—The "Bensley tragedy" was no doubt the sudden death, in April or May, 1765, by a fall from his horse, of James Bensley, Esq., of Lincoln's Inn; probably an early acquaintance of Hill and Cowper. The melancholy death of another friend of theirs, poor Lloyd (which Southey also calls a tragedy), had happened three or four months earlier.
C.
John Lilburne (Vol. iv., p. 134.).
—The name of John Lilburne occurs in Cleveland's Poems more than once, e. g. "The General Eclipse:"—
"Thus 'tis a general eclipse,
And the whole world is al-a-mort;
Only the House of Commons trips
The stage in a Triumphant sort,
Now e'en John Lilburn take 'em for't."
Works, p. 57. Lond. 1687.