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head, 743; The Loyal Health, 750;
on the Parliament removing to
Oxford, 772; Monmouth degraded,
781;

Pluto's entertainment of Alger-
non Sidney, 784; a Narrative of
the Old Plot, 785, 881; No Pro-
testant Plot (mentioning the Army
in the air, and the Hatfield Vision),
786; A New Song, on the Visit to
Court (in 120 Loyal Songs, p. 130),
795 to 797; Oates's Boarding-School
at Camberwell, and the Loyal Con-
quest, 799, 881; on Monmouth,
Russell, and Johnson's Julian the
Apostate, 881; on the Siege of
Buda, 965; Colonel Sidney's
Lamentation, 1004; The Newcastle
Associators, 1005. Other Collec-
tions of Loyal Songs, 2 vols. 1731,
330; single vol. (Jacobite), 1750,
1767, and 1779, 295.

Luck of Eden-Hall, ballad on the,
391.
Luckenbooths (a row of small shops
in the High Street, formerly stand-
ing near St. Giles's, Edinburgh),
Allan Ramsay's shop in the, 17.
Lusty Lawrence. See Lawrence.
Luttrell, Narcissus, his Brief History
quoted in Pref. Notice to 2nd Div.
xvii, xviii; his collection of ballads,
485, 681, 989, 996, etc.; several
reprinted here from it, 681, 989,
996, 997.

Lydgate (John of), his London Lyck-
penny (sometimes miscalled Lack-
penny), quoted, 397, 433.
Lynn Regis, co. Norfolk, represented
by Sir Robert Walpole, 625; and
by the Lass, who said "Marry, and
thank you too," 462, et seqq.
Lysons, D. and S., their Magna
Britannia quoted, at second-hand,
on the Reading Skirmish, 372.
Lytton (earlier, Sir Edward Bulwer),
first Lord, quoted, 192, 615, 669.
Lytton, second Lord, known first as
"Owen Meredith," his Wanderer
quoted, 10.

MACAULAY (T. B.), Lord, his

History of England quoted, on
Claude Duval, 13; on the frequency
of highway robbery, 231; on the
boldness and skill of the horse-
men, 234; on the sea-fights of La

Hogue and off Cherbourg, 117, 118,
294, 295; on the battle of Landen,
179; his Conversation between
Cowley and Milton, 256; on the
Rapparees' feast, 303; on William's
landing, 361; on his death, 317;
on the Reading Skirmish, 372; on
Walker of Londonderry, 425; on
Pilkington's sentence, 486; on in-
judicious niggardliness and prodi-
gality, 591; on Mary of Orange's
indecent demonstrations of delight
at her father's downfall, 610, 611;
on the scandal of the Popish-Plot
phrensy, 663; his attacks upon
William Penn, 733; on the English
Clergy, 734; on Queen Anne, 825;
on the Whitefriars riot, 2nd Div.
xviii; The Cavaliers' March to
London, one of his Songs of the
Civil-War, quoted, xxii.

Macheath, Captain, in Gay's Beggars'
Opera, 13, 202, 233, 557; two of
his songs, quoted, 203, 234; his
esprit de corps, 239.
Mackworth, Digby, 831.
Mackworth, Sir Humphrey, 834;
supposed to have been part-author
of the Memorial of the Church of
England, 825, 831; loses his elec-
tion in 1705 at Oxford, Whitlock
having a hundred and four votes
above him (on which see the "Dole-
ful Complaint of Sir H. M." in
State Poems, 1707, iv. 22), 829,
834.

Mackworth, Sir Thomas, 832.
McSkimmin, Samuel, his History of
Carrickfergus cited (from T. C.
Croker), 301.

Madden (Sir Frederick) Collection of
broadside-ballads, now the Henry-
Bradshaw Collection, King's Col-
lege, Cambridge, III, 112, 210.
Mad-Tom in King Lear, 5, 214, 874,
886. See, also, Beggars, and Tom
of Bedlam.

Maginn, Dr. William, 74.
Magistrates (Clerical), in our days,
objectionable and unnecessary union
of discordant powers, 726; in-
fluenced by private antagonisms,
727.

Magog (Gog and), at Guildhall, 798.
Maiden Warrior, The, 362.
Maiden's Delight, by L. Price, 266.
Maiming Act (The Coventry), 783.

Mallet (originally Malloch), David;
his connexion with the 1725 third
volume of J. Roberts's Collection
of Old Ballads, 138; the ballad of
William and Margaret, with its
variations, and its original, 139;
his unbroken friendship with James
Thomson, 138, 139.

Manley, Mrs. (De la Rivière), author
of the Lost Lover, and of the Royal
Mischief, etc., 172.
Mark Noble's Frollick, described,

202.

Marlborough (John Churchill), Duke
of, at the siege of Cork, 325; which
he had advocated, 364; and at the
battle of Audenarde, 384; his in-
defensible treachery to King James
II., 364; small hope for him, 1091.
Marlborough (Sarah), Duchess of,
619, 1091.

Marlow, Christopher, 759, 801.
Marlow Magna, M. P.s for, 827, 828.
Mariage de Convenance, Un, 24.
Marshall, William (a Benedictine
monk and reputed Jesuit), arrested,
696; acquitted, 701.

Marston, John, his Pigmalion's Image,
457, 548; his Antonio and Mellida,
402.
Martin, Theodore (in conjunction with
Professor W. E. Aytoun), his Bon
Gualtier Ballads, 621; his translation
of Schiller, 413; of Goethe, 1026.
Marvell, Andrew, his insulting verses
to Mary of Modena, 417; in refer-
ence to the young Earl of Coventry,
645; the poem on " Royal Resolu-
tions" not by him, 745; his fre-
quent attacks on the Court, 596.
Mary Beatrix Eleanora D'Este, of
Modena, second wife of James
Duke of York, and afterwards
Queen, 551, 591 to 595.
Mary, daughter of James, afterwards

Princess of Orange, her promptness
at duplicity, 279; her exultation at
gaining possession of the palace
frippery, 610, 611; actually loved,
more suo, by her husband (after her
death), 317, 378.

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Massacre of Glencoe, a lasting stain
on the memory of William III.,
and his abettors, 178, 303.
Massacre, Irish, 655.
Massinger, Philip, his Duke of Milan,
quoted, on Lob's Pound, 296.
Matchless Shepherd, a ballad by
Laurence Price, 968.

Matt Martin Clifford, 642.
Matt of the Mint, his advice to Mac-
heath (traditional), 233; his profes-
sional attention to strangers, 239.
Matt Prior, quoted, 917, 994.
May-flower Pilgrims in America, 725.
May-games and May-poles, Introd.

XXVIII, XXIX, XXXII, 408, 1010
(woodcut), IOII.

Maynard, Sir John, has the manage-
ment of prosecution to secure the
death of John Wentworth, Earl of
Strafford, and of William Howard,
Viscount Stafford, 838.

Maynard, Sir William, M.P. for Essex,
753.

Mayor (Lord) of London; see London;

his daughter, 203, 204.

Mayor of Oxford. See Pauling, and
Wright.

Mazarine (Hortense Mancini), Duchess
of, seen toying with the King, by
Evelyn, and informed against, 597.
Meal-Tub Plot, 685, 703, 751, 880,
986, 1015.

Memorial of the Church of England,
its supposed authors, and their aims,
825, 826, 831; quoted, 842. ["An
Elegy on the burning of the Church-
Memorial, 1705," is in State Poems,
1707, iv. 34, beginning, "No!
sacred pages, never more repine."]
Mephistopheles, mentioned, 165, 801,
890.

Merry Drollery, quoted, 189, 433; its
Advice to Batchelors, 492; songs in
it, 330, 496, 514, 515, 516, 534 bis,
559, 725, 748, 829, 1008, 1009, etc.
Merry Musician, The (4 vols.), 366.
Methwold Steeple, Norfolk, 462, 463.
Michaelmas-Term defined by William

Harrison, 397; the ballad perhaps
by Martin Parker, 971.
Milkmaid (Maudlin), her song to the
anglers, Introd. XVI; an early
woodcut representing one, 759.
Milkmaid's (The) Delight, a ballad,
probably not lost, only altered
slightly, and answered, L.XX, 10II.

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Milkmaids' Sports, enjoyed by Nell
Gwynn, 598, 604.
Millers, ballads showing the bad
character borne by them, 527 to
529, 985. See, also, Lawrence.
Milman, Henry Hart, Dean of St.
Paul's, his description of a Miser,
quoted, 219.

Milton, John, spoilt by the Puritans,
and bitter as a controversialist,
against Salmasius, Introd. XIV; his
Apology for Smectymnuus, 653,
804; his Defensio, 807; his Areo-
pagitica, 713; not an affectionate
husband, father, or uncle, 907, 908;
his Lubber-fiend, 296; University
decree at Oxford against his writings,
820; his Lines on Hobson, 828.
Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, 18,
346, 391. See Scott, Sir Walter.
Miss, the word used with a bad mean-
ing, in 1661, according to Evelyn,
601 (see Roxalana); 11, 647, 767.
Miss, Duval's, taken from Dr. W.
Pope, 11, 647.

Miss, Bishop of Salisbury's, also taken
from Dr. Pope, 647.

Mistress, unfortunate pollution of the
good old word, 601.

Mitchell, John, his History of Ireland,
quoted, 303.

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Thomas

Mobb, or Mobbs, Old:
Sympson, a highwayman, 242, 245.
Mock-Songs, 829, 889 to 896.
Modena, Maria d'Este, Duchess of.
See Mary.

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Molash Church-registers, in Kent
(complete from 1557), 651.
Mompesson, John, at Tidcomb
Tidworth, Wilts, 922.
Mompesson, Sir Thomas, M.P. for
Sarum, 774, 777.

Monk, Christopher, son of General
George, Duke of Albemarle, one of
the three Dukes in the Whetstone-
Park scandal, 782.

Monk, George, General, 477, 478,
782. See 3rd Index.
Monmouth, Geoffrey of, 848.
Monmouth, Harry (= Hotspur), 844.
Monmouth, James, Duke of, his
character as Absalom, 95, 669;
early married to Anne Scott, in her
own right Duchess of Buccleugh
(see Scott, Anne), 682, 781, 795;
his promiscuous immorality, 636,
772; his early irregularities, 782;

his friendship with Thynne (see
Thynne), 770; his evil intimacy
with Lord and Lady Grey (see
Grey), 684; his alliance with con-
spirators (see Ferguson, Russell,
Shaftesbury). 782, 830; is enamoured
of Lady Henrietta Wentworth, 781,
965; his popularity, 772, 780, 794;
is mocked as a Fop, 2nd Div. xv ;
as a Perkin, or Pretender, 781; and
for his triumphal progress and re-
ception at Whig feasts, 2nd Div. xv ;
addressed by the "factious Alder-
man" Wright, at Oxford, 794, 797;
is said to perform cures by touching
for the Evil, 794, 800; is dismissed
from command of the King's Guards,
for schemes and insubordination,
716; is often forgiven by Charles,
795 to 797; addressed by Tom
Ross's Ghost, 805; is affably re-
ceived at the Hague by William,
but distrusted, 964; feels aversion to
engaging against the Turks, 965;
is tempted towards insurrection,
ibid.; after failure, meets with no
mercy from James II., 747; his fate
resembles Gerard's, after all, 795
to 797; is butchered by Ketch, in
bungling brutality, 697; the fate of
his followers, 361, 382, 806.
Mons, capitulates in 1691 to the arms
of Louis XIV., 378, 383.
Monsters, curious collection of hand-
bills describing them, 60; black-
letter ballads on them, 82.
Montague, Lady Mary Wortley, her
poem of Arthur Gray, 617.
Montague, Ralph, English ambas-
sador at Paris, his treachery against
Danby, 754.

Montrose, James, the great Marquis
of; a song attributed to him, 134.
Monument, of the 1666 Fire of
London, 439; finished in Davies's
mayoralty, with its libellous inscrip-
tions against the Roman Catholics
("Where London's Column, tower-
ing to the skies, Like a tall bully,
lifts its head and lies"-Pope),

672.

Moore, Sir John, Lord Mayor of

London, in 1682, his nomination of

Dudley North, as Sheriff, 487.
Moore, Tom, his Irish Melodies, 73;
his political and social insincerity,

74.

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Mothers-in-law, in connexion with
palæological inquiries, 465.
Motherwell, William, his poem-songs
of "Jeannie Morrison," and
head is like to rend, Willie," 464.
Mounsier, etc., for Monsieur, 120,
381, 723.

recalled to

Mozeen, Thomas, a song by him,
quoted, 277.
Mughouse Songs, 210.
Münchhausen, Baron,
mind, Introd. XIV, 336.
Murder of Archbishop Sharpe, 682,
987; of Sir Edmondbury Godfrey,
(see Godfrey), 668, etc.; of Tom
Thynne, 770; of Philip Königs-
mark, 771; of a Gloucester butcher,
Thomas Cooke, 54; of a Chamber-
lain at Andover, 173; of a Curate
at Chelmsford, 736, 994, 995;_of
other persons, 171, 243, etc.
For
judicial murders see Anderton,
Plunkett, Stafford, Strafford, Syd-

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420.

Nashe, Thomas, his "Pierce Penni-

less's Supplication," quoted, 403,
406; his portrait of Gabriel Harvey
given, 400, 401.

Nation newspaper, songs of the band
of Young Ireland writers in the, 74.
Neale's (Richard) Pocket-Companion,

a rare but pleasant volume of songs
with music, engraved throughout,
567.
Nebulo Anglicanus, by John Partridge,

an attack on John Gadbury, 880,
(postscript,) 1015.

Nelson, Horatio, his convenient blind-
ness, 117.

Nelthorp, Richard, a lawyer, adherent
of Monmouth, arrested and executed,
806.

Nevill, Harry, unsuccessfully opposes
the Restoration, 717. [One of the
Rump ditties, ii. 33, to the tune of
Hey ho, my honey-for which see
our p. 3-gives a verse to Harry
Nevill:

He that shall next come in,

Was long of the Council of State;
Though hardly a hair on his chin,
When first in the Council he sate:
He was sometime in Italy,
And learned their fashions prettily;
Then came back to 's own Nation,
To help up Reformation.

Sing hi ho Harry Nevil,

I prethee be not too rash,

With Atheism to court the Devil;

You're tog bold to be his Bardash.
What is said of his travels and re-
turn would apply to Milton no less.]
Newbury, in Berks, why called
"bloody" and "that fatal place,"
in ballad, 863: the Strange and
Wonderful News from, 862; a late
copy of our Bagford-ballad, with
same woodcuts, dated 1707, in
Douce Collection, iv. 45; Thomas
Deloney's History of Jack Winch-
comb, the clothier, styled Jack of
Newbury, 863.

Newcastle Associators, a Loyal Song
on the, 1005.

Newcastle Beer, John Cunningham's
song on the excellence of, 389.
Newgate, News from; a pamphlet of
1677, quoted, 558.

Newgate Stone, on which Duval and
later criminals carved their names
(with Ainsworth's song thereon,
from his Jack Sheppard romance),

12.

News from Ostend; or, the Soldier's
Loving Letter; a ballad connected
with our Bagford group, 965.
Newton, Sir Isaac, as to the imputed
Hobbism of John Locke, 653.
Newton, T. W., his Catalogue of the
Ouvry Collection, Introd. VII.
Nicoll, Mr., his song, entitled Modesty
to Perfection (with music by J. F.
Lampe), 135.
Night-Encounter (The); a Drollery
Song, 1008.
Night-funeral of William III., 316.
Night-rail, why called "civil," 931.
Nirgends-College library, the muni-

ment-room in, 204, 215, 992; in-
scription on marble tablet (supposed
to have been composed and cut by
der Herr Professor Karl), in memo-
riam Johannis Bagford, Introd. x.

No-Popery Riots of 1780; Charles
Dickens on them, quoted, 585.
Nonconformists (politico-sectarian),

always disturbers of the civil govern-
ment, as they are of the ecclesiastical
power, 727, 735; bitter persecutors
of one another, 727; and of the
Romanists, when not combining
with them against the Church of
England, 728.

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None mine own, etc., a term of en-
dearment, 718, 859 (line 17th of
poem).

Norfolk, connexion of the Walpole
family with, 623. See Lynn.
Norfolk Anthology (J. O. Halliwell's),
and (John Glyde, Junior's) Garland,
683.

Norris, James, his ballad (of 1684) on
the frozen Thames and its freezeland
fair, 256, 405.

North-country Miller outwitted (else-
where The West-country Crafty
Maid, etc., by John Wade, 921),
985.

North, (Sir) Dudley, Sheriff of Lon-
don, 487.

North, Roger, his "Examen," 676,
692.

Northampton in Flames, in 1675; a

Bagford poem (iii. 79), not here
reprinted, 814.

Norwich, the immaculate and incor-
ruptible, 825.

Not-Guilty, a nickname for one of the

unsuccessful Worcestershire Court-
candidates, 998, 999.

Nottingham Ale, much too good for
the lambs," 389.
Nottingham (David Finch), Earl of,
Secretary of State to Queen Mary,
writes a politic address to the Fleet,
279; his intense hatred of Admiral
Russell, 282.

November-Guy-day London Triumph,
413, 740.

OATES, Titus, revealer of the

supposed Popish-Plot, 97; the
ballads against him, Oates well
thrashed, 603; and others, pub-
lished by Nat. Thompson, 664;
mocked as the Salamanca Doctor,
holding an invisible degree, 663,
667; and as Titus Tell-Truth (lucus
a non lucendo), 664; his misconduct

when in the navy and when at St.
Omers, 673, 688; his living, at
Bobbing, in Kent, 690; his resi-
dence at Foxhall, or Vauxhall, ibid.;
testifies against Coleman, 696, 700,
701; accuses Queen Catharine, 692;
his numerous victims, 688, 747; his
style of dinner Table-talk, as re-
lated by Sir John Reresby, 688; is
deserted by Scroggs, when detection
becomes certain, 765; his Melan-
choly Complaint in prison, 667, 679,
697, 707 is invited to Tyburn,
692; turned from Whitehall, and
severely whipt, 703, 704, 7c9, etc.;
always infamous, but long survives
the Revolution (William restoring
his pension), 668, 712.

Obadiah's connexion with a Cave,
Underhill, and profits, not hidden,
819.
Obadiahs, the Two, in 1687, vociferous,
819.

Observator, Roger L'Estrange's, 690,
691, 712 (suppressed before 1688).
Observator, John Tutchin's, 1006.
O'Callaghan, J. C., his History of the
Irish Brigade, characterized, 303.
Occasional Bill, for the regulation of
(fraudulent) occasional conformity,
828, 836; a ballad entitled "The
History and Fall of the Conformity
Bill," beginning "God bless our
gracious sovereign Anne" (given
complete in State Poems, 1704, iii.
425), 391. See, also, One hundred
and thirty and four.
O'Driscol, his History of Ireland,

quoted, from T. C. Croker, 345.
Okie's (Colonel John) Lamentation,

reserved for Civil-War Series, 209.
Old continual, or continuous, 756.
Old Sam, 999; probably referring to

Samuel Sandys, formerly M. P. for
Worcestershire, 1000.

Oldham, John, quoted, on Elkanah
Settle, 694; his Satyr on the Jesuits,
710; his St. Cecilia Ode, 809.
Oliphant, Thomas, formerly music-
cataloguer at the British Museum,
his Musa Madrigalesca (of which
Dr. Rimbault, in his own excellent
Bibliotheca Madrigaliana, p. xii,
charitably declares, "The remarks
and annotations contain some valu-
able matter; but are too frequently
disfigured by frivolity unworthy of

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