Brantwood, Coniston, Lancashire.
[A long account of Ket, and his insurrection, is given in Blomefield's
_Norfolk_, vol. iii. pp. 222-260., edit. 1806. Incidental notices
of him will be also found in Alexander Nevyllus' _Norfolke Furies
and their Folye, under Ket, their accursed Captaine_, 4to., 1623;
Strype's _Ecclesiastical Memorials_, vol. i.; Heylin's _History of the
Reformation_; Stow's _Chronicle_; Godwin's _Annales of England_; and
Sharon Turner's _Modern History of England_, under Edward VI. A Fragment
of the Requests and Demands of Ket and his Accomplices is preserved in
the Harleian MS. 304. art. 44.]
"_Namby-pamby._"--What is the derivation of namby-pamby?
Clericus Rusticus.
[Sir John Stoddart, in his article "Grammar" (_Ency. Metropolitana_,
vol.i. p. 118.), remarks, that the word "_Namby-pamby_ seems to be of
modern fabrication, and is particularly intended to describe that style
of poetry which affects the infantine simplicity of the nursery. It would
perhaps be difficult to trace any part of it to a significant origin."]
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