Volume I Part 137 (1/2)

p. 398 _Nickers._ Or knickers, marbles generally made of baked clay.

cf. Duffet's farce, _The Mock Tempest_ (1675), Act iv, I:--

_Enter _Hypolito playing with Nickers.

_Hyp._ Anan, Anan, forsooth-- you, Sir, don't you stir the Nickers.

I'l play out my game presently.

+Act IV: Scene iv+

p. 402 _Joan Sanderson._ The air to which the Cus.h.i.+on Dance was usually performed. It may be found in Playford's _Dancing Master_, 1686. Sometimes the dance itself was known as Joan Sanderson.

+Act V: Scene i+

p. 406 _The Tall Irishman._ Oliver Cromwell's porter, yclept Daniel, was a giant. This fellow, through poring over mystical divinity, lost his wits: he preached, prophesied, and raved until finally he was incarcerated in Bedlam, where, after a while, his liberty was allowed him. A famous item amongst his books was a large Bible presented by Neil Gwynne. D'Urfey in his Prologue to _Sir Barnaby Whigg_ (1681), has: 'Like Oliver's porter, but not so devout.' There is a rare, if not unique, portrait of Daniel in the Print Room, British Museum. The reputed portrait in Pierce Tempest's _Cryes of the City of London_ (No. 71. Un insense pour la Religion. M. Lauron del. P. Tempest ex.) is not that of a remarkably tall man.

p. 410 _Enter Hewson with Guards._ 5 December, 1659, Hewson did actually suppress a rising of London prentices, two or three of whom were killed and some score wounded. This made him very unpopular.

+Act V: Scene iia+

p. 412_ Lord Capel._ Arthur, Lord Capel, Baron Hadham, a gallant royalist leader, was, after the surrender of Colchester, treacherously imprisoned. He escaped, but was betrayed, and beheaded 9 March, 1649.

p. 412 _Brown Bushel._ A sea captain. Originally inclined to the Parliament, he became a royalist. In 1643 he was taken prisoner, but after being exchanged lived quietly and retired till 1648, when he was seized as a deserter, and after three years captivity, tried, and executed 29 April, 1651.

p. 413 _Earl of Holland._ Henry Rich, Earl of Holland (1590-1649), a staunch royalist, was executed 9 March, 1649, in company with Lord Capel and the Duke of Hamilton.

p. 413 _Judas._ The piece of plate dubb'd Judas would be gilded, cf.

Middleton's _Chaste Maid in Cheapside_, (4to, 1630), iii, 2.

_3rd Gossip._ Two great 'postle-spoons, one of them gilt.

_1st Puritan._ Sure that was Judas then with the red beard.

Red is the traditional colour of Judas' hair. cf. Dryden's lines on Jacob Tonson the publisher:--