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NOTES AND QUERIES.

S. NO 6., FEB. 9. '56.

With Turnep-Granadoes the Storm is begun,

All weapons more mortal than Pickering's screw'd Gun :

Oh ! my Torture begins

To punish my Sins,

For peeping thro' Key-holes, to spy Dukes and Queens! Which makes me to roar out, with sad Lamentation, For this tragical Blow to the Saviour o' th' Nation.

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" A curse on the day, when the Papists to run down, I left * * * * at Omers, to swear Plots at London ; And oh, my dear Friends ! 'tis a damnable hard case, To think how they'll pepper my sanctify'd Carcass ;

Were my Skin but as tough

As my Conscience of Buff, Let 'em pelt their Heart-bloods, I'd hold out well

enough :

But oh these sad Buffets of Mortification, To maul the poor Hide of the Saviour o' th' Nation.

"Cou'd I once but get loose from these troublesom

Tackles,

A pocky stone Doublet, and plaguy steel Shackles, I'd leave the damn'd Tories, and, to do myself justice, I'd e'n go a mumping with my honest Friend Eustace. Little Commyns and Oats, In two Pilgrim Coats,

We'd truss our black Sills up, and all our old Plots ; We'd leave the base World all for their damn'd rude

Behavours, To two such heroick true Protestant Saviours.

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" But, alack and a day ! the worst is behind still, Which makes me fetch Groans that wou'd e'n turn a

Windmill :

Were the Pillory all, I should never be vext, But oh ! to my sorrow the Gallows comes next ;

To my doleful sad Fate,

I find, tho' too late,

To this Collar of Wood comes a hempen Crevat ; Which makes me thus roar out with sad Lamentation, To think how they'll truss up the Saviour o' th' Nation.

" Printed for G. C., and sold by Randal Taylor, near Stationers- Hall, 1685."

Oatess Church Preferment. Can any of your correspondents say what church preferment was given to Titus Gates in or after the year 1689 ? Miss Strickland, vol. xi. p. 60. (edit. 1840-48), says that William " rewarded him for his deeds with two rich livings in the Church of England," but she does not say what the livings were.

C. D.

[Most of our histories, as well as the biographies of this notorious character, are silent as to his holding two rich livings during the reign of William III. Macaulay's account of him at this time seems to be more satisfactory. He says, " Gates had obtained his liberty, his pardon, and a pension which had made him a much richer man than nineteen-twentieths of the members of that profession of which he was the disgrace. But he was still unsatisfied. He complained that he had now less than 300/. a year. In the golden days of the Plot he had been allowed three times as much, had been samptuously lodged in the palace, had dined on plate, and had been clothed in silk.

He clamoured for an increase of his stipend. Nay, he was even impudent enough to aspire to ecclesiastical pre- ferment, and thought it hard that, while so many mitres were distributed, he could not get a deanery, a prebend, or even a living. He missed no opportunity of urging his pretensions. He haunted the public offices and the lobbies of the Houses of Parliament. He might be seen and heard every day, hurrying, as fast as his uneven legs would carry him, between Charing Cross and Westminster Hall, puffing with haste and self-importance, chattering about what he had done for the good cause, and reviling, in the style of the boatmen on the river, all the statesmen and divines whom he suspected of doing him ill offices at Court, and keeping him back from a bishopric. When he found that there was no hope for him in the Esta- blished Church, he turned to the Baptists." Hitt. of England, vol. iv. p. 174. ]

Death of Charles II. (2 nd S. i. 49.) E. W. is clearly right as to the A., but is certainly wrong as to the C. F. These initials probably denote " Carmelite Friar." There was a Portuguese Car- melite then in London, who is said to have given instructions to Huddleston. If his name began with M., he would be the person intended. P. might stand for his Christian name (suppose Pedro), or it might represent Padre. The use of the masculine pronoun in the extract from the broadside, places the Duchess of Portsmouth out of the question ; nor are the initials used such as would be at all likely to have been used to de- scribe her. E. H. D. D.

Your correspondent E.W. is quite mistaken in his conjecture as to the meaning of the letters P.M. A. C^F. They stand for Pere Mansuate, a Capuchin Friar. He was confessor to the Duke of York ; and, upon his learning from the physicians the dangerous state of the king, he went to the duke, and told him that now was the time to take care of his soul. The duke, upon this, went to the king, and told him. He answered : " Ah, bro- ther, how long have I wished ! but now help me." And said he would have Father Huddleston, who had preserved him in the tree, and who, he hoped, would now preserve his soul. F. C. H.

John Trenchard. It is as well to remind those who may for the first subscribe to the New Series of " N. & Q.," and have not the old series in their possession, that an interesting document, in the shape of James II.'s General Pardon of this celebrated man, is printed from the original, in private hands, in 1 st S. v. 496. ; and some further account of him is given by MR. STDNEY WALTON at p. 593. in the same volume. E. S. TAYLOR.

Narcissus Luttrell (2 nd S. i. 33. 91.) The work noticed by W. H. W. T. (p. 91.) does not contain any notice of Narcissus Luttrell, the diarist, so that S. L.'s Query remains unanswered.