July 12, Peter Wentworth wrote thus to Lord Raby:  “The prosecution of Lord Wainman is now order’d again, upon wch the Tatler is to day; the accation I am told is this, that last year when there was a stopt put to’t ’twas upon the intercession lady Wainman the mother made to the Queen, and that she designed to marry her son, the fool, to Sir John Packington’s daughter, ’twas then said that my Lady her self had married her Butler, wch the Queen desired her to tell the truth, and she did assure the Queen upon her word and honour,’twas false, and she never intended any such thing, but of late she has own her marriage to that same Butler, and put off the match with Sir John P——­daughter, and married him to her husband’s sister, wch they say the Queen is angry at and therefore this fresh prosecution is order’d” ("Wentworth Papers,” p. 93).  Lord Wenman, the fifth Viscount, was born in 1687, married Susannah, daughter of Seymour Wroughton, Esq., in 1709, and died in 1729.  Lord Wenman’s brother-in-law, Francis Wroughton, was also his father-in-law, for he had married, in 1699, as her third husband, the Viscount’s mother, the Countess of Abingdon.]

[Footnote 393:  The Scowrers and Roarers were the forerunners of the Mohocks of 1712.  Shadwell wrote a play called “The Scowrers,” and often alludes to the window-breakers of his time.  See Gay’s “Trivia,” iii. 325: 

    “Who has not heard the Scowrer’s midnight fame? 
    Who has not trembled at the Mohock’s name?”
]

[Footnote 394:  “Essay concerning Human Understanding,” chap. xii. sect. 14.]

[Footnote 395:  See Nos. 6, 35.]

[Footnote 396:  “Brennoralt,” act iii.]

[Footnote 397:  “Paradise Lost,” iv. 12, 13.]

No. 41. [STEELE.

From Tuesday, July 12, to Thursday, July 14, 1709.

    Celebrare domestica facta.

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White’s Chocolate-house, July 12.

There is no one thing more to be lamented in our nation, than their general affectation of everything that is foreign; nay, we carry it so far, that we are more anxious for our own countrymen when they have crossed the seas, than when we see them in the same dangerous condition before our eyes at home:  else how is it possible, that on the 29th of the last month, there should have been a battle fought in our very streets of London, and nobody at this end of the town have heard of it?  I protest, I, who make it my business to inquire after adventures, should never have known this, had not the following account been sent me enclosed in a letter.  This, it seems, is the way of giving out of orders in the Artillery Company;[398] and they prepare for a day of action with so little concern, as only to call it, “An Exercise of Arms.”

“An Exercise at Arms of the Artillery Company, to be performed on Wednesday, June 29, 1709, under the command of Sir Joseph Woolfe, Knight and Alderman, General; Charles Hopson, Esquire, present Sheriff, Lieutenant-General; Captain Richard Synge, Major; Major John Shorey, Captain of Grenadiers; Captain William Grayhurst, Captain John Buttler, Captain Robert Carellis, Captains.