_Old Booty_ (Vol. iii, p. 40.).--In 1830 there appeared a humorous
versification, by W. T. Moncrieff, of this story, for the authenticity of
which he prudently says he cannot vouch. He furnishes a sort of account of
the affair, and of an action at the suit of Booty's widow, the records of
which, it says, are at Westminster, Jan. 2. 1687.
Notwithstanding this apparent circumstantial account, we find in a very
entertaining anonymous work, entitled _The History of Man; or, the Wonders
of Human Nature_, 2nd edit. Edinb. 1790, 8vo., vol. i. p. 376., a similar
incident related of a Mr. Gresham, an eminent merchant of London, which
happened in the reign of Hen. VIII., the authorities for which are cited,
_Sandy's Trav._ l. 4. p. 248. _Clark's Mir._ c. 33. p. 115.