[325] History of Independency, Part II. p. 32.
[326] First collected and published in 1661, and afterwards reprinted
in two small vols. 1731.
[327] The first collection ever formed of these political satires
was printed in 1660, with the quaint title of "Ratts rhimed to
Death; or, the Rump-parliament hang'd up in the Shambles."
[328] In one of the popular political songs of the day, "The Rump"
is aptly compared to
"The foxes of Samson, that carried a brand
In their tails, to destroy and to burn up the land."
[329] Clement Walker's History of Independency, part II. p. 130.
Confirmed by Barwick in his Life, p. 163.
[330] The Rev. Mark Noble's Memoirs of the Protectoral House of
Cromwell, i. 405.
[331] Clement Walker's History of Independency, Part II. 173.
[332] Ib., Part I. 160.
[333] Mercurius Rusticus, xii. 115. Barwick's Life, p. 42.
[334] This actor was a comedian named Robinson, of the Blackfriars
Theatre; the performers there being termed "the king's servants." In
the civil wars most of the young actors, deprived of living by their
profession, all theatres being closed by order of the Parliament,
went into the king's army. Robinson was fighting at the siege of
Basing House, in Hampshire, October, 1645, when after an obstinate
defence his party was defeated, he laid down his arms, suing for
quarter, but was shot through the head by Colonel Harrison, as he
repeated the words quoted above.
[335] The following account is drawn from Sir William Dugdale's
interleaved Pocket-book for 1648.--"Aug. 17. The Scotch army, under
the command of Duke Hamilton, defeated at Preston in Lancashire.
24th. The Moorlanders rose upon the Scots and stript some of them.
The Scotch prisoners miserably used; exposed to eat cabbage-leaves
in Ridgley (Staffordshire), and carrot-tops in Coleshill
(Warwickshire). The soldiers who guarded them sold the victuals
which were brought in for them from the country."
[336] Desodoard's Histoire Philosophique de la Revolution de France,
iv. 5. When Lyons was captured in 1793, the revolutionary army
nearly reduced this fine city to a heap of ruins, in obedience to
the decree of the Montagne, who had ordered its name to be effaced,
that it should henceforth be termed, "Commune affranchie," and upon
its ruins a column erected and inscribed, "Lyon fit la guerre a la
liberte; Lyon n'est plus."
[337] The _Moderate_, from Tuesday, July 31, to August 7, 1649.