CONTENTS
OF
THE FIRST VOLUME.
| CHAPTER I. | |
| (1714.) | |
| PAGE | |
| In the Churches—In the Streets—Steele’s Satire—In Parliament—PoliticalAmenities—Sacheverel: Marlborough—On Parade.First Blood—The ‘Peregrine Yatch’—The King at Greenwich—ScottishHomage—Claret Loyalty—The Artillery Company—TheRoyal Entry—The Players’ Homage—The Affairs of Scotland—ARoyal Proclamation | [1] |
| CHAPTER II. | |
| (1714.) | |
| Carte, the Jacobite—An Old and New Lord Chancellor—Preparationsfor the Coronation—The Scene in the Abbey—Whigs and Jacobites—ToryMobs—The Royal Family in the Park—SeditiousPamphlets—Jacobite Clubs—Royalties—At St. James’s—ElectioneeringTactics—Royal Chaplains—The Chevalier in London | [18] |
| CHAPTER III. | |
| (1715.) | |
| At the Play—Flight of Ormond—Sacheverel—Politics in the Pulpit—Calumnyagainst Sacheverel—Danger in the Distance—Flight ofBolingbroke—Bolingbroke Pamphlets—Bolingbroke’s Character—Politicsin Livery—Satire—Flying Reports—Decree in the ‘Gazette’—The Lash—The Pillory—A Harmless Jacobite | [33] |
| CHAPTER IV. | |
| (1715.) | |
| Politics in the Army—Lieutenant Kynaston—Jacobite Plotters—FalseAccuser—The Military Board—The Lieutenant disposedof—Captain Paul—Arrest of Members of Parliament—Harvey,of Combe—Sir William Wyndham—Search for Papers—Wyndham’sEscape—Dramatic Courtesy—Uncourteous Interview—AGeneral Stir | [50] |
| CHAPTER V. | |
| (1715.) | |
| Pamphleteering—General Confusion—Jacobite Mobs—Rioting—Ballad-Singers—PoliticalSongs—Arrests—In the Park—InvasionImminent—Sound of Shot—Afloat on the Thames—TheHorse Guards—The Chevalier de St. George—The King’s Speech—PreachersAwake—A Famous Sermon—Satirical Art—MischievousSermons—A Sound of Alarm—Jacobite Agents—Arrests—PopularFeeling | [66] |
| CHAPTER VI. | |
| (1715.) | |
| Camp and Pulpit—Popular Slogan—Perilous Anniversaries—PopularDemonstrations—News from the North—Reports from Scotland—FurtherIntelligence—News from Preston—Jacobite Fury—StreetFighting—The Prisoners from Preston—Tyburn Tree—JacobiteCaptains—Drawing near London—Highgate to London—Arrivalin Town—The Jacobite Chaplain—Lady Cowper’sTestimony—Jacobite Reports | [89] |
| CHAPTER VII. | |
| (1715-16.) | |
| The Chevalier in Scotland—The Chevalier out of Scotland—Cost ofliving in Newgate—Inside Newgate—Visitors to Newgate—Sortingthe Prisoners—Extortion—Dissensions—Jacobite Patten—HanoverianPatten—Addison’s Satire—Lack of Charity—WhigLiberality—Whig and Jacobite Ladies—Matthew Prior—Royaltyon the Ice—Impeachment of the Rebel Lords—Characterof King George—From the Tower to Westminster—TheDrum Ecclesiastic—Muscular Christians—Charles I., King andSaint—The Rebel Peers—Solemn Politeness—Derwentwater’sPlea—Widdrington’s Reply—Appeal for Mercy—Nithsdale’sApology—Carnwath and Kenmure—Nairn’s Explanation—TheLord High Steward—Conclusion—Lord Cowper’s Speech | [109] |
| CHAPTER VIII. | |
| (1716.) | |
| Carnwath’s Confession—The King and Lady Nithsdale—The Kingand Lady Derwentwater—Scene at Court—The CondemnedLords—Lady Nithsdale—Changes of Dress—Escape of LordNithsdale—Lady Nithsdale—Visiting Friends—The Eve of Execution—ThePress, on the Trials—The King, on the Escape—LordDerwentwater—Lord Kenmure—Taking the Oaths—TheDerwentwater Lights—Scientific Explanations—Lady Cowperon the Aurora—Revelry—Addison, on the Princess of Wales—Nithsdalein Disguise—Lady Nithsdale in Drury Lane—Comicand Serio-Comic Incidents—To the Plantations | [143] |
| CHAPTER IX. | |
| (1716.) | |
| State-Trial Ceremonies—Lord Wintoun in Court—Opening of theTrial—The Legal Assailants—The King’s Witnesses—The Rev.Mr. Patten—Patten’s Character of Wintoun—Military Witnesses—TheSurrender at Preston—A Prisoner at Bay—Incidentsof the Trial—Wintoun Baited by Cowper—The King’s Counsel—TheVerdict—Sir Constantine Phipps—A Fight for Life—TheFight grows Furious—The Sentence—Doom Borne Worthily—TheJacobite Lawyer | [169] |
| CHAPTER X. | |
| (1716.) | |
| Edmund Curll—The New Poems—Princess of Wales and LadyKenmure—Luxury in Newgate—General Forster’s Escape—ARide for Life—The Prisoners in the Tower—Patten on thePrince of Wales—In and Out of Newgate—Politics on the Stage—SimonFraser, as a Whig—Dutch Service in Gravesend Church—Aidsto Escape—Shifting of Prisoners—Breaking out of Newgate—Pursuit—Hueand Cry—Domiciliary Visits—Talbot Recaptured—Escapeof Hepburn of Keith | [190] |
| CHAPTER XI. | |
| (1716.) | |
| David Lindsay—Trials of Rebel Officers—Colonel Oxburgh—TheColonel at Tyburn—A Head on Temple Bar—More Trials—JacobiteJurymen—Towneley and Tildesley—Their Trials—TheirAcquittal—The Chaplain at Towneley Hall—Justice Hall andCaptain Talbot—Gascogne’s Trial—The Duchess of Ormond—Gascogne’sDefence—Christian Feeling—Fracas in a Coffee-House—Joyand Sorrow in Newgate—Chief Justice Parker—TheSwinburnes—Scott’s Newgate—Mob Ferocity | [211] |
| CHAPTER XII. | |
| (1716.) | |
| Festive Fighting—Jacobite Boys—Flogging Soldiers—Hoadly inthe Pulpit—Flattery by Addison—On the Silver Thames—TwoPretty Fellows—Thanksgiving Day—Sherlock’s Sermon—Bishopof Ely’s Sermon—King George’s Right to the Throne—A NonjuringClergyman, to be Whipt—Saved by the Bishop of London—TheRose in June—More Bloodshed—Jacobite Ladies—Ladies’Anti-Jacobite Associations—Riot in a Church—Pope’sDouble Dealing—Addison, on Late and Present Times—PoliticalWomen | [234] |
| CHAPTER XIII. | |
| (1716.) | |
| The Rev. Mr. Paul—A Cry for Life—Paul and Patten—Paul, aJacobite Again—The King in Fleet Street—A Reading at Court—SanguinaryStruggles—A Jacobite Jury—The Mug-Houses—TheStreet Whipping Post—Patten in Allendale—Scenes atHampton Court—Bigots on Both Sides—At Drury Lane Theatre—AfternoonCalls—Escape of Charles Radcliffe—The Stage andPlaygoers—Loyal Players—An Anti-Jacobite Pamphlet | [256] |
| CHAPTER XIV. | |
| (1717.) | |
| Bishop Atterbury—Jacobite Congregations—Liberty Used, andAbused—Jacobites at Large—An Entry in a Cash Book—BishopAtterbury, the Chevalier’s Agent—More Prosecutions—Trial ofFrancia—Patten’s ‘History of the Late Rebellion’—SlanderAgainst the Jacobites—Patten’s Details—Downright Shippen—Shippen,on George I.—Cibber’s ‘Nonjuror’—Dedication to theKing—Significant Passages—Jacobite Outlay—Advantages ofClamour—Political Allusions—Incense for the King—A Lecturefrom the Stage—Public Feeling—Atterbury’s Opinion | [276] |
| CHAPTER XV. | |
| (1718.) | |
| A Youthful Jacobite—A would-be Regicide—A Fight in Newgate—Upthe Hill to Tyburn—Scene at Tyburn—A Jacobite Toast—SatiricalPamphlet—Lovat already Suspected—Hearne on Echard’s‘England’—Atterbury Conspiring—The Bishop’s View of Things—TheRoyal Family on the Road—Military Difficulties—Scenesat Court—A Scene in ‘Bedlam’—A Whig Whipt—Treason in thePulpit—More Treason—Jacobites in the Pillory—The King atthe Play—Daniel Defoe—His Dirty Work—Mist’s Journal—JacobiteHopes—Art and Poetry | [300] |
| CHAPTER XVI. | |
| (1719.) | |
| The Skirmish at Glenashiels—Judicial Caprice—Assault on thePrincess of Wales—The King and his Ladies—A SuspiciousCharity Sermon—Riot in Church—Riot Prolonged—Liberty ofthe Press—A Capital Conviction—Jacobite Fidelity—A PoliticalVictim—Three more to Tyburn—A Last Request—An ApologeticSermon—An Innocent Victim—Political Plays—Incidents—RoyalCondescension—The King’s Good Nature—Rob Roy andthe Duke of Montrose | [326] |
| CHAPTER XVII. | |
| (1720-’21-’22.) | |
| Atterbury’s Hopes—Death of Laurence Howell—In Hyde Park—AtBartholomew Fair—Stopping the King’s Expresses—Cibber’s‘Refusal’—In State to the Pillory—Birth of the ‘Young Chevalier’—Governmentand the Jacobites—Treasonable Wit—Recruitingfor the Chevalier—Epigrammatic Epitaph—Arrest of Jacobites—Atterbury’sCorrespondence—Jacobite Trysting Places—TheOfficers in Camp—A Cavalry Bishop—The Ladies in Camp—WhigSusceptibility—More Arrests—Atterbury to Pope | [347] |
| CHAPTER XVIII. | |
| (1722.) | |
| The Bishop in the Tower—Pope and Atterbury—The ‘Blackbird’—Treatmentof Atterbury—Scenes in Camp—Soldiers and Footpads—Discipline—ChristopherLayer—The Plot—Layer at Westminster—AntagonisticLawyers—The Trial—A False Witness—AConfederate—Layer’s Ladies—Layer’s ‘Scheme’—The Defence—StrangeWitnesses—The Verdict—Layer’s Dignity—TheJacobites in Mourning—A Jacobite Player—Suspension of the‘Habeas Corpus’—Arrest of Peers—Lord Chief Justice Pratt—LondonSights—Ambitious Thieves | 369 |
| CHAPTER XIX. | |
| (1723.) | |
| The Plot—Satire on the Plot—Decyphering—Proceedings againstAtterbury—Debate in the Commons—Debate in the Lords—Condemnationof Plunkett—Kelly’s Trial—Kelly’s Defence—Sentenceon Kelly—The King at Kensington—Arrests—Patten inPeril—A Strange Sermon—Treatment of Atterbury—Oglethorpeand Atterbury—In the House of Lords—The Whig Press andthe Bishop—Street Incidents—Opening of Letters—Sir ConstantinePhipps—The Defence—Special Pleading—Evidence for Atterbury—Pope,as a Witness—Atterbury’s Defence—Rejoinderfor the Crown—Wit of Lord Bathurst—Newspaper Comments—Atterburyand Layer—Layer on Holborn Hill—Layer at Tyburn—Lamentationfor Layer—Lamentation, continued—Bolingbroke,Atterbury—Atterbury Leaving the Tower—Atterbury on theThames—Pope and Atterbury—Layer’s Head—The Co-Conspirators—Atterburyserving the Chevalier—Letter from Atterbury | [397] |
LONDON
IN
THE JACOBITE TIMES.
CHAPTER I.
(1714.)
