the subject." The Baillie of Corne-
ville might have written this), 50.
Oliva (John Paul), Father de, Jesuit,
reported to have given commissions
to Oates, etc., 673.

Omers (St.), Jesuit seminary at, 673,
688, 701.

One hundred and thirty and four, two
ballads with this burden, attributed
respectively to Defoe and Tutchin
(alluding in part to the Commons
majority of Tory votes on the Occa-
sional Bill), 1007. [One of these
Whig ballads is given in State Poems,
1707, iv. 109, as "The French
King's Lamentation for the Loss of
the Occasional Bill, 1705;" the
Lords having rejected it, owing to the
timidity of the Bishops. It begins,

"I think I shall never despair,

Tho' beaten at Hochstet full sore,
Since I have gotten somewhere-

One hundred and thirty and four."]

Oram, or Oran, 595.
Orange Association in Ireland, 415.
Orange, William of. See William.
Osborne, Dorothy, afterwards Mrs.
William Temple, Introd. XVI.
Osborne, Thomas, Earl of Danby.

See Danby, and his son, Latimer.
Ostend, News from, a ballad in Wood's
Collection, 965.

Otterbourn, old ballad on the battle
of, 391.

Otway, Thomas, quoted, on ultra-pro-

testantism being false religion, 693.
Ouvry Collection of ballads (the chief
part of which was formerly the J.
P. Collier Collection), 203, 354,
478, 514, 598, 660.

Ouvry, Frederick, President of the

Society of Antiquaries, Introd. VII.
Owlet, Madge, 767, 768.
Oxford, apostrophized by Matthew

Arnold, 822; Drollery, 185, 546;
Group of Poems on, 814; its Mayors,
Aldermen, and Town Clerk, 817,
818; Jests, 829, 890; loyalty of
the University, 819, 820; Market, a
satirical ballad sung there, in 1584,
by Robert Nevell, Introd XVIII;
Parliament, instead of at Westmin-
ster, addressed, 838; dissolved, 743,
837, 839; Sheldonian Theatre at,
814; superior felicity of, above
Cambridge, ibid.; the Almoner
there, 864.

Oxfordshire Damosel, The, 449.

ibid.

Parcet, Elizabeth, said to have been
cured of King's Evil by Monmouth's
touch, 927.

Paris, Les Mystères de, quoted, 70;
mentioned, 106; pillori des Halles
at, 1014.

Paris-Garden, on the Bankside, 737-
Parker, Martin, his earliest known
verses, 184; his ballad of the Milk-
maid's Life, 756, Introd. LXX;
Michaelmas-Term ballad possibly
his, although unsigned, despite his
warning to look for his initials, 971.
Parker, (Captain) Robert, his Memoirs
quoted, 342, 343.

Parliament, the Convention, 741; the
Cavalier, Long, or Pensionary, 742,
755; the Habeas-Corpus, ibid. ; the
fourth of Charles II., 743; the
fifth, and last, at Oxford, ibid. ;
James the Second's only one, 777,
827; the British fetish, 898; its
mischievous interference with the
Church, 610, 725. See also Abhor-
rers, Petitioners, and (in First Index),
Election-ballads, under the follow-
ing titles, Buckingham, Cambridge,
Devonshire, Essex, Oxford, Univer
sity, Wiltshire, and Worcestershire.
Parnassus Biceps; or, severall Choice

pieces of Poetry, composed by the
best wits in both the Universities,
before the Dissolution, mentioned,
820.

Partridge, John, his almanacks and
predictions, 61, 62; his libels on
John Gadbury, in "The Black
Life," etc., 666, 1015; an Elegy on
him (not here reprinted, Bagford

66

Coll., iii. 74), 1708, beginning,
Well, 'tis as Bickerstaffe has
guess'd," 814.

Pasquil's Palinodia, quoted, Introd.

XXIV, XXVII to XXIX; on true poets,
their love of strong drink, 720;
verses on the May-pole, 1010; wood-
cut from frontispiece of book, 722.
Paterson, William, his "Book of
Scotish Pasquils," edited by James
Maidment, Introd. XXV; his
"Pedlar's Pack," edited by W. H.
Logan, 192; his excellent new
library edition of Robert Burns,
edited by William Scott Douglas,

979.

Pauling, or Pawlin, Robert, the Mayor

of Oxford in 1679, a bankrupt and
puritan, 817 to 819.

Pearson, Major Thomas, his private
collection of ballads (its foundation
being the Harleian), now in British
Museum, known as the Roxburghe
Collection, Introd. VI.

Penn, Admiral William, 635.
Penn, William, his youthful mistakes

at College, arising out of injudici-
ous zeal, 727; his many excellent
qualities, just dealings, and desire
for peace, 733; Macaulay's attacks
on him, although demonstrated to
have been founded on misunder-
standing, never atoned for by re-
cantation, ibid.

Penny Merriments, in the Pepysian
collection, 108.

Penny, Syr, an early poem, quoted, 972.
Pepys, Samuel, his collection of ballads
preserved at Magdalen College,
Camb., Introd. XV, 478, et passim
containing duplicates (thirty-two of
our original second volume, enumer-
ated) of Bagford Ballads, 171, 308,
etc.;
extract from a manuscript
there contained, Introd. LVIII; a
ballad (lost, "stolen," from Bagford
Coll.) recovered from a Pepysian
duplicate, 930; lines, shorn-off,
similarly recovered, 171, 175, 199
to 201; his Diary quoted, on
Charles II.'s frequent visits to New-
market, 79; his library guarded
from indiscriminate visitors, 108;
his personal character, 596; his
admiration for Nell Gwynn, 598;
his account of the song made by
the seamen, 615; of the Queen's

reception, with public bonfires, 635,
etc.; the new edition, the best yet
published, 987; references to his
collection and diary, passim.
Percy Folio Manuscript,

Introd.

XXXVIII, XL, XLVII; mutilated by
binders, and also by its (afterwards)
episcopal possessor, 147, 255, 261,
391, 415, 715, 1009; quoted, 1021;
Mary Ambree, 308, 310, 312 to 315.
Percy Society publications, 117, 121,
224, 255, 261, 301, 349, 379, 405,
640, 649; prudery and mock-
modesty in some of its members,
with slovenliness as to editing texts
accurately, 255, 514, 538, 827.
Percy, Thomas, D.D., afterwards
Bishop of Dromore, his "Reliques
of Ancient English Poetry," quoted,
on Mary Ambree, 308, 309; men-
tioned, 609, etc.; his controversy
with Joseph Ritson, XXXVII to XL,
309; his success in popularizing the
earlier ballad literature, XXXIX, XL,
XLII; bantered by Dr. Johnson,
XXXVIII, XXXIX.

Perkin Pretender (from Perkin War-
beck), a nickname for Monmouth,
781, 785.

Peters, Hugh, the rebel parliament-
preacher, widely-spread belief in his
immorality and licentiousness, in
word and action, 191, 197, 2nd Div.
xi, 736, 995.

Petitioners against the dissolution of
parliament, and for the early as-
sembling of a new one, 488, 743,
749, 751, 758, 769, 733, 774; op-
posed by the Loyal Addressors who
expressed their "abhorrence" of all
such factious petitioners, 749, etc.
See Abhorrers.
Petitions to the Houses of Parliament,
how names were and are fraudulently
obtained by the liberal radicals, 757;
a proclamation issued against them
being presented, if libellous and
offensive, 758. See Petitioners and
Abhorrers.

Petre, Edward, Vice-Provincial of the
Jesuits, father-confessor, and member
of James II.'s privy council, ridiculed
in political verses, 375, 376.
Petre (William), Lord, one of the five
Roman Catholic peers imprisoned
in the Tower for alleged Popish
plot, 674, 675; dies there, 674.

Phantastick Age, The; a ballad, 429.
Philander makes a promise of suicide
to an unkind mistress, in the Tatler,
46.
Philip, Duke of Anjou, afterwards

Philip V. of Spain, 384, 386, 395.
Philips, Ambrose (styled 'Namby
Pamby," by Pope), supposed to
have edited the two earlier vols.
of J. Roberts's Old Ballads, 1723,

140.

Philips, John, his "Splendid Shilling."
890.

Phillida and Coridon, a set of ballads,
perhaps Richard Johnson's own,
892.

Phillips, Edward, quoted, 313.
Phillips, John, his Don Juan Lam-
berto; or, A Comical History of the
Late Times," 478.

Phillips, John, nephew of Milton,
480.

Philobiblon Society (not Philobiblion,

editorial inadvertence), Introd. VII.
Philomel, in 1744, a "Collection of
only the best songs," 407.
Phoenix and Turtle, a reference to
Robert Chester's poem, 1019.
Picaresque romances glanced at, 239.
Pickering, Thomas, a Jesuit, unjustly
accused, and executed, 677, 678,
688, 701; his portrait in Caulfield's
collection, 991.

Pigmalion's Image, The Metamor-

phosis of; by John Marston, 1598,
457; referred to by Patrick Carey
in a ballad, 548; probably one of
Amanda's books, 400.
Pilkington, Sir Thomas, thrice Lord

Mayor of London, 485; had earlier
been tried for a libel against the
Duke of York, convicted, and
sentenced to a heavy fine (which
was not wholly exacted, if any
part were), 486; Elegy on him
(the only impression yet discovered,
and unfortunately imperfect), 489,

704 to 708; to Titus Oates, 703,
987; to Ben Harris and his wife
Ruth, 929; to Mrs. Elizabeth Cellier,
660, 986, 987; to Nicholas Blunt or
Gennynges, 944; to many women,
1012, 1013; and men, 1014.
Pills to Purge Melancholy (= Wit and
Mirth, edition 1719-20, unless other-
wise specified), supposed to have
been edited by Tom D'Urfey, II, 17,
22, 23, 24, 29, 50, 67, 77, 86, 89, 91;
A True Satyr, quoted, 150, 179;
Clown's song, quoted, 185, 191, 209,
277, 292, 295, 325, 337, 385, 391;
on Jockey, 480, 510; on clipping
the coin, 522, 528, 598, 763, 1019,
and elsewhere.

Pinkerton, John, his "Scottish Tragic
Ballads," 1781 (wherein appeared
his own spurious second part to
Lady Wardlaw's "Hardyknute"),
Introd. XXXIX.

Placket torn (in a woman's dress), 930,
1017.

Placket torn (Joan's), a tune, of which
the original words are lost, 1017.
[A Loyal Song, 1683, entitled "The
Plot crammed into Joan's Placket,"
begins, "Have you not lately heard
of Lords sent to the Tower?"]
Platonism, the true, 897.
Player, Sir Thomas (City-chamberlain,
and the "railing Rabshakeh" of
Absalom and Achitophel, 2nd Part),
his terror of the Papists, on the re-
turn of the Duke of York from
Scotland, 2nd Div. xiv; his ac-
knowledged lewdness, ibid.; and at
Camberwell, 881.

Playford, John, musician and publisher,
480; his "Choyce Ayres," 510,
542, 596, 609, 893; his " Dancing
Master," 77, 78; his "Delightful
Companion," 369; his "Musical
Companion," 125 (the same song
is also in the 1673 edition), 404,
756, etc.; his "Select Ayres," 189;
his "Wit and Mirth," various
editions, 86, 726, 240. See Pills to
Purge Melancholy.

Plot Discoverers and sham witnesses,
691, and throughout original third
volume. See Bedlow, Dangerfield,
Dugdale, Everard, Oates, Prance,
Turberville, etc. [A Loyal Song,
entitled, "A Prophetical Catch:
To the Tune of, The Merry Christ-

Church Bells," Dean Aldrich's,
begins thus:-

Oh, the Plot Discoverers!

Oates, Bedloe, Dugdale, Prance,

They swear so wondrous deep,

So woundy deep.

That the Plot sounds horridly, horridly.
Hark! the Doctor first comes in,

Makes Oath at 7, 8, 9, or 10,

No matter how, nor where, nor when,

Which the Plotters nothing think, nor dream, etc.
They are such Perjur'd Rogues,
That none but Scroggs

Can feague them cunningly, cunningly.]

Plot (Popish), brief account of the
pretended, 663 to 669; with the
fourfold ballad "Narrative" (of
which only Part Fourth is in the
Bagford Collection, although all is
here given complete), 670 to 692;
Answer to the Second Part, by one
of the opposite faction, not im-
probably Elkanah Settle, 990;
ballad on the execution of Coleman,
693 to 702; another, in form of a
Mock-Litany against the Papists,
658 to 662; a poem on Danger-
field's disgrace in the pillory, and
public whipping, published before
his death, 703 to 709; allusions
throughout, to the supposed con-
coctors of it, and disbelievers in it,
or sufferers from the terror and per-
secution, beginning on 97.
Plot Rent and Torn, The, two Loyal
Songs (the earlier one beginning,
"Have you not lately heard of
Lords sent to the Tower?" the other,
of later date, "Have you not heard
of knaves that ne'er will be forgot?"
both in 1685 Collection of 180 L.S.
pp. 143, 369), the latter quoted, 703.
Compare Placket torn.

Ploughman's Prophesie, The, a ballad,
976.

Pluckley, near Ashford, Kent, held by

Dr. Tonge, Plot-discoverer, 690.
Plunket, Oliver, Roman Catholic
Archbishop of Armagh, accused of
conspiracy, on the worthless testi-
mony of "lewd Irish priests," whom
he had punished for misconduct, and
executed, 746. [Even Burnet admits
that "the witnesses were brutal and
profligate men: yet the Earl of
Shaftesbury cherished them much,"
etc., Own Times. A Loyal Song,
beginning, "Be me Shoul and
Shoulvation, O hone, O hone!" is
on Eustace Comines the Irish
Evidence, his Farewell to England :]

One of the Irish Evidences, Cum-
mins this Eustace Comines, men-
tioned, 703.

=

Pocock, Robert, licenser of the press,
during 1685-88, 353, passim.
Poems (Loyal). See Loyal Poems.
Poems on State Affairs. See State
Poems.

Poictiers, battle of, 846, 850.
Police-News literature, and Day's-
Doings, 171.

Polly, in Gay's "Beggars' Opera,"
and Lavinia Fenton, its original
impersonatrix, 618; the sequel of
that name, with Captain Macheath
as Morana, and his death, in obedi-
ence to the Philistine laws of con-
ventional morality, 233.

Poor Robin's Dream; or, Visions of
Hell, 690, 784; his Prophecie, with
its burden, 936.
Pope, Alexander, his Dunciad account
of Fleet Ditch, quoted, 57; annoyed
by Colley Cibber's "gag,'
or in-
terpolated reference to the mummy
and crocodile of the unsuccessful
"Three Weeks after Marriage,"
620, 633; reprisal in his Dunciad,
643; his lines on the death of
Buckingham, in loneliness and
squalor, 638.

Pope Innocent XI., 673.
Pope Joan, as treated by Elkanah
Settle, 694, 695, 990 (whereon is a
misprint of 1670, for 1679, in regard
to its date); quoted, 695, 739, 740.
Pope, Mr., of Wotton, Somersetshire,
the reported Judgments in his family,
63.

Pope, Walter, M.D., his Catholic
ballad (in Roxb. Coll. i. 26), 10,
647; his sequel to it, "Room for
a Ballad, or a Ballad from Rome,"
11, 647, 648, 987; it is answered
by another, 987; his "Epitaph on
Du Vall," and satirical Memoirs of
him, 10, 11, 107; the cause of his
dislike to Duval, II; and similarly
to his friend and patron Seth Ward,
Bishop of Salisbury (as Browning
says, "One should master one's
passions, love in chief, And be loyal
to one's friends"), 647; his ballad
of "The Miser," 648; and "The
Old Man's Wish," 11, 24, 647; his
"Salisbury Ballad," 11, 647, 770;
his residence in that city, at the date

of our Wiltshire Ballad, 778; some-
times, but doubtfully, accredited
with the authorship of the "Geneva
Ballad," 10, 646 to 648.

Popery, cost of the intense hatred

against it, nationally, 213, 378; the
four Collections of Poems and
Songs against it, in 1689, and the
Rome Rhymed to Death, 371, 376,
488; London riots of 1780 against
it, 585.
Popish Midwife

=

Mrs.

Elizabeth
Cellier, 880, etc. See Cellier.
Popish Plot, 663. See Plot.
Popish wind, and Protestant wind, 295.
Populace, the ballads and pictures best
liked by them, 316.

Popular Music of the Olden Time, men-
tioned throughout. See Chappell.
Portents, an account of many, 58 to
60, 63, 97, 98; Evelyn on the re-
semblance of one, a fiery meteor,
seen before the death of W. Howard,
Viscount Stafford, to one seen before
the death of T. Wentworth, Earl
of Strafford, 98.
Portsmouth (Louise Renée de Penen-

court de Querouailles), Duchess of,
79; robbed by Old Mobb, 242; her
career, 596 to 608; her name vulgarly
corrupted into Madam Carwell, 604;
abusive lines on her portrait, 605;
supposed to be implicated in the
Fitzharris libel (she being opposed
to the Duke of York, although her-
self a Roman Catholic), 843.
Portsmouth, assassination of the first
Duke of Buckingham by Felton at,
640, 739.

Potiphar's wife, Lady Grizel's opinion

on the picture of her beauty, 135.
See Grisel.

Powder Plot, 342, 413, 420, 655, 701.
Powis, or Powys, Lady, wife of one
of the five imprisoned Catholic
noblemen, her supposed share, as
the "Lady of Quality," in the ballad
"Narrative of the Popish Plot,"
and her acquittal, in the trial for
complicity in the Meal-Tub Plot,
681, 685, 686, 703, 988.
Powis (William Herbert), Lord, ac-
cused by Bedlow and Oates, 674,
675.

Praed, Winthrop Mackworth, quoted.
437, 438, 763, 769, 778, 889.
Prance, Miles, the silversmith em-

ployed at the Queen's Chapel, his
connexion with the Popish Plot,
his weakness, self-contradictory evi-
dence, and the pressure put on him
to extort evidence against the ac-
cused Romanists, 97, 679, 689, 754-
Presbyter, Jack, denounced, 248, 652,
775. See, also, Splaymouth.
Price, John, his "Spiritual Snipsarke,"
480.

66

Price, Laurence, 551; trial-list of his
ballads, 261, 263 to 266; additions
to it, 248, 960.
Price of blood, the Commonwealth
payment of arrears to the Scots
army, in exchange for their sur-
rendering King Charles I., 333.
Pride, Colonel, seen as part of a four-
fold illumination, 784.

Prideaux, Humphrey, Dean of Chi-
chester, author of the "Connec-
tion,' etc., his Letters to Ellis,
quoted, 817, 818.

Primrose Hill, the Dancing of, Introd.

LXXVIII; its connexion with the
murder of Sir E. Godfrey, ibid.,
667, 671, 785.

Princes of France, two, 384, etc.
Prior, Matt., quoted, 917, 994.
Prisoners taken by the besieged rebels
at Londonderry, 427.
Proclaiming of William and Mary, a
ballad, 609, 610.

Procter, Adelaide Anne, the beauty
and fervour of her "Legends and
Lyrics" and her Chaplet of Verses,

225.
Procter, Bryan Waller, = Barry Corn-

wall, his acknowledged disinclination
for the song-writers and dramatists
of the Restoration, 497; his "Re-
turn of the Admiral" ballad, 390.
Protestant brisk boys, Shaftesbury's
boasted ten thousand, drawn from
the slums of Wapping and the City,
Introd. XLIV, 2nd Div. x, 687, 695.
Protestant Defender or Deliverer, the,
86, 317, 335. 364, etc.; his g. p. and
imm. memory ostentatiously drank,
and unhesitatingly decried, by differ-
ent Irish factions, 414; his statue
in Dublin adorned according to
these differing estimates, with paint
or with pitch, with garlands and a
gibbet-noose, 415 to 417.
Protestant Delight, The Royal Garland
of, quoted, 377, 378, 380.