Favell, Thompson, Franklin,
&c., pupils of old James Boyer, of flogging celebrity.
If so, can any of them furnish me with the words of an old song, then
current in the school, relating to the execution of the Earl of
Derwentwater in the rebellion of 1715, of which the four following lines
are all that I remember:
"There's fifty pounds in my right pocket,
To be given to the poor;
There's fifty pounds in my left pocket,
To be given from door to door."
Of another song, equally popular, less pathetic, but of more
spirit-stirring character, can any one supply the remainder?
"As our king lay musing on his bed,
He bethought himself once on a time
Of a tribute that was due from France,
That had not been paid for so long a time.
"Oh! then he called his trusty page,
His trusty page then called he,
Saying, 'You must go to the king of France,
To the king of France right speedily.'"
NEMO.
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WATCHING THE SEPULCHRE--DOMINUS FACTOTUM--ROBERT PASSELLEW.
Allow me to offer a query or two respecting which I shall be glad of any
information your numerous correspondents may be able to furnish.
1. In Fuller's _History of Waltham Abbey_, pp. 269. 274., Nichol's
edition, 1840, we have the following entries from the churchwarden's
accounts:
"Anno 1542, the thirty-fourth of Henry viii.
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