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.
Pages:
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
32
33
34
35
36
37
38
39
40
41
42
43
44
45
46
47
48