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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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church, came into courte and performed theire antient 

 homadge by singing an anthem, and praying for y" rovall 

 family. (Monday, Feb. 10, 1678.) " 



It may be added that this privilege of cele- 

 brating divine things in the Exchequer was not 

 exclusively confined to the Carmelites, for it 

 appears by the Memoranda Roll of the 7th and 8th 

 of Richard II., membrane 27,, that the seneschal 

 and bailiff's of Droglieda ex parte Midice were 

 directed to pay to the king's chaplain, Friar Walter 

 Bagot, the sum of 20s. in silver, granted to him 

 for his labour, costs, and expenses in the cele- 

 bration of divine things for the king's ministers in 

 the chapel of his Exchequer. And by the Roll of 

 Issues of the 15th of Edward IV., it appears that 

 a payment was then made of a sum of sixpence 

 only, " Cuidam fratri divina in dicto Scaccario 

 celebranti pro pane, vino et cera ad missas cele- 

 brandum." James F. Ferguson. 



Dublin. 



CALVES -HEAD CLUB. 



(Vol. xi., p. 405.) 



"The Whigs Unmask'd, being the Secret History of 

 the Calf 's-head Club, showing the Rise and Progress of 

 that Infamous Society since the Grand Rebellion, &c. 

 The eighth edition, with large additions, mdccxiii." 



Such is the abbreviated title-page of my copy. It 

 begins with an epistle to the worthy members of 

 the Calf s-head Club. No pagination. 



The Preface - - - - . j yi 



The Whigs Unmask'd, or the, &e. - - - l 



A Song on January 30, 1690 - - - 11 



Reflections on - - - - - 13 



An Anniversary Anthem, 1693 - - - 14 



Reflections on - - - - - 17 



Anniversary Anthem, 1694 - - - - 20 



Reflections on - - - - - 23 



Anniversary Anthem, 1695, 1698, 1699 - - 26 



Reflections on - - - - - 29 



An Anthem on January 30, 1696 - - - 33 



Reflections on - - - - - 36 



An Anthem on January 30, 1697 - - - 39 



Reflections on - - .. _ - 42 



A Song on January 30, 1697, by a lad of 16 - 46 



Reflections on - - - - - 50 



An Anthem on January 30, (no year) - - 52 



Reflections on - - - - - 55 



A Song at the Calf's-head Club, January 30, 1698 - 67 



Reflections on - - - - - 60 



An Anniversary Poem on January 30, 1699 - 63 



Reflections on - - - - - 66 



On January 30, 1699, a remark on the former - 68 



The Health ------ 69 



Reflections on- - - - -71 



An Appendix to the Secret History, &c. - - 73 



Eemarkable Accidents and Transactions at the 



Calf's-head Club ; by way of continuation of the 



Secret History thereof. Introduction - - 84 



Calf's-head Club, 1708 - - - - 87 



January 30, Annoq. Dom. 1709 - - - 96 



January 30, 1710 ----- jqO 



January 30, 1711 - - - . -105 



An Account of the Puppet Plot, intended to have 

 been put in practice on November 17, 1711, Queen 



Elizabeth's birth-day - - . . 108 



January 30, 1712 - - - . - 120 



Some off-hand lines alluding to the restlessness of 



the Whiggish Party - - . _ 13], 



November 4, 1712 - - - . . X35; 



A Poem alluding to the Plots and Conspiracies of 



the Whiggish faction .... 147 

 Select observations of the Whigs' policy and con- 

 duct in and out of power - . _ - 151 

 The Character of a Calf's-head Club Man - - 1^7 

 The true Presbyterian without disguise - - IGS'- 

 The Character of a modern Whig - - . 174 

 A Vindication of the Royal Martyr - - 181 

 The Character of the Royal Martyr - - 229' 



"January 30, 1734-5. — Some j'oung men of quality 

 chose to abandon themselves to the debauchery of drink- 

 ing healths on the 80th of January, a day appointed by- 

 the Church of England for a general fast to expiate the 

 murder of King Charles I., whom they honour as a 

 martyr. As soon as ever they were heated with wine, 

 they began to sing. This gave great offence to the 

 people, who stopped before the tavern and gave them 

 abusive language. One of these rash young men put his- 

 head out of the window and drank to the memory of the 

 army which dethroned this king, and to the rebels which 

 cut off his head upon a scaffold. The stones immediately 

 flew from all parts, the furious populace broke the win- 

 dows of the house, and would have set fire to it; and 

 these silly young men had a great deal of difficulty to 

 save themselves." — L'Abbe Le Blanc's Letters, Letter xlii. 

 p. 330. 



" Lord Middlesex, Lord Boyne, ]\Ir. Seawallis Shirley,, 

 were certainly present, probably Lord John Sackville. 

 Mr. Ponsonby, afterwards Lord Besborough, was not 

 there. Lord Boyne's finger was broken by a stone which 

 came in at the window. Lord Harcourt was supposed t» 

 be present." — Miss Banks. 



" The mob destroyed part of the house. Sir William 

 (called Hellfire) Stanhope was one of the members." — 

 Horace Walpole. 



See Boyle's Chronology for another descrlptiou 

 of the scene, from which it appears that the re- 

 vellers, as well as the house, were saved by the 

 arrival of the guards. Edwakd Hawkins. 



These proceedings occasioned some verses in 

 the Grub Street Journal, wherein are the follovving^ 

 lines : 



" Strange times ! when noble peers secure from riot. 

 Can't keep NolVs annual festival in quiet. 

 Through sashes broke, dirt, stones, and brands thrown 



at 'em. 

 Which if not scand, was brand-alum-magnatum — 

 Forced to run down to vaults for safer quarters, 

 And in coal-holes their ribbons hide and garters. 

 They thought, their feast in dismal fray thus ending. 

 Themselves to shades of death and hell descending : 

 This might have been had stout Clare Market mobsters. 

 With cleavers arm'd, out-march'd St. James's lobsters j 

 Numsculls they'd split, to furnish other revels. 

 And make a Calves'-head Feast for worms and devils.."^ 



J. A. 



