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FOOTNOTES:
[1] _Vide_ Sheridan’s election expenses for Stafford.
[2] 1642. “The Inhabitants of the Citie of Bathe express their great
greifes in that they have little company this summer, the poor guides
are now necessitated to guide one another from the alehouse, lest they
should lose their practice. Pluto’s cauldron (the hot bath) had never
less purboyled fleshe in it to please the palate of his Courtiers.
The poor Fiddlers are ready to hang themselves in their strings for a
pastime, for want of other employments.” (_Certaine Intelligences from
Bath_, 1642. Pamphlets. Coll. Geo. III. B.M.)
[3] 1431. “So there is owing to them for their appearance for 73 days
6_s._ and 8_d._ for each day” (_i.e._ for _two_ members).
1441-2.--“And it was the same day ordered by assent of the whole
congregation that the Burgesses chosen for Parliament shall be allowed
each of them two shillings a day, and by no means any more.” (Extracts
from the Proceedings of the Corporation of Lynn Regis, 1430 to 1731.
_Archæologia_, vol. xxiv.)
[4] William Prynne was one of the great authorities upon parliamentary
history and statistics. All subsequent compilers, who have written upon
the subject of constituencies, quoted from his “Brevia Parliamentaria
Rediviva.”
[5] Andrew Marvell, who was made assistant-secretary to Milton, when
he served the Protector, was, by Cromwell’s death, thrown out of
employment. The burgesses of Hull, with whom he was deservedly popular,
elected Marvell their representative to Parliament. The payment, of
which so much has been made, for these services did not amount to a
munificent retainer, the salary being fixed at two shillings a day for
borough members; kindly remembrances in the form of acceptable gifts
were, however, sent by constituents to those representatives who won
their good wishes. Thus Marvell writes to the friends who sent him to
parliament: “We must first give you thanks for the kind present you
have pleased to send us, which will give occasion to us to remember
you often; but the quantity is so great, that it might make sober men
forgetful.”
[6] Coleridge, “Northern Worthies.”
[7] Campbell, “Lives of the Lord Chancellors.”
[8] “DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM’S LITANY.
“From cringing to those we scorn and contemn
In hopes to be made the citizens’ Gem,
Who now scorn us more than we e’er did them,
_Libera nos Domine_.
“From beginning an Execrable Trait’rous health,
To destroy the Parliament, King, and himself,
To be made Ducal Peer of a new Commonwealth,
_Libera nos Domine_.
“From changing old Friends for rascally new ones;
From taking Wildman and Marvell for true ones;
From wearing Green Ribbons ’gainst him gave us Blue ones,
_Libera nos Domine_.”
[9]
“Here’s a Health to the King, and his lawful successors,
To honest _Tantivies_, and Loyal _Addressors_;
But a rot take all those that promoted _Petitions_,
To poison their nation, and stir up seditions.”
(_The Loyal Health_, 1684.)
[10] “The _Petitioners_, looking upon their adversaries as entirely
devoted to the Court and the popish faction, gave them the name
of _Tories_, a title given to the Irish robbers, villains, and
cut-throats, since called _Rapparees_. (It will be remembered that
James II. convened a Parliament in Dublin which attainted three
thousand Protestants).
“The _Abhorrers_ on their side, considering the _Petitioners_ as men
entirely in the principles of the reprobated parliament of 1640, and as
Presbyterians, gave them the name of _Whig_, or ‘Sour-milk,’ formerly
appropriated to the Scotch Presbyterians and rigid Covenanters.”
[11] A second _Convention_ Parliament met January 22, 1689, offered the
Crown to William of Orange and Mary, February 13th, and dissolved a
year later.
[12] Published by the “Ballad Society.”
[13] Alleged length of the petition for resummoning parliament.
[14] This relates to Lord Shaftesbury’s Protestant Association, and his
“green ribbon boys.”
[15] H. Mildmay and J. L. Honeywood, members for Essex in Charles II.’s
parliaments.
[16] “Murdering Miles” Prance, the silversmith. Prance, the “Renegado,”
one of the accusers of the popish Lords, and with Titus Oates, one of
the discoverers of the popish conspiracy.
[17] The popish Lords and the secretary of State, Lord Danby.
[18] His name appears to have been Dancer, tanner and bailiff; he was
also mayor at the time.
[19] This ballad was written by Charles Blount, a prolific pamphleteer,
second son of Sir Henry Blount, who attended Charles I. at Edge Hill.
[20] In reply to the London and Wiltshire petitions against the
vexatious prorogations--which Charles justified on the excuse “that the
unsettled state of the nation made a longer interval necessary”--the
king volunteered an audacious statement which was likely to astonish
constitutional minds. He said that “he was the head of the Government,
and the only judge of what was fit to be done in such cases, and that
he would do that which he thought most for the good of himself and his
people, desiring that they would not meddle with a matter that was so
essential a part of his prerogative.” This brazen-faced assumption is
so coloured by Carolian waggery, that we must fancy the Merry Monarch,
if he saw the wit of his speech, making the reply in question with his
“tongue in his cheek.”
[21] Sir Thomas Mompesson had sat in the parliament in 1679 for New
Sarum, and in the Oxford Parliament he sat for Old Sarum.
[22] “The Presbyters.”
[23] Thomas Thynne, whose estate was £9000 a year. He was an invaluable
ally of the Duke of Monmouth. Assassinated by hired bravoes in the pay
of Count Königsmarck, who was in love with the rich heiress, a widow,
to whom poor Thynne was (by the influence of her friends) betrothed, be
it said, against the inclination of the lady herself.
[24] The celebrated Philippe de Comines (1445-1509). “L’on voit dans
Comines, mieux que partout ailleurs, ce qu’étaient alors et les droits
des rois et les privilèges des peuples. Il témoigne pour les Anglais,
qui déjà savaient mieux que tout autre nation maintenir leurs libertés,
une grande consideration.”
[25] Frank Smith and Benjamin Harris, publishers of many tracts,
satires, and so-called “libels” against the Court.
[26] _Commons Journals_, March 26, 1681.
[27] Lord Keeper and Chancellor.
[28] The scapegoat, Fitz-Harris, who was promptly got rid of, for fear
of revelations, being executed June 9, 1681.
[29] That the Lords contested the claim of the Commons to impeach and
condemn any one whom they might accuse of a crime was a grievance of
the Lower House.
[30] Mr. Samuel Lewen.
[31] His seat was Long Ditton, near Kingston, which town had
surrendered its charter to King Charles II. about a month before
his death. King James appointed Sir Edward Evelyn one of the new
corporation.
[32] A Child was subsequently successful in getting returned for
Middlesex. Child died in 1740, and was succeeded by Hugh Smithson, who
later became known as the recipient of the honours of the Dukes of
Northumberland.
[33] The term “Tacker” was due to the chief member for Oxford
University, William Bromley, having, in the session just closed, moved
“That the Bill to prevent occasional nonconformity might be _tacked_
to the Land Tax Bill.” The practice of tacking was condemned by the
Lords, most of whom had signed a resolution to the effect they would
never admit a “tack” to a money-bill. The party in the Commons strove
vigorously to carry their point upon two bills being thus conjoined,
whence they began to be known as “the Tackers.” In return, they
stigmatized their opponents as “Sneakers.”
[34] Tacks, otherwise Tackers, _i.e._ High-Church Tories, who were
first so called from their efforts to tack the Occasional Conformity
Bill on to a money bill, so that it could not be sent back by the Lords.
[35] Jacobites.
[36] “Memoirs of the Life of Thomas, Marquess of Wharton; to which is
added his character by Sir Richard Steele.” London, 1715. 8vo.
[37] Lord Grimston’s curious comedy, in five acts and in verse(!), “The
Lawyer’s Fortune, or Love in a Hollow Tree,” was first published in
1704, as a quarto; being a foolish attempt, in fact, the merest trash,
the author, it is said, suppressed it. The edition printed, as alleged,
by the Duchess of Marlborough’s orders, is dated 1736. Besides the
heading of an elephant performing on a rope, a satirical frontispiece
was engraved, in which Lord Grimston is seen interrogating a sage,
ensconced in the “hollow tree” of his play; a jackass is the most
conspicuous object in the foreground; the animal wears a coronet, and
is intended to typify the doltish author, who is farther ridiculed in a
burlesque dedication “To the Right Sensible the Lord Flame.”
[38] Queen Anne.
[39] The Sacheverell riots.
[40] “Catalogue of the Political and Personal Satires in the British
Museum,” vol. iii.
[41] “The Humours of an Election” seems to have inspired not only
artists and balladists, but playwrights and opera composers also. “The
Humours of the Town, a Dramatic Interlude,” referring to the contested
election of 1774, is of this order. M.P. Andrews wrote “a new musical
Interlude” under this title, 1774. “The Election,” a comedy in three
acts, appeared in 1749; and “a new opera, called the Election,” was
published in 1817. “The Country Election,” a farce in two acts, is due
to D. J. Trusler, 1786; and “The Humours of an Election,” by F. Pilon,
was published in 1780. Besides these and other plays, several poems
were printed under this title, to some of which we have occasion to
refer.
[42] There were several variorum editions of this ballad, mostly
amounting in substance to the same thing, “but with differences.” One
entitled, “The Downfall of Sundon and Wager,” etc., commences with this
verse:--
“Ye Westminster Boys,
By your freedom of choice
Who have shown to your good friends of London
Ye dare to be free,
Reject Pension and Fee,
By throwing out Wager and Sundon.”
[43] “Gentleman Harry” was Henry Pelham, the head of the
Administration. He combined the offices of first lord of the treasury
and chancellor of the exchequer. His death occurred on the eve of the
elections of 1754.
[44] Sir John Soane secured these inimitable pictures from Mrs. Garrick.
[45] Hogarth, in the first state of the engraving, has made the
superscription in the youthful candidate’s letter to be Sir Commodity
Taxem, Bart. Nichols is not correct in describing this gentleman
as Thomas Potter. Lord Wenman and Sir James Dashwood were the Whig
candidates; the Tory representatives were Lord Parker and Sir E. Turner.
[46] In the original painting it is, “the Devil.”
[47] Dr. Shebbeare, in his “6th Letter to the People of England,”
audaciously abused the reigning dynasty, for which Lord Mansfield
condemned him to stand in the pillory, to be imprisoned for three
years, etc. Subsequently Lord Bute complimented him with a pension,
which Shebbeare enjoyed to his death.
[48] Marked “New Interest” in the original painting, which is
necessarily easier to decipher than the engraving.
[49] As concerned Churchill and the artist, they both departed, it may
be said, “warring to the very verge of the grave,” in 1764. Less than a
month before the painter’s death appeared Churchill’s familiar lines,
treating his antagonist as already slain by his satire:--
“Hogarth would draw him (Envy must allow)
E’en to the life, was HOGARTH LIVING NOW.”
Curiously enough, five weeks after these lines appeared, the poet
was likewise gathered to those shades to which he had with sportive
venom prematurely consigned his antagonist, in all probability without
anticipating the literal fulfilment of his prophecy.
[50] John Wilkes, Radical, 1290; George Cooke, Conservative, 827; Sir
W. B. Proctor, the unsuccessful Whig candidate, polled 807 votes.
[51] A less dignified view is taken of the lord mayor’s officious
intervention, in the _Political Register_, 1768, where it states
he had degraded, by his personal interference, “the dignity of his
office to that of a petty constable;” and in a letter referring to the
royal and ministerial favours conferred in return “for his active and
spirited behaviour,” the new state official is, in his capacity of
merchant-tailor, thus addressed:--
“And now, my lord, as we are _brother tailors_, how could you be so
unkind as not to join _eight of us_ to your right honourable self (nine
tailors proverbially making one man), when you were dubbed the other
day a Privy Councillor.”
[52] The “cornuted” effect of these peculiarly fashioned wigs,
especially when seen from the back, is, perhaps, accountable--with the
pun on the parson’s Christian name of Horne--for the quotation engraved
above the plate in question,--“Mine horn shall be exalted, like the
horn of an Unicorn (_Psalm 93_).”
[53] The Duke of Grafton was first lord of the treasury, 1767 to 1780.
[54] John Wilkes.
[55] George Fletcher, executed 1746.
[56] Samuel Turner and Sir Robert Ladbrooke were unstable, and a few
months later, “ratted” and becoming subservient to Court influence, did
their best to betray the liberties of the citizens confided to their
championship.
[57] A mark being equivalent to 13_s._ 4_d._
[58] According to the return of 1826 there were three hundred voters.
[59] Sheridan, according to Lord Byron’s dictum, had produced the
three best compositions of his age in their respective lines: the best
comedy, “The School for Scandal;” the best parliamentary philippic,
the “Begum speech” against Warren Hastings; and pronounced the finest
funeral oration, the monody on Garrick.
“The pride of the palace, the bower, and the hall,
The orator, dramatist, minstrel who ran
Through each mode of the lyre and was master of all.”
[60] A necessary qualification, members being, by supposition, expected
to reside in the places they represented.
[61] Wilkes’s Address to the Middlesex Electors.
[62] Lord Thurlow, who was frequently twitted by the satirists upon his
_penchant_ for the fair sex.
[63] Lord Bute’s secretary, the great dispenser of “back-stairs
influence,” afterwards Lord Liverpool.
[64] For the screen of Carlton House Palace, see “Coriolanus addressing
the Plebeians,” 1820; p. 338.
[65] The bard of the “New Chevy Chase,” being truly national, makes the
descendant of the Russells and his other personages express themselves
vernacularly in “Scotticisms” when under the influence of strong
emotions.
[66] The bishop.
[67] “Charles Dix,” lately driven from France.
[68] Whose ministry caused the Bourbon downfall.
[69] Much as Gillray made his royal father scrutinizing and blinking at
the presentment of Oliver Cromwell.
[70] Mr. J. Calcraft (W) succeeded in distancing Henry Bankes (W), but
only lived a few months to enjoy his victory; a fresh election took
place in October, 1831, _vice_ Calcraft deceased, when Lord Ashley
(afterwards Earl of Shaftesbury) secured the vacant seat.
[71] Hobhouse was rejected by his Westminster constituents.
[72] This is a reprehensible pun, barely to be tolerated even on
such occasions, upon the name of Sir John Elley (C), an unsuccessful
candidate, who was beaten by eight votes: Sir J. de Beauvoir (W), the
second member, polling 239 to Elley’s 231. John Ramsbottom (W), was
returned for Windsor at the top of the poll at the general elections of
1832, 1835, and 1837.
[73] Sir John de Beauvoir.
[74] _i.e._ Napoleon Buonaparte.
[75] See “Reform,” page 372.
[76] “Radicals” for “rapids.”
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Transcriber’s note:
Inconsistent spelling and hyphenation are as in the original.