Splaymouth, a nickname for some ir- reconcilable dissenting enemy of the Church of England, or for a Presby- terian, Introd. xxx11, 648, 649. Sportive Wit Lusty Drollery, quoted, 185.
Spots (Beauty), 123, 150, 548, 568. See woodcuts of the same, 227, 289, 499, 568, 606.
Sprat, Dr. Thomas, Buckingham's Chaplain, afterwards Bishop of Rochester, and biographer of Cow- ley, 642.
Spruce with coat canonical, a nick- name for the supposed author of the Geneva Ballad, an opposer of nonconformity, 653; contemporary fancy portrait of him, or of the Answerer himself, 657.
'Squire, the term applied to the hang- man, Dun, 232, 466, 697; Ketch, 697, 702, 1005; and to any such functionary, ex officio, by Prior, 917. Stafford (William Howard), Viscount, accused of treasonable intentions and practices by Oates and his abettors, tried, and executed, 97, 674, 688, 755, 999; a ballad, "Upon the execution of the late Viscount Stafford," beginning, "Shall every Jack and every Jill, that rides in state up Holborn hill," 674; the malignity of Russell against him, 674; the culpable weakness of Charles in permitting the judicial murder to be perpetrated, 746; meteor seen before his death (re- sembling the one seen before Straf- ford's), 98, 1002. His attainder was reversed, May, 1685. Staggins, Nicholas, composer of music to Amoret and Phillis, 567. Staley, William,688, 702. See Stayley. Stanford, a pro-parliament petitioner, 772.
Starkey, D. P., his ballad on the
Death of Schomberg, quoted, 341. Starter, J., his collection of tunes, 'Boertigheden," 1009.
State-Affairs, Collection of Poems on, quoted: lines by Waller, 60; ballads on an Orange, 184, 185; on Rooke, 293; on the Duke of Grafton, 324; Marvell's insulting address to Mary of Modena, 417, 488; Rochester's Signior Dildoe, 551; Verses on the Duchess of Portsmouth's picture,
605; "On the Duke of Bucks, by Mr. D. . . . n," 638, 639; The D. of B's Litany, 645; another Litany, 662; on Dangerfield, 708; his Ghost, 709; Rochester's History of Insipids, 744; Royal Resolutions, 745, 795; Cullen with his flock of Court-Misses, 767; the Chancellor's Speech, 768; Tyburn awaiting Monmouth and Albemarle, 782; Song ex tempore (in 2nd part of vol. i. p. 229), quoted complete, 889. Also quoted in this Second Index, 1068, 1070, 1081, and under Tutchin, 1101.
State-Trials, mentioned, Cobbett's, 486; Howell's, 417, 684, 696, etc. Statesman, a politic = the first rebel, i.e. Satan, 990.
Statue of William the Third at Dublin, 414; how adorned, in beauty not without paint from either camp, 415, 416; criminals intentionally turning their back on it, as thus avoiding the sight of a disagreeable object for final contemplation, when about to swing, 414. [Thus, of one hero we read, in the eloquent re- quiem by Dean Burroughs, that "he died with his face to the city;" and previously it had been acknow- ledged,
"On his travels we watched him next day,
O, the hangman, I thought I could kill him! Not one word did our poor Larry say, Nor change till he came to King William':
Och, my dear! then his colour turn'd white." Even Miranda admits, under similar provocation, "It is a villain I do not love to look on;" and yet "the Missing Link" had his advantages over politic "Prince Naso, on whom see pp. 178, 377.] Stayley, William, a goldsmith, exe- cuted, accused by Oates of uttering treasonable words and alleged par- ticipation in the Popish Plot, 688, 702.
Steele, Sir Richard, his friendly offices for Tom D'Urfey, 86; his "Con- scious Lovers," 179, 180. Steeple-house, the sectarian nickname for a church, 730. Steinman-Steinman, George, the ex- cellence of his Memoirs, of Lucy Walter, 785; of Anna Maria, Coun- tess of Shrewsbury, 641; of the Duchess of Cleveland, 546.
Stevens, George Alexander, author of "Cease, rude Boreas" (of not later date than 1754, when we have it in print; but in 1772 it is among his "Songs Comic and Satyricall," p. 20, beginning "Now safe moor'd, with bowl before us," which verse has been continually misassigned to Dibdin, who used it in 1773, by the inaccurate G. Hogarth and others). 108, 247.
Stevenson, Matthew, his Norfolk Drollery, 731.
Stocks, the parish, for investment of many a capital circulating medium (woodcut from Harman's Caueat),
Storm at the time of Cromwell's death,
60; a destructive one, accepted as a judgment, 82 to 85; a ballad so entitled, 108, 247.
Stout, William, of Lancaster, his Autobiograpy quoted, in reference to highwaymen and depreciated value of clipt coin, 522. Strafford, Thomas Wentworth, Earl of. goes to quell the rebellion in Ire- land, 73; a portent at his execution, recorded by Evelyn, 98; Maynard's exertions at the trial to secure his destruction, 838; the bitter hatred against him, ready to pervert all law and justice, 755.
Strange, Richard, a late Provincial of the Jesuits, accused, 675. Strappado for the Deuill, 1115. See Trinculo.
Straw, Jack, his underhand sale of prohibited ballads, Introd. XLVIII. Street ballad-singers, Introd. XVIII, XL to end; not deficient in Scotland, as some have misreported, XLVIII. Strombolo Stromboli, volcanic isle in the Mediterranean, well chosen for compulsorily expatriated light characters, 625.
Stuart, Prince Jas. Fred. Edw. = The Chevalier de St. George, 384-5, et seq. Stubbes, Philip, author of the Anatomy of Abuses, Introd. XVI. Stubbs, the Popish incendiary," pardoned, 686.
Stubs, Rev. Philip, Archdeacon of St. Albans, his writings attacked by Tutchin and De Foe, 830, 1007. Suckling, Sir John, his ballad on a wedding, mentioned, 133, 795.
Sue, Eugène, his Chourineur's descrip- tion of the Harlequin-dish, at a Tapis- franc, 70; his Fleur-de-Marie, 106. Suggested words by an omitted rhyme, 628, 841.
Sunderland, the fair Duchess of, 618. Sunkets, a Scotch word, 212. Swan of Avon, a title (now applied only to Shakespeare,) given to Michael Drayton by George Daniel of Beswick, 905.
Sweaty devil in his palm, 802. Swift, Jonathan, Dean of St. Patrick's, quoted, on Fleet-ditch (from De- scription of a City-Shower), 57; his "nice man,' one with nasty ideas, 407; his inventory of a woman's mind, 617; his verses to Ardelia, 619; on slanders against the clergy, his Directions for Servants and Mrs. Harris's Petition, 734; his reference to Colley Cibber, as fulfilling a double office of Court- laureate and Court-buffoon, 621; his verses on Sir Robert Walpole, 623; perhaps was the author of our "Statesman" ballad, 626; his Journal to Stella, ibid.
Swinburne, Algernon Charles, quoted, his Atalanta in Calydon, 887; his Chastelard, 897; his shorter poems, Ilicet, 460; Dolores, 597; A Ballad of Burdens, 603. Sword-and-dagger duel, woodcut of one, mentioned, 475; given, in fac- simile, 977.
Sydney, Algernon, arrested, for the Rye-House Plot, 683; his regret for having trusted his kinsman William, Lord Howard of Escrick, 782; his religious opinions, 683, 987; his unjustly-compassed condemnation, and heroic death, 712, 795, 988, 1003; the weakness of his defence, but impressive last words, 1004; ballads made on him, 784, 1004, 1005. Sydney, Henry, brother of Algernon, at the Coronation of James II., 592. Sydney, Colonel Robert (an elder brother of Henry Sydney), pro- bably the actual father of Monmouth (a belief in which might palliate the remorseless severity of James in 1685, to one whom he accounted not his nephew, even illegitimately,) 787, 806. He died in 1674.
TAAF, or Taafe, Old, 805.
Tackers, a political term that came into use in 1704, its origin, 826, 827.
Tackers Vindicated (The); or, An Answer to the Whig's new Black List, with a word to Mr. John Tutchin about his scandalous ballad that goes to the tune of One hundred and thirty four, 1007, 1081. Tag, or foot of ballads burden or refrain, Introd. XX, 1114. See Ist and 3rd Indices, and Burden. Talbot, Col. Richard, 370, 371; created
Earl of Tyrconnel, and Lieutenant- General of the army in Ireland. See Tyrconnel.
Tallard, Marshall de, at Nottingham,
after his defeat and capture. 388, 389. Tangiers, part of Queen Catharine's dowry, 595, 636; afterwards dis- mantled, and the garrison recalled, through the parsimoniousness of the Commons, refusing subsidies for its support; they then became terrified at the presence of the army in Eng- land, and strove to get it disbanded, in 1683, 595 (doubtful allusion). Tantivies (Loyal), hailed and toasted,
750; mentioned as a burden, 598. Tatler, The, quoted, on Philander at Rosamond's Pond, 45.
Taubman, Matthew, song writer, his pageant for the Skinners Company, 488.
Taudrie necklaces, from St. Audrie's Fair, Introd. XVIII.
Taunton-Dean ballads, Somersetshire; one beginning "On New Year's day, as I heard say," in Marshall's New- castle garland, The Goldfinch, 366. Taunton (Somerset), troops to have been raised by Sir John Trenchard, 782. [It is a strange coincidence that at Taunton, where Monmouth was proclaimed King, and where the bloody Assize was soon after held, Perkin Warbeck had been at first successful, and speedily cap- tured, in 1497. Thus Monmouth's nickname of "Perkin" was pro- phetic.]
Taylor, Sir Henry, LL.D., quoted, 300, 338, 453, 453, 542. Taylor, John, the Waterman-poet, his Penniless Pilgrimage, 49; quoted, 255; his description of Cuckold's
Haven, near awakening Greenwich, 924.
Teague, as an early representative of Paddy, 73, 191; a character thus named in Sir Robert Howard's comedy, The Committee, 74; ad- dressed as a man and a brother in the Lilli-burlero ballad, 370. Teagueland tunes not necessarily of Irish growth, any more than D'Urfey's Anglo-Scotch ditties were to be taken as truly Scottish, 73, 74. Tearing of plackets, or of ruffs, a suggestive phrase for a "shindy in a bordello or mauvais-lieu, 930, 931. Compare 1017. Tearsheet, Doll, her pious and well- intended advice, 899; her scorn for Ancient Pistol, 930, 931, 1115. Tea-Table Miscellany (Allan Ram- say's), 17, 139, 140.
Teckley. See Tekeli, and Serini. Teige, or Tiege, probably = Teague,
the sobriquet of an Irish bog-trotter, or Parnell of the Parable (not A Fairy Tale), 765. See Teague. Teignmouth = Tinmouth, in ballad, 363.
Tekeli, Emeric, Count of,
Hungarian (who, being reinforced by Turks and Tartars, and in alli- ance with the Sultan, successfully waged war against the Austrians, until after Vienna had been relieved by John Sobieski), 634; probably also referred to, in a Bagford ballad, as Serini (see Serini, for explanation), 867. Compare Buda, Sobieski, and
Temple, Sir Richard, at Buckingham, twitted as "Timber Temple," and wherefore, 766, 768.
Temple, Sir William, his wife Dorothy (Osborne), Introd. XVI.
Tennyson, Alfred, his mild character- ization of the Celtic race, 73; his Miller's Daughter, Introd. I; his lines on "every face, however full," paralleled with those by Dickens, 897; his Will Waterproof, 770; quoted often elsewhere, 806, etc. Teresa de Ahumada, Sta. (Spanish Carmelite nun, b. 1515, d. 1582, canonized, 1621) = St. Theresa, men- tioned, 634.
Teuxbury Mustard Pills, i.e. fire-balls, for incendiarism, 686.
Thackeray, William, his List of Ballads kept in stock, 146; tran- script of it removed for convenience to General Introduction, LX to LXXVIII; its probable date being 1685 (before July), LIII; a few ballads mentioned therein not yet identified, though possibly still ex- tant, XLV, XLVI.
Thames frozen and bearing booths of a fair (in 168), 405; Norris's ballad on it, 256, 405.
Theatres popular after the Restoration, Introd. XL, XLI.
Theft, sermon preached extempore to Whitney and other robbers, on the text T. H. E. F. T., 557. Thimble (Bodkin and), not thimble- rig avowedly, 756, 1015. Thistlethwaite, Alexander, M. P. for Sarum, 774, 777.
Tholouse (Louis Alexandre de Bour- bon), Count, his naval action off Malaga, 62; song on his engage- ment in 1704 with Rooke, 293. Thomason, George, bookseller, col- lector of Civil War literature (now called the King's Pamphlets), Introd. XV.
Thompson, Anthony, M.P. for Cam- bridge town, 834- Thompson, Nathanael, his publica-
tions, 2nd Div. xvi, 818; a carica- ture woodcut of him, mentioned, 1001; the persecutions he endured, 1010; styled "Thompson Tell- Lyes, " because he had mocked Oates as "Titus Tell-Truth," 664; takes jocose liberties with Alderman Wright, and is prosecuted, 818; his "London's Lamentation for the Loss of her Charter," 487. Loyal Poems and Loyal Songs. Thompson, William, his compilation of "Orpheus Caledonius," and its corrupt version of Gilderoy, 103. Thomson, James, his Seasons poem of "Summer," with its Musidora episode, 135 to 141; his partnership with Mallet on the masque of "Alfred," 140.
Thornbury, Walter, his portion of
Old and New London (since then, Edward Walford's), mentioned, 57. Three-fold letter e, intentional, not accidental, 532.
Three-legged Mare, 375; the tree
with three corners, or branches, Tyburn gibbet, Introd. XLVII. See Tyburn. "Three-Names" =
Shaftesbury, i.e. Anthony Ashley Cooper, 98. Thurmond, John, his song (1724), in Harlequin Sheppard, 192.
Thyer, R., his Genuine Remains of Samuel Butler, 643, 646. Thynne, Thomas, M.P. for Oxford University in 1673; styled "Tom of Ten Thousand" (in allusion to his income, not his excellence), 770, 776; assists to present the Duke of York as a Popish recusant, 777; assassinated in his coach (at the instigation of Count Königsmark, as it is believed), by Colonel Vratz, Stern, and Borotsky, 770; the actual perpetrators executed, 771; his ill- omened and enforced marriage with the widowed Lady Ogle (only daughter and heiress to the Earl of Northumberland," Reresby), ibid.; the scandalous intrigue, by which, at Monmouth's bidding, he ruined Miss Trevor, 772.
Tichbourne, Sir Henry, one of the five Roman Catholic Lords com- mitted to the tower, on Titus Oates's accusation, 674.
Tidcome, or Tidworth, Wiltshire, its drummer sent to Gloucester gaol, 922.
Time and tune used interchangeably in early poetry, 778.
"Time hath, my Lord, a wallet at his back," Shakespearian illustra- tion, 973. [Originally in Dr. W. Pope's "From Infallible Rome."] Time-servers, 2nd Div. xix, xxiii, 836, 1001. See Waller, etc. Time-server's Garland (The), contain- ing The Country-man's Contrivance, etc., 2nd Div. xx. See also Trimmers and Turn-Coat.
Times newspaper report of Professor Tyndall's lecture, 38.
Timothy Dash, or —, a scrivener's apprentice, enamoured of Ruth Harris, before her pillory-exposure, 928.
Tindal, Nicholas, translator and con- tinuer of De Thoyras, 296, etc. See Rapin.
Tiverton, Devonshire, 367.
Tixall Poetry (from MSS., 1813), 54.
Tom (Cruel, bloody) = The Bully Knight. See Armstrong. Tom Brown's Delight, a ballad and name of tune, Int. LXXIII, 514, 984. Tom of Bedlam's horn, 874 ; his position and claims, 886. Tom of Ten Thousand Tom Thynne, of Longleat. See Thynne. Tonge (or Tongue), Dr. Ezrael, or Israel, the early excogitator of the Popish Plot discovery, 648, 668; his living at Pluckley, in Kent, 690; his death, and uncomfortable meet- ing afterwards with Bedlow, arcades ambo, 690, 784.
Tony, 153, 542, 839, 871, etc. See Shaftesbury.
Top Knots (of ribbon, in large bows,
worn on summit of the hair, like chevaux de frise), 121 to 124, 930 to 937. They are shown in wood- cuts on pp. 68, 121, 934, and 982. See 1st Index.
Torbay, the landing of William of
Orange at, 360 to 362, 391, 420. Tory, a nickname, introduced about 1680, its alleged origin, 751; poetic definition thereof, 1000. Totness, with dissenting proclivities, 367.
Tottel's Miscellany (= Songes and Sonettes, written by the ryght honorable Lorde Henry Haward late Earle of Surrey, and other, 1557), mentioned, 892. Touch (Royal), for cure of the King's- Evil, 2nd Div. xv, xvi, 794, 800 to 805, 927.
Tourville (Anne Hilarion de Costentin,
Compte de), Admiral, 117; his squadron seen from Portland, 280; at Beechy Head, 281; near Harfleur, and Cherbourg, 281, 282, 293, 298, 363; another ballad on him (not hitherto met in print by the editor), 282; he cannonades Teignmouth, 363; at Fort Lisset, 292, 294. Towzer, one of the nicknames applied
by the Whigs to Roger L'Estrange, 1001. (Cf. Popular Music, 415.) Trade, a damp and dullness on it, falsely charged against the Roman Catholics, 588.
Train, an early verse by Lewis Carrol (since amplified by him, and spoilt,) in the magazine so entitled, edited by R. B. Brough, 192.
Tramps, their social peculiarities studied, without prejudice, by an outsider, 193, 194, 215, etc. Treasurer, 689 (line 53, and note). More probably this is ironical, and refers to Dr. Godden, who was Treasurer of the Queen's Chapel, at Somerset House.
Treby (not Troby), Sir George, Re-
corder of London, 2nd Div. xiii, 487. Trenchard, Sir John, a friend and abettor of Monmouth, 777, 819; appointed to raise men at Taunton, 782. [See the Loyal Song on Mon- mouth Degraded; or, James Scott the little King in Lyme, where, after mentioning Monmouth, "Such a Fop-King was ne'er before," it is stated that "First he'll call his Parliament, By Ferguson and Gray's consent, Trenchard and all the Boars in's tent, Fit for the King in Lyme, Boys."]
Trimmer (i.e. one who trims his sails to catch varying gales of favour), 2nd Div. xix, xxiii, 836. [A song of The Trimmer, beginning, "Pray listen well, while I describe A Trimmer in the Church," to the tune "A Begging we will go,' is in 180 Loyal Songs, 1685 and 1694, p. 264.] Trimmer's Confession of Faith (A); or, The true principles of a Jack of Both-sides, 2nd Div. xix to xxi. Trinculo (probably not the Trinculo of Shakespeare's "Tempest," but)= Trincalo, in Richard Tomkin's "Albumazar," 804; mentioned, also, by Milton, ibid. Likewise
by Richard Brathwaite, in his "A Strappado for the Deuill," 1615, p. 114, "Where our Isle's Ardelio Descants of Tom Trincalo:" 1115. Triviall Ballades, by Patrick Carey,
one of them given, complete, 547. Trojan colony in Wales, 848. 849, 855. Trunk-ballads, found by Sir W. C.
Trevelyan, Introd. XXII, 480. Tunes mentioned. 1st class, those belonging to our reprinted Bagford Ballads: for which see FIRST INDEX. 2nd class, those belonging to ballads mentioned, and only partly quoted. For the chief of them, including such as are indicated by their first line, see THIRD INDEX.
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