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be Governour of Ireland, he would suffer no oflScers of 

 the army to have power in Ireland, but onely those that 

 had lands in England, that if thej' stirrd or acted against 

 his mind, he might seize their lands here in England. 

 This after proovd the ruyne of his son Henry in Ireland, 

 for no officers would stirr there to defend his power and 

 goverment, when the army here under Lambert and 

 Fleetwood turnd out Dick Projectour, because the}' feard 

 the sequestration or losse of their lands in England. — 

 Franc. Cave. 



Its undoubted that he was velenato, and Jo. Thurlo 

 the Secreatary had a lick of it. Credo che quel Thurlo 

 lo disse al Cavalier Rico. Willys. — -S[2>] R (F[ j'%s]. 



One of the Dutch Embassadours coming to Noll, Noll 

 cryd, in his speech to him, and when he spoke agen, the 

 Dutchman howld out aloud. Noll lookt over his sholder, 

 and said, ' this fellow outdoes me.' 



P. 95. Fan- of Essex wrote a letter to Haj^nes, Deputy 

 Major Gen", to Fleetwood, and thus superscribe! it. ' To 

 the right reverend Father in God, liight Hon''^". in his 

 Highnes the L"*. Protectour, Right Wo", in his countrey, 

 and Right Worthy in himselfe. Major Gen". Haynes.' 

 Fleetwood showd this to Noll. 'They will jeere us.' 

 • Has he any fleece on the back ? ' ' No.' ' Wee had best 

 suflfer their geeres,' — and let him alone then. 



CHARLES FARLEY. 



Timour the Tartar has gone to his rest, at the 

 good old age of eightj-eight. Cloten is dead ; 

 Osrick is no longer in the flesh, and the foolish 

 amorous Roderigo has done with earthly loves 

 and follies. 



To say that Charles Farley is dead, will not 

 awaken perhaps a very wide emotion. The 

 bearer of the name belonged rather to a past 

 generation than to this. Nearly seventy years 

 ago he commenced a career at Covent. Garden, 

 which ceased not very many years since. In his 

 youth he was contemporary with Macklin, and he 

 was probably just before his death the last of the 

 actors who had played in Rich's old theatre. He 

 had gone thither before the Kerables ; and many 

 an actor who has run through his glittering 

 career, and whose history seems ancient to us, 

 was not born when Charles Farley was in his 

 prime, and died ere the curtain fell on Charles's 

 last public scene. 



Charles had literary cousins, and his family name 

 is not unknown to book-collectors. John Farley 

 was the author of that curious mixture of verse and 

 prose which was presented to Charles I. on Midlent 

 Sunday, 1621, entitled St. Paules Church.,- her 

 Sill for the Parliament. Some of your readers 

 may remember the fine, scholastic, unpronounce- 

 able name which the late actor used to give to the 

 miscellaneous entertainment on his benefit night, 

 performed between the play and the farce. May 

 not this bit of ostentation have descended to him 

 from old Robert Farlseus, who under that Latin- 

 ised name published, in the seventeenth century, 

 his Lychnocausia, sive Moralia facum Emblemata ; 

 and his Naclogia, sive Iitveiita Navin ? Then, is 



it not to Abraham Farley that we owe a tran- 

 scription and revision in two goodly folios of the 

 Domesday Book ? — and while our Charles was yet 

 in his teens, did not Edward Farley give to the 

 world his pamphlet, pleasant to men struggling 

 under liabilities, and satisfactorily proving that 

 " Imprisonment" for debt (was) unconstitutional 

 and oppressive ? Charles, as an author, only 

 stands in a humble position on the literary list. 

 The sole work of his which I have seen in print, 

 is the one entitled " Airs., Olees, and Choruses, in 

 a new grand ballet-pantomime of action, called 

 Raymond and Agnes, or the Castle of Limlan- 

 burgh; composed by Mr. Farley. Now per- 

 forming (1797) at the Theatre Royal Covent 

 Garden." In that nerve-shattering piece the 

 " composer " enacted Don Raymond, and the 

 Prince of Wales placed a copy of this book, with 

 the "actions" printed, and the songs in MS., 

 among the pamphlets which he thought worth 

 preserving. It is now in the British Museum. 



It was in the getting-up of such pieces that Farley 

 exhibited himself in the light of an artist. The 

 picturesque groupings of Aladdin, in which he waa 

 the most obstinately wicked magician that ever 

 worked evil to his own undoing ; the harmony in 

 the stage action of Robinson Crusoe, in which cha- 

 racter he himself made some of our grandmothers 

 hard put to it to conceal their emotions ; the 

 dazzling glories of Cherry and Fair Star, — noted 

 for the mutiny of the waves, who would not up- 

 hold the splendid galley of the Queen of Cyprus 

 till Sixpenny Forbes had restored them to their 

 full pay of one shilling, nightly ; tlie pictorial 

 finish of his Fortunatus, both piece and character 

 of that name, — all these and many more ware 

 owing to his unsurpassable taste. But the gloi-y 

 and grandeur of all were eclipsed by Timour the 

 Tartar. People went to the doors at midday to 

 be first in the rush towards the enjoyment which 

 that name held out to them. And surely the 

 Timour they beheld was a much more enjoy ahle 

 chief than the original Tartar ! How grand, dig- 

 nified, condescending, brave, yet gentle-hearted ! 

 Who could have believed that Barnardine, that 

 arch-brute in Measure for Measure, was identical 

 with very superb Khan ? The latter, however, 

 was the more popular though not the more artis- 

 tic performance, and for many a year the after- 

 piece at Mr. Farley's benefit was " T'imour the Tar- 

 tar, with all the horses.'' 



He began his stage life as a boy when eleven 

 years old, in 1782, and when he assumed men's 

 characters he displaced old actors from favourite 

 parts, and made the latter permanently his own. 

 After he came, Bernard no longer played Cloten, 

 nor the Gentleman Usher in King Lear, nor Spark iah 

 in the Country Girl. Before him, Mr. Macready, 

 the father of the better-known actor of that name, 

 possessed (so to speak) the parts of Fog, Poins, lie- 



