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