hundred lies. Thus goe the cryes of TVeJim'inJier^ i^c. Buy a new Ordinance to repair Churches : A new Ordinance : New, new, new. The Achans now reflore the pledge. To fave their faintfhips' facrilege. TIius goe the cryes of JVeJiminJier^ is'c. Buy a new Ordinance of the Commons againft ftage-players * : New-lye printed, and New-lye come forth. Saints now alone muft act for riches, The plot outfmells old Atkins' f breeches. Thus goe the cryes of Wejim'tnjler^ &c. * On 22nd Jan., 1647, all ftage-plays were supprefled "for the future," and the mayor and other magiftrates ordered "to take down all boxes and feats" in the theatres. f Sir John Atkins, the puritanic alderman (and fubfequently lord mayor) of London. Few of his contemporaries were more feverely "balladed" than this unfortunate individual. x647- CHARLES I. 45 Buy a new Ordinance of the Commons. That none Ihall make any more AddrefTes* to the King, or receive any Meflage from him, upon pain of High-treafon, Imprifonment, Death, or Plun- dering : But when thefe fhall fwing in a ftnng, true fubjects will obey their King. Challoner, Mildmay, Martin, Veine, Are fitting of their crowns to reigne. Thus goe the cryes of JVeJhninfler^ &c. Buy a new plot, found out by Sir John Wray f, to blow up the Thames, or the city to betray, 'tis as true as all the reft, before ne'er known by man or beaft. 'Twill keep you ftill in jealoufies and fears, And fet you altogether Ky the ears. Thus goe the cryes of WeJJmmJIer^ iffc. * 17th Jan., 1647. " Refolved, &c. By the Lords and Com- mons affembled in Parliament, that the perlbn or perfons that Ihall make breach of this order [/. e. by addrefTmg the King] fhall incur the penalty of high treafon." f Sir John Wray, of Glentworth, Bart., who made himfelf ex- tremely ridiculous by his conftant fear of plots by the Jefuits and others. The fatirift here probably alludes to the baronet's charafter- iftic conduft about this time, when an overcrowded bench in the Houfe fuddenly gave way with a loud crafli, and precipitated feveral members to the floor, and Sir John, by fhouting out that " /le fmelt gunpoivder ,'''' added greatly to the confufion of the scene. 46 POLITICAL BALLADS. 1647. Buy the four Bills fent by the Parliament from Selden * and my Lady Kent ; after long de- bate of this blefled Parliament ; who buys the Four bills here.f Great Charles he will not betray his truft unto fuch as they ; his ho- nor's ftill intire, his confcience tried nine times i' th' fire, the Devil give all his foes their hire and raife them toward Heaven above a halter higher. Let all the people fay, Amen, For we fhall ne'er have peace till then. Thus goe the cryes of JVeJiminfler^ ilJ'c. Who buys any bifliops' houfes, or their goods, books, houfe-hold fluff or hoods j here are good pafture grounds, corn, hay, and grafs in all our rounds, if it be not good the De- vil confounds. Amen. May all the trees to gibbets turn, Or firing make to hang or burn. Thus goe the cryes of JVeflminJier^ iffc. * The learned John Selden, folicitor and fteward oftheEarlof Kent, whofe lady was a great patron of literature and learning, and therefore the friend of Selden. f The four bills propofed for the King's aflent, namely, thofe relating to the Great Seal, Honours and Titles, Abolition of Epifco- pacy, and Declarations and Proclamations againft the Parliament. 1 647. CHARLES I. 47 Have you any old arrears for the army, I'll give you tickets for 'em ; have you any fubfidies, poll-money, loans, or contributions ; have you any plate, horfe, or arms, old bodkins or thimbles, or w^edding-rings *, have ye any : Have you any more Irifh adventures for fale of lands t, or a trick for one meal a-week. City Loans have you any ; or AfTeflments for the Scotts ; have you any Five-and twenty parts, weekly or monthly afTeffments for EfTex, Fair- fax, Manchefter's, the Scots, or Irifh army. Free- quarter have you any. Have you any of his Majefty's Revenue to fell, old fequeftrations or plunder ; have you any more Excife, or For- tification money, or fines for delinquents, * The women were zealous contributors to the Parliamentary caufe, and poured into the common treafury of war (1647) their ear- rings, filver fpoons, thimbles and bodkins ; " inlbmuch (fays May, Pari. HiJ}.) that it was a common jeer of men difafFe6led to the Caufe to call it the Thimble and Bodkin Army." So Butler : — " Women, who were our firft apoftles, Without whofe aid w' had all been loft elfe ; Women, that left no ftone unturn'd In which The Caufe might be concern'd. Brought in their children's fpoons and whiftles To purchafe fwords, carbines, and piftols." Hudi. Part II. c. ii, f Alluding to the fale of the rebels' lands in Ireland. 48 POLITICAL BALLADS. 1647. compofitions, &c., or a new Ordinance for 400,000/. the month. This is our liberty for to pay The faints that now King Charles betray. Thus goe the cryes of JVeJfminJier^ That are heard both far and near^ For a while I pray fl and by., And you will hear another cry. 0*fe^^?^^^-3 i:l 2LA The Second Part. (To the same tune.) Y new Articles of Faith*, who buys the Parliament's New Faith ? You may fee by their works, they are worfe than Jews or Turks ; let their faith be what it will, their religion is to kill. Thus goe the cryes .^ &c. Who buys any Parliament jugglings of the neweft fafhion ? Hocus Pocus never . fhew'd more to cheat the nation, here is a * The ConfeJJion of Faith fet forth by the Affembly of Divines, and confirmed by an ordinance of Parliament. 1 647. CHARLES I. 49 trick, by Martin's ring, shall fuddenly depofe a king ; Tom * (hews you a pretty trick alfo, and at New-Market and St. Albans tells us what he means to doe : Trufty Thomas thus keeps his promise with his king ; grace for- sake him, Devil take him, may all fuch false knaves fwing. 'Thus goe the cryes^ ^c. Who buys the army's propofalsf ; cufto- mers pray draw near, the Devil in his pack had ne'er fuch gear ; Here's Cromwell's mas- ter-piece, 'twill blind your eyes, and fill your head with fifteen-hundred lyes. Thus goe the cryes^ &c. Here's a fine Order, was the like ever feen, {hall murder all that love their King or Oueen, a knot of fuch traitorous * Sir Thos. Fairfax, who (nth Feb. 1647) met the King on his way to Holmby, and difcourfed with him on public affairs. Charles having obferved, after the interview, "that the General was a man of honour, and kept his word with him," the royalifts haftily concluded that Fairfax had promifed to reftore the King, defpite the oppofi- tion of the Independents. f Referring to the many propofals for difbanding the army, now that the war had terminated in the defeat and captivity ot the King. The army, however, refuled to diftand until it had received the long arrears of pay due to it, as well as an indemnity for all afls done during the late ftruggles. VOL. I. E 50 POLITICAL BALLADS. 1647. Regicides were furely never feen, as Chal- loner, Mildmay, Martin, and Veine, all Parlia- ment kings, that over us reigne : They are all glutted Wxxh their fellow-fubjects' blood, and yet pretend their good, but pray let it be underftood, for all Burley's * blood, before Jenkins f fhall die, a hundred thoufand in the City of London will try, to make Martin, and all fuch rogues to fly. Thefe be the cryes of London town^ Some go upJIreet^fo?ne goes down^ But a while I pray ftand by, And you will hear another cry. A new Ordinance, pray come and buy, to eflablifh the Prefbytery :j: ; what Religion If. * Capt. Burley, who was hung for attempting to refcue the King whilft a piifoner in Carilbrook Caftle. f David Jenkins, one of the Welfh judges, who was charged with high treafon for publifhing his Lex Terra (1647), in which he denied the authority and expofed the tyranny of the Long Parlia- ment : " Thofe who have writ for the King, the good King, Be it rhyme or reafon. If they pleafe but to look Through Jenkins's book. They'll hardly find it treafon." Sir Francis Worthy. X Alluding to the ordinance, palled by both Houfes in January, for dividing the kingdom into " diftinft claffical prelbyteries," and " congregational elderlhips." 1 647. CHARLES I. 51 next, puts me beyond my text ? If this won't pleafe you, fee another, pray Sir try, for I have a hundred more here in my pack for you to buy. Tliefe be the cryes^ ^c Who buys a new Order, to new dip the King's fhips, and to their eternal fames, give them all new names ; the Parliament's fhips forfooth ; the Royal Sovereign muft be the Royal Traitor^ the Prince^ the Parlia- ment Pinck^ and the whole Fleet the Parlia- ment's navy. O brave Pirates ! whither are ye bound, let crofs winds tofs you, whilft you all are drown'd. Thus to the world they make it knowri, Crown, fceptre, fhips, and all's your own. Thefe he the cryes^ &c. Who buys a new petition from Taunton, that the Devil brought the laft great wind, and the traitors now vaunt on. New, new, new ; but as falfe as God is true, and fo ye juggling devils all adieu. Thus goe the cryes^ &'c. E z 52 POLITICAL BALLADS. 1647. An Execration to all that hate King Charles. L AY God forfake ye, may the Devil take ye, may difease eat up your bones, con- fume your rotten members, may the palfie fhake your hands and heads, and bloody vifions haunt your beds ; all Egypt's plagues, and two times more, wait on you all at ei- ther door ; may all your wives turn arrant jades, and you live upon their trades ; may the gout be in your toes, and no end be to your woes ; may no furgeon hear your moans, and all your joys be fighs and groans ; may the running of the reins, or the quinzy feize your brains ; may the tooth- ache and the fever, to plague you ftill do their endeavour ; may the ftrangullion be your beft friend, and ne'er forfake you till your end ; may you be the People's fcorn, and curfe the hour that you were born ; May Bedlam or Bridewell be all the houfe you have to dwell; may your children's chil- dren beg from door to door, and all their kindred, may they ftill be poor ; may a guil- ty confcience (till affright ye, and no earth- ly joys delight ye ; may you have aches in 1 647. CHARLES I. 53 your rotten bones, gravel in your kid- neys, as well as ftones ; may your daughters turn out bad, and their fathers go clean mad ; may they never fleep in quiet, and fear poifon in their diet ; may they never forrow lack, and fo the Pedlar fliuts his Pack. Only vi^hen they die ('caufe they were never true), when that their fouls de- part, Devil claim thy due ! -- Printed in a Hollow-tree for the good of the State. [22nd Feb. 1647.] E 1 54 POLITICAL BALLADS. 1647. I THANK YOU TWICE ; OR, THE CITY COURTING THEIR OWN RUIN, THANK THE PARLIAMENT TWICE FOR THEIR TREBLE UNDOING. [This broadfide was publifhed, according to Thomafon, on the ■2ift Auguft, 164.7. It expofes the arbitrary meafures of the Long Parliament.] HE hierarchy is out of date ; Our monarchy was fick of late ; But now 'tis grown an excellent ftate : Oh, God a-mercy. Parliament ! The teachers knew not what to fay ; The 'prentices have leave to play* ; The people have all forgotten to pray : Still, God a-mercy. Parliament ! * All the old feftive days having been abolifhed by the fanatical Puritans, the London apprentices beftirred themfelves, in the year 164.7, and clamoured loudly for the reftitution of their time-honoured rights. This movement refulted in the publication of an Ordinance by which the fecond Tuefday in every month was appointed to be kept generally as a holiday. i647. CHARLES I. 55 The Roundhead and the Cavalier Have fought it out almoft feven year, And yet, methinks, they are never the near : Oh, God, &c. The gentry are fequeftered all ; Our w'w&s you find at Goldfmith Hall, For there they meet w^ith the devil and all * : Still, God, &c. The Parliament are grov/n to that height. They care not a pin vi^hat his Majefty faith ; And they pay all their debts with the public faith ; Oh, God, &c. Though all v/e have here is brought to nought. In Ireland we have whole lordfhips bought f. There we fhall one day be rich, 'tis thought : Still, God, &c. * Alluding to the diftreffing fcenes that were daily witneffed in Goldlrniths' Hall, where the Committee of Sequeftration fat, and the wives and widows, with their children, of the unfortunate roj'alifts were affembled, and petitioned " the Saints " in vain for a portion of the property of which the latter had defpoiled them. f The rebels' lands in Ireland were confifcated and put to fale at low rates, as an inducement to the Englifh to fettle in that country. E 4 56 POLITICAL BALLADS. 1647. We muft forfalce our father and mother, And for the ftate undo our own brother, And never leave murthering one another : Oh, God, &c. Now the King is caught, and the devil is dead ; Fairfax muft be difbanded *, Or elfe he may chance be Hotham-ed.f Still, God, &c. They have made King Charles a glorious king ; He was told, long ago, of fuch a thing ; Now he and his fubjecSts have reafon to fmg Oh, God a-mercy. Parliament ! * Parliament had juft voted the difbanding of the army. f Sir John Hotham and his fon were executed in January, 1645, for correfponding with the King relative to the furrender of Hull to the latter. 1647. CHARLES I. 57 PRATTLE YOUR PLEASURE (UNDER THE ROSE). [This farcaftic fong againft the irrefponfible Parliament is fub- fcribed " Mr. Finis," and dated " Mr. An. Dom. 1647." Whilft it expofes the peculative doings of the Parliamentary Committees, it teftifies at the fame time how completely the people were cowed into fubmifTion and filence by the fword.] M\ ^, HERE is an old proverb which all the world knows. Anything may be fpoke, if 't be under the rofe. Then now let us fpeak, whilft we are in the hint, Of the ftate of the land, and th' enormities in 't. 4^ '5 Under the rofe be it fpoke, there is a number of knaves. More than ever were known in a ftate before ; But I hope that their mifchiefs have digg'd their own graves. And we'll never truft knaves for their fakes any more. Under the rofe be it fpoken, the City's an afs So long to the public to let their gold run, To keep the King out ; but 'tis now come to pafs, I am fure they will lofe, whofoever has won. 58 POLITICJL BALLADS. 1647. Under the rofe be it fpoken, there's a company of men, 'IVainbands* they are call'd— a plague confound 'em — And when they are waiting at Weftminfter Hall, May their wives be beguil'd and begat with child all ! Under the rofe be it fpoken, there's a damn'd committee. Sits in hell (Goldfmith's Hall f) in the midft of the City, Only to fequefter the poor Cavaliers — The Devil take their fouls, and the hangman their ears. Under the rofe be it fpoke, if you do not repent Of that horrible fm, your pure Parliament ; Pray ftay till Sir Thomas % doth bring in the King, Then Derrick § may chance have 'em all in a firing. Under the rofe be it fpoke, let the Synod now leave To wreft the whole Scripture, how fouls to deceive ; For all they have fpoke or taught will ne'er fave 'em, Unlefs they will leave that fault, hell's fure to have 'em ! * The trainbands of the City had been drawn out to fupport the Prefbyterian intereft. f The Committee of Sequeftration fat in Goldfmiths' Hall. X Vide note, p. 49. § The common hangman. 1 647. CHARLES I. 59 THE OLD PROTESTANT'S LITANY. AGAINST ALL SECTARIES AND THEIR DEFENDANTS, BOTH PRESBYTERIANS AND INDEPENDENTS. [The Imprint of this broadfide intimates that it was publiflied in " the year of Hope, 1647," and Thomafon, the colleftor, has added the precife date, namely, the 7th of September. The clofe of this memorable year was fpent in intrigue and negociation. The Prefby terians, fupported by the Covenanters, were ftruggling to eftablifli an oligarchical afcendancy in themfelves againft the increafmg influence of the Independents. Charles fecretly correfponded, in turn, with the two former faftions, and indulged hopes of uniting them to the Irifia Catholics, whom he contemplated bringing over to his afliftance. The King's duplicity loft him the confidence of all. The Indepen- dents, by means of the army, having obtained the maftery over the Prefbyterians, (hortly afterwards proceeded to remove the only re- maining obftacle to their entire supremacy. The ballad illuftrates the confufion arifing from fo many conflicting interefts in the State.] HAT thou wilt be pleafd to grant our requefts. And quite to deftroy all the vipers' nefts, That England and her true religion molefts Te rogamus audi nos. That thou wilt be pleafd to cenfure with pity The prefent eftate of our once famous city ; Let her ftill be govern'd by men juft and witty; "Te rogamus^ i^c. 6o POLITICAL BALLADS, 1647. That thou wilt be pleaf'd to confider the Tower, And all other prifons in the Parliament's power, Where King Charles his friends find their welcome but four J Te rogamus, ^c. That thou wilt be pleaf'd to look on the grief Of the King's old fervants, and fend them relief, Reftore to the Yeomen o' th' Guard chines of beef; Te rogamus^ &'c. That thou wilt be pleaf'd very quickly to bring Unto his juft rights our fo much wrong'd King, That he may be happy in everything ; Te rogamus^ i^c. That Whitehall may fhine in its priftine luftre. That the Parliament may make a general mufter, That knaves may be punifh'd by men who are jufter ; Te rogamus^ &c. That now the dog-days are fully expir'd, That thofe curfed curs, which our patience have tired, May fufFer what is by true juftice required ; Te rogamus^ ^c. i647- CHARLES I. 6i That thou wilt be pleaf 'd to incline conqu'ring Thomas * (Who now hath both City and Tower gotten from us) That he may be juft in performing his promife ; Te rogamus^ ^^c. That our hopeful Prince and our gracious Oueen (Whom we here in England long time have not feen) May foon be reftor'd to what they have been ; Te rogamus^ i^c. That the reft of the Royal iflue may be From their Parliamentary guardians fet freef, And be kept according to their high degree ; Te rogamus^ &c. That our ancient Liturgy may be reftor'd, That the organs (by fecStaries fo much abhorr'd) May found divine praifes, according to the Word ; Te rogaynus^ ^c. That the ring in marriage, the crofs at the font. Which the Devil and the Roundheads so much affront, May be uf 'd again, as before they were wont ; Te rogamus^ iffc. * Sir Thomas Fairfax entered London, at the head of the army, 6th Auguft, 1647, and was appointed Governor of the Tower. Both the Parliament and City were now completely at the mercy of his troops, who, on the day following their entry, wantonly damaged many of the public buildings, &c. f The royal children were at this time under the Duke of Nor- thumberland's care at Sion Houfe ; it had not yet been propofed to apprentice the Princefs Elizabeth to a button-maker. 62 POLITICAL BALLADS. 1647. That Epifcopacy, uf'd in its right kind, In England once more entertainment may find, That Scots and lewd factions may go dov/n the wind ; Te rogamus^ tlfc. That thou wilt be pleaf 'd again to reftore All things in due order, as they were before. That the Church and the State may be vex'd no more ; Te rogamus^ i^c. That all the King's friends may enjoy their eftates. And not be kept, as they have been, at low rates, That the poor may find comfort again at their gates ; Te rogamus^ ^c. That thou wilt all our oppreflions remove. And grant us firm faith and hope, join'd with true love, Convert or confound all which virtue reprove ; Te rogamus^ &c. That all peevifti Sects that would live uncontroll'd. And will not be govern'd as all fubje61:s fhould, T' New England may pack*, or live quiet i' th' Old ; Te rogamus^ ilfc. * Charles' fubjects, as well as himfelf, had occafion to regret that the leading Puritans were not fuffered to depart, according to their defire, for New England, before the breaking out of the civil war. Of the many fatirical fongs of the period, referring to the " religious ,647. CHARLES L 63 That gracious King Charles, with his children and wife, Who long time have fufFer'd thro' this civil ftrife. May end with high honour this natural life ; Te rogamus^ iffc. That they who have feiz'd on honeft men's treafure *, Only for their loyalty to God and to Caefar, May in time convenient find meafure for meafure ; Te rogamus, ^c. liberty " enjoyed by the emigrants to that colony, the following is, perhaps, unfurpaiTed for its sarcafm and wit : — New England is preparing a-pace, To entertain King Pym, with his grace. And Ilkac before fhall carry the mace : For Roundheads Old Nick J} and up no-uu ! No furplice, nor no organs there. Shall ever offend the eye or the ear ; But afpirltual preach, with a three-hours pray'r ; For Roundheads, &c. All things in zeal fhall there be carried, Without any porredge read over the buried, No croffmg of infants, nor rings for the married : For Roundheads, &c. The Iwearer there fhall punifh'd be flill, But drunJcennelT private be counted no ill. Yet both kinds of lying as much as you will : For Roundheads, &c. Blow winds, hoift fails, and let us begone. But be f'ure we take our plunder along. That Charles may find little when as he doth come. For Roundheads, &c. * The fum of 300,000/. raifed upon the eftates of the Royalifls, was appropriated exclufively to their own ul'e by the parliamentary committees at this period. 64 POLITICAL BALLADS. 1647. That thou all thefe bleffings upon us wilt fend, We are no Independents., on Thee we depend, And as we believe, from all harm us defend ; Te rogamm^ i5'c. #-«i» -^"^ •«i*'^ ■«^ hair fhorter than their ears was, " becaufe long hair hindered the found of the word from entering into the heart" ! J 1648. CHARLES I. 73 With coz'ning cough, and hollow cheek, To get new gatherings every week. With paltry change of and to eke^ With fome fmall Hebrew, and no Greek, To find out words, when fluff 's to feek : See a new Teacher, &c. With {hop-board breeding and Intrufion, With fome outlandifh inftitution. With Urfine's catechifm * to mufe on. With Syftem's method for confufion. With grounds ftrong laid of mere illufion : See a new Teacher, &c. With rites indifferent all damned. And made unlawful, if commanded. Good works of Popery down banded, And moral laws from him eftranged. Except the Sabbath ftill unchangedf : See a new Teacher, &c. * An allufion to the celebrated Zachary Urfinus' Leftures on the Catechifm, entitled Tke Summe of the Chrtflian Religion, tranflated by Henry Parry in 1587, a work that was greatly efteemed and very popular in the seventeenth century. f So Marchmont Needham : — We are, the learned Synod fays, The Church of England's nurfe j Who make them keep the Sabbath days. And all the week to curie ! 74 POLITICAL BALLADS. 1648. With fpeech unthought, quick revelation, With boldnefs in predeftination, With threats of abfolute damnation, Yet Yea and Nay hath fome falvation. For his own tribe, not every nation* : See a new Teacher, &c. With after licenfe caft a crown. When Bifhop new had put him down ; With tricks call'd repetition. And do6lrine newly brought to town, Of teaching men to hang and drown : See a new Teacher, &c. With flefh-provifion to keep Lent, With fhelves of fweetmeats often fpent. Which new maid bought, old lady fent. Though, to be faved, a poor prefent ; Yet legacies aflure the event : See a new Teacher, &c. « Sir William Dugdale, in his Short Ficzv of the late Troubles in England, gives the following fpecimen of a prayer offered at South- ampton by a Puritan : — " Blefs the King, O Lord, mollify his heart that delighteth in blood ; open his eyes that he may Jee that the blood of faints is dear in thy fight. He is fallen from faith in thee, and become an enemy to the Church : Is it not he that has finned, and done evil indeed ? but as for thefe fheep [the Puritans] what have they done ? Let thy hand, we pray thee, O Lord our God, be upon kim, and on his father's houfe ; but not on thy people, that they Jliall be plagued.''^ 1648. CHARLES I. 75 With troops expefting him at th' door, That would hear fermons, and no more ; With noting tools, and fighs great ftore. With bibles great to turn them o'er. While he wrefts places by the fcore : See a new Teacher, &:c. With running text, the nam'd forfaken, Withy^r and but^ both by fenfe fhaken, Cheap doftrines forc'd, wild ufes taken, Both fometimes one by mark miftaken, With anything to any fliapen : See a new Teacher, &c. With new wrought caps, againft the canon, For taking cold, tho' fure he have none ; A fermon's end, where he began one, A new hour long, when's glafs had run one. New use, new points, new notes to ftand on : See a new Teacher, &c. ■#■### COMMONWEALTH Wim «^.^ tl^g^fg^f3s]gtfl^ ,^0 A COFFIN FOR KING CHARLES ; A CROWN FOR CROMWELL ; AND A PIT FOR THE PEOPLE. To the tune of" Tain I 'would.'''' [This curious ballad was compofed when the difTolution of the Monarchy was completed. It is dated the 23rd April (1649), or juft about the period when the felf-conftituted " keepers of the liberties of England " declared it high treafon to proclaim or other- wife acknowledge Charles the Second. The ballad exhibits through- out the reaftionary feeling that took place in the public mind upon beholding the tragical fate of the King.] I. Cromwell on the Throne. O, fo, the deed is done, the royal head is fevered, As I meant when I firft begun and ftrongly have endeavoured. Now Charles the I. is tumbled down, the Second, I do not fear ; I grafp the fceptre, wear the crown, nor for Jehovah care. 8o POLITICAL BALLADS. 1649. 2. King Charles in his Coffin. Think'ft thou, bafe flave, though in my grave like other men I lie, My fparkling fame and Royal name can (as thou wifheft) die ? Know, caitif, in my fon I live (the Black Prince * call'd by fome), And he fliall ample vengeance give to thofe that did my doom. 3- The People in the Pit. Suppreft, depreft, involv'd in vi^oes, great Charles, thy People be Bafely deceiv'd with fpecious fhows by thofe that murther'd thee. We are enflav'd to Tyrants' hefts, who have our freedom won : Our fainting hope now only refts on thy fucceeding fon. 4- Cromwell on the Throne. Bafe vulgar! know the more you ftir, the more your woes increafe, * Owing to the fwarthinefs of his complexion. Charles II. is alfo defcribed in other contemporary ballads and tracts as refembling, both in his perfon and features, King Henry VIII. 1 649. COMMONWEALTH. 8i Your rafhnefs will your hopes deter, 'tis we muft give you peace. Black Charles a traitor is proclaim'd unto our dignity ; He dies (if e'er by us he's gain'd) without all remedy. 5- King Charles in his Coffin. Thrice perjur'd villain ! didft not thou and thy degenerate train, By mankind's Saviour's body vow to me thy fovereign, To make me the moft glorious king that e'er o'er England reign'd ; That me and mine in everything by you fhould be maintain'd ? 6. The People in the Pit, Sweet Prince ! O let us pardon crave of thy beloved fhade, 'Tis we that brought thee to the grave, thou wert by us betray'd. We did believe 'twas reformation thefe monfters did defire j Not knowing that thy degradation and death fhould be our hire. VOL. I. G- 82 POLITICAL BALLADS. 1649. 7- Cromwell on the Throne. Ye fick-brained fools ! whofe wit does lie in your fmall guts ; could you Imagine our confpiracy did claim no other due, But for to fpend our deareft bloods to make rafcallions flee ? No, we fought for your lives and goods, and for a monarchy. 8. King Charles in his Coffin. But there's a Thunderer above, who, tho' he winks awhile. Is not with your black deeds in love — he hates your damned guile. And though a time you perch upon the top of Fortune's wheel. You ftiortly unto Acharon (drunk with your crimes) fhall reel. 9. The People in the Pit. Meanwhile (thou glory of the earth) we languifhing do die : Excife doth give free-quarter birth while foldiers multiply. i649. THE COMMONWEALTH. 83 Our lives we forfeit every day, our money cuts our throats ; The laws are taken clean away or fhrunk to traitors' votes. 10. Cromwell on the Throne. Like patient mules refolve to bear whate'er we fhall impofe ; Your lives and goods you need not fear, we'll prove your friends, not foes. We (the EleSfed ones) muft guide a thoufand years this land ; You mull: be props unto our pride, and flaves to our command. II. King Charles in his Coffin. But you may fail of your fair hopes if Fates propitious be, And yield your loathed lives in ropes to vengeance and to me. When as the Swedes and Irilh join, the Cumbrian and the Scot Do with the Danes and French combine, then look unto your lot. G z 84 POLITICAL BALLADS. 1649. 12. The People in the Pit. Our wrongs have arm'd us with fuch ftrength, fo fad is our condition, That could we hope that now at length we might find intermiflion, And have but half we had before, ere thefe mechanics fwayed j To our revenge, knee-deep in gore, we would not fear to wade. 13- Cromwell on the Tlirone. In vain (fond people) do you grutch and tacitly repine. For why ? my fkill and ftrength are fuch — both poles of heaven are mine. Your hands and purfes both coher'd to raife us to this height : You muft protect thofe you have rear'd, or fink beneath their weight. 14. King Charles in his Coffin. Singing with angels, near the throne of the Almighty Three, I fit, and know perdition (bafe Cromwell) waits on thee, i649. THE COMMONWEALTH. 85 And on thy vile aflbciates : twelve months fhall full conclude Your pow^'r — thus fpeak the pow^'rful Fates, then vades your interlude. 15- The People in the Pit. Yea, pow^erful Fates, hafte, hafte the time, the moft aufpicious day, On which thefe monfters of our time to hell muft poft away. Meanwhile, fo pare their ftiarpened claws, and fo impair their ftings, We may no more fight for the Caufe, Or other novel things ! G3 86 POLITICAL BALLADS. 1649. THE DOMINION OF THE SWORD. A SONG MADE IN THE REBELLION. [This admirable fong was written probably in the interval between the murder of King Charles I. and the final triumph of the Inde- pendents over the Prefbyterians and Royalifts, 164.9-50.] I- iy AY by your pleading, Law lies a-bleeding ; Burn all your ftudies down, and throw away your reading. Small pow'r the word has, And can afford us Not half fo much privilege as the fword does. It fofters your mafters, It plaifters difafters. It makes the fervants quickly greater than their mafters. It venters, it enters, It feeks and it centers. It makes a 'prentice free in fpite of his indentures. 1649- 27/£ COMMONWEALTH. 87 It talks of fmall things, But it fets up all things ; This mafters money, though money mafters all things. It is not feafon To talk of reafon. Nor call it loyalty, when the fword will have it treafon. It conquers the crown, too. The grave and the gown, too ; Firft it fets up a Prefbyter, and then it pulls him down too. This fubtile difafter Turns bonnet to beaver ; Down goes a bifhop, firs, and up ftarts a weaver. This makes a layman To preach and to pray, man ; And makes a lord of him that was but a drayman. Far from the Gulpit Of Saxby's pulpit. This brought an Hebrew ironmonger to the pulpit. Such pitiful things be More happy than kings be ; They get the upper hand of Thimblebee and Slingfbee. G4 88 POLITICAL BALLADS. 1649. No gofpel can guide it, No law can decide it, In Church or State, till the fword has fandlified it. Down goes your law-tricks. Far from the matricks. Sprung up holy Hewfon's power, and puU'd down St. Patrick's. This fword it prevails, too, So highly in Wales, too, Shenkin ap Powel fwears " Cots-fplutterer nails, too." In Scotland this fafter Did make fuch difafter. That they fent their money back for which they fold their mafter. It batter'd their Gunkirk, And fo it did their Spain-kirk, That he is fled, and fwears the devil is in Dunkirk. He that can tower. Or he that is lower. Would be judg'd a fool to put away his power. Take books and rent 'um. Who can invent 'um. When that the fword replies, *' Negatur argumentum." 1649. THE COMMONWEALTH. 89 Your brave college-butlers Muft ftoop to the futlers ; There's ne'er a library like to the cutler's. The blood that was fpilt, fir, Hath gain'd all the gilt, fir. Thus have you feen me run my fword up to the hilt, fir. 90 POLITICAL BALLADS. 1649. A SALT ITAR ; OR, THE WEEPING ONION, AT THE LAMENTABLE FUNERAL OF DR. DORISLAUS. [Ifaac Doriflaus was a Dutchman, and do6lor of civil law at Leyden, whence he came to England, and was appointed Profeflbr of Hiftory at Cambridge. He next became Judge- Advocate in the King's army, but deferted Charles, and aflifted in drawing up the charges againft him. Whilft agent for the Commonwealth at the Hague, he was affaffinated by twelve Scotch cavaliers, fuppofed to have been hired for that purpofe by the Marquis of Montrole. The date of the ballad is the i8th June, 1649.] I. HAT though lamented — curf 'd — and the high tree Of fifty cubits was j'uft deftiny (Though a deplor'd one) of that agent drew The articles againft the holy Jew, Good Mordecai ; which by quaint, curious art Should have contriv'd the Oueen her fhare o' th' fmart. But Providence faid. No ; and Hefter taught Proud Haman to a bloody banquet brought. Our upftart Hamans had a feaft : who'll bring Them, for digeftion's fake, to take a fwing ? 1649- "THE COMMONWEALTH. 91 2. Doriflaus ! art lamented ? So was He Who was more Dives than the State made thee. If thou chance meet with him; lift up thine eyes, And fee where Charles in Abraham's bofom lies. O for a meffenger the Houfe to tell And all the merry Commoners, of Hell ! How Lenthall looks ! How Whitlock pales his face, Who caught one feal^ and loft that feal of grace ! O how damn'd Bradfhaw quivers as he comes ! And Fairfax groans ! and Cromwell bites his thumbs ! 3. Egypt, no doubt, was laid in double black, When that laft wonder, and grand land-fea wrack Was pour'd on Pharaoh and his hoft ; when waves Reveng'd the infolence of murderous flaves, Pharaoh muft drown, fo it doth Providence pleafe. We have a Mofes, too, is heir o' th' feas. Heaven will a party in that element make : Your King-sale proje6ls do not always take. 4- The wife of Sifera did no doubt bewail Sifera's fate ; yet the canoniz'd nail And hammer of ftout Jael, and the fong Of Deborah fhow'd Heav'n fmil'd, and went along. 92 POLITICAL BALLADS. 1649. A Kenite did the fait. It was no lot For perjur'd Englifli, but a gallant Scot. 'Tis a good omen : that as they puU'd down The Firji^ they fhall fet on the Second's crown. Let our deluded citizens invite, Hug, kifs, and lick the curfed Canaanite : What tho' their chariots be of iron ? we may See them lie grovelling like loft Sifera. 5. Now pray obferve the pomp, the perfons, ftate. That did attend this alien reprobate : Here went Lieutenant-General Crocodile^ And cubs, bred of the flime of our rich Nile : Who creep before they kill, and whofe falfe tears Trickle from blood-ftied eyes of murderers. Poor Ifland ! they have made a Nile of thee, We cannot find thy head^ which fain we'd fee. 6. Next march a train of ravenous wolves, whofe jaws Yet ooze with the blood of flaughter'd King and Laws : Thefe are clofe mourners ; thefe the kingdoms gull : True wolves, that never howl till they are full". Thefe are the beafts of prey, whofe fliarp fang tears Not cav'ies now, but the harmlefs levellers ; By whom they rofe unto this greatnefs. We, We are diftafted, well as Monarchy. 1 649. 57/£ COMMONJFEALTH. 93 7- Clofe unto thefe, In grave deportment, march The City changelings in Thanksgiving ftarch, A fort of whelps, taught by that wolfifh kind, Who, if one howl'd, ftraight the whole kennel whin'd. Thefe, at the whip of cunning Oliver, Do feaft, or elfe drop a diffembling tear. All thefe attend their Agent's funeral ; This honour 's but a trap, the States' fly call To get another throat cut, but in vain, Doriflaus cries from Hell 'Twill be no gain ! #■ ■ ^ 94 POLITICAL BALLADS. 1649. THE STATE'S NEW COIN. [Shortly after the abrogation of the monarchy, the Parliament iffued a new coinage. It confifted of pieces having on the obverfe a fhield with St. George's crofs, encircled by a laurel and palm branch, furrounding the fimple infcription " The Commonwealth of England." On the reverfe was the equally fimple legend " God with us," and two fhields bearing the arms of England and Ireland. The (hields being conjoined at top were at once declared to referable the breeches of the Rump 5 a declaration which continued to be a ftanding joke with the Cavaliers during the times of the Common- wealth, and with others long after the reftoration of the monarchy. The other abfurdities fo ingenioufly fitted to this innocent coinage will be bell underftood by a perufal of the ballad itfelf.] AW you the State's money new come from the Mint .? Some people do fay it is wonderous fine ; And that you may read a great myftery in't, Of mighty King Nol, the lord of the coin. They have quite omitted his politic head, His worfhipful face, and his excellent nofe j But the better to {how the life he had led, They have fix'd upon it the print of his hofe. i649. THE COMMONWEALTH. 95 For, if they had fet up his pifture there, They needs muft ha' crown'd him in Charles' ftead; But 'twas cunningly done, that they did forbear. And rather would fet up aught elfe than his head. 'Tis monftrous ftrange, and yet it is true. In this Reformation we fliould have fuch luck. That crofles were always difdain'd by you. Who before pull'd them down,fhould nowfet them up. On this fide they have circumfcrib'd God with us^ And in this ftamp and coin they confide ; Common-Wealth on the other, by which we may guefs. That God and the States were not both of a fide. On this fide they have crofs and harp, And only a crofs on the other fet forth ; By which we may learn, it falls to our part Two crofles to have for one fit of mirth ! 96 POLITICAL BALLADS. 1652. UPON THE GENERAL PARDON PASS'D BY THE RUMP. [After his decifive vi6lory at Worcefter, Cromwell immediately refumed his Parliamentary duties, and, to further his ambitious views, forced from the relu6lant " Rump " their affent to a refolution of amnefty fo wide, that it almoft ftruck at the root of the Common- wealth. They aflented, Ludlow obferves, " the Parliament being unwilling to deny Cromwell anything for which there was the leaft colour of reafon." It was, in effeft, refolved that all political offences committed before the battle of Worcefter fhould be forgiven, with the exception of a few cafes ; a decifion which, though it im- plied a grofs injuftice to thofe who had already been mulded heavily, relieved the royalifts from all apprehenfion of farther penalties.] EJOICE, rejoice, ye Cavaliers, For here comes that difpels your fears ; A General Pardon is now paft, What was long look'd for, comes at laft. It pardons all that are undone ; The Pope ne'er granted fuch a one : So long, fo large, fo full, fo free, what a glorious State have we ! Yet do not joy too much, my friends, Firft fee how well this pardon ends ; For though it hath a glorious face, 1 fear there's in't but little grace. 1652. COMMONWEALTH. 97 'Tis faid the mountains once brought forth, And what brought they? a moufe, in troth; Our States have done the like, I doubt, In this their Pardon now fet out. We'll look it o'er, then, if you pleafe, And fee wherein it brings us eafe : And firft, it pardons words, I find, Againft our State — words are but wind. Hath any pray'd for th' King of late, And wifh'd confufion to our State ? And call'd them rebels ? He may come in And plead this Pardon for that fin. Has any call'd King Charles that's dead A Martyr — he that loft his head ? And villains thofe that did the fact ? That man is pardon'd by this adl. Hath any faid our Parliament Is fuch a one as God ne'er fent ? Or hath he writ, and put in print, That he believes the Devil's in't ? Or hath he faid there never were Such tyrants anywhere as here ? Though this offence of his be high. He's pardon'd for his blafphemy. VOL. I. H 98 POLITICAL BALLADS. 1652. You fee how large this Pardon is, It pardons all our Mercuries *, And poets too, for you know they Are poor, and have not aught to pay. For where there's money to be got, I find this Pardon pardons not ; Malignants that were rich before. Shall not be pardon'd till they're poor. Hath any one been true to th' Crown, And for that paid his money down. By this new zGt he fhall be free. And pardon'd for his loyalty. Who have their lands confifcate quite. For not compounding when they might ; If that they know not how to dig. This Pardon gives them leave to beg. Before this ail came out in print. We thought there had been comfort in't ; We drank fome healths to the higher pow'rs. But now we've feen't they'd need drink ours. For by this a Ireton %•» — and another of the fame ; From a dung-hill cock, and a Hen of the game. From Fools and Knaves, &c. From all thofe that fat in the High Court of Juftice ; From Ufurpers that ftyle themfelves the People's truftees ; From an old Rump, in which neither profit nor guft is ; And from the recov'ry of that which now in the duft is. From Fools and Knaves, &c. From a backfliding Saint that pretends t' acquiefce ; From crofling of proverbs (let 'um hang that confefs) ; From a fniveling caufe, in a pontificall drefs j Jacks both. And two Lawyers, with the Devil and his dam in a mefs. From Fools and Knaves, &c. From thofe that trouble the waters, to mend the fifhing, And fight the Lord's battles under the Devil's commiflion; * Major-General Skippon, " the pious," a Privy Councillor in 1653 J and, in 1655, one of Cromweirs military fatraps appointed to command one of the eleven diftrifts into which England was divided in that year. ■f- Alderman Sir Robt. Titchbourne, a commifTioner for the Sale of State Lands, and a member of the Committee for Regulating the Cuftoms — offices by which he made a large fortune. X Alderman Ireton, brother to the General of that name, and a member of the Cuftoms' Committee. ,655. COMMONWEALTH. 129 Such as eat up the Nation, whilft the Government's a- difhing : And from a people when it fliould be doing, ftands wifh- ing. From Fools and Knaves, 5cc., From an Everlafling mock-Parliament — and from none; From Strafford's old friends — Harry, Jack, and John ; From our Solicitor's wolf-law deliver our King's (on ; And from the Refurre6lion of the Rump that is dead and gone. From Fools and Knaves, &c. From foreign invafion and commotions at home ; From our prefent diftraition, and from work to come ; From the fame hand again, Sme6lymnus* or the Bum, And from taking Geneva in our way to Rome. From Fools and Knaves, &:c. * The title given to a club of five divines, the initials ot whole names formed this otherwife fenfelefs word, namely, j'tephen Mar- (hall, Edmund Calamy, Tliomas }^oung, Matthew A^ewcomen, and /Filliam i'purftow. They were authors of a once-popular book againft Epifcopacy and the Liturgy. Cleveland thus alludes to them : " Smectymnus ! The Goblin makes me ftart ; I' th' name of Rabbi Abraham, what art ? Syriac ? or Arabic ? or Welfh ? What Ikil't ? Ape all the bricklayers that Babel built. Some conjurer tranflate, and let me know it — Till then 'tis fit for a Weft Saxon poet. VOL, I. K 130 POLITICAL BALLADS. 1655. From a hundred thoufand pound tax, to keep knaves by the fcore ; (But it is well giv'n to thefe that turnM thofe out of door) ; From undoing ourfelves in plaiftering old fores ; He that fet them a-work, let him pay their fcores. From Fools and Knaves, &c. From Saints and tender Confciences in Buff; From Mounfon in a foam, and Haflerig in a huff; From both Men and Women that think they never have enough ; And from a fool's head that looks thro' a chain and a duff From Fools and Knaves, &c. From thofe that w^ould divide the Gen'ral and the City ; From Harry Martin's girl, that wzs neither fweet nor pretty ; From a Fa6tion that has neither brain nor pity ; From the Mercy of a phanatique Committee. From Fools and Knaves, &c. But do the brotherhood, then, play their prizes, Like mummers in religion, with difguifes? Out -brave us with a name in rank and file — A name, which, if 'twere trained would fpread a mile ? The faints' monopoly, the zealous clufter. Which like a porcupine prefents a mufter, And fhoots his quills at Bifhops and their Sees, A devout litter of young Maccabees." 1 6s 5. COMMONTVEJLTH. 131 Preferve us, good Heaven, from entrufting thofe That ha' much to get, and little to lofe ; That murther'd the Father, and the Son would depofe ; (Sure they can't be our friends that are their Country's foes). From Fools and Knaves, &c. From Bradfliaw^'s prefumption, and from Hoyle's* defpairs. From rotten members, blind guides, preaching aldermen, and falfe may'rs ; From long knives, long ears, long Parliaments, and long pray'rs ; In mercy to this Nation — Deliver us and our heirs. From Fools and Knaves, &c. Libera nos Domine. * Alderman Hoyle, M.P., who committed fuicide. K 2 132 POLITICAL BALLADS. 1657. THE PROTECTING BREWER. [It was commonly believed that the Proteftor had followed the occupation of a brewer in early life, and was, therefore, frequently fatirifed under that defignation ; but Heath, who was one of his bittereft enemies, and loft no opportunity of reviling him for the meannefs of his origin, his irregularities in youth, and his political conduft towards the clofe of his life, pofitively afferts the contrary in his Flagellum. Before the commencement of the Civil Wars, Crom- well had been a farmer and malfter at St. Ives, in Huntingdon- shire; hence, probably, the vulgar opinion. The Proteding Bre-iver is an admirable epitome of his public life.] BREWER may be a Burgefs grave, And carry the matter fo fine and fo brave, That he the better may play the knave, Which nobody can deny. A Brewer may put on a Nabal face, And march to the wars with fuch a grace. That he may get a Captain's place. Which nobody, &c. A Brewer may fpeak fo wondrous well, That he may rife (ftrange things to tell) And fo be made a Colonel, Which nobody, &c. 1657. COMMONWEALTH. 133 A Brewer may make his foes to flee, And rife his fortunes, fo that he Lieutenant-General may be, Which nobody, &c. A Brewer may be all in all, And raife his powers both great and fmall. That he may be a Lord General, Which nobody, hz. A Brewer may be like a fox in a Cub, And teach a Lefture out of a Tub, And give the wicked world a rub. Which nobody, &c. A Brewer, by's Excife and Rate, Will promife his Army he knows what. And fet upon the College-gate, Which nobody, &c. Methinks I hear one fay to me. Pray why may not a Brewer be Lord Chancellor o' the Univerfity ? Which nobody, &c. A Brewer may be as bold as He6lor, When as he had drank his cup o' ne6lar ; And a Brewer may be a Lord Protedor, Which nobody, &c. K 3 134 POLITICAL BALLADS. 1657. Now here remains the ftrangeft thing, How this Brewer about his liquor did bring To be an Emperor or a King, Which nobody, &c. A Brewer may do what he will, And rob the Church and State, to fell His foul unto the Devil in Hell, Which nobody, &c. 1657. COMMO NWEAL TH. 135 A BALLAD. By SAMUEL BUTLER. [This farcaftic ballad, by the author of Hudibras, was fuggefted by the Parliament of 1657, at the inftigation of Alderman Sir Chriftopher Pack, M.P. for London, tendering the crown to Oliver.] S clofe as a goofe Sat the Parliament-houfe, To hatch the royal gull ; After much fiddle-faddle, The egg proved addle, And Oliver came forth Noll. Yet old Queen Madge*, Tho' things do not fadge. Will ferve to be Queen of a May-pole ; Two Princes of Wales t> For Whitfun-ales, And her grace. Maid Marion Clay-pole.* * Cromwell's wife and daughter. ■j- Richard and Henry Cromwell, Ions of the Proteftor. K 4 [36 POLITICAL BALLADS. 1657. In a robe of cow-hide Sat yeafty Pride*, With his dagger and his fling ; He was the pertinenft peer Of all that were there, T' advife with fuch a King. A great Philofopher f Had a goofe for his lover. That foUow'd him day and night ; If it be a true ftory, Or but an allegory, It may be both ways right. Strickland % ^^^ his fon. Both caft into one. Were meant for a fmgle Baron ; But when they came to fit. There was not wit Enough in them both to ferve for one ! * The " purging Colonel," and oneof CromwelPs " Lords," who was originally a drayman. t Butler has here confounded Amphllocus (of whom Pliny and others relate that a goofe fell in love with him) with the fon of Amphlaraus and Eriphyle. \ Walter Strickland, M.P. for Minehead, Cornwall, and fome time Ambaffador to the Hague. He was likewife one of the peers created by Cromwell, as well as a member of his Privy Council. 1 657. COMMONWEALTH. i^-j Wherefore 'twas thought good To add Honeywood * ; But when they came to trial, Each one prov'd a fool, Yet three knaves in the whole, And that made up ?i pair-royaL-\ * Colonel Sir Thomas Honeywood, " a knight of the old ftamp," a committee-man in the time of the Long Parliament, and one of the peers created by Cromwell. t The wit of this lies in the ambiguity of the term pair-royal, which is applicable to three knaves at the game of Brag, and, at the fame time, fignifies z peer or baroti in French. i3« POLITICAL BALLADS. 1659. A NEW BALLAD TO AN OLD TUNE. TOM OF BEDLAM. [This very charafteriftic ballad exhibits the anarchy which fol- lowed the depofition of Richard Cromwell, when there appeared no better hope for the nation than a military defpotifm even worfe than that of his father.] AKE room for an honeft Red-coat (And that you'll fay 's a wonder). The gun and the blade Are the tools, — and his trade Is for pay^ to kill^ and plunder. Then away with the laws, And the " Good-old-Caufe." * Ne'er talk o' the Rump, or the Charter ; 'Tis the cafli does the feat. All the reft's but a cheat. Without that there's no Faith nor Quarter. 'Tis the mark of our coin God with us f, And the grace of the Lord goes along with 't : When the Georges are flown. Then the Caufe goes down, For the Lord has departed J^om it. Then away with, he. * The political cry, or by-word, of the Puritans, comprehending " religion and the laws." f See " The State's New Coin," p. 94. i6s9. COMMONWEALTH. 139 For Rome, or for Geneva, For the Table or the Altar, This fpawn of a vote. He cares not a groat — For the pence he's your dog in a halter. Then aw^ay, &c. Tho' the name of King or Bifhop To noflrils pure may be loathfome ; Yet many there are. That agree v^^ith the May'r, That their lands are vi^ondrous toothfome. Then away, &c. When our mafters are poor, we leave 'em, 'Tis the Golden Calf we bow to, We kill and we flay. Not for confcience, but pay ; Give us that we'll fight for you, too. Then away, &c, 'Twas that firft turn'd the King out ; The Lords next ; then the Commons : 'Twas that kept up Noll, Till the Devil fetch'd his foul ; And then it fet the Rump on 's.* Then away, &c. * The Rump was reftored the 6th May, 1659, turned out again the 13th Oct., and once more reftored the 26th Dec. Of thefe 140 POLITICAL BALLADS. 1659. Drunken Dick was a lame Proteftor, And Fleetwood * a back-flider : Thefe we ferv'd as the reft, But the City's the beaft, That will never caft her rider. Then away, &c. When the Mayor holds the ftirrup. And the Shrieves cry, God fave your honors. frequent refufcitations of the Long Parliament, juft previous to the Reftoration of Charles II., Butler fays: " The learned rabbins of the Jews Write there's a bone, which they call lue%, V th" rump of man, of fuch a virtue, No force in nature can do hurt to ; And therefore, at the laft great day, All th' other members fhall, they fay. Spring out of this, as from a feed All forts of vegetals proceed : From whence the learned fons of art, Os facrum, juftly ftyle that part. Then what can better reprefent. Than this rump-bone, the Parliament ; That, after feveral rude ejeftions. And as prodigious refurre6lions. With new reverfions of nine lives, Starts up, and, like a cat, revives ! " Hudibras, part iii. c. ii. 1615-1630. * Fleetwood had been appointed by the officers of the army their general ; but fliortly afterwards, upon the invitation of the Parlia- ment, he accepted a feat in the New Council of State, which was formed in oppofition to the Military Council of Twenty-three. x6s9. COMMONWEALTH. 141 Then 'tis but a jump, And up goes the Rump, That will fpur to the Devil upon us. Then away, &c. And now for fling at your Thimbles, Your Bodkins, Rings, and Whiftles * ; In truck for your toys. We'll fit you with boys ('Tis the dodrine of Hugh'sf Epijtks). Then away, &c. When your Plate is gone, and your Jewels, You muft be next entreated. To part with your bags. And to ftrip you to rags. And yet not think you're cheated. Then away, &c. The truth is, the Town deferves it, 'Tis a brainlefsj heartlefs monjler ; At a club they may bawl. Or declare at their Hall, And yet at a pufh not one ftir. Then away, &c. * See note, p. 47. t Hugh Peters, the celebrated Puritan divine, 142 POLITICAL BALLADS. 1659. Sir Arthur * vow'd he'll treat 'em, Far worfe than the raen of Chefterf ; He's bold now they're cow'd, But he was nothing fo loud, When he lay in the ditch at Lefter.t Then away, &c. The Lord has left John Lambert §, And the Spirit, Peak's 1| anointed ; But why, O Lord, Haft Thou fheath'd thy fword ? Lo ! thy faints are difappointed. Then away, &c. Tho' Sir Henry be departed, Sir John makes good the place now, And to help out the work Of the glorious Kirk, Our brethren march apace too.^ Then away, &c. * Sir Arthur Haflerigg. f Alluding to the garrifon of Chefter, which, when that city- was befieged by the Parliamentarians, in Feb. 1645-6, was con- ftrained to feed on horfes, dogs, cats, &c. I Alluding to the fuccefsful affault upon Leicefter by Charles I., on 30th May, 1645. § Alluding to the defertion of the troops under his command whilft he was ftationed at Newcaftle. II Feakes was a violent anabaptift preacher at Blackfriars, who had fufFered incarceration in the Tower for his repeated attacks upon Cromwell. f[ Alluding to Monk's progrefs towards London to fettle the difputes between the Parliament and army. ,659- COMMONWEALTH. 143 Whilft Divines and Statefmen wrangle, Let the Rump-ridden Nation bite on 't ; There are none but we That are fure to go free, For the foldier's ftill in the right on 't. Then away, &c. If our Mailers won't fupply us With money, food, and clothing. Let the State look to 't. We'll find one that will do 't. Let him live — we will not damn. Then away with the laws. And the good old Caufe, Ne'er talk o' the Rump, or the Charter ; 'Tis the cafh does the feat. All the reft's but a cheat. Without that there's no faith nor ^uarte)-. 144 POLITICAL BALLADS. 1660. WIN AT FIRST AND LOSE AT LAST; OR, A NEW GAME AT CARDS. To the tune of '^ Ye Gallants that delight to play.'''' [This humorous piece, in which the events of the time are nar- rated in a fiippofed game of cards, clofes the fatiric chronicle of the Commonwealth. It is one of the very few ballads, written againft the Rump Parliament between the years 1639 and 1661, that is entirely free from licentioufnefs, virulence, and falfehood.] E merry hearts that love to play At Cards, fee who hath won the day; You that once did fadly fing The Knave of Clubs hath won the King ; Now more happy times we have, The King hath overcome the Knave, The King hath overcome the Knave. Not long ago a game was play'd. When three Crowns at the flakes were laid ; England had no caufe to boaft. Knaves won that which Kings had loft : Coaches gave the way to carts. And Clubs were better cards than Hearts, And Clubs were better cards than Hearts. i66o. COMMONWEALTH. 145 Old Noll was the Knave o' Clubs, And Dad of fuch as preach in tubs, Bradfhaw, Ireton, and Pride, Were three other Knaves befide ; And they play'd vi^ith half the pack, Throw^ing out all cards but Black, Throw^ing out all cards but Black. But the juft Fates threw thefe four out, Which made the loyal party ftiout ; The Pope would fain have had the ftock. And with thefe cards have whipt his dock ; But foon the Devil thefe cards fnatches. To dip in brimftone, and make matches. To dip in brimftone, and make matches. But ftill the fport for to maintain, Bold Lambert, Haflerigg, and Vane, With one-eyed Hewfon, took their places. Knaves were better cards than Aces ; But Fleetwood he himfelf did fave, Becaufe he was more fool than Knave, Becaufe he was more fool than Knave. Cromwell, tho' he fo much had won. Yet he had an unlucky fon j VOL. I. L 146 POLITICAL BALLADS. 1660. He fits ftill, and not regards, Whilft cunning gamefters fet the Cards ; And thus, alas, poor filly Dick, He play'd awhile and lofl: his trick. He play'd awhile and loft his trick. The Rumpers that had won whole Towns, The fpoils of martyrs and of Crowns, Were not contented, but grew rough. As though they had not won enough ; They kept the cards ftill in their hands, To play for Tithes and College lands. To play for Tithes and College lands. The Prefbyters began to fret. That they were like to lofe the fett ; Unto the Rump* they did appeal, And faid it was their turn to deal ; Then dealt the Prefbyterians, but The Army fwore that they would cut. The Army fwore that they would cut. * The origin of this celebrated term is thus given in the preface to Ihe Rump 5 or. Collection of Songs and Ballads made upon those ^joho ivould he a Parliament, and ivere but the Rump d/ our House of Commons, fi^e times diffolnjed (izmo. Lond. 1660.): — "Now if you afk who named it Rump, know 'twas fo ftiled in an honeft fheet of paper (call'd the Bloudy Rump) written before the Triall of our late Soveraign of Glorious Memorie : But the Word obtained not univerfal notice till it flew from the mouth of Major-General Brown at a Public Aflembly in the days of Richard Cromwell." i66o. COMMONWEALTH. 147 The Foreign Lands began to wonder, To fee what gallants we liv'd under, That they, which Chriftians did forfwear. Should follow gaming all the year — Nay more, which was the ftrangeft thing, To play fo long without a King, To play fo long without a King ! The bold Phanatics prefent were. Like butlers with their boxes there ; Not doubting but that every game Some profit would redound to them ; Becaufe they were the gamefters' minions. And ev'ry day broach'd new opinions. And ev'ry day broach'd new opinions. • But Chefliire men (as ftories fay) Began to fhew them gamefters' play ; Brave Booth*, and all his army, ftrives To fave the ftakes, or lofe their lives ; But, O fad fate ! they were undone. By playing of their Cards too foon. By playing of their Cards too foon. * Sir George Booth, who, in the month of July, 1659, furprifed Chefter, but was {hortly afterwards defeated and captured by Lam- bert, who alfo recovered the city. L 2 148 POLITICAL BALLADS. 1660. Thus all the while a Club was trump, There's none could ever beat the Rump ; Until a noble General came, And gave the cheaters a clear flam ; His finger did outwit their noddy. And fcrew'd up poor Jack Lambert's body, And fcrew'd up poor Jack Lambert's body. Then Haflerig began to fcowl. And faid the General play'd foul : Look to him, partners, for I tell ye. This Monk has got a King in 's belly ; Not fo, quoth Monk, but I believe. Sir Arthur has a Knave in 's fleeve. Sir Arthur has a Knave in 's fleeve. When General Monk did underftand The Rump were peeping into 's hand. He wifely kept his cards from fight. Which put the Rump into a fright ; He faw how many were betray'd. That ftiew'd their Cards before they play'd. That {hew'd their Cards before they play'd. At length, quoth he, fome cards we lack, I will not play with half a pack ; i66o. COMMONWEALTH. 149 What you caft out I will bring in, And a new game we will begin : With that the ftanders-by did fay, They never yet faw fairer play, They never yet faw fairer play. But prefently this game was paft, And for a fecond Knaves were caft ; All new cards, not ftain'd with fpots, As was the Rumpers and the Scots — Here good gamefters play'd their parts, And turn'd up the King of Hearts, And turn'd up the King of Hearts. After this game was done, I think, The ftanders-by had caufe to drink, And all loyal fubje6ts fmg, Farewell Knaves, and welcome King : For, till we faw the King return'd, We wifli'd the Cards had all been burn'd, We wifti'd the Cards had all been burn'd. G^ I- 3 c#o CHARLES II. ^1^ THE NOBL^E PROGRESS : OR, A TRUE RELATION OF THE LORD-GENERAL MONK'S POLITICAL PROCEEDINGS WITH THE RUMP, THE CALLING IN THE SECLUDED MEMBERS, THEIR TRANSCENDANT VOTE FOR HIS SACRED MAJESTY, WITH HIS RE- CEPTION AT DOVOR, AND ROYAL CONDUCT thro' THE CITY OF LONDON, TO HIS FORMER PALACE AT WHITEHALL. [This curious ftreet ballad, the original of which is in black letter, was difcovered forming part of the lining of an old trunk. It is, probably, unique. The firft part relates to the final difmiflion of the Rump, and the ele6lion, with the concurrence of Monk, of a free Parliament, or Convention, which voted the reftoration of the exiled King. The fecond part defcribes the triumphal progrefs of Charles II. from Dovor to Whitehall, accompanied by the principal nobility and gentry of the kingdom.] "The tune is " IV ken firft the Scott ijh Wars began.'''' OOD people hearken to my call, I'll tell you all what did befall, And happened of late ; Our noble valiant General Monk, Came to the Rump, w^ho lately ftunk, With their Council of State. 154 POLITICAL BALLADS. ,660. Admiring what this man would do, His fecret mind there's none could know, They div'd into him as much as they could, George would not be won with their filver nor gold. The SecSlarian Saints at this lookt blew, With all the reft of the fa6tious crew ; They vapor'd awhile and were in good hope; But now they have nothing left but the rope.* Another invention then they fought. Which long they wrought for to be brought To clafp him with they : Quoth Vane and Scot, I'll tell you what. We'll have a Plot, and he fhall not. We'll carry the fway.f ; Let's vote him a thoufand pound a-year. And Hampton Court for him and his heir. Indeed, quoth George, ye're Free-Parliament men. To cut a thong out of another man's fkin. The Seitarian Saints, &c. * At this time, the Independent leaders were fo unpepular that they dared not (how iheir faces in the ftreet, and were scarcely fafe in their own dwellings. f Alluding to Sir Henry Vane's propofal, when he was Prefident of the Provifional Council of State, for the future and permanent fet- tlement of the government, namely: — "That it is deftru6live to the people's liberties to admit any earthly king, or fingle perfon, to the legiflative or executive power over this nation." 1 660. CHARLES 11. 155 They fent him then with all his hofts, To break our pofts and raife our ghofts, Which was their intent ; To cut our gates and chains all down Unto the ground, this trick they found, To make him be fhent : This Plot the Rump did fo accord, To caft an odium on my Lord, But in this tafk he was hard put unto 't 'Twas enough to infe(5l both his horfe and his foot.. The Seilarian Saints, &c. But when my Lord perceiv'd that night What was their fpight, he brought to light Their knaveries all ; The Parliament of Forty-eighty Which long did wait, came to him ftraight. To give them a fall : And fome fanatical people knew. That George would give 'em their fatal due : Indeed he did requite them agen. For he pull'd the Monfter out o' the den. The Se6larian Saints, &c. To the Houfe, our worthy Parliament, With good intent they boldly went. To vote home the King ; And many hundred people more 156 POLITICAL BALL JDS. i66c Stood at the door and waited for Good tidings to bring : But fome in the Houfe had their hands much in blood, And in great oppofition the traitors they flood. But yet, I believe, it is very well known That thofe that were for him were twenty to one. But the Se6larian Saints at this lookt blew, With all the reft of the faflious crew ; They vapour'd awhile and were in good hope. But now they have nothing left but the Rope. Second Part. HEY call'd the League and Covenant in, To read again to every man. But what comes next ? All Sequeftrations null and void, The people faid none fhould be paid, For this was the text. For as I heard all the people fay. They voted King Charles the firft of May j Bonfires burning, bells did ring. And our ftreets did echo with "God blefs the King," At this the Se(Starian Saints, &c. i66o. CHARLES 11. 157 Our General then to Dovor goes, In fpite of foes, or deadly blows. Saying, " Vive le Roy : " And all the Glories of the land. At his command there they did ftand In triumph and joy. Good Lord ! what a fumptuous fight 'twas to fee Our good Lord-General fall on his knee, To welcome home his Majefty, And own his facred fovereignty. But the Se6tarian Saints, &c. Then all the worthy, noble train Came back again with Charlemagne^ Our Sovereign great : The Lord Mayor in his fcarlet gown, In 's chain fo long, went thro' the town. In pomp and ftate. The Livery-men each line the way. Upon this great triumphant day. Five rich maces carried before. And my Lord himfelf the Sword he bore. Then Vive le Roy the Gentry did fmg. For General Monk rode next to the King, With acclamations, fhouts, and cries, I thought they would have rent the fkies. 158 POLiriCJL BALL JDS. ,660. The conduits ravifhed with joy, As I may fay, did run all day Great plenty of wine ; And every gentleman of note In 's velvet coat that could be got. In glory did fhine. There were all the Peers and Barons bold, Richly 'tir'd in filver and gold, March'd through the ftreet fo brave — No greater pomp a King could have. At this the Seilarian Saints, &c. And thus condu£ied all along, Throughout the throng, till he did come Unto Whitehall ; Attended by thefe Noble-men, Bold Hero's kin that brought him in, With the Generall. Who was the man that brought him home. And placed him on his Royal Throne ? 'Twas General Monk did do this thing — So God preferve our gracious King ! And now the Sectarian Samts, &c. i66o. CHARLES II. 159 A BALLAD. [In this loyal efFufion, the author compares Britain to a Barbary mare, and amufingly recapitulates the various attempts by the par- liamentary faflions, throughout the course of the Rebellion, to be- ftride and manage her ; ending his ballad with a flattering avowal of the fuperior judgment and tact exhibited on the part of her legiti- mate pofleffor — the reftored King.] LD England is now a brave Barbary made, And every one has an ambition to ride her ; King Charles was a horfeman that long us'd the trade, But he rode in a fnaffle, and that could not guide her. Then the hungry Scot comes with fpur and with fwitch, And would teach her to run a Geneva career ; His grooms were all Puritan, traitor, and witch, But fhe foon threw them down, with their pedlary geer. The Long Parliament next came all to the block, And they this untameable palfrey would ride ; But fhe would not bear all that numerous flock ; At which they were fain themfelves to divide. i6o POLITIC J L BALLADS. 1660. Jack Prefbyter firft gets the fteed by the head, While the reverend Bifhops had hold of the bridle : Jack faid through the nofe, they their flocks did not feed, But fat ftill on the beaft, and grew aged and idle : And then comes the Rout, with broomfticks infpir'd, And pull'd down their graces, their fleeves and their train. And fets up Sir Jack, who the beaft quickly tir'd. With a journey to Scotland, and thence back again. Jack rode in a doublet, with a yoke of prick-ears, A curfed fplay-mouth, and a Covenant-fpur ; Rides fwitching and fpurring with jealoufies and fears, Till the poor famifh'd beaft was not able to ftir. Next came th' Independent, a dev'lifli defigner. And got himfelf call'd by a holier name. Makes Jack to unhorfe, for he was diviner. And would make her travel as far 's Amfterdam : But Noll, a rank rider, gets firft in the faddle. And made her (how tricks, and curvate and, rebound ; She quickly perceiv'd that he rode widdle-waddle. And, like his coach-horfes, threw his highnefs to ground. Then Dick, being lame, rode holding by the pommel. Not having the wit to get hold of the rein ; i66o. CHARLES 11. i6i But the jade did (o fnort at the fight of a Crom'ell, That poor Dick and his kindred turn'd foot-men again. Next Fleetwood and Vane, with their rafcally pack, Would every one put their feet in the ftirrup ; But they puU'd the faddle quite off of her back. And were all got under her — before they were up. At laft the King mounts her, and then {he ftood ftill. As his Bucephalus, proud of this rider ; She cheerfully yields to his power and fkill. Who is careful to feed her, and fkilful to guide her. VOL. I. M l62 POLITICAL BALLADS. 1660. THE CAVALIER'S COMPLAINT. [The Cavaliers were much difappointed at the negleft with which their claims to the royal favour were treated at the Reftoration, and expreffed great difiatiffaftion at the preferments beftowed upon the Prefbyterians, whofe return to loyalty was thus conciliated and confirmed. It was commonly faid of the " Act of Oblivion and Indemnity," that the King had pafTed an " act of oblivion for his friends, and of indemnity for his enemies." The famous divine. Dr. Ifaac Barrow, who may be accepted as a fair exponent of the views of the Royalifts at this junfture, conveyed, in the following diftich, his fenfe of the inattention he experienced : " Te magis optavit rediturum, Carole, nemo, Et nemo fenfit te rediiffe minus." " Oh ! how my breaft did ever burn To fee my lawful King return ; Yet whilft his happy fate I blefs. No one has felt his influence lefs."] To the tune of " 7 tell thee, Dickr ^ OME, Jack, let's drink a pot of ale, And I fhall tell thee fuch a "tale. Will make thy ears to ring ; My coin is fpent, my time is loft. And I this only fruit can boaft, That once I faw my King. 1 660. CHARLES 11. 163 But this doth moft afflict: my mind : I went to Court in hope to find Some of my friends in place •, And walking there I had a fight Of all the crew, but, by this light ! I hardly knew one face. 'S' life ! of fo many noble fparks. Who on their bodies bear the marks O f their integrity ; And fuffered ruin of eftate, It was my damned unhappy fate, That I not one could fee. Not one, upon my life, among My old acquaintance all along At Truro and before ; And I fuppofe the place can fhew As few of thofe whom thou didft know At York or Marfton Moor. But truly there are fwarms of thofe Who lately were our chiefeft foes, Of pantaloons and muffs ; Whilft the old rufty Cavalier Retires, or dare not once appear. For want of coin and cuffs. M Z 164 POLITICAL BALLADS. 1660. When none of thefe I could defcry, Who better far deferved than I, Calmly I did refle6l ; " Old fervices (by rule of State) Like almanacs grow out of date, — What then can I expe6t ? " Troth ! in contempt of fortune's frown, I'll get me fairly out of town, And in a cloifter pray, That fmce the ftars are yet unkind To Royalifts, the King may find More faithful friends than they. i66o. CHARLES IL 165 AN ECHO TO THE CAVALIER'S COMPLAINT. MARVEL, Dick, that having been So long abroad, and having feen The vv^orld as thou haft done, Thou fhould'ft acquaint me w^ith a tale As old as Neftor, and as ftale As that of PrieJI and Nun. Are we to learn w^hat is a court ? A pageant made for Fortune's fport, Where merits fcarce appear ; For baftiful merit only dwells In camps, in villages, and cells j Alas ! it dwells not there. Defert is nice in its addrefs, And merit ofttimes doth opprefs. Beyond what guilt would do ; But they are fure of their demands That come to Court with golden hands, And brazen faces too. M 3 i66 POLITICAL BALLADS. 1660. The King, they fay, doth ftill profefs To give his party fome redrefs, And cherifh honefty ; But his good wifhes prove in vain, Whofe fervice w^ith his fervants' gain Not alv/ays doth agree. All princes (be they ne'er fo wife) Are fain to fee w^ith others' eyes, But feldom hear at all ; And courtiers find their intereft, In time to feather w^ell their neft. Providing for their fall. Our comfort doth on time depend. Things when at their worft will mend ; And let us but refle6t On our condition t' other day. When none but tyrants bore the fway — What did we then expedl ? Meanwhile a calm retreat is beft. But difcontent (if not fuppreft) Will breed difloyalty ; This is the conftant note I fmg, I have been faithful to my King, And fo (hall ever be. i66i. CHARLES 11. ib-j A TURN-COAT OF THE TIMES : WHO DOTH BY EXPERIENCE PROFESS AND PROTEST THAT OF ALL PROFESSIONS, A TURN-COAT 'S THE BEST. [This, like the preceding ballad, is obvioudy penned by Ibme difappointed Royalift, and exhibits the culpable partiality of the re- ftored King in the dil'penfation of his favours.] S I was walking thro' Hyde Park as I uf 'd to do, Some two or three months ago, I laid me all along, Without any fear of wrong, And liften'd unto a fong : It came from a powder'd thing. As fine as a lord or a king ; He knew not that I Was got fo nigh, And thus he began to fing. I am a Turn-coat knave, Altho' I do bear it brave. And do not (hew all that I have ; I can, with tongue and pen, Court every fort of men, And kill 'em as faft agen : M 4 i68 POLITICAL BALLADS. 1661. With zealots I can pray, With Cavaliers I can play ; With fhop-keepers I Can cog and lie, > And cozen as faft as they. When firft the wars began. And 'prentices led the van, 'Twas I that did fet them on ; When they cry'd Bifhops dov^^n, In country, court, and tov^'n. Quoth I, and have at the Crow^n : The Covenant I did take. For form and fafhion's fake, But Mrhen it w^ould not Support my plot, 'Twas like an old Almanack. When Independency Had fuperiority, I was of the fame degree ; When Keepers did command, I then had a holy hand In Deans' and in Chapters' land ; ' But when I began to fpy Proteitorfhip drew nigh. And Keepers were Thrown o'er the bar. Old Oliver ! then cry'd I. i66i. CHARLES II. 169 When Sedtarifts got the day, I uf 'd my yea and nay^ To flatter and then betray ; In Parliament I gat, And there a Member fat. To tumble down Church and State, For I was a trufty trout. In all that I went about, And there we did vow To fit till now. But Oliver turn'd us out. We put down the Houfe of Peers, We kill'd the Cavaliers, And tippl'd the widows' tears ; We fequefter'd men's eftates. And made 'em pay monthly rates To trumpeters and their mates. Rebellion we did print. And alter'd all the Mint ; No knavery then Was done by men But I had a finger in't. When Charles was put to flight. Then I was at Wor'fter fight. And got a good booty by 't j 170 POLITICAL BALLADS. 1661. At that moft fatal fall I kill'd and plunder'd all, The weakeft went to the wall ; Whilft my merry mates fell on, To pillaging I was gone, There is many (thought I) Will come by and bye. And why fhould not I be one. We triumph'd like the Turk, We crippl'd the Scottifh Kirk, That fet us firft to work ; When Cromwell did but frown, They yielded every town, St. Andrew's Crofs went down ; But when old Noll did dye. And Richard his fon put by, I knew not how To guide my plow. Where now (hall I be? thought I. I muft confefs the Rump Did put me in a dump, I knew not what would be trump ; When Dick had loft the day. My gaming was at a ftay, I could not tell what to play ; 1 66 1. CHARLES II. 171 When Monk was upon that fcore I thought I would play no more, I did not think what He would be at, I ne'er was fo mumpt before. But now I am at Court, With men of the better fort. And purchafe a good report ; I have the eyes and ears Of many brave noble peers, And flight the poor Cavaliers, Poor knaves, they know not how To flatter, cringe, and bow, For he that is wife, And means to rife. He mufl be a Turn-coat too. 172 POLITICAL BALL JDS. 1663. THE OLD CLOAK. [In the autumn of 1663, whilft the King and his newly-married. Queen were making a tour of pleafure in the vveftern provinces, a confpiracy was difcovered, carried on by the old Republicans, to reftore the Commonwealth ; for which twenty perfons concerned in it were tried, convifted, and fuflfered early in the following year. The ballad fets forth all the evils confequent upon the former re- volution, when "the old cloak," or Prefbyterian party, gained the afcendancy ; and concludes, as is ufual in the fatires of the time, by implicating the Papifts, who were fuppofed to ailociate themlelves, in turn, with every difaffected party in the State.] OME buy my new Ballet, I have 't in my wallet, But 'twill not, I fear, pleafe ev'ry pallet ; Then mark what in sooth I fwear by my youth, That every line in my wallet is truth ; A Ballad of wit, a brave Ballad of worth, 'Tis newly printed, and newly come forth : 'Twas made of a Cloak that fell out with a Gown, That crampt all the Kingdom, and crippl'd the Crown. I tell you in brief, A ftory of grief, Which happen'd when Cloak was commander-in-chief: i663. CHARLES II. 173 It tore Common-prayers^ Imprifon'd Lord Mayors ; In one day it voted down prelates and players ; It made people perjur'd, in point of obedience, A Covenant cut off the Oath of Allegiance. Then let us endeavor to pull this Cloak down, That crampt all the Kingdom, and crippl'd the Crown. It was a black Cloak, In good time be it fpoke. That kill'd many thoufands, but never ftruck ftroke ; With hatchet and rope, The forlorn hope, Did join with the Devil to pull down the Pope : It fet all the Se6ls in the City to work. And rather than fail, 'twould have brought in the Turk. Then let us endeavor to pull the Cloak down. That crampt all the Kingdom, and crippl'd the Crown. It feiz'd on the Tower-guns, Thofe fierce demi-gorgons ; It brought in the Bag-pipes, and pull'd down the Organs ; The pulpits did fmoke. The churches did choke, And all our Religion was turn'd to a Cloak : It brought in lay-elders could not write nor read ; It fet Public Faith up, and pull'd down the Creed. Then let us endeavor to pull the Cloak down. That crampt all the Kingdom, and crippl'd the Crown. 174 POLITICAL BALL JDS. 1663. This pious Impofter Such fiiry did fofter, It left us no penny, nor no Pater-nojier ; It threw to the ground Ten Commandments down, And fet up twice twenty times ten of its own ; It routed the King and villains ele61:ed To plunder all thofe whom they thought difafFe6led. Then let us endeavor to pull the Cloak down, That crampt all the Kingdom, and crippl'd the Crown. To blind people's eyes. This Cloak was fo wife, It took off Ship-money, but fet up Excife * ; Men brought in their plate, For reafons of State, And gave it to Tom Trumpeter and his mate : In Pamphlets it writes many fpecious epiftles. To cozen poor wenches of bodkins and whiftles. Then let us endeavor to pull the Cloak down. That crampt all the Kingdom, and crippl'd the Crown. In pulpits it mov'd. And was much approv'd, For crying out, " Fight the Lord's battles, belov'd ! " * The arbitrary manner in which the excife was levied, not only upon liquors but alio upon provifions, to fupport the war againft Charles I., difgufted people, and more particularly the poorer clafles, more than all the other meafures of the Long Parliament. See note to page 25. 1663. CHARLES II. 175 It bob-tail'd the Gown, Put Prelacy down, It trod on the Mitre to reach at the Crown ; And into the field it an army did bring. To aim at the Council, but fhot at the King. Then let us endeavor to pull the Cloak down. That crampt all the Kingdom, and crippl'd the Crown. It raif'd up ftates, Whofe politic pates Do now keep their quarters on the City-gates : To father and mother. To fifter and brother, ' It gave a Commiffion to kill one another ; It took up men's horfes, at very low rates. And plunder'd our goods to fecure our eftates. Then let us endeavor to pull the Cloak down. That crampt all the Kingdom, and crippl'd the Crown. This Cloak did proceed To a damnable deed. It made the beft mirror of Majefty bleed ; Tho' Cloak did not do 't. He fet it on foot. By rallying and calling his journeymen to 't * ; * An allufion to the Scots felling Charles the Firft to the Inde- pendents, who afterwards butchered him. 176 POLITICAL BALL JDS. 1663. For never had come fuch bloody difafter, If Cloak had not firft drawn a fword at his Mafter. Then let us endeavor to pull the Cloak dow^n, That crampt all the Kingdom, and crippl'd the Crovi^n. Let 's pray that the King, And his Parliament, In facred or fecular things may be content ; So righteoufly firm, And religion (ly free, That Papifts and Atheifts fupprefled may be : And as there 's one Deity that doth over-rule us, One Faith, and one Form, and one Church doth continue 's; Then Peace, Truth, and Plenty, our Kingdom w^ill crown. And all Popifh Plots and their Plotters fhall down. ,666. CHARLES 11. 177 CLARENDON'S HOUSE-WARMING. BY ANDREW MARVEL. [Charles II., in the year 1664, granted to his Chancellor, the Earl of Clarendon, in confideratlon of his lordfhip's eminent fervices both at home and abroad, a valuable traft of land immediately front- ing the royal palace of St. James's, whereon the earl determined to ere6l a fuitable manfion for himfelf and heirs. The coft of doing fo, as too frequently happens, proved three times as great as the ori- ginal eftimate — amounting, in faft, to 60,000/. Thofe who were intriguing at court for the downfall of the Chancellor, availed them- felves of the opportunity of expofing, by all the means their fpite- fulnefs and ingenuity could fuggeft and invent, his recklefs expenditure at a time when the nation was proftrated by war, peftilence, and fire ; and fucceeded as well in alienating from him the good will of the King, as exciting almoft to madnefs the mind of the public againft him. " Some called it (fays Burnet) Dunkirk-houfe, intimating that it was built by his fhare of the price of Dunkirk ; others called it HoUand-houfe, becaufe he was believed to be no friend to the war ; fo it was given out that he had money from the Dutch." The fame authority informs us, that the imfortunate earl, when driven out of England, ordered his fon to tell all his friends that if they could excufe the vanity and folly of Clarendon-houfe, he would un- dertake to anfwer for all the reft of his a6lions himfelf. In 1683, the houfe and lands furrounding it were purchafed by Sir Thomas - Bond, who demolifhed the former, and erected on its fite Bond and Albemarle-ftreets.] VOL. I. N 178 POLITICAL BALLADS. 1666. HEN Clarendon had difcern'd beforehand, (As the caufe can eafily foretell the effeSl) At once three Deluges * threat'ning our land, 'Twas the feafon he thought to turn Architect. As Mars, and Apollo, and Vulcan confume ; While he the betrayer of England and Flander, Like the king-fifher choofeth to build in the broom. And neftles in flames like the falamander. But obferving that mortals run often behind, (So unreafonable are the rates they buy at) His omnipotence therefore much rather defign'd How he might create a houfe with ?ifiat. He had read of Rhodope, a lady of Thrace, Who was courted so often ere fhe did marry ; And wifh'd that his daughter had had as much grace To erect him a Pyramid out of a quarry.f But then recollecting how the harper, Amphyon, Made Thebes dance aloft while he fiddl'd and fung, * Alluding to the plague, the great fire of London, and the dif- graceful war with the Dutch. -f- A difgufting allufion to the clandeftine marriage of the earl's eldeft daughter to the Duke of York, afterwards James II, 1666. CHARLES 11. 179 He thought (as an inftrument he was moft free on) To build with the Jews-trump of his ov/n tongue. Yet a precedent fitter in Virgil he found, Of African Poultney, and Tyrian Dide, That he begg'd for a Palace fo much of his ground As might carry the meafure and name of an hyde.* Thus daily his gouty invention him pain'd, And all for to fave the expenfes of brickbat, %-^'r That engine fo fatal, which Denham had brain'd. And too much refembled his wife's chocalate. But while thefe devices he all doth compare. None folid enough feem'd for his ftrong caftor ; He himfelf would not dwell in a caftle of air. Though he had built full many a one for his Mafter. Already he had got all our money and cattle. To buy us for flaves, and purchafe our lands ; What Jofeph by famine, he wrought by fea-battle f, — Nay fcarce the prieft's portion could 'fcape from his hands. And hence like Pharoah that Ifrael 'preft To make mortar and brick, yet allow'd 'em no ftraw. He cared not though Egypt's ten plagues us diftreft. So he could to build but make policy law. * The patronymic of the earl. f 'Twas believed that the earl had been bribed by the Dutch to treat of a peace. i8o POLITICAL BALLADS. ,666. The Scotch forts and Dunkirk, but that they were fold, He would have demolifht to raife up his walls ; Nay, e'en from Tangier have fent back for the mould, But that he had nearer the ftones of St. Paul's. * His wood would come in at an eafier rate, So long as the yards had a deal or a fpar : His friend in the Navy would not be ingrate. To grudge him the timber who fram'd him the War. To proceed with the model he call'd in his AUons — The two Allons when jovial, who ply him with gallons — The two Allons who ferve his blind juftice for ballance — The two Allons who ferve his injuftice for talons, f They approve it thus far and faid it was fine. Yet his Lordfhip to finifh it would be unable, Unlefs all abroad he divulg'd the defign, For his houfe then would grow like a vegetable. * Part of the Houfe was built with ftones defigned, before the civil war, for the repair of Old St. Paul's. The Chancellor was accufed of turning to a profane ufe what he had purchafed with a bribe. f The two Allons, or Aliens, were probably members of the Vintners' Company. Clarendon Houfe was built (fays Eachard) in the Chancellor's abfence in the Plague-year, principally at the charge of the Vintners' Company, who, defigning to monopolife his favour, made it abundantly more large and magnificent than ever he intended or defired. i666. CHARLES 11. i8i His rent would no more in arrear run to Wor'fter * ; He fhould dwell more noble, and cheap too at home, While into a fabrick the prefents would mufter, As by hook and by crook the world clufter'd of atom. He liked th' advice, and then foon it aflayed. And prefents crowd head-long to give good example : So the bribes overlaid her that Rome once betrayed : The Tribes ne'er contributed fo to the Temple, f Strait judges, priefts, bifhops, true fons of the feal, Sinners, governors, farmers, bankers, patentees. Bring in the whole mite of a year at a mea). As the Cheddar clubs dairy to th' incorporate cheefe. Bulteel's, Beaken's, Morley, Wren's fingers with telling Were ftirivell'd, and Clutterbuck, Eager's and Kips ; Since the Act of Oblivion was never fuch felling. As at this Benevolence out of the fnips.J * Alluding to Worcefter Houfe, in the Strand, where the Earl re- fided before building Clarendon Houfe. f Lord Dartmouth relates, in his notes on Burnet, that Claren- don Houfe was chiefly furnifhed with Cavaliers' goods, brought thither for peace-ofFerings. X In reference to this voluntary contribution made by the peo- ple to Charles II., with which Marvel compares the " peace-offer- ings " of the Cavaliers to the Chancellor, Pepys writes in his Diary (31ft Auguft, 1661): — "The Benevolence proves fo little, and an occafion of fo much difcontent everywhere, that it had better it had never been fet up. I think to fubfcribe 20/. We are at our office quiet, only for lack of money all things go to rack. Our very bills offered to be fold upon the Exchange at 10 per cent, lofs." N 3 i82 POLITICAL BALLADS. 1666. 'Twas then that the Chimney-contractors he fmok'd ; Nor would take his beloved Canary in kind ; But he fwore that the patent ftiould ne'er be revok'd — No ! would the whole Parliament falute him behind. Like Jove under i^tna, o'erwhelming the giant, For foundation the Briftol funk in the earth's bowel ; And St. John muft now for the leads be compliant, Or his right hand fhall elfe be cut ofF with a trowel. For furveying the building 'twas Prat did the feat, But for th' expenfe he rely'd on Worftenholm, Who fat heretofore at the King's receipt. But receiv'd now and paid the Chancellor's cuftom. By fubfidies thus both cleric and laic, And with matter profane cemented with holy. He finifht at laft his palace mofaic. By a model more excellent than Lefly's folly.* And upon the turrus, to confiimmate all, A lanthorn, like Fawk's, furveys the burnt Town, And fhews on the top, by the regal gilt ball. Where you are t' expetS: the Sceptre and Crown, f * Alluding to Dr, John Leflie, the famous linguift and bifhop of the Orkneys, whence he was tranflated to the fee of Raphoe in Ireland (1633), where he built a palace, fo ftrongly fortified, that he was the laft who furrendered to the arms of Cromwell. f A fimilar idea occurs in another and feverer contemporary lampoon quoted by Difraeli, in his Curiofities of Literature : — i666. CHJRLES 11. 183 Fond City ! its rubbifli and ruins that builds Like chymifts vain, a flow'r from its afhes returning* ; Your metropolis-house is in St. James' Fields, And till there you remove, you fhall never leave burning. This Temple, of War and of Peace is the fhrine. Where this Idol of State fits ador'd and accurft ; And to handfel his altar and noftrils divine. Great Buckingham's f sacrifice muft be the firft. Lo ! his whole ambition already divides The fceptre between the Stuarts and Hydes ; Behold ! in the depth of our plague and wars, He built him a palace outbraves the ftars, Which Houfe (we Dunkirk, he Clarendon names) Looks down with fhame upon Saint James j But 'tis not his golden-globe will lave him, Being lefs than the Cuftom-houie farmers gave him ; His chapel for confecration calls, Whofe facrilege plundered the ftones from St. Pauls. When Queen Dido landed, Ihe bought as much ground As the hide of a lufty fat ox would furround ; But when the faid hide was cut into thongs, A city and kingdom to Hyde belongs ; So here in court, church, and country far and wide. Here's nought to be feen but Hyde ! Hyde ! Hyde ! Of old, and where law the kingdom divides, 'Twas our hides of land, 'tis now our land of Hydes. * The refurre6lion, or palingenejis , of incinerated plants by means of fermentation, was one of thofe philofophical amufements that cap- tivated the mind in the feventeenth century, much in the fame manner as fpirit-rapping, table-turning, &c., in our day. f The Chancellor, by his grave and haughty conduct, had ren- dered himfelf extremely obnoxious to Buckingham and the other N4 1 84 POLITICAL BALLADS. ,666. Now fome (as all builders muft cenfure abide) Throw duft in its front, and blame fituation ; And others as much reprehend his backfide, As too narrow by far for his expatiation ; But do not confider how in procefs of times That for name-fake he may with Hyde-park it enlarge, And with that convenience he foon for his crimes At Tyburn may land, and fpare the Tower barge : Or rather how wifely his ftall was built near, Left with driving too far his tallow impair ; When like the good ox, for public good cheer, He comes to be roafted next St. James' fair. licentious perfons about the court. " He often (fays Eachard) took liberty to give fuch reproofs to thefe perfons of wit and gallantry as were very unacceptable to them ; and fometimes thought it his duty to advife the King himfelf in fuch a manner, as they took advantage of him, and as he pafled the court would often fay, " There goes your fchoolmafter ! " The chief of thofe was the Duke of Bucking- ham, who had a furprifing talent of ridicule and hypocrify ; and that he might make way to his ruin, he often did aft and mimic this great man in the prefence of the King, walking ftately with a pair of bellows before him for the pur/e, and Col. Titus carrying a fire-fhovel on his (houlder for the mace, with which fort of banter and farce the King was too much delighted and captivated." i674. CHARLES 11. 185 ON THE LORD MAYOR AND COURT OF ALDERMEN PRESENTING THE KING AND THE DUKE OF YORK WITH A COPY OF THEIR FREEDOM. BY ANDREW MARVEL. [In November, 1674, on the acceffion of Sir Robert Vyner to the mayoralty, Charles the Second was magnificently entertained at the Guildhall ; when he was pleafed to accept the freedom of the city, the copy and feal of which were conveyed with great pomp to his palace at Whitehall, in two boxes of mafTive gold. In the Spectator (No. 462) is told the ftory of Sir Robert Vyner's fuccefsfully urging the King, at this entertainment, " to return and take t'other bottle." The author of this ballad was difgufted at the fycophancy of the citizens of London, who had lately been fo groffly defrauded by ■ Charles, when he fuddenly clofed the Exchequer.] HE Londoners Gent, to the King do prefent In a box the City Maggot ; 'Tis a thing full of weight that requires the mio;ht Of the Guildhall team to drag it. Whilft their churches unbuilt, their houfes undwelt, And their orphans want bread to feed 'em ; Themfelves they've bereft of the little wealth they had left, To make an offering of their " freedom." i86 POLITICAL BALLADS. 1674. O ye addled-brain'd cits ! who, henceforth in their wits, Would entruft their youth to your heading, — When in diamonds and gold you have him thus enroll'd. You know both his friends and his breeding — ? Beyond fea he began, where fuch a riot he ran. That every one there did leave him ; And now he's come o'er ten times worfe than before. When none but fuch fools would receive him ! He ne'er knew, not he, how to ferve or be free. Though he has paft through fo many adventures ; But e'er fmce he was bound (that is, he was crown'd) He has every day broke his Indentures. He fpends all his days in running to plays. When he ihould in the fliop be flaying ; And he waftes all his nights in his conftant delights Of revelling, drinking, and playing. Throughout Lombard Street, each man he did meet. He would run on the fcore and borrow ; When they afk'd for their own he was broke and gone. And his creditors left to forrow.* * The citizens of London were the principal fufFerers by the fudden fhutting up of the Exchequer two years previoufly. The Lord Mayor, Sir Robert Vyner, loft upwards of 400,000/. by that unparalleled aft of fraud. 1674. CHARLES 11. 187 Tho' oft bound to the peace, yet he never would ceafe To vex his poor neighbours with quarrels ; And when he was beat, he ftill made his retreat To his Clevelands, his Nells, and his Carwells. Nay, his company lewd, were twice grown fo rude. That had not fear taught him fobriety ; And the Houfe being well barr'd, with guard upon guard. They'd robb'd us of all our propriety. Such a plot was laid, had not Afhley betray'd. As had cancell'd all former difafters, And your wives had been ftrumpets to his Highnefs' trumpets. And foot-boys had all been your mafters. So many are the debts, for his numerous brats. Which muft all be defray'd by London ; That notwithftanding the care of Sir Thomas Player *, The chamber muft needs be undone. His words, nor his oath, can bind him to troth. And he values not credit or hiftory ; And tho' he has ferv'd thro' two 'prenticeftiips now, He knows not his trade or myftery. * The Chamberlain of the City. i88 POLITICAL BALLADS. ,674. Then London rejoice in thy fortunate choice To have made him free of thy fpices ; And do not miftruft he may once grow more juft, When he 'as worn off his folly and vices. And what little thing is that which you bring To the Duke, the kingdom's darling — ? Ye hug it and draw, like ants at a ftraw, Tho' too fmall for the griftle of Sterling. Is it a box of pills to cure the Duke's ills (He is too far gone to begin it !) Or, does your fine fhow in proceflioning go With the pix and the hoft within it — ? The very firft head of the oath you him read, Show you all how fit he 's to govern ; When in heart (you all knew) he ne'er was, nor will be true To his country, or to his fovereign. And who could fwear, that he would forbear To cull out the good of an alien. Who ftill doth advance the government of France, With a wife and religion Italian — ? i674. CHARLES II. 189 And now, worfhipful firs, go fold up your furs. And Vyners turn again, turn again, 1 fee who e'er's freed, you for flaves are decreed. Until you burn again, burn again.* * * Alluding to the great fire of London in 1666. iQO POLITICAL BALLADS. ,676. THE HISTORY OF INSIPIDS. BY JOHN WILMOT, EARL OF ROCHESTER. [Bifhop Burnet relates, in his Life of Rochefter, that the Earl once, being drunk, intended to prel'ent King Charles the Second with a libel that he had written on fome ladies connefted with the Court ; but by a miftake he handed him one written on himlelf. It this is the libel in quellion, the merry monarch mull have been verj' much of Andrew Manuel's opinion, that the profligate earl " was a man who had the true vein of latire in him ." Probably no leverer lampoon than this was ever penned ; certainly no one more richly merited it than the objeft of it ; and, unhappily, no one was lefs affected by fuch expofures than the regal penfioner of France. Ro- chefter was not the only one who expofed to his face the unpatriotic and fenfual conduft of the King. Pepys records Tom Killigrew having told Charles, in the prefence of Cowley the poet, that matters were in a veiy ill ftate, but yet there was one way to help all. " There is (laid he) a good, honeft, able man, that I could name, that if your Majefty would employ and command to lee all things well executed, all things would foon be mended ; and this is one Charles Stuart, who now fpends his time employing his lips about the Court, and hath no other employment ; he were the fitteft man p in the world to perfonn it." To this Pepys adds : " This is moft true, but the King do not profit by any of this, but lays all afide, and remembers nothing, but to his pleafures again ; which is a for- rowful confideration." Diary, 8 Dec. 1666.] I. HASTE, pious, prudent Charles the Second, The miracle of thy Reftoration, May like to that of quails be reckon'd, Rain'd on the Ifraelitifh nation : 1676. CHARLES 11. 191 The wiih'd-for blefling from Heav'n fent, Became their curfe and punifhment. 2. The virtues in thee, Charles, inherent, Albeit thy face is fomewhat odd, Proves thee as proper a vicegerent As e'er was Harry ordain'd by God ; For chaftity and pious deeds His grandfire Harry, Charles exceeds. 3- Our Romifli bondage-breaker, Harry, Efpoufed half a dozen wives ; Charles only one refolv'd to marry ; With other men's he never lives ; — Yet hath he fons and daughters more Than e'er had Harry by three fcore. Never was fuch a faith's defender. He like a politic prince, and pious, Gives liberty to confcience tender , And doth to no religion tie us : Jews, Turks, Chriftians, Papifts, he'll pleafe us With Mofes, Mahomet, or Jefus. 192 POLITICAL BALLADS. 1676. 5- In all affairs of Church or State, He very zealous is, and able ; Devout at pray'rs, and fits up late, At the Cabal and Council-table ; His very dog at Council-board Sits grave and w^ife as any lord. 6. Let Charles his policy no man flout, The wifeft kings have all fome folly ; Nor let his piety any doubt ; Charles, like a fovereign wife and holy, Makes young men judges of the bench, And bifhops thofe that love a w^ench. 7- His father's foes he doth reward, Preferving thofe that cut oif 's head ; Old Cavaliers, the Crown's beft guard. He lets them ftarve for want of bread : Never was any king indued With fo much grace and gratitude. 8. Blood*, that wears treafon in his face. Villain complete, in parfon's gown, — * The noted defperado, Colonel Thomas Blood, who, notwith- ftanding his atrocious attempt to murder the Duke of Ormond, and. 1676. CHARLES 11. 193 How much is he at Court in grace For ftealing Ormond and the crown ! Since loyalty does no man good, Let 's fteal the King and out-do Blood. 9- A Parliament of knaves and fots, Members by name you muft not mention, He keeps in pay, and buys their votes. Here with a place, there with a penfion : When to give money he can't cologue 'em. He doth with fcorn prorogue, prorogue 'em.* in the fame year (1670), difguifed as a prieft, to fteal the regalia from the Tower, was not only freely pardoned, but liberally penfioned by Charles ! * Marvel has alfo expofed this common expedient of the King in the following ftinging epigram : " There's a Houfe to be let, For Charles Bawd fwore. By infamous Portfmouth, He wou'd fhut up the door. Inquire at the lodgings, Next door to the Pope, At Duke Lauderdale's head. With a cravat of rope. And there you will hear How next he will let it ; If you pay the old price You will certainly get it. He holds it in tail From his father, who faft Did keep it long fhut. But paid for't at laft." VOL. I. O 194 POLITICAL BALLADS. 1676. 10. But they long fince by too much giving, Undid, betray'd, and fold the nation ; Making their memberfhips a living, Better than e'er was fequeftration : God give thee, Charles, a refolution To damn the knaves by diflblution. II. Fame is not grounded on fuccefs. Though viflories were Caefar's glory ; • Loft battles make not Pompey lefs. But left them ftiled great in ftory : Malicious fate doth oft devife To beat the brave, and fool the wife. 12. Charles in the firft Dutch war ftood fair To have been fovereign of the deep ; When Opdam blew up in the air*. Had not his Highnefsf gone to fleep : Our fleet flack'd fails, fearing his waking. The Dutch elfe had been in fad taking. * Alluding to the memorable defeat of the Dutch, off Harwich, 3rd June, 1665, when the fhip of Opdam, their admiral, blew up, and himfelf, with 500 of his men, periflied in the explofion. Rochef- ter bore a part in that great fea fight. f The Duke of York. The charge of his having retired to reft in order to avoid a continuance of the battle, was Invefl;igated by Parliament, which exonerated the Duke. 1676. CHARLES 11. 195 13- The Bergen* bufinefs was well laid, Though we paid dear for that defign ; Had we not three days parling ftaid, The Dutch fleet there, Charles, had been thine : Though the falfe Dane agreed to fell 'um. He cheated us, and faved Skellum. 14. Had not Charles fweetly chouf'd the States, By Bergen-baffle grown more wife. And made them pay him higher rates. By their rich Smyrna fleet's furprife : Had haughty Holms f but call'd in SpraggJ, Horns had been put into a bag. 15- Mifts, ftorms, fhort victuals, adverfe winds, And once the natives' wife divifion, * The fort of Bergen, in Norway, in the harbour of which town the Dutch Eaft India fleet had taken refuge, where, with the con- nivance of the King of Denmark (the port being a neutral one), a delperate attempt was made by the Englifh to capture the mer- chantmen, which alone were valued at 25,000,000 livres. The failure of this enterprife, in which Rochefter alfo bore a part, created much unpleafant fpeculation at the time. -f- Vice- Admiral Sir Robert Holms, known in his day as " the curfed beginner of the two Dutch wars." X Admiral Sir Edward Spragg, who was fubfequently drowned o 2 196 POLITICAL BALLADS. 1676. Defeated Charles his beft defigns, Till he became his foes derifion : But he had fwing'd the Dutch at Chatham, Had he had Ihips but to come at 'em.* 16. Our Blackheath hoft, without difpute, RaiPd (put on board, why no man knows) Muft Charles have render'd abfolute, Over his fubje6ls or his foes : Has not the French King made us fools, By taking Maeftricht with our tools ? 17- But Charles, what could thy obje6l be To run fo many fad difafters ; To join thy fleet with falfe D'Eftreesf, To make the French of Holland mafters ? * Alluding to the national difgrace, when the Dutch failed up the Med way (nth June, 1667), captured Sheernefs, burnt the magazines and feveral men of war, and blew up the fortifications. f The French Admiral, Count D'Eftrees, who was afTociated with, but rendered little afTiftance to, the Duke of York and Lord Sandwich, when they were oppofed to the Dutch in Solebay (28th May, 1672). Rochefter, of courfe, was ignorant of the difgraceful arrangements which had been privately entered into between Charles and Louis. 1676. CHARLES 11. 197 Was 't Carwell*, Brother James, or Teague, That made thee break the Triple-league ? 18. Could Robin Vinerf have forefeen The glorious triumphs of his mafter, * Louife de Queroualle (which the Englifh pronounced " Car- well "), Duchefs of Portfmouth, and one of the King's miftreffes. She was alfo the reputed fpy of Louis XIV. Her portrait is thus defcribed in 1682, when flie had pafTed the meridian of life : " Who can on this pifture look, And not ftraight be wonder-ftruck, That fuch a fneaking dowdy thing Shou'd make a beggar of a king ; Three happy nations turn to tears. And all their former love to fears ; Ruin the great and raife the fmall, Yet will by turns betray them all. Lowly born and meanly bred. Yet of this nation fhe is head : For half Whitehall makes her their court, Tho' t'other half makes her their fport. Monmouth's tamer, Jeffrey's advance, Foe to England, fpy to France ; Falfe and foolifti, proud and bold. Ugly, as you fee, and old." f Sir Robert Vyner, Lord Mayor of London in 1675. He con- verted an equeftrian ftatue of John Sobiefki, King of Poland, into the reprefentation of Charles IL, and fet it up at the north end of St. Mary Woolnoth Church, Lombard Street. This ftatue excited the wit of the contemporary fatirifts, as much as the circumftances o 3 198 POLITICAL BALLADS. 1676. The Wool-church ftatue gold had been, Which now is made of alabafter : But wife men think, had it been wood, 'Twere for a bankrupt King too good. 19. Thofe that the fabric well confider. Do of it diverfely difcourfe ; Some pafs their cenfure on the rider. Others their judgment on the horfe ; Moft fay the fteed's a goodly thing. But all agree 'tis a lewd King. under which it was placed there. It is thus defcribed in another lampoon of the day : " By all it appears, from the firft to the laft. To be as revenge and malice forecaft. Upon the King's birthday to fet up a thing That fhows him a monkey more like than a king. When each one that pafTes finds fault with the horfe. Yet all do affure that the King is much worfe : And fome by the likenefs Sir Robert fufpedl That he did for the King his own ftatue ereft. To fee him fo difguifed the herb-women chide, . Who upon panniers more decently ride j And fo loofe are his feet that all men agree. Sir William Peak fits much fafter than he. But a market, they fay, doth fit the King well. Who oft Parliaments buys and revenues fell j And others, to make the fimilitude hold. Say his Majefty himfelf is oft bought and fold." 1676. CHARLES 11. [99 ~- . — . — . — — •*- 20. By the Lord Mayor and his grave coxcombs, Freeman of London Charles is made ; Then to Whitehall a rich gold box comes, Which was beftow'd on the French jade : But wonder not it fhould be fo, firs, When monarchs rank themfelves with grocers.* 21. Cringe, fcrape no more, ye City fops. Leave off your feafting and fine fpeeches j Beat up your drums, fhut up your (hops. The Courtiers then will kifs your breeches : Arm'd, tell the Popifh Duke f that rules, You're free-born fubjeds, not French mules. 22. New upflarts, pimps, baftards, wh — s, That locuft-like devour the land. By (hutting up the Exchequer doors J, When thither our money was trepann'd j * Vide p. 185. f James, Duke of York. X Alluding to the King's flagitious conduft on the 2nd Jan.' 1672, ivhen, during the prorogation of Parliament, he fuddenly ,. clofed the Exchequer, — an aft which amounted to an avowal of na- tional bankruptcy, and which had the immediate effefl; of fpreading ruin far and wide, and of entirely uprooting credit. By this iniqui- • tous proceeding Charles pocketed 1,300,000/. 04 200 POLITICAL BALLADS. 1676. Have rendered Charles his Reftoration But a fmall blefling to the nation. 23- Then, Charles, beware thy brother York, Who to thy government gives law ; If once we fall to the old fport. You muft again both to Breda : Where fpite of all that would reftore you. Grown wife by wrongs, we fhall abhor you. 24. If all Chriftian blood the guilt Cries loud for vengeance unto heaven — That fea by treacherous Louis fpilt, Can never be by God forgiven ; Worfe fcourge unto his fubje6ls. Lord ! Than peftilence, famine, fire, or fword. 25. That falfe, rapacious Wolf of France*, The fcourge of Europe and its curfe ; Who at his fubj efts' cry does dance. And ftudies how to make 'em worfe : To fay fuch kings, Lord, rule by thee. Were moll prodigious blafphemy ! * Louis XIV. 1676. CHARLES 11. 201 26. Such know no laws but their own luft ; Their fubje6ls' fubftance and their blood, They count it tribute true and juft, Still fpent and fpilt for fubje6ls' good : If fuch kings are by God appointed, The Devil may be the Lord's anointed. 27. Such kings (curft be the power and name !) Let all the world henceforth abhor 'em ; Monfters which knaves facred proclaim. And then like Haves fall down before 'em : What can there be in Kings divine — ■ The moft are wolves, goats, fheep, or fwine ! 28. Then farewell facred majefty. Let 's pull all brutifh tyrants down ; Where men are born and ftill live free, Here ev'ry head does wear a crown : Mankind, like the unhappy frogs. Prove wretched, king'd by Storks and Logs. 202 POLHICAL BALLADS. 1678, THE GENEVA BALLAD. [The gradual development of Charles' defpotic charafter and aims, and more particularly his fufpefted attachment to popery, not only gave offence and alann to all moderate and well-meaning men in the country, but called into aftivity once more the Republican or Prefbyterian faftion, which could now, with fome fliow of reafon, juftify their former oppofition to his father and himfelf. This is • one of the many fervile ballads fent abroad by the Court party, in which the author retorts upon the fufpicious Prefbyterian the charges that the latter ufually preferred againll the Papills, namely, that they fought to override both Church and State,] To the tune of 48, F all the fa6lions in the Town, Mov'd by French fprings or Flemifh wheels, None treads Religion up fide down. Or tears pretences out at heels, Like Splay-mouth* with his brace of caps, Whofe confcience might be fcann'd perhaps By the dimenfions of his chaps. He whom the Sifters fo adore. Counting his actions all divine, Who, when the Spirit hints, can roar. And if occafion ferves can whine : The nick-name commonly applied to the Prefbyterian body both during the Rebellion and after the Reftoration. 1678. CHARLES II. 203 Nay, he can bellow, bray, and bark. Was ever fuch a Beuk-learn'd Clerk, That fpeaks all linguas of the Ark ? To draw in profelytes like bees. With pleafing twang he tones his profe. He gives his handkerchief a fqueeze. And draws John Calvin through his nofe. Motive on motive he obtrudes. With flip-ftockin fimilitudes. Eight ufes more — and fo concludes. When Monarchy began to bleed. And Treafon had a fine new name ; When Thames was balderdafh'd with Tweed, And pulpits did with beacons flame ; When Jeroboam's calves were rear'd, And Laud was neither lov'd nor fear'd, This Gofpel-comet firft appear'd. Soon his unhallow'd fingers ftripp'd His Sov'reign Liege of power and land. And, having fmote his Mafter, flipp'd His fword into his fellow's hand. But he that wears his eyes may note, Ofttimes the butcher binds a goat. And leaves his boy to cut her throat. 204 POLITICAL BALLADS. 1678. Poor England felt his i\ivj then Ourweigh'd Queen Alar^'^'s many grains ; His ven," preaching flew more men, Than Bonner's faggots, flakes, and chains. ^^ ith dog-ftar zeal and lungs like Boreas, He fought and taught ; and what's notorious, Deftroy'd his Lord to make him glorious ! Yet drew for King and Parliament, As if the wind could ftand North-South ; Broke Alofes' Law with bleft intent, Murther'd and then he wip'd his mouth : Oblivion alters not his cafe. Nor clemency, nor acts of grace, Can blanch an Ethiopian's face. Ripe for Rebellion he begins To rally upon the Saints in fwarms, He bawls aloud, Sirs^ leave your fim ; But whifpers, Bays^ J}and to your ai'ms. Thus he's grown infolently rude. Thinking his gods can't be fubdu'd— Money^ I mean, and Multitude. AIao;iftrates he regards no more Than St. George or the Kings of Colen ; Vowing; he '11 not conform before The old wives wind their dead in woUen. 1678. CHARLES 11. 205 He calls the bifhop Grey-beard GofF, And makes his power a mere fcofF, As Dagon, when his hands were ofF. Hark ! how he opens with full cry ! Halloo, my hearts, beware of Rome ! Cowards that are afraid to die Thus make domeftic broils at home. How quietly great Charles might reign, Would all thefe Hotfpurs crofs the main, And preach down Popery in Spain ! The ftarry rule of Heaven is fixt. There's no dilTenfion in the fky : And can there be a mean betwixt Confufion and Conformity ? A place divided never thrives : 'Tis bad where hornets dwell in hives, But worfe where children play with knives. I would as foon turn back to mafs. Or change my phrafe to Thee and TJiou ; Let the Pope ride me like an afs, And his priefts milk me like a cow : -—As buckle to SmecSlymnuan laws. The bad effects o' th' Good Old Caufe, That have dove's plumes, but vulture's claws. 2o6 POLITICAL BALLADS. 1678. For 'twas the Haly Kirk that nurf'd The Brownift's and the Ranter's crew ; Foul Error's motly vefture firft Was oaded * in a Northern blue. And what's th' enthufiaftic breed, Or men of Knipperdoling's creed, But Cov'nanters run up to feed ? Yet they all cry. They love the Klng^ And make boaft of their innocence : There cannot be fo vile a thing, But may be color'd with pretence. Yet when all's faid, one thing I'll fwear, No fubjeft like th' old Cavalier^ No traitor like Jack Prefbyter. * Dyed. 1678. CHARLES 11. 207 TITUS TELLTROTH. [The unparalleled fictions of Titus Gates (the fubjefl; of this and Innumerable ballads), no doubt, would have fpeedlly configned their wretched author to Tyburn Inftead of to Whitehall, but for the un- "^-^fortunate and myfterious death of Sir Edmundbury Godfrey, (who had taken his evidence,) happening about the same time, an event which confirmed the delufions of the people, and rendered their prejudices abfolutely incurable. "Thenceforward," remarks Hume, "to deny the reality of the [Popifh] plot was to be an accomplice ; to hefitate was criminal." This ballad iffued from the prolific prefs of Nat Thompfon, the Romanlft, and was penned by one Banks, as appears from a ftanza in Thompfon-Tell-Lies, a contemporary broadfide : " Titus the light of the Town, They call thee (and well they may) ; — — But Banks that Papiftical clown Calls thee fo in a jeering way. He calls thee the fcorn of the Court, O ! pity it (hould be fo ; What cattle do hither refort By abufmg of thee we know."] To the tune of ''Hail to the Myrtle Jliades."^ AIL to the Knight of the Poft, To Titus the chief of the town ; Titus, who vainly did boaft Of the Salamanca gown* ; * Gates paffed the greater part of the year 1677 In Valladolid, where he joined the Society of the Jefuits, with the fole purpofe, as he afterwards acknowledged, " of betraying them." 2o8 POLITICJL BALLADS. 1678. Titus, who faw the world o'er, From the tower of Valladolid, ^' Yet flood in the White-Horfe door*. And fwore to it like a creed. Titus at Wotton in May, To Titus at Iflington ; And Titus the felf-fame day, Both here and there again. Titus, who never fwore truth. His politic plots to maintain. And never yet baulked an oath. When call'd to the teft again. Then Titus was meekeft of all. When never a penny in 's purfe. And oft did on Pickering f call, His charity to imburfe. But when he fwore damnable oaths. And lying efteem'd no fm. Then Titus was one of thofe Whom the Devil had enter'd in. * Alluding to the White Horfe tavern, in the Strand, where Oates fwore the Jefuits concerted their " plot." f Thomas Pickering, a Roman Catholic prieft, and one of the earlieft viftims of Oates' perjury, notwithftanding the fact of his having oftentimes befriended him in his poverty. 1678. CHARLES II. 209 Then Titus the frown of heaven, And Titus, a plague upon earth ; Titus, who'll ne'er be forgiven, Curf 'd from his fatal birth ; Titus, the curfe and the doom Of the rich and the poor man too — O Titus, thouy^ri?*^ of a loom*^ What a plague doft thou mean to do ? Titus an orthodox beaft. And Titus a Prefbyter tall ; Titus a Popifh prieft, And Titus the fhame of them all f ; Titus, who ne'er had the fkill. The wife with his plots to deceive ; But Titus whofe tongue % can kill, Whom nature has made a Have. Titus, the light of the town, Where zealots and Whigs co-refort ; * Alluding to the mean origin of Gates, whofe father was originally a ribbon-weaver, but afterwards an Anabaptift preacher. -f- Gates had miniftered fuccefTively in the churches of England and Rome, and amongft the Baptifts, with whom he finally re- mained. J A punning allufion to Dr. Ezrael Tonge, who had the credit of having inftru6led and qualified Gates for his defperate under- taking. The doftor, however, was the firft to reveal the " plot " to the government. VOL. I. P 210 POLITICAL BALLADS. 1678. Titus, the fhame of the gown, And Titus the fcorn of the Court* ; Titus who fpew'd out the truth. To fwallow the Covenant, But never yet blufh'd at an oath. Whom lying has made a faint. Yet Titus believ'd could be Againft any popifh lord, While ftill againft Shaftefbury The witnefs and truth's abhorr'd : So Titus got credit and gold f For lying, and thought it no fm ; * The King had from the beginning looked upon the Popifh plot difcoverers as little better than impoftors. ■f- Parliament fettled a penfion of 500/. fer ann. upon Oates, \ which was fubfequently increafed to 1200/. as well as provided him \ with apartments in the palace of Whitehall. His luccefs in the reign of Charles is humoroufly contrafted with his too tardy punifhment in that of James, in the following ftanzas from a contemporary Scotch — ballad: " Sic a trade as Titus drave. As Titus drave, as Titus drave, When thefe three nations he did fave, He'll never drive again, jo. " Ten pounds a-week he did receive, And muckle mair the godly gave. And there was nought but aik and have. The like was never feen, jo. " But to Tyburn Titus trigs, In company o' th' godly Whigs, To dance and fmg Geneva jigs. And there's an end o' him, jo." 1678. CHARLES 11. 211 But ao;ainft Diflenters bold The truth is not worth a pin. Thus Titus fvvore on a-pace 'Gainft thofe whom he never did fee ; Yet Titus with brazen face, Would our preferver be : But Titus, the foreman in truft, Difcover'd this myftery. May Titus fo be the firft That leads to the triple-tree. p 2 212 POLITICAL BALLADS. 1678. — INFORMATION. [This ballad likewife refers to the Popifh-plot mania, and was fuo-gefted, no doubt, by the over-zealous " addrefs of the Lords fpiritual and temporal," to the King, in which they prayed his Majefty to iffue a proclamation to the effeft " that if any perfon or perfons fhall, before the 25th day of December next [1678], make any further difcovery of the late horrid defigns againft his Majefty's - facred perfon and government, . . . (hall not only receive /or e'very fuck difco'very the reward of 200/.," but, whether principal or not in the faid defign, " fliall have his Majefty's gracious pardon." The very day on which this extraordinary proclamation was iffued. Gates and his co-jurors proceeded fo far as to accufe the Queen herfelf before the Privy Council !] To the tune of " Conventicles are gro^Mn fo brief'' NFORMING of late is a notable trade : For he that his neighbor intends to invade, May pack him to Tyburn, no more's to be faid ; Such power hath information. Be good and be juft, and fight for your King, Or ftand for your country's honor. And you're fure by precife information to fwing, Such fpells fhe hath got upon her. 1678. CHARLES 11. 213 To fix hundred and fixty from forty-one, She left not a bifhop or clergyman, But compell'd both Church and State to run By the ftrength of the Nonconformift. The dean and chapter, the fceptre and crown, (The lords and commons fnarling) By bleft information came tumbling down ; Fair fruits of an over-long parling. 'Twas this that fummon'd the bodkins all. The thimbles and fpoons to the City-hall, — When St. Hugh* to the babes of grace did call. To prop up the Caufe that was fmking : This made the cobler take the fword. The pedlar, and the weaver ; By the pow'r of the fpirit, and not by the word, Made the tinker wear cloak and beaver. 'Tis information from Valladolid f Makes jefuits, monks, and friars bleed ; Decapitates lords, and what not, indeed. Doth fuch damnable information ? It cities burnt, and ftuck not to boaft. Without any finning or fcruple, Of forty thoufand black bills by the poft Brought in by the devil's pupil. * Hugh Peters, the celebrated preacher in the days of the Com- monwealth. f Vide the preceding ballad. p 3 214 POLITICAL BALLADS. 1678. This imp, with her jealoufies and fears, Sets all men together by the ears, Strikes at religion, and kingdoms tears. By voting againft the brother* : This makes abhorrers, makes lords proteft, They know not why nor wherefore ; This ftrikes at fucceflion, but aims at the reft ; Pray look about you therefore. This raifeth armies in the air, Imagining more than you need have to fear, Keeps horfe under ground, and armies to tear The cities and towns in funder. 'Twas this made the knight to Newark run. With \\\% fidus Achates behind him ; Who brought for the father one more like the fon. The devil and zeal did fo blind him. It ftrips, it whips, it hangs, it draws, It pillories alfo without any caufe. By falfely informing the judges and laws. By a trick from Salamanca : This hurly-burlies all the town. Makes Smith and Harris prattle. Who fpare neither caflbck, cloak, nor gown, In their paltry tittle-tattle. * Alluding to the daily increafing oppofition to the fucceflion of the Duke of York. 1678. CHARLES II. 215 'Tis information affrights us all, By information we ftand or fall, Without information there's no plot at all. And all is but information. That Pickering flood in the Park with a gun, «— • And Godfrey by Berry was ftrangled ; 'Twas by information fuch ftories began, Which the nation fo much have entangled. 2i6 POLITICAL BALLADS. 1679. ON THE LORD CHANCELLOR'S SPEECH TO PARLIAMENT. [This ballad was fuggefted by the fpeech of the Earl of Shaftf- bury, when he made his memorable motion in the Lords for a com- mittee of the whole Houfe " to confider the ftate of the nation," V, 25th March, 1679, a period charafterifed above all others for alleged plots and confpiracies, which kept the public mind in an unparal- leled ftate of ferment. The fpeech (of which, it is said, 30,000 copies were printed and circulated a few days after it was delivered) was aimed againft the romanizing tendencies of the Court, and led to the adoption of Sir William Temple's ftrange plan of government by a permanent council of thirty.] OULD you fend Kate * to Portugal, Great James f to be a Cardinal, And make Prince Rupert Admiral, This is the time. Would you turn Danby % out of doors, Banifli rebels and French wh , The worfer fort of common fhores ; This is the time. * Katharine, Infanta of Portugal, and Queen of Charles II. f James, Duke of York, brother to the King. X The Earl of Danby was at this time extremely obnoxious to Shaftlbury and the anti-court party, and, defpite the King's efforts to fhleld him, was compelled to fly his country to efcape the vengeance of his political opponents. i679.' CHARLES 11. 217 Would you exalt the mighty name Of Shaftfbury and Buckingham *, And not forget Judge Scroggs f his fame, This is the time. Would you our Sovereign difabufe, And make his Parliament of ufe, Not to be changed like dirty {hoes, This is the time. Would you extirpate pimps and panders, Difband the reft of our Commanders, Send Mulgrave after Teague to Flanders, This is the time. Would you remove our minifters. The curfed caufe of all our fears. Without forgetting turn-coat Meres :j:, . This is the time. * Both thefe noblemen not only fought for and obtained the freedom of the city of London, but alfo afpired to the higheft offices in it. Shaftfbury was pleafed to be addreffed by his fobriquet of " the alderman." -f- Sir William Scroggs, the infamous Lord Chief Juftice of the King's Bench. X Henry Booth, fon of the firft Lord de la Mere, created, in 1690, Earl of Warrington. 2i8 POLITICAL BALLADS. 1679. Would you once more blefs this nation, By changing of Portfmouth's * vocation, And find one fit for procreation. This is the time. Would you let Portfmouth try her chance, ■ Believe Oats, Bedloe, Dugdale, Prance f. And fend Barillon % into France, This is the time. Would you turn Papifts from the Queen, Cloifter up fulfome Mazarine §, Once more make Charles great again, This is the time. * Louife de Queroualle, Duchefs of Portfmouth, the miftrefs of the King, and the reputed fpy of Louis XIV. f Bedloe and Dugdale were joint witneffes with Gates to the alleged Popifh plot of 1678-9, and Prance was fufpected of having murdered Sir Edmondbury Godfrey, 12th Oct. 1678. X Barillon was the French ambaffador to the Court of England. § The Duchefs of Mazarine, who came to England in 1675, and was thought to have been fent hither to fupplant the Duchefs of Portfmouth in the confidence and affections of the King. 1679. CHJRLES 11. 219 A NEW SATIRICAL BALLAD OF THE LICENTIOUSNESS OF THE TIMES. [This ballad, manifeftly written by a partizan of the Court, gives but a very inadequate pifture of the period to which it refers. ■ " The moft loyal Parliament that ever met in England " (as it has been chara6leriled by the greateft of modern hiftorians), and which had been in exiftence ever lince the reftoration of Charles, was jull diflblved ; and new appeals were about to be made to the country, maddened beyond meafure by the mifgovernment of the King, and the abominable fiftions of Titus Gates and his coadjutors and rivals. The religious apoftacy of the higheft perfonages in the realm, the growing influence of the Roundhead party, and the prevailing fear of Popery, were fufficient to create that " licentioufnefs " of fpeech which the author of this ballad fo much deprecates.] To the tune of " The Blind Beggar of Bednall Green."'' i. HE Devil has left his puritanical drefs, And now like a hawker attends on the Prefs, That he might thro' the town fedition difperfe, In pamphlets and ballads, in profe and in verfe. 'Tis furely fo, for if the Devil wasn't in 't. There would not be fo many ftrange things in print ; Now each man writes what feems good in his eyes. And tells in bald rhymes his inventions and lies. 220 POLITICAL BALLADS. 1679. Some relate to the world their own caufelefs fears, Endeavoring to fet us together by the ears, They ftrive to make factions for two great commanders, Tho^ one be in Holland, the other in Flanders.* They haul and they yaul aloud thro' the whole town, The rights to fucceffion and claims to the Crown, And fnarling and grumbling like fools at each other, Raife contefts and factions betwixt fori and brother, f Here one doth on this fide his verfes oppofe. Up ftarts another and joufts with him in profe, On Rumour a jade, they get up, and mount her. And fo like Don Quixote with wind-mills encounter. Our fun is not fetting, it does not grow dark yet. The King is in health ftill, and gone to New-Market, Let then idle coxcombs leave off their debating. What either fide fays is uncommonly prating. Another tho' he be but a fenselefs widgion. Will, like an archbiftiop, determine religion : Whate'er his opinion is that muft be beft. And flrait he confutes, and confounds all the reft. * The Dukes of Monmouth and York ; the fiift of whom, upon his dirmiffal from the port; of Captahi-General, retired to Holland ; and the fecond, by defire of the King, departed with his family to Bruifels (March, 1678-9). j- Monmouth and York. i679- CHARLES 11. 221 I' the coffee-houfe here one with a grave face, When after falute, he hath taken his place, His pipe being lighted begins for to prate. And wifely difcourfes the affairs of the State. Another in fury the board ftrait does thump, And highly extols the bleft times of the Rump ; The Pope and all monarchs he fends to the devil, And up in their places he fets Harry Nevil.* Another who would be diftinguifh'd from cit, And fwearing G — d d — n me, to fhew him a wit, (Who for all his huffing one grain hath not got) Scoffs at all religion, and the Popifh Plot. One with an uncivil fatirical jeft, To be thought a wit, has a fling at the prieft, He jeers at his betters, and all men of note, From th' Alderman to the canonical coat. A politick citizen in his blew gown. As gravely in fhop he walks up and down, Inftead of attending the wares on his ftall. Is all day relating th' intrigues of Whitehall. * A confpicuous member of the Council of State appointed by the Parliament in 1659, who was oppofed to the reftoration of Charles. 222 POLITICAL BALLADS. 1679. And though to speak truth he be but a noddy, He'd have you to think that he is fomebody, With politic fhrug, e'vn as bad as a curie, He cries out, O ! the times, no mortal faw worfe. Then comes a wife knight as the whole city's fa6lor, Speaks prologue in profe, too grave for an a6i:or. And being fore frighted, in a learned fpeech. To ftand to their arms all the cits does befeech. The cobler in ftall, did you but hear him prate. You'd think that he fat at the helm of the State, His avv^l lay'd afide, and in right hand a pot, - He roundly rips up the foul of the Plot. But it is not enough to fee w^hat is paft. For thefe very men become prophets at laft. And w^ith the fame eyes can fee w^hat is meant. To be acted and done in the next Parliament. His worfliip so w^ife, vs^ho a kingdom can rule. Is now by dear wife at home made a fool ; For tho' he doth fee thro' dark mifts of the State, He can't fee the horns that fhe plants on his pate. The women, too, prate of the Pope and the Turk, Who fhould ceafe to play falfe, and 'tend to their work j But two noble virtues they 've attain'd to, I think. To handle State matters, and to take off their drink. i679. CHARLES II. 223 Petition the players to come on the ftage, There to reprefent the vice of the age, That people may fee in ftage looking-glafles Fools of all fortSj and their politic affes. And thus I have (hewn you the vice of the nation, Which wants of thefe things a through reformation ; But Vi^hen that will be I cannot determine, For plenty breeds vice, as foul bodies breed vermine. Men may prate and may write, but 'tis not their rhimes, That can any way change, or alter the times ^ It is now grown an epidemical difeafe, For people to talk and to write what they pleafe. God blefs our good King who our little world rules, And is not difturb'd at the a6lion of fools ; It very much helps a wife man's melancholy To fee and obferve, and to laugh at their folly. 224 POLITICAL BALLADS. 1679. < GENEVA AND ROME; OR, THE ZEAL OF BOTH BOILING OVER : In an earneft difpute for pre-eminence carried on at a private conference between yack-a-P re/by ter and Bel'ieve-all-P ap'ijl . Now printed for public fatisfaSiion. [Oates' and Bedloe's aftounding revelations of Popifh plots in the fbuth, increafing with the growth of the popular credulity, and the doubtful ifTue of the war which was being profecuted againft the Covenanters in the north, kept the public mind in a perpetual ftate of agitation and alarm during the whole of the year 1679. -^'"g Charles was compelled to banifh his Popifh brother, James Duke of York, from the Court, in order to reaffure his panic-ftricken people, whom he had good reafon to fear might again throw off their alle- giance to him, and involve the country in civil ftrife. The author of the following loyal ballad, whilft affefting to contemn both Papifts and Prefbyterians, expofes in turn their refpective malprac- tices in the two former reigns, and infmuates that they are equally ready to repeat them in the event of once more gaining the afcen- dancy in England.] ACK Prefbyter and the fons of the Pope Had a late difpute of the right of the Rope Who'd merit hanging without any trope ; Which nobody can deny. 1679. CHARLES II. 225 Firft Jack held forth, and bid him remember, The horrible plot on the Fifth of November ^ The very month preceding December ; Which nobody, &:c. The thirtieth offanuary^ th' other reply'd, We heard oft at Rome, which can't be deny'd. Had Jack been loyal, then Charles had not dy'd j Which nobody, &c. Then John cry'd out, D d Jefuit, thou ly'ft, I only appear'd for the Lord Jefus Chrift, Which thou, as a merit-monger, deny'ft ; Which nobody, &c. The Powder treafon, oh ! horrible plot — Why, prithee Jack Prefbyter, be not fo hot. For Charles was kill'd, and Jemmy was not ; Which nobody, &c. Then Prefbyter John his zeal was inflam'd. And now I find it I'll make thee afham'd. If fo, prithee Jack, let the Cov'nant be nam'd ; Which nobody, &:c. Why the Covenant named ? 'tis found on record To be an Old and New Teftament word. As I prov'd to Charles by text and by fword ; Which nobody, &c. VOL. I. (^ 226 POLITICAL BALLADS. 1679. Thou prove it to Charles ? impertinent Afs, What thou defign'dft old Noll brought to pafs, And then, like a beaft, he turn'd thee to grafs ; Which nobody, &c. A truce ! a truce ! quoth Prefbyter Jack, We both love treafon as Loyalifts fack, And if either prevails the King goes to wrack ; Which nobody, &c. The Bifliops tell Charles we both have long nails. And Charles fhall find it if either prevails, For, like Sampfon's foxes, we're ty'd by the tails ; Which nobody, &c. The Jefuits, and the brats of John Knox, Both vifited Europe with the French — , By the means of Loyola and Calvin the fox ; Which nobody, &c. (■<^^c^ i68o. CHARLES 11. 227 THE LOYAL TORIES DELIGHT; OR, A PILL FOR FANATICS. [This Court effufion was fuggefted by the perfevering and un- fcrupulous endeavours on the part of the Lord Chancellor Shaftefbury to change the fuccefTion to the Crown, in favour of the Duke of Monmouth, to the exclufion of the Duke of York.] RE AT York has been debar'd of late*, From Court by fome accurfed fate ; But ere long we do not fear, TVe Jhall have him, TVe Jhall have him, have him here. — ■ The makers of the Plot we fee, By d — d old Tony's f treachery, How they would have brought it about. To have given great York the rout ; 'To have given, &'c. * The Duke, by defire of the King, had withdrawn from the country (3rd March, 1678-9); and a few months after his return (24.th Feb. 1680) was fent to Scotland. f Anthony A(hley Cooper, Earl of Shaftefbury, who profecuted the Duke as a Popifli recufant (i 6th June, 16S0), and fupported the Exclufion Bill, which was rejefted by the Lords after its paffage through the Commons. 0.2 228 POLITICAL BALLADS. 1680. God preferve our gracious King, And fafe tidings to us bring, Defend us from the Jham black box *, And all d — d fanatic plots. And all, tsfc. Here's Charles' health I drink to thee, And wifh him all profperity ; God grant that he long time may reign. To bring us home great York again ; To bring us home, &c. That he in fpite of all his foes. Who loyalty and laws oppofe. May long remain in health and peace, TVhilJi plots and plotters all Jh all ceafe ; Whilji plots, ^c. Let Whigs t go down to Erebus, And not ftay here to trouble us, * Shaftefbury, to fupport the regal pretenfions of his friend the Duke of Monmouth, propagated rumours that the King only- denied his marriage with the Duke's mother (Lucy Walters) from pride ; that the witnefles to the ceremony were ftill in exiftence, and that the contraft itfelf, " enclofed in a black box/' had been en- trufted by the late Bifliop of Durham to the cuftody of his fon-in- law, who had it ready to produce whenever Parliament required him to do fo. f The Whigs had uniformly, up to this period, refilled the claims of the Romanifts, and let flip no opportunity of perfecuting them j the Tories, on the other hand, had always befriended them. i68o. CHARLES 11. • 229 With noify cant and needlefs fear, Of ills to come they know not where^ Of ills to come, iffc. When our chief trouble they create, For plain we fee what they be at ; Could they but push great York once down, They'd next attempt to fnatch the Crown ; They'd next attempt, iffc. But Heaven preferve our gracious King, May all good fubjecSls loudly fing ; And Royal James preferve likewife, From fuch as do againft him rife. From fuch as do, &c. Then come again, fill round our glafs, And loyal Tories let it pafs ; Fill up, fill up, unto the brim, And let each bowl with ne£lar fwim. And let each boivl, iffc. Though Cloakmen that feem much precife, 'Gainft wine exclaim, with turn'd up eyes, Yet in a corner they'll be drunk, With drinking healths unto the RuMP ; With drinking healths, &c. 161. Forbes, Lord, 24. General, The, 108 {^Jee Cromwell, Oliver). Gerrard, the "Generous," 233. Glynn, Serjeant John, 40, 41. Godfrey, Sir Edmundbury, 207, 215. Gregory, the Hangman, 99. Gwynne, Eleanor, 235 [Jee Nell.) Hampden, John, 42. Hangman, Wcficrn {fee Jeffreys, Lord Chief Juftice). Harlow (i.e. Harley) Colonel Edward, 41. Harrifon, Major-General, 113. Haflerigg, Sir Arthur, loi, 127, 130, 142, 143, 148. Herbert, Admiral William, 271 [fee Powis, Earl of) Hewfon, Colonel, 66, 88, 116, 127, 145. Holms, Sir Robert, 195. Honey wood, Sir Thomas, 137. Hollis, Denzil, 40. Hotham, Sir John, 56. Hoyle, Alderman, 131. Hyde, 183 {fee Clarendon, Earl of) Ingleby, Lady Anne, 25. Ireton, Alderman, 128. Leton, Colonel, 145. Jeffreys, Lord Chief Juftice, 258 (fee Hangman, Wefiern!) Jenkins, Judge David, 50. Jones, Mr. Juftice, 241. Katharine, Queen of Charles IL, 216. Kent, Countefs of, 46. Killigrew, Thomas, 190. Kipps, 181. Lamb, Dr. 5, 18. Lambert, Colonel John, 67, 142, I45, 147, 148. Laud, Archbiftiop, 3, 13, 21. Lauderdale, Duke of, 193. Lenthall, William, 91, loi, II9, 127. Leopold, Emperor of Auftria, 245. Leflie, Bifhop, 182. Lewis, Sir William, 41. Lobb, Stephen, 256, 258. Long, Walter, 42. Lorrain, Duke of, 247. Louis XIV., 200, 245. Macdonnel, 259. Madge, S^ueen, 135 '{fee Cromwell, Joan). ^ Manchefter, Earl of, 47. Martin, Henry, 45, 49, 50, 69, 102, 130, Marvel, Andrew, 177, 181, 190,193, 231. TO THE FIRST VOLUME. 283 Maynard, Sir John, 41. Mildmay, Sir Henry, 45, 127. Monk, General, 142, 148, 153, 154, 157, 158, 171. Monmouth, Duke of, 220, 227, 233, 272. Moore, Alderman Sir John, 236. Morley, 181, Mounfon, Sir William, 1 30. Mulgrave, Earl of, 217. Needham, Marchmont, 19, 24, 26, 73. Nell, 187 [fie Gwynne, Eleanor). Nevill, Henry, 221. Nichols, Anthony, 42. Nol,King, 94, 115, 135, 139, 145, 160, 170 [fee Cromwell, Oliver). North, Dudley, 236, 237, 240. Northumberland, Duke of, 61. Gates, Titus, 207, 208, 212, 218, 224, 244, 251 (fee TeUtroth, Titus). Okey, Colonel, 66. Oliver, 93, loi, 102 [fee Cromwell, Oliver). O'Neil, Phelim, 259. Opdam, Admiral, 194. Ormonde, Duke of, 193. Pack, Alderman Sir Chriftopher, 135. Papillon, 236, 239. Parker, Martin, the Ballad writer, 10. Penn, William, 256, 258. Pepys, Samuel, 181, 190. Peters, Hugh, 115, 141, 213. Petre, Father Edward, 256, 258. Pickering, Thomas, 208, 215. Player, Sir Thomas, 187. Pond, the Aftrologer, 10. Pope, Walter, 261. Portfmouth, Duchefs of, 218 [fee Car- well and Queroualle). Powis, Earl of, 270 [fee Herbert, Wil- liam). Prance, 218. Pride, Colonel, 66, 136, 145. Prymato, Jofiah, 101. Prynne, William, 34. Pulton, Andrew, 259. Pym, John, 22, 26, 42, 63, 72. Queroualle, Louife de, 197 (^e-tf Carwell, and Portfmouth, Duchefs of). Rich, Colonel, 65. Rivers, the Aftrologer, 10. Robinfon, Luke, 127. Rochefter, John Wilmot, Earl of, 190, 194. Rupert, Prince, 216, Say and Sale, Lord, 34. Sandwich, Earl of, 196. Saunders, Lord Chief Juftice, 241. Saxby, 87. Scroggs, Lord Chief Juftice, 217. Sedgwick, William, 126. Selden, John, 46. Shafteftjury, Earl of, 21 7, 228, [fee Dagon and Tony). Skippon, Major General, 128. SmeSJymnus, 129. Sobiefki, John, King of Poland, 245, 247. Spragg, Sir Edward, 195, Sjtiab, Poet-Laureate [fee Dryden). Staines, 67. Stapleton, Sir Philip, 40. Strafford, Earl of, 8, 129. Strickland, Walter, 136. Stroud, 42. Sunderland, Robert Spencer, Earl of, 273. Swallow, the Aftrologer, 10. 284 INDEX OF NAMES TO THE FIRST VOL. TeUtrotk, Titus, 207 ( fee Gates, Titus). Thomond, Earl of, 24. Thurloe, 122. Tichbourne, Sir Robert, 128. Titus, Colonel, 184. Tonge, Dr. Ezrael, 209. Tony, 227, 249 [fee Shaftelbury, Earl of). Tyler, M'tlch, 279 {fee Wales, Prince of). Tyrconnel, Richard Talbot, Earl of, 259, 275. XVane, Sir Harry, 45, 50, 103, 145, 154, 161. Vyner, Sir Robert, 185, 186, 189, 197. Ufher, Archbifliop, 71. Wales, Prince of, 274 ( fee Tyler, Milch). Walter, Sir William, 41. Ward, Sir Patience, 244. Watfon, 67. Wharton, Marquis of, 275, 279. Whitelock, Bulftrode, 91. Williams, Dr., ArchbliTiop of York, 8. Windebanke, Sir Francis, 17. Worftenholm, 182. Wortley, Sir Francis, 40. Wray, Sir John, 45. Wren, 181. Wren, Dr. Matthew, Bifliop of Ely, 4, 17, 18, York, Archbifliop of {fee Williams). 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