NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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6. "Essay for the Press." 1712, 8vo. p. 8, 



7. " Mr. Asgill's Defence upon bis Expulsion." 

 1712, Svo. p. 87. 



8. " Mr. Asgill's Extract of the several Acts of Par- 

 liament for settling the Succession of the Crown." 

 1714, 8vo. p. 24. Published also with another title- 

 page: " Mr. Asgill's Apology." 



9. "The Pretender's Declaration abstracted." 1714, 

 8vo. p. 46. Published also with a new title-page: 

 " History of Three Pretenders." 1714, Svo. 



10. " Succession of the House of Hanover vindi- 

 cated." 1714, Svo. p. 75. 



11. " Pretender's Declaration englished." 1715, 

 Svo. p. 24. 



12. "Pretender's Declaration transposed." 1716, 

 Svo. p. 19, 



• 13. " A Question upon Divorce." 1717, Svo. p. 20. 

 ■ 14. "An Abstract of the Public Funds." 1716, 4to. 

 p. 32. 



15. "Essay on the Nature of the Kingdom of God 

 within us." 1718, Svo. p. 24. 



1 6. " The complicated Question divided upon the 

 Bill relating to Peerage." 1719, Svo. p. 18. 



17. " Brief Answer to a brief State of the Question 

 between the printed and painted Calicoes and the 

 Woollen and Silk Manufactures." 1719, Svo. p. 22. 



18. "The British Merchant; or a Review of the 

 Trade of Great Britain." Published in Numbers. 

 No. I., Nov. 10, 1719. 



1 9. " Computation of the Advantages saved to the 

 •Public by the South Sea Scheme." 1721, Svo, p. 24. 



20. " Extract of the Act passed 11 Geo. I., for the 

 Helief of Insolvent Debtors; with Remarks, and a 

 Postscript concerning Taxes." 1729, 8vo. p. 32. 



21. "The Metamorphosis of Man. Part I." 2nd 

 •edit. 1729, 8vo. p. 288. 



22. " Asgill upon Woolston." Svo. 1730, p. 36. 



23. " Essay upon Charity." Svo. 1731, p. 18. 



24. " Mr. Asgill's Case." Broadside, N. D. Folio. 



25. " Mr. Holland's Answer to Mr. Asgill's Case 

 replied to." Broadside folio. N. D. 



The last two were issued in 1707, and were re- 

 plied to in two broadsides : Reasons humbly offered 

 by Mr. Holland against Mr. Asgill; and Mr. Hol- 

 land's Answer to Mr. Asgill's Case. 



Of the Tracts enumerated only Nos. 5, 6, 7, 

 8, 9, 10, and 11. are included in the Svo. with the 

 title : A Collection of Tracts written by John As- 

 ffill, Esq. 1715, Svo. 



•. Mr. AsgilVs Congratulatory Letter to the Lord 

 Bishop of Sarum (Burnet), 1713, 8vo., is not 

 iWritten by him. 



The two best imitations of Asgill's style which 

 J. have seen are, A Letter to the People, to be left 

 for them at the Booksellers ; with a Word or Two 

 of the Bandbox Plot. 1712, Svo. p. 15. Written 

 lay Tom. Burnet. And that in the Examiner, 

 yol iii. No. 6., probably by Oldisworth. 



To the list of Asgill's writings may, I think, also 

 be added, though his name does not appear to it. 

 Dr. Davenant's Prophecies, 1713, Svo.; in the in- 

 troduction to vrhich, which bears all the marks 



of Asgill's style, Dr. Davenant is severely ridi- 

 culed. James Crosslet. 



LINES ON THE EAKL OF CRAWFORD. 



These lines on the Earl of Crawford occur in a 

 volume of poems by W. Bewick, B.A., the second 

 edition of which was printed at Newcastle-on-Tyne 

 in 1752. I have copied them in case the editor 

 may think them worthy of insertion in " N. & Q." 

 They may perhaps be interesting to the noble 

 author of Lives of the Lindsays. 



" ON THE RIGHT HONOURABLE JOHN EARL OF CRAWFORD, 

 AND HIS VALOUR AT THE BATTLE OF GROTZKA. 



" Descended from a family as good 

 As Scotland boasts, and from right ancient blood : 

 You are the ornament of all your race. 

 The splendour, and the glory, and their praise : 

 What courage you have shown, illustrious Scot! 

 In future ages will not be forgot : 

 When wicked infidel? came crowding on 

 With horsetails mov'd, and crescents of the moon ; 

 With frightful regiments of foot and horse, 

 In dreadful numbers, and with mighty force ; 

 With proud Bashaws, by Sultan's high command. 

 With flaming sciraiters in nervous hand, 

 In Hungar plains against the Christian host, 

 At Grotzka, when the fatal day was lost. 

 You stood imdaunted in the bloody field, 

 Withstood their fury, and disdain'd to yield, 

 Amidst the clouds of smoke, when bullets shower'd. 

 Amidst loud thunders, when dread cannons roar'd. 

 You with a courage like a Lindsay fought, 

 Shunn'd not the enemy, but danger sought ; 

 Till crowding numbers overpowering you, 

 And fainting with your wounds, you weary grew ; 

 When wounded much, and ready to be ki'l'd, 

 Amidst your foes, they forced you o^the field. 



Who can the hero blame, when he has done 

 His best in battle, and is left alone : 

 Whose noble courage had sustain'd the test, 

 By crowding numbers of the foe opprest. 

 Choked in his blood, wounds flaming in his breast. 

 Thus when the news came spreading through the main. 

 The dismal news of noble Crawford slain — 

 When such unhappy tidings touch'd our ears 

 How pallid were our looks, with sudden fears. 

 How much did we suspect the doubtful truth. 

 Believing we had lost the warlike youth ; 

 Whose peerless loss would Britons nearly touch, 

 The loss of one whom George aflects so much : 

 Which to his country had much dearer been. 

 Than if a thousand others had been slain. 

 But Providence the wounded much did save. 

 And back again our noble Crawford gave ; 

 But not without returning deadly blows. 

 And that with justice on his wicked foes. 

 Such was the courage of our British lord ; 

 He pistol'd or he cut them down with sword, 



. And had but others equal courage shown. 

 The day which fatal was had been tbeir own." 



E. H. A. 



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