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180 been committed to the Tower by James II. Of him the song was sung:—

With the exception of the choral lines—

the rest is mainly, if not wholly, the composition of the late Rev. R. S. Hawker, of Morwenstow. It was written by him in 1825, and was printed first in a Plymouth paper, and then by Mr. Davies