1808.] 
They were however rivalled in this na- 
tion. Mr. Smythe says. in his M.S. Lives 
of the Berkeley’s, ‘“ Langham, an Irish 
footman of this lord [Heary Lord Berke- 
ly, in the reign of kliz.] upon the sick- 
ness of the Lady Catherine, this lord’s 
wife carryed a letter from Callowdon*, 
to old Doctor Fryer, a physician dwel- 
hing in Little Britaine in: London, and 
returned with a glass bottle in his hand, 
compounded by the doctor for the reco- 
very of her health; ajourney of 148 miles 
performed by bim in less than 42 houres, 
notwithstanding. his stay of one night at 
the physition andy apothecary’s houses, 
which noe one else could have so well and 
safely performed.” ‘ 
Howell sayst, ‘* You writ to me bf 
for a footman, and I think this beater 
will fit you. I know-be ean run well for 
he hath run away twice from me, but he 
knew the way backagain; yet thougtrhe 
hath a running head, as well as running 
heels (and who will expect a footman to 
be a stayed man), I would not part with 
him, were I not to go post to. the North. 
There be some things in him that answer 
for his waggeries: he will come when you 
call-him, go, when you.tell him and shut 
the door after him: he is faithful and. 
stout, and a lover-of his master, He is 
@ great enemy to all dogs if they bark 
at him in his running, for {have seen him 
confront a huge mastiff and knock him 
down. When.you go a country journey, 
you must spirit him‘with liguor: you 
must allow him also something extraor- 
dinary for socks; or else you must not 
have him to. wait at your table; when. 
his grease melts in runting hard, ’tis sub- 
Ject to fall into his toes.” 
Lord Berkeley’s running footman was 
an Jrishman, ‘Running has ever been a 
favorite and necessary accomplishment . 
of barbarous nations, as now of the Ame- 
rican Indians.{[ The heroes of Fingal 
were great runhers3; so were our ances- 
tors the Britons. Giraldus Cambrensis 
says, that the Welch passed days and 
nights'in running over the tops of hills 
and penetrating woods||. 
From the above passage of Howell it ap- 
pears, that he limits the term footman, to 
these pedestrians. But one footman, ne ed and understood it was a son, the first 
that a running one, was kept in families, 
after the invention of coaches, atleast, but 
* Near Coventry, Co. Warw. 
+ Familiar Letters, p. 196. 
J See Franklin’s Essays, ii, 175. Ed, 
22moa. - 
i P. 887. 6. 8. Ed. Camd, 
Running Footmen.—Dr. Aylworth’s Secret. 
517 
one to whom that term was generally per- 
haps applied. Taylorsays all the serving 
men are converted into two or three ani- 
mals, videlicet, a butterfly, page, a trot~ 
ting footman, a stiffe-drinking coachman, 
acooke,a clarke, a steward, anda butler.* 
In the English Dictionarié, or an interpre- 
ter of hard English words, by H.C. Gent, 
-12mo. 1632; we have no foofman, but 
a ‘* swift footman” celeripedian. 
® Very exiraordinary passage in Smythe's 
Lives of the Berkeley's, M.S. 
“Catharine Lady Berkeley being, in 
the sixteenth of Elizabeth, the mother of 
three daughters, and almost without hope 
ot more children especially of a son, 
which she for the contynuance of her 
-house and her husband’s name much de- 
_ sired, extremely grieving that the male line 
of her ancient family, should end in her 
default, as she accompted it, she ac- 
quainted Mr. Francis Ay!worth, then 
with them, of Kington Magna, in War 
wickshire; alittle old werish man, but 
an excellent well read ‘and practised chi- 
Turgeon, and for many years a gentle- 
man, leaving no heir: he gave her hope 
of conception, yea, of a son, if she and 
her lord would for a few months be ruled 
by him. This in a private conterence 
between them three was agreed upon, 
ane promised to be observed, 
Children are given tomen 
~ It’s God that gives them. 
“ She conceived and within one year 
after this communication brought forth a 
son called Thomas, father of the Lord 
George, of whom | am next to write, to 
her unspeakable comfort, but never con- 
ceived after that time. Mr. Ayiworth 
told me this stofy about ten years after, 
at Callowdon, which I have at second 
hand heard also, that this lord hath pri- 
vately told-to some others: he added 
that some months or thereabouts, before 
her time of delivery, she sent for him 
and kept him with her, and he (out of 
what observation I know not) being con- 
fident, she went with a son, offered to 
wage with her 10/. to $0/. that soe it was; 
she accepted the offer most willing, no 
doubt to lose, had the wager been thir- 
ty-hundred: as souue as she was deliver- 
word she spake was Carry Aylworth his 
thirty pounds, which purposely she had 
layd ready in gold in her chamber; this 
Ba UE VU ae ee cn pa RULE MERE Res Hh MUS. Cet tt BY OIRY AH 
* Water-poet Works, p. 2. 243. 
+ A wearish girl, Wrayton Polyolb. S. 99, 
In the old Latin dictionaries it is inconditus - 
insipidus, insulsus. 
being 
