NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2°d S. VI. 131., July 3. '58. 



*' slain " is written in the margin, and of E. Rey- 

 noldes (private secretary to Essex), Cuffe, Ke- 

 mishe, and about a dozen otliers it is said, " all 

 these are suspected, and not known yet whither 

 they be committed ; " so that it is clear that the 

 paper was prepared very early after the commo- 

 tion. In a sort of postscript it is mentioned that 

 "The ladle Ritche is with Mr. Sackfbrde, and 

 The Earl of Bedford with Sir John Stanhope;" 

 whereas we have been previously told that the lat- 

 ter nobleman was " at Alderman Holydayes." All 

 these details are interesting with reference to so 

 remarkable an incident : we know the result as 

 regards the principal offender and some of his ac- 

 complices, and we are informed in general terms 

 that many others were allowed by heavy fines to 

 buy themselves out of the hands of the execu- 

 tioner. The papers in my possession enable me 

 to show, not only the sums originally demanded 

 from the prisoners, but those for which they were 

 subsequently comumted. I subjoin a statement, 

 entitled " Fynes imposed on the Noblemen, and 

 other Confederates in the late Rebellion ; the first 

 column containing the amount of fine required, 

 and the second the amount of fine exacted. Where 

 the second column is left blank, we may presume 

 that there was no mitigation of the pecuniary pun- 

 ishment : — 



" Earle of Rutland - - 30,000" 20,000" 



Erie of Bedford - - 20,000" 10,000" 



Baron Sandys - - 10,000" 5000" 



Baron Cromwell - - 5000" 2000" 



SirH.Parker, Lo. Montegle 8000" 4000" 

 Sir Charles Percy - - 500" 



Sir Josselin Percy - 500'""'" 



Sir Henry Carey - - 400'" 



Sir Robert Vernon - 500"" 100" 



Sir William Constable - 300™ 100" 



Robert Catesbye - - 4000" 



Francis Tresham - - 3000" 



Francis Manners - - 400" 



Sir George Manners - 400" 



Sir Thomas West - - 1000" 



Gray Bridges - - 1000" 



Sir Edward Michelborne - 500"' 200" 



Thomas Crompton - 400" 



Walter Walsh - - 400" 



Sir Edw. Littleton - 400" 



Richard Cholmely - 500" 200" 



Capt. Selby - - 200'" 



Robert Dallington - 100" 



Mallery - - 500" : 200" 



Edward Bushell - - 300" 100" 



William Downehall - 100" 



Gosnall - - 40" 



Francis Buck - - 40" 



Edward Wiseman - - 100" 



Capt. Whitlock - - 40" 



Christopher Wright - 40" 



John Wright - - 40" 



Charles Ogle 



John Vernon 



Ellys Jones 



Arthur Bromefield 



John Salisbury 



Capt. William Norreys 



40" 

 100" 

 40" 

 40" 

 40" 

 40"." 



In my recently published Life of Shalispeare, 

 prefixed to the new edition of his works, vol. i. p. 

 154., and vol. iii. p. 214., I have inserted copies of 

 the original examinations of Augustine Phillips, 

 the actor, and of Sir Gilly Merrick, respecting the 

 performance of a play on the story of Richard IT. 

 They were derived from the State Paper Office, as 

 well as that remarkable note from Lord Buck- 

 hurst and Sir R. Cecill, introducing the two execu- 

 tioners to the Tower, who were to behead Lord 

 Essex; and it is more than likely that the infor- 

 mation above communicated would be confirmed, 

 and ' added to by documents there preserved. 

 What I h,ave given is from papers in my own cus- 

 tody, and to it, on a future occasion, 1 may add 

 some notes and letters from Essex to Elizabeth 

 (from my own ancient copies) which have never 

 yet seen the light, and of which Capt. Devereux 

 had no information. J. Pa-^ne Colliee. 



Maidenhead. 



MAKTIN MARPEELATE RHYMES. 



The following bibliographical and literary trea- 

 sure is copied from the original in my possession. 

 It is a quarto of four leaves, in black letter, the 

 last page blank. Copies are also preserved in the 

 libraries of Lambeth Palace, the British Museum, 

 Bodley, &c. Although the tract is undated, we 

 learn from internal evidence that it was printed 

 in 1589, and very shortly after the publication of 

 Hay any Worke for Cooper. There is another 

 edition entitled Rythmes against Martin Marre- 

 Prelate. This latter has been reprinted (with 

 some errors) in DTsraeli's Quarrels of Authors. 

 The learned editor says, " As a literary curiosity, 

 I shall preserve a very rare poetical tract, which 

 describes with considerable force the Revolu- 

 tionists of the reign of Elizabeth. They are 

 indeed those of wild democracy : and the subject 

 of this satire will, I fear, be never out of time. 

 It is an admirable political satire against a mob- 

 government. In our poetical history, this speci- 

 men too is curious, for it will show that the 

 stanza in alternate rhymes, iisually denominated 

 Elegiac, is adapted to very opposite themes. The 

 solemnity of the versification is impressive, and 

 the satire equally dignified and keen." 



The following " rhymes " are very unequal. 

 The sense of some of the stanzas is sometimes 

 doubtful. They might, perhaps, have been ren- 

 dered more intelligible by amended punctuation, 

 but this is a liberty I have not thought proper to 

 exercise. 



