2nd s. No 29., July 19. '56.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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ILLUSTRATIONS OF MACAULAT. 



Jacobite Song. — I copy the accompanying Jaco- 

 bite effusion from a contemporary MS. Should it 

 not have been printed, it may probably suit you 

 as a Macaulay illustration. J. O. 



" Lay by jt reason, 



Truely out of season ; 

 Rebellion now is Loyalty, and loyalty is Treason : 



Now forty one, S', 



Is quite undone, S"" ; 

 A Subject then depos'd his king, but now it is his Son, S'' j 



The nations Salvation, 



From male Administration, 

 Was then pretended by ye saints, but now his abdication. 



IL 



" Besides ye case, S', 

 Bears another face, S' ; 

 Billy had a mind to reign, and Jemmy must give place, S"" ; 

 Rais'd Insurrections, 

 With base reflections ; 

 And labour tooth and naile to perfect his projections ; 

 Rebellion in fashion, 

 Declar'd throughout ye nation ; 

 Then turn'd his ffather out of doors, and call'd it abdica- 

 tion. 



III. 

 " A declaration. 

 For self preservation. 

 Was spread abroad wherein was prov'd a father no rela- 

 tion ; 



Monarchy halters, 

 And abdicators, 

 Did swear themselves into a league with dutchmen, and 

 with traytors ; 



They enter, Indenture, 

 Both soul and body venture. 

 Whilst att Royal Jimmy's head their malice still did 

 center. 



IV. 

 " What have we gained ? 

 Grievances retained ; 

 The Government is still ye same, ye king is only changed ; 

 Was ever such a bargain. 

 What boots it a farthing. 

 Whether ffather Petre rule, Benting, or Carmarthen ; 

 Oppressed, distressed. 

 With Empty Purse Carressed, 

 We still remain In Statu quo, their's nothing yett re- 

 dressed. 



V. 

 " Baile for Treason, 

 Now is out of Season ; 

 And judges must bee Courtiers still against all right and 

 reason ; 



Nay, more, I'll mention. 

 Ye Senate hath a pension, 

 Which overthrowes the contracts made with ye Select 

 Convention ; 



Thus wee, S"", you see, S"", 

 Come off by ye bee, S'' ; 

 Wee give our money to bee Slaves, Instead of being free, 

 S^ 



VI. 

 " Never was Beetle, 

 Blind as this people ; 

 To think that God will own a Church with a Socinian 

 Steeple ; 



By Priests deceived. 



That have brought themselves into that pass ne'er more 

 to be believed ; 



They leer, S', for fear, S^, 



Ould Jemmy should come here, S^ 



And then they'll all repent that ere they took ye swear, 



VIL 

 " Alas ! what is Conscience, 

 In Sherlock's own Sense : 

 When Interest lyes att stake, an oath with him is non- 

 sense ; 



The Temple Master, 

 Fears no disaster ; 

 He can take ten thousand oaths, and ne'er bee bound the 

 faster, 



And all theyr Cause Intangle ; 

 Yet nought can hold ye wretch but ye old Triangle. 



VIIL 

 « For holy Cause, S' , 

 You may break all lawes, S""; 

 For perjury, nor treason, then do signify two strawes, S', 

 So bad our Case is. 

 We'd better far bee papist ; 

 For now Socinians rule the Church, and they'r rul'd by 

 an Athiest : 



The nations damnation. 

 Was their last reformation ; 

 Either you must take ye Swear, or starving, leave yr 

 Station. 



" FINIS." 



" GREAT EVKNTS FROM LITTLE CAUSES SPRING. 



Blaise Pascal says, with a Rabelaistic humour 

 that is not his wont, " si le nez de Cldopatre eut 

 ete plus court, toute la face de la terre aurait 

 change." And copious are the instances that 

 might be cited in exemplification. The subjoined, 

 as pertaining to our English history, curiously 

 illustrate this truth of the momentous flowing 

 from the trivial, the great from the minute, and 

 offer us a field of speculation on the proximate 

 and impelling motive^ influencing that single will 

 which, electing one scale, thus made the balance 

 kick the beam with consequences so signal to 

 future generations. Perchance, even the slightest 

 dyspepsia or neuralgia may, in the chain of 

 causes, account for that single vote, or that " mis- 

 take," which gave us the ferial observance of our 

 Anglican calendar — a statute, the safeguard of 

 British freedom, — and the blessings of stability in 

 the firm yet mild sway of the line of Brunswick : 



1. " Bishop Burnet stated that the Habeas Corpus Act 

 passed by a mere mistake ; that one peer was counted for 

 ten, and that made a majority for the measure." — Earl 

 Stanhope's Speech before the House of Peers, on the Abju- 

 ration Bill, June 24, 1856. 



2. " The authority upon which the Saints' days stood 

 in our Calendar ought to be considered. At the begin- 

 ning of the reign of Elizabeth, when the Protestant re- 

 ligion was restored, the question whether there should be 

 Saints' days in the Calendar was considered by Convoca- 

 tion, and sharply and fully debated. The Saints' days 



