HISTORY OF HARTING. I S3 



be found in Campbell's British Poets. His best known 

 couplet was in allusion to Charles I. at his trial : 



" So Britain's Monarch once uncovered sat, 

 While Bradshaw bullied in a broad-brimmed hat." 



His satire on the Budgets of the Ministers of his 

 day is amusing : 



" From folios of accounts they take their handles, 

 And the whole balance proves a pound of candles . 

 As if Paul's cupola were brought to bed 

 After hard labour of a small pin's head ! " 



The " Man of Taste" is a dandy like Lord Dun- 

 dreary, but who sometimes hits hard : 



" I gaze with pleasure at a Lord Mayor's head, 

 Cast with propriety in gilded lead." 



As a parody on Phillip's " Splended Shilling," 

 Bramston wrote the " Crooked Sixpence," or the 

 sorrows of an old maid. Its motto is : 



" Sing maiden muse 

 Sixpence, hoop-petticoat, and Church on Fire." 



It was the fashion for lovers to divide a crooked 

 sixpence, in token of betrothal ; but for Bramston's 

 heroine 



" No Jolly Joe or Sober Sam 

 The matrimonial question ere proposed, 

 Or crooked sixpence offered to divide." 



Dr. Bramston was of Christ Church, Oxford, and 

 became Vicar of Chalton, Lurgashall and Harting ; he 

 was presented to Lurgashall by the University of 

 Oxford, as the appointment had lapsed through the 

 inability of the patron, Sir Browne of Cowdray, 

 who was a Roman Catholic. He gave the Com- 

 munion plate to Lurgashall Church. Pope writes 

 to Caryll, Feb. 6, 1730. "The art of Politics is 

 pretty : I saw it before it was printed." Elwin notes, 

 that this was probably through Caryll's introduction.* 



The Squire returned from France in 1/22, for in 

 * Elwin's Pope, Vol. VI., p. 326. 



