Come, who is next? our liquor here cools.
Ladies, I'm sure, you all have not fools
At home to laugh at. A little of this,
Ta'en down here in private, were not amiss.

Believe it, she drinks like a wench that had store
Of Lord for her laughter, then will you have more?
What answer you, Lordings? will you any or none?
Laugh, and be fat, Sir, your penance is known.
They that love mirth, let them heartily drink,
'Tis the only receipt to make sorrow sink.

The young nymph that's troubled with an old man,
Let her laugh him away, as fast as she can.

Nay drink, and not pause, as who would say, Must you?

But laugh at the wench, that next doth trust you.

To you, sweet beauty; nay, 'pray you come hither,

Ere you sit out, you'll laugh at a feather.

I'll never fear you, for being too witty,

You sip so like a forsooth of the City'.

Lords, for yourselves, your own cups crown,

The Ladies, i' faith, else will laugh you down.
Go to, little blushet, for this, anan",

You'll steal forth a laugh in the shade of your fan.
This, and another thing, I can tell ye,

Will breed a laughter as low as your belly.

Of such sullen pieces, Jove send us not many,
They must be tickled, before they will any.

What! have we done? they that want let 'em call,
Gallants, of both sides, you see here is all
Pan's entertainment: look for no more;

Only, good faces, I read you, make store

Of your amorous Knights, and 'Squires hereafter,

They are excellent sponges, to drink up your laughter.
Farewell, I must seek out my Nymphs, that you frighted;
Thank Hermes, my father, if aught have delighted.

[Exit.

MER. I am sure, thy last rudeness cannot; for it makes me seriously ashamed. -I will not labour his excuse, since I know you more ready to pardon, than he to trespass but for your singular patience, tender you all abundance of thanks; and, mixing with the Master of the place in his wishes, make them my divinations ;-that your loves be ever flourishing as May, and your house as fruitful: that your acts exceed the best, and your years the longest of your Predecessors; that no bad fortune touch you, nor good change you. But still, that you triumph in this facility over the ridiculous pride of other Princes; and for ever live safe in the love, rather than the fear, of your subjects. And thus it ended.

By this petty oath, which was probably familiar to the merchants' and tradesmen's wives, the City Ladies are characterized in many of our old dramas. GIfford. • Used for anon.

On the sixth of April, being Good Friday, the King attended divine service in Whitehall Chapel, where Dr. Lancelot Andrews, then Dean of Winchester, and afterwards successively Bishop of Chichester, Ely, and Winchester, preached before his Majesty a Sermon1 suited to the day.

In the month of May, the following Gentlemen were knighted at Whitehall: Sir Francis Euers, of Yorkshire.

Sir Martin Culpepper, of Oxfordshire.
Sir Edward Boys 3, of Kent.

Sir Thomas Power, of Yorkshire.
Sir Bartholomew Michel, of Notting-
hamshire.

Sir Matthew Bamfield, of Devonshire.
Sir Roger Woodroff.

Sir Wolstan Dixie, of Leicestershire.
Sir John Bowyer, of London.
Sir Edmund Crippes, of Kent.

Sir Nicholas Stallage, of Sussex.

Sir Cuthbert Pepper, of Lincolnshire.

Sir Robert Osborn 5, of Northamptons.
Sir William Prince, of Wiltshire.
Sir Wymond Carew, of Norfolk.
Sir Roger Owen, of Essex.
Sir Gabriel Poyntz, of London.
Sir Richard Williamson.

Sir John Jackson, of Yorkshire.
Sir William Gee, of Yorkshire.
Sir Hugh Bethel, of Yorkshire.
Sir Thomas Bland, of Yorkshire.
Sir Charles Egerton ", of Staffordshire.
Sir John Feron, of Yorkshire.

Sir William Berwick, of Suffolk.

June 2, Sir John Specot7, of Devonshire, was knighted at Greenwich.

'This Sermon is printed in the Bishop's xcvi Sermons, p. 349. It is the second on the Passion, and the text is from the Lamentations, chap. i. v.

12.

• Sir Francis Euers was second son of William second Lord Eure, brother of Ralph the third, and uncle to William the fourth Lords; of whom see 'pp. 43, 222. He died in 1621. His grandsons, George and Ralph, on the failure of the eldest branch, were the seventh and eighth Lords Eure; with the latter, the title became extinct.

› Sir Edward Boys was of Tredville in the parish of Nonington, Kent, for which county his father served as Sheriff in 1577. Of his family, firm loyalists in the following reign, see Hasted, III. p. 710. • Sir Wolstan Dixie, when knighted, was of Appleby, Leicestershire; he afterwards, in 1608, seated himself at Market Bosworth, which estate he inherited from his great uncle the famous Sir Wolstan Dixie, Lord Mayor of London, whose Pageant, 1585, is printed in "Queen Elizabeth's Progresses," vol. II. p. 446. There is a portrait of this second Sir Wolstan in Bosworth Hall.

5 Sir Robert Osborn resided at Kelmarsh, Northamptonshire.

Sir Charles Egerton was of Newborough in the parish of Hanbury. By his epitaph in Hanbury Church (printed in Shaw's Staffordshire, vol. I. p. 74), we find that he was a valiant soldier in rebellious Ireland during the reign of Elizabeth; his various promotions, his knighthood by King James, his wife and daughters are all there recorded. He died in May 1624.

7 Sir John Specot, of Specot in the parish of Merton, was Sheriff of Devonshire in 1614.

On the 12th of the same month, at Greenwich also,

Sir Adam Spratling', of Kent.

Sir George Smyth 2, of Devonshire.

Sir Thomas Honywood3, of Kent.

Sir Richard Graves, of Hertfordshire.

Sir Charles Holes, of Kent.

Sir John Whitbrook, of Shropshire.

On the 16th of June, the King honoured Michael Hickes, Esq. by a Visit at his manor-house of Ruckholts 5, in the parish of Leyton, Essex; when he conferred the honour of Knighthood on Sir William Stone 6, of London.

On the 29th, Sir Robert Hitchman, of Suffolk, Sir Henry Townsend, of Shropshire, and Sir Thomas Eden7, of Suffolk, were knighted at Whitehall.

On the 30th, Sir William Hutton, of Cumberland, was knighted at Greenwich. Sir Adam Spracklin was of Ellington near Ramsgate, and died in 1610, aged 58. Very full particulars of the family are to be found in Lewis's History of the Isle of Thanet.

• Sir George Smyth was Sheriff of Devonshire in 1613.

Sir Thomas Honywood was of Evington in the parish of Elmsted, Kent, where he died in 1622, aged 64. His grandson Edward was created a Baronet in 1660, and his descendant Sir John Courtenay Honywood is the fifth and present Baronet.

• Of Mr. Hickes, see before, p. 294. He was again visited by the King in 1614. He was of Trinity College, Cambridge, and Lincoln's Inn. Having become a confidential Secretary to Lord Burleigh, he was on very intimate terms with Sir Walter Raleigh, Sir Francis Bacon, Sir Robert Cecil (his Patron's son), Sir Fulk Greville, Camden, and other eminent men. He died August 15, 1612, and has a handsome monument in the chancel of Leyton Church. His effigies in armour, and his wife's in mourning, are represented recumbent (as large as life) in alabaster.

• The manor of Ruckholts, which takes its name from the Saxon words Roc-holt, i. e. Rookwood, after frequently changing its proprietors (as may be seen in Lysons's Environs, vol. IV. p. 162) was in 1513 granted by Henry VIII. to William Compton, ancestor of the Earls of Northampton. William Lord Compton sold it in 1592 to Henry Parvish, whose widow married Sir Michael Hickes. Sir Michael purchased the manor of Parvish's heirs, and it continued in his family till 1720, when Sir Harry Hickes, Bart. sold it. After other changes, it is now a portion of the Tylney estates. The mansion-house stood a mile South of Leyton Church, and, as numberless others of the same age, had the credit of being a Palace of Queen Elizabeth, as appears by some advertisements in the Daily Advertiser in 1742, 3, and 4, when it was occupied by William Barton, who opened it as a place of public amusement for breakfasts and afternoon concerts, which were held weekly during the Summer; oratorios were sometimes performed. It was pulled down in 1757.

6 Sir William Stone, was a Citizen and Cloth-worker, and a Benefactor of £.50 to the several Prisons in London. "The pleasant Conceites of Old Hobson the merry Londoner," 1607, 4to, are dedicated by the collector Richard Johnson, a popular writer of the time, to Sir William Stone, Mercer to the Queen's most excellent Majesty.

7 Sir Thomas Eden had been Sheriff of Suffolk in 1596.

On the 3d of July, Sir William Ford, and Sir Edmond Pelham, both of Suffolk; and Sir William Hall1, of Bibrook, Kent; were knighted at Greenwich. On the 4th, the King made a survey of the Dock-yard at Chatham; and on that occasion conferred the honour of Knighthood on

Sir Francis Howard, of Surrey.

Sir Seckford Trevor 3, of Flint.

Sir Francis Cornwall4, of Shropshire.
Sir George Curson.

Sir Stephen Ridelsdon, of Yorkshire.
Sir Roger Neveson 5, of Kent.

Sir Thomas Bludder 6, of Essex.
Sir John Lewis.

Sir Walter Goor, of Wiltshire.

Sir William Lowre, of Cornwall.

Sir Peter Buck, of Kent.

Sir Walter Chetwynd 7, Staffordshire.
Sir Francis Cherry, of London.
Sir William Chetwynd 8, of Staffordsh.
Sir William Page, of Kent.

Sir William Horwood9, of Staffordsh.
Sir Robert Jaudrell, of Cambridgeshire.
Sir John Scory.

Sir William Hill, of Kent.

Sir Anthony Auger 10, of Kent.

Sir William Hall was of Bybrooke in the parish of Kennington, Kent.

• Sir Francis Howard was of Great Bookham, and died there in 1651. His grandson Francis became, in 1681, the sixth Baron Effingham, on the death of his cousin Charles Earl of Nottingham; the earldom becoming extinct.

• Sir Sackville Trevor, of the ancient Welch family from which Viscount Hampden is descended, was a naval man; and, having the command of one of the men of war sent to bring Prince Charles back from Spain, in 1625, saved his Highness from being cast away in St. Andero's road, by taking him into his ship. In 1626 he took the Saint Esprit, one of the largest French ships; on which Mr. Howell, in his letters, compliments him, saying, " It was one of the best exploits that were performed." • One of this ancient family has been noticed in p. 116.

5 Sir Roger Nevinson was of Eastry, Kent, where he died in 1625. Of the family see Hasted, IV. 217. • Sir Thomas Bludder resided at Mile-end, and was First Commissioner of the Victualling Office; in 1601 he purchased the manor of Flanches in the parish of Ryegate, Surrey, and in the Church there he has a handsome monument, with effigies of himself and wife. See Manning and Bray's Surrey, vol. I. p. 217. It is a singular circumstance that in 1608 he became the father-in-law of the preceding Knight, Sir Roger Nevinson, as it is attested both by his epitaph and the following extract from the parish Register of Stepney: "Sir Roger Nevinson, of Kent, and Mary Bludder, daughter to Sir Thomas Bludder, of Myle-end, married Jan. 10, 1608."

7 Sir Walter Chetwynd, of Ingestry, was Sheriff of Staffordshire in 1607.

Sir William Chetwynd had been Sheriff of Staffordshire in 1600.

• Sir William Horwood, or Whorewood, of Sandwell and Stourton Castle, was Sheriff of Staffordshire when knighted.

10 Of the family of Aucher, descended from Ealcher or Aucher, the first Earl of Kent, see Hasted's History of that County, vol. III p. 745. Sir Anthony was of Hautsborn, and Sheriff of Kent in 1613. His son of the same name was advanced to a Baronetcy in 1656, which became extinct about 1726.

Sir Jeremiah Turner', of Surrey.
Sir Edward Bromley, of Shropshire.
Sir Thomas Stodder, of Buckinghamsh.

Sir John Rawlinson, of Essex.
Sir George Wright, of Kent.

"About this time," says Dr. Fuller, " the Corporation of Rippon, in Yorkshire, presented their Petition to Queen Anne, on this occasion. They had a fair Collegiate Church, stately for the structure thereof (formerly erected by the Nobility and Gentry of the vicinage); the means whereof, at the Dissolution of Abbeys, were seized on by the King, so that small maintenance was left to the Minister of that populous parish. Now, although Edwin Sands, Archbishop of York, with the Earl of Huntingdon, Lord Burghley, and Sheaffield (successively Presidents of the North), had recommended their Petition to Queen Elizabeth, they obtained nothing but faire unperformed promises; whereupon now the Ripponers humbly addressed themselves to Queen Anne; and here her Answer unto them:

"ANNA R.

"ANNE, by the grace of GoD, Queen of England, Scotland, France, and Ireland, &c. To all to whom these presents shall come, greeting: Whereas there hath been lately exhibited and recommended unto us a frame and platform of a Colledge Generall, to be planted and established at Rippon, in the county of York; for the manifold benefit of both the Borders of England and Scotland. Upon the due perusing of the plot aforesaid, hereunto annexed, and upon signification given of the good liking and approbation of the chief points contained therein, by sundry grave, learned, and religious Parties, and some other of honourable Place and Estate; we have thought good for the ample and perpetual advancement of Learning and Religion, in both the Borders of our aforesaid Realmes, to condescend to yield our favour and best furtherance thereunto: and for the better encouraging of other honourable and worthy personages, to joyn with us in yielding their bounty and benevolence thereunto, we have, and do signify and assure, and by the word of a sacred Princesse and Queen, do expressly promise to procure, with all convenient speed, to and for the yearely better maintenance of the said Colledge, all and every of the requests, specified and craved to that end, in a small schedule hereunto annexed. In confirmation whereof, we have signed these pre

'In Dulwich College Library is the diary of its Founder, Alleyne, the player. The following extract from it relates to Sir Jeremiah: "Ap. 27, 1619. Paid Sir Jeremy Turner, Muster-master, for two years mustering for my light-horses, a musket and corslet, 3s. 8d."