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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.

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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':

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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),

947.

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.

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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.

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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.

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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,

the

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

Vienna.

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-

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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."]

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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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