_Passage from Burke_ (Vol. ii., p. 359.).--Q.(2) will find the passage
he refers to in Prior's _Life of Burke_, vol. i. p. 39. It is extracted
from a letter addressed by Burke to his old schoolfellow Matthew Smith,
describing his first impressions on viewing Westminster Abbey, and other
objects in the metropolis. Mr. Prior deserves our best thanks for giving
us a letter so deeply interesting, and so characteristic of the gifted
writer, then barely of age.
I.H.M.
Bath.
_Nicholas Assheton's Journal_ (Vol. ii., pp. 331-2.).--If T.T. WILKINSON
will turn to pp. 45, 6, 7, of this very amusing journal, published by
the Chetham Society (vol. xiv., 1848), he will find some account of the
Revels introduced before James the First at Hoghton Tower, in the
copious notes of the editor, the Rev. F.R. Raines, M.A., F.S.A.,
elucidating the origin and history of these "coarse and indecorous"
dances--the _Huckler_, _Tom Bedlo_, and the _Cowp Justice of Peace_.
J.G.
Manchester.
_Scotch Prisoners_, 1651 (Vol. ii., pp. 297. 350.).--Heath's _Chronicle_
(p. 301. edit. 1676) briefly notices these unhappy men, "driven like a
herd of swine, through Westminster to Tuthill Fields, and there _sold_
to several merchants, and sent in to the Barbadoes."
The most graphic account, however, is given in _Another Victory in
Lancashire_, &c., 4to. 1651, from which the parts possessing _local_
interest were extracted by me in the _Civil War Tracts of Lancashire_,
printed by the Chetham Society, with references to the _other matters_
noticed, namely, Cromwell's entry into London, and the arrival of the
four thousand "_Scots, Highlands, or Redshanks_."
These lay on Hampstead Heath, and were thence guarded through Highgate,
and behind Islington to Kingsland and Mile End Green, receiving charity
as they went, and having "a cart load or two of biskett behind them."
Thence they proceeded by Aldgate, through Cheapside, Fleetstreet, and
the Strand, and on through Westminster.
"Many of them brought their wives and berns in with them, yet
were many of our scotified citizens so pitifull unto them, that
as they passed through the city, they made them, though
prisoners at mercy, masters of more money and good white bread
than some of them ever see in their lives. They marched this
night [Saturday, Sept. 13.] into Tuttle Fields. Some Irishmen
are among them, but most of them are habited after that
fashion."
The contemporary journals in the British Museum would probably state
some epidemic which may have caused the mortality that followed.
GEO. ORMEROD
Sedbury Park, Clepstow.
_Long Friday_ (Vol. ii., p. 323.).--T.E.L.L. is not correct in his
supposition that "Long Friday" is the same as "Great Friday". In Danish,
Good Friday is Langfredag; in Swedish, Längfredag. I have always
understood the epithet had reference to the length of the services.