[Footnote 1: This refers to his commitments for recusancy, which had been
frequent.]
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Minor Notes.
_Bond a Poet, 1642, O.S._--In the _Perfect Diurnall_, March 29, 1642, we
have the following curious notice:
"Upon the meeting of the House of Lords, there was complaint made
against one Bond, a poet, for making a scandalous letter in the queen's
name, sent from the Hague to the king at York. The said Bond attended
upon order, and was examined, and found a delinquent; upon which they
voted him to stand in the pillory several market days in the new Palace
(Yard), Westminster, and other places, and committed him to the
Gatehouse, besides a long imprisonment during the pleasure of the
house: and they farther ordered that as many of the said letter as
could be found should be burnt."
His recantation, which he afterwards made, is in the British Museum.