Cunningham,

Peter, untrustworthy
(the fabricator of the interpolations
in Shakespeare Society transcripts
of the Dulwich College Alleyne
papers, etc.), 979.
Cupid, woodcut mentioned, 479; given
near end of this book, on p. 1021.
Curran, John Philpott, accredited with
authorship of certain Irish ballads,
415.

Curtis, Jane, gets into trouble for
publishing Stephen College's libel
entitled Scroggs upon Scroggs,"
928. See College, S.
Curtis, Langley, libel-publisher, 2nd
Div. xv, xvi, 711, 927.

D. (I.), ballad-writer, various names

reviewed, 514, 515. See Drope.
D. (J.), the initials of Jonah Deacon,
ballad-publisher, 341.

D. (N.), attempt to identify these
initials, 240.

Dalrymple, Sir John, his account sup-
planted by Macaulay's, 117.
Danby (Thomas Osborne), Earl of,
assailed by the Shaftesbury faction,
660, 689, 696; his career, impeach-
ment, and character, 754, 755, 766,
768.

Dangerfield, Thomas, 663, 685, 703;
pilloried and whipt, 704; his death,
704; his ghost complains, 709;
styled Don Dangerfeldo, in Loyal
Song, 2nd Div. xv; untrustworthy,
880.

Daniel (George), of Beswick, his lines

on Ben Jonson. 852.

Daniel (George), of Canonbury, his col-

lection of ballads divided, Introd. VII.
Dante Aligheri, his rebuke of the im-
modesty shown by the Florentine
ladies, 124.

Davenant, Dr. Charles, his opera of
"Circe," 506.

Davis, Mary, actress of Celania, Introd.

LXXVIII.

Davis, William, the Golden Farmer,

highwayman, 232, 2nd Div. xvii.
Deacon, John, ballad-publisher and
turncoat, 433, 2nd Div. xxi, 590,
609, 941, et passim.

Dear Joy's Lamentation, The, 73.
Decameron, Boccaccio's Novello venti-
cinque, 527; the book suppressed,
714.

Decker, Thomas, 402; his name ac-
cidentally by error introduced in-
stead of John Webster's, 795, 801;
his "Gvls Horne-Booke,' 1609,
to be edited by J. W. E. for the
New Shakspere Society, 853; his
squabbles with Ben Jonson, 853.
Defence of Londonderry, over-rated,
422, 971, 972; its history, 423.
Defoe, Daniel, 239, 787, 830, 836,
1007.

Delaval, Sir Ralph, 279, 293, 298.
Dell, cant word for a maiden beggar,
192, 879.

Deloney, Thomas, his "Gentle Craft,"
Introd. LVIII, 61; his "Jack of
Newbury," 64; his "Garland of
Good Will," 224.
Dendermond, battle of, 386.
Denham, Sir John, 736, 737, 769.
Deptford (Buxom Joan of), Congreve's
song, 29; the four wives with their
plum-cake there, 70.

Derbyshire, Singing Sam of, Introd.

XLVIII.

Derrick, the hangman, in 1647, 778.
[In A Strappado for the Deuill, 1615,
by Richard Brathwait, p. 151, “A
Satyre called the Coniborrowe," he
mentions certain roaring-boyes who

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are forc'd in the end a dolefull
Psalme to sing,-Going to Heauen
by Derrick in a string.' It was an
understood allusion. Similarly, we
have "Take 'em Derrick!" which
seems to have been a burden, on
our p. 778.]

Dibdin, Charles, his excellent sea-
songs, 108; his "Waterman,"
quoted, 254; his "Shipwrecked
Tar," quoted, 299; his son, Thomas
Dibdin, probable author of "Beggars
and Ballad-Singers," here given,
214; and, certainly, of
bipeds," etc., quoted, 748.
Dibdin, Dr. Thomas Frognall, his
"Bibliomania" account of John
Bagford, quoted in Contents of

Div. I.

We

Dorset, Charles, 6th Earl of, early
compromises Nell Gwynn, 615;
his song, "To all you Ladies now
at land," ibid.

Dorsetshire Farmer, ballad on the
cruel, Introd. xx.

Dory, John, an old ballad, 804.
Double comparative, exemplified, 490.
Douce, Francis, his collection and
works, Introd. XV, XXVIII, 934,
966, 1018 to 1022; his illustrations
of the Pillory, 1011 to 1014.
Doxies, female beggars of immoral
life, 190, 943. Compare Dell,

Mort.

Drayton, Michael, styled the Swan of
Avon, 905.

Drive away the cart! 896.
Drolleries of the Restoration. See,
respectively, Bristol Drollery, Choyce
D., Grammatical D., Merry D.,
Oxford D., Sportive Wit, West-
minster D., and Wit and Drollery.
Drolls, at Bartholomew Fair, 23, 121,
125.

Dryden, John, first appearance of his

"Absalom and Achitophel," during
the excitement preceding Shaftes-
bury's trial, 95; parts of the poem
quoted, 780, 794; his "Miscellany
Poets," including many issued after
his death, 101; his songs not indi-
vidually assorted to the characters,
496; his comedies and projected
epic, 498; Scott's lines on it, 807;
attacked as the Renegado Poet,
Introd. XIII; pleads for himself to
Congreve, 808; his popularity, 883;
his jests on matrimony, 905; his
song, on coveting one's neighbour's
wife, 497; on the Popish Plot, 691;
on the Nonconformists' greed, 735;
on a certain dog that was judicially
hanged, 736; on Tom Thynne of
Longleat, 772; on the Hatfield
maid, 786.

Dubois, John (with Thomas Papillon,
or Papillion, the two Whig candi-
dates for the London Shrievalty,
1682), for whom a contest was
Inaintained by Pilkington and Shute,
etc., in resistance of Dudley North
and Ralph Box, being elected, 97,
487, 488. Box was styled "an old
malignant brother," being a warm
Tory, but paid forfeit, and Peter
Rich took his place, 487.

Dugdale, Stephen, Plot-witness, 97,
663, 677, 680, 689.

Dun, "Squire," the hangman, 12, 460,
778.

Dunkirk, saluting Queen Catharine,

635; sold to King Lewis XIV., ibid.
Dunmow Flitch of Bacon, text and
note, 895.

D'Urfé, Honoré, author of Astrée, 87.
D'Urfey, Thomas, his " ' Choice New
Songs," 77; his reply, in "The
Campaigners," to Jeremy Collier,
86; editor of late editions of Play-
ford's "Wit and Mirth, or Pills
to Purge Melancholy," 86; in
a blooming old age, 87; his plays,
songs, and epitaph, 87, 89; in
favour with Charles II., 88; lam-
pooned by Tom Brown, 88, 809;
his good-humoured indifference to
assailants, 89; his "True Satire,"
quoted, 150; his Anglo-Scotch
songs adopted in Scotland, and
continue popular, 17, 89; his Spin-
ning-wheel song, 277; his "Capon-
ides," 740; the old songster gladly
welcomed here, 89; his Winchester
Wedding and Christening, 763, 919
(woodcut of the former ballad faces
our p. 469); his other songs, 766,
933, etc; on clipping coin, 522; on
the Turks defeated, 591.
Dutch and English fleet combined
against that of James II., 279;
Dutchmen always disliked by the
English, 367; Billy the Dutch-
man," effectively coloured for his
birthday levée, 414 to 417. See
Butter-Boxes, and Hoegan-Mogan.
Duval, Claude, his highway adventures
and literary celebrity, 10 to 13, 557;
his coranto, 13; his apocryphal
tomb, 107; his "Last Farewell"
not written by him, 2nd Div. xvii.
Dyer, Mary, one of the Society of
Friends, murdered in cold blood by
the New England Independents,
727.
Dynevor Rights, a feudal relic, in
Carmarthenshire, Introd. XXVII.
Dwindle = deceive, or swindle, and
dwindler = a deceiver, 494.
Dwine = wither or pine away, as in the
diseased condition called marasmus,
or emaciation, 494. [Dwine seems,
with dwinge, to mean shrivel or waste
away like the melting of snow.]

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Ferguson, Robert, the "Judas" of
Dryden, 782, 803, 810, 820, 1005.
Finch, Anne, one of the Finches five,
619. [N.B. Not Anne, Countess
of Winchelsea, the poetess par
excellence, who died in 1720; was a
Kingsmill by birth (daughter of Sir
Richard), and a Finch by marriage,
her husband being Heneage Finch,
fourth Earl of Winchelsea. The
Lady Anne of p. 619 was a Finch
ab ovo. More Finches flutter through
the Civil War ballads, forthcoming.
Portrait of one, denuded of his
wings, on p. 517; see p. 984.]
Finch, Heneage, Solicitor for the
Crown, 487, 839.

Finch, Heneage, member for Oxford,
833. See the two previous notes,
and p. 1052.

Fire of London, in 1666, falsely

Fraser, J., a Licenser of the Press,
=Catalogue Fraser, 1689-91, 712.
Frederick, Prince of Wales (father of
George III.), 622; his Epitaph, by
a Jacobite Lady, ibid.

Freeman, Elizabeth, the Maid of
Hatfield, 98, 100, 786, 790, 927,
928.

Fritazier, or American-Indian Prophet,
730.

Fuller, Thomas, quoted, 1025; his
"Profane State," 548.

Furnivall, Fred. J., 33; as Director
of the Ballad Society, Introd. VII;
his edition of Harrison's Descrip-
tion of England in 1577, for N.S.S.,
173; his (with J. W. Hales) edition
of the Percy Folio MS., 312, 845;
his Capt. Cox, see Laneham.

ADBURY, John, supposed author

Beggars, 190, 213.

Fitzharris, Edward, his mysterious
intrigue, 751; trial and execution,
821, 843.

Flecknoe, Richard, a playwright, 644.
Fleet-ditch, described by Pope, and
by Swift, 57.

Fletcher, John, his "Beggars'-Bush,"
192; his "Monsieur Thomas,
Introd. XXI, 224, 239; his "Lay a
Garland," quoted, 538; his "Hence
all you vain delights," 891.
Flyting (i.e. railing) between Dunbar

and Kennedy, in Bannatyne MS.,
and Allan Ramsay's "Evergreen,'
167.

Foe, Daniel, 239, etc. See Defoe.
Fop-Monarch=James Scott, Duke of
Monmouth, 2nd Div. xv. Compare
Loyal Songs, 1685, p. 191, and art.
Monmouth.

Forbes, John, his "Aberdeen Cantus"
re-issue of " Songs and Fancies,"

of the Popish-Plot Ballad, 666,
685; arrested, 703; scandals about
him and Mrs. Cellier (who had pre-
viously been accused of intimacy
with Dangerfield), 709, 880; at-
tacked by Partridge in "Nebulo
Anglicanus," 1015.

Gainsborough, Thomas, his Musidora,

137; a rough sketch of it, 132.
Game, "I'll play a small game," 602.
Gardiner, Samuel Rawson, his Eng-
land under Charles I., quoted; on
Rhé, 640; on Felton, 739.
Garland (The Golden) of Princely
Delight, 361.

Garland (The Loyal), imperfectly re-
produced, 514.

Garland (The Royal) of Protestant
Delight, 377, 378, 380.
Garlands and Chap-Books, Introd.
XLIV, LV, LVII.

Garnish, payment demanded from
prisoners, for their "footing" and
on pretence of being fees, 207.
Gauden, Dr. John, 712.
Gawen, John, a Jesuit, 681, 688, 696.
Gay, John, 17; his "Beggars Opera,"
13, 202, 233, 234, 239; his " "Polly'
(the sequel to it), 233; his Black-
eyed Susan, 272; his "What d'ye
Call It" ballad, ibid.; visit to Allan
Ramsay, in Edinburgh, 17.
Gayton, Edmund, 633, 637, 794.
Gazette a room for espial, or Belle-
vue, 503.

387, 621; his mother imprisoned
for life, 624; a modern epigram on
"dapper George," ibid.; the two
earliest Georges grossly licentious
in their amours, 172, 871.
George the Tapster, of accommodating
disposition, 465.

Gerald, a Jesuit, accused by Miles
Prance, 991.

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Gerard (Lord?) of Brandon, 796.
Gerard, Sir Gilbert, 775, 786.
German Princess Mary Carlton,
verses on her, 309, 310.
Germ-theory of disease clearly an-
nounced in Bagford poem, 38.
Gerrard, Colonel John, Cavalier, 795,
796.

Gilbert, J. T., his "History of Dublin,”
quoted, 414, 415.
Gilderoy's capture attributed to treach-
ery, 104; his place of execution
precisely determined by tradition,
104; his reputed robbery of Crom-
well shown to be a false charge,
and other outrages apocryphal, ibid.
Gildon, Charles, on the writings of
Charles Blount, 761, 762.
Gillore (commonly printed "galore"
in later days) plenty, 299.
Gipsies, tramps, and beggars, 189 to
199; editor's experience of them,
193, 194; their weddings and ways,
209 to 218, 872 to 879, 942 to 947.
Girn to grin, or twitch the mouth
open spasmodically, 738.

=

Glasgerion, the harper and minstrel,
Introd. XLII.

Glastonbury, Somersetshire, wonders
near, 63.

Glencoe, Massacre of, connived at by
William III., and beyond extenua-
tion, 303.

Gloucester, Cobblers of, 654.
Gloucester, Thomas Cooke, the butcher
of, executed, 54.

God save the King, 295. [Since our
final page was printed, and the
Appendix arranged, Lord Houghton
and still smaller persons, who know

nothing about the matter, have
vented their opinions on the question
of the authorship. Mr. William
Chappell had long before determined
the answer, so far as is now possible,
in favour of Henry Carey.]
Godden, Dr., treasurer of the Queen's
Chapel, Somerset House, 679, 689
(line 53 of ballad).

Godfrey, Sir Edmond Bury, or
Edmondbury, murdered, after hav-
ing taken Oates's deposition, 588,
668; his body found at Primrose
Hill, Introd. LXXVIII, 667, 668,
670, 671; trial of his supposed
murderers, 664, 676, 702; himself
believed to be friendly to the
Catholics, 991.

Godolphin, Sydney, on Tacking a
different bill on to a money bill,
when sending it up to the Lords,
827; one of "The Chits," or un-
fledged statesmen. See Lory.
Golden Farmer, an interesting psycho-
logical study, 241, 242.

Good ale, verses on. 28. [One original
in Harleian MS. 541, fol. 214 verso,
and a better version in a 15th century
MS., formerly belonging to the late
Thomas Wright, and printed by him
for the Percy Society, in No. LXXIII,
October, 1847. It is on p. 63, facing
the music-notes of a "Nowell."]
Goodfellow, Robin, a ballad on him,
ascribed to Ben Jonson, 147.
Good-fellow's Advice, The, a ballad,
by Charles Records, 4.
Gordon, Lord George, the result of
his Protestant zeal, and his No-
Popery crusade, 585.

Gosson, Stephen, the fanatic, his

"Pleasant Quippes against new-
fangled Gentlewomen," quoted, 124.
Gouge, E., his portrait of Tom
D'Urfey, and his verses upon him,
87.

Grafton, Duke of (son of the Duchess
of Cleveland), on friendly terms with
William of Orange, 716; mortally
wounded at siege of Cork, 324; the
burlesque epitaph on him, ibid.
Grammatical Drollery, 904.
Grammont, The Count de, his memoirs
of the Court of Charles II., by
Count Anthony Hamilton, 597, 711,
805, 898, etc.; attempted suppres-
sion of them, 714.