Notes and Queries, Number 53, November 2, 1850 eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 50 pages of information about Notes and Queries, Number 53, November 2, 1850.

Notes and Queries, Number 53, November 2, 1850 eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 50 pages of information about Notes and Queries, Number 53, November 2, 1850.

Nicholas Assheton’s Journal (Vol. ii., pp. 331-2.).—­If T.T.  WILKINSON will turn to pp. 45, 6, 7, of this very amusing journal, published by the Chetham Society (vol. xiv., 1848), he will find some account of the Revels introduced before James the First at Hoghton Tower, in the copious notes of the editor, the Rev. F.R.  Raines, M.A., F.S.A., elucidating the origin and history of these “coarse and indecorous” dances—­the Huckler, Tom Bedlo, and the Cowp Justice of Peace.

J.G. 
Manchester.

Scotch Prisoners, 1651 (Vol. ii., pp. 297. 350.).—­Heath’s Chronicle (p. 301. edit. 1676) briefly notices these unhappy men, “driven like a herd of swine, through Westminster to Tuthill Fields, and there sold to several merchants, and sent in to the Barbadoes.”

The most graphic account, however, is given in Another Victory in Lancashire, &c., 4to. 1651, from which the parts possessing local interest were extracted by me in the Civil War Tracts of Lancashire, printed by the Chetham Society, with references to the other matters noticed, namely, Cromwell’s entry into London, and the arrival of the four thousand “Scots, Highlands, or Redshanks.”

These lay on Hampstead Heath, and were thence guarded through Highgate, and behind Islington to Kingsland and Mile End Green, receiving charity as they went, and having “a cart load or two of biskett behind them.”  Thence they proceeded by Aldgate, through Cheapside, Fleetstreet, and the Strand, and on through Westminster.

“Many of them brought their wives and berns in with them, yet were many of our scotified citizens so pitifull unto them, that as they passed through the city, they made them, though prisoners at mercy, masters of more money and good white bread than some of them ever see in their lives.  They marched this night [Saturday, Sept. 13.] into Tuttle Fields.  Some Irishmen are among them, but most of them are habited after that fashion.”

The contemporary journals in the British Museum would probably state some epidemic which may have caused the mortality that followed.

GEO. ORMEROD
Sedbury Park, Clepstow.

Long Friday (Vol. ii., p. 323.).—­T.E.L.L. is not correct in his supposition that “Long Friday” is the same as “Great Friday”.  In Danish, Good Friday is Langfredag; in Swedish, Laengfredag.  I have always understood the epithet had reference to the length of the services.

COLL.  ROYAL SOC.

The Bradshaw Family (Vol. ii., p. 356.).—­The president of the pretended high court of justice, a Cheshire man, had no connexion with Haigh Hall, in Lancashire.  E.C.G. may satisfy himself by referring to Mr. Ormerod’s History of Cheshire (vol. iii. p. 408.) for some valuable information respecting the regicide and his family, and to Wotton’s Baronetage (vol. iii.  P. 2. p. 655.) for the descent of the loyal race of Bradshaigh.

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