2°'JS. X. Aug. 11. '60.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



105 



but to no effect. They then, with drum beating, paraded 

 the streets round the town, then took him back to his 

 house and left him there ; but as the mob were prevented 

 by the associators, who guarded him, from tarring and 

 feathering, yet, after the associators were gone, they then 

 broke the windows and abused the house," &c. 



Uneba. 

 [The following additional particulars of the treatment 

 of Dr. Kearsley and Isaac Hunt are given in an amusing 

 work by Alexander Graydon, entitled Memoirs of a Life, 

 chiefly passed in Pennsylvania. Edinb. 8vo. 1822 : — 

 " Among the disaffected in Philadelphia, Dr. Kearsley 

 was pre-eminently ardent and rash. An extremely 

 zealous loyalist, and impetuous in his temper, he had 

 given much umbrage to the Whigs; and, if I am not 

 mistaken, he had been detected in some hostile machina- 

 tions. Hence he was deemed a proper subject for the 

 fashionable punishment of tarring, feathering, and cart- 

 ing. He was seized at his own door by a party of the 

 militia, and, in the attempt to resist them, received a 

 wound in the hand from a bayonet. Being overpowered, 

 he was placed in a cart provided for the purpose, and, 

 amidst a multitude of boys and idlers, paraded through 

 the streets to the tune of the Rogue's March. I hap- 

 pened to be at the coffee-house when the concourse ar- 

 rived there. They made a halt, while the Doctor, foaming 

 with rage and indignation, without his hat, his wig dis- 

 hevelled, and bloody from his wounded hand, stood up in 

 the cart and called for a bowl of punch. It was quickly 

 handed. to him; when, so vehement was his thirst, that 

 he drained it of its contents before he took it from his 

 lips. What were the feelings of others on this lawless 

 proceeding I know not, but mine, I must confess, revolted 

 at the spectacle. I was shocked at seeing a lately re- 

 spected citizen so cruelly vilified, and was imprudent 

 enough to say, that, had I been a magistrate, I would, 

 at every hazard, have interposed my authority in sup- 

 pression of the outrage. But this was not the only in- 

 stance which convinced me that I wanted nerves for a 

 revolutionist. It must be admitted, however, that the 

 conduct of the populace was marked by a lenity which 

 peculiarly distinguished the cradle of our republicanism. 

 Tar and feathers had been dispensed with, and, excepting 

 the injury he had received in his hand, no sort of violence 

 was offered by the mob to their victim. But to a man 

 of high spirit, as the Doctor was, the indignity in its 

 lightest form was sufficient to madden him : it probably 

 had this effect, since his conduct became so extremely 

 outrageous that it was thought necessary to confine him. 

 From the city he was soon after removed to Carlisle, 

 where he died during the war. 



" A few days after the carting of Dr. Kearsley, Mr. 

 Isaac Hunt, the attorney, was treated in the same manner, 

 but he managed the matter much better than his pre- 

 cursor. Instead of braving his conductors like the Doc- 

 tor, Mr. Hunt was a pattern of meekness and humility, 

 and at every halt that was made, he jose and expressed 

 his acknowledgments to the crowd for their forbearance 

 and civility. After a parade of an hour or two, he was 

 set down at his own door, as uninjured in body as in 

 mind. He soon after removed to one of the islands, if I 

 mistake not, to Barbadoes, where, it is understood, he 

 took orders." 



These circumstances are also noticed by Leigh Hunt 

 in his Autobiography, p. 8. edit. 1860. — Ed.] 



BISHOP BURNET'S MANUSCRIPTS. 

 For some years prior to 1837, these papers, which 

 had been promised to be placed in a public collec- 



tion by the editor of the History of his own Time 

 (vide Memorandum at the back of title to the 

 second volume in folio edition), remained in pos- 

 session of the Bishop's descendant until the period 

 stated above, at which time his profession was 

 that of a tailor. A gentleman noiv one of " Lon- 

 don's merchant princes," then a town traveller, 

 calling on him in the way of his avocations, learnt 

 that being a descendant of the Bishop's, he had 

 that prelate's watch and other family matters ; 

 also, a large quantity of manuscript books and 

 papers, which being an incumbrance underneath 

 his shop-board, he should be glad to be quit of. 

 This being communicated to a near relation of 

 the aforesaid town traveller, a bookseller, the 

 mass was purchased at that time, now nearly a 

 quarter of a century ago. I had the pleasure of 

 seeing them, and noticed the bulk consisted of 

 several sets of the Own Time neatly transcribed, 

 with numerous interlineations, alterations, and 

 other amendments ; a memorandum on one volume 

 stating for the sixth time of copying (i. e. if my 

 memory does not fail me). There was also a 

 quantity of original letters of the early Re- 

 formers, and many transcripts of others, together 

 with the Bishop's transcript of the Diary of the 

 Countess of Warwick, of which more than one 

 edition has issued from the press. That por- 

 tion relating to the Own Time was submitted to 

 the late venerable Dr. Routh, and purchased ; 

 from the papers was printed The History of 

 the Reign of James II., 8vo. Oxford, 1852, &c. 

 Whether the MSS. have gone to Durham with 

 the Doctor'iS fine library, or remain at Oxford, I 

 have never heard. The other portion of them, 

 containing the letters by the early Reformers, and 

 which your esteemed correspondent W. M. of 

 Baltimore, U.S., inquu-es for in " N. & Q." (2°* S. 

 viii. 87.), were sent to the late Mr. Evans of Pall 

 Mall for sale, and there disposed of, and occur in 

 the fifth day's sale, commencing Saturday, July 

 21, 1838. The entire series of Evans's Sale Cata- 

 logues being deposited in the British Museum, the 

 various lots may even now be traced to their 

 present locale.* For his assurance I inclose the 

 pages of the auction Catalogue, which, if you 

 have the means of conveying to your American 

 correspondent, he will be glad to receive, although 

 the name of Cranmer only appears in the details 

 of the sale Catalogue, and not that of the learned 

 Osiander. N". T. 



Minav ^atzi* 



Old English Military Uniform. — It may be 

 worth recording that our troops, at one period of 

 their history, were distinguished by badges similar 



[* The Catalogue states that this lot (1016.) was pur- 

 chased by Mr. Boone for 26/.— Ed.] 



