“Here’s a Health to the King, and his lawful successors,
To honest Tantivies, and Loyal Addressors;
But a rot take all those that promoted Petitions,
To poison their nation, and stir up seditions.”
(The Loyal Health, 1684.)
[10] “The Petitioners, looking upon their adversaries as entirely devoted to the Court and the popish faction, gave them the name of Tories, a title given to the Irish robbers, villains, and cut-throats, since called Rapparees. (It will be remembered that James II. convened a Parliament in Dublin which attainted three thousand Protestants).
“The Abhorrers on their side, considering the Petitioners as men entirely in the principles of the reprobated parliament of 1640, and as Presbyterians, gave them the name of Whig, or ‘Sour-milk,’ formerly appropriated to the Scotch Presbyterians and rigid Covenanters.”
[11] A second Convention Parliament met January 22, 1689, offered the Crown to William of Orange and Mary, February 13th, and dissolved a year later.
[12] Published by the “Ballad Society.”
[13] Alleged length of the petition for resummoning parliament.
[14] This relates to Lord Shaftesbury’s Protestant Association, and his “green ribbon boys.”
[15] H. Mildmay and J. L. Honeywood, members for Essex in Charles II.’s parliaments.