"It is said that while he lived at Lymington, he got drunk at a neighbouring fair. For some such cause it is certain that Sir Amias Paulett put him into the stocks,—a punishment for which we find that he subsequently revenged himself."
I have been unable to find what was his revenge.
B.
[Collins, in his Peerage of England, vol. iv. p. 3., says, "that in the reign of Henry VII., when Cardinal Wolsey was only a schoolmaster at Lymington, in Somersetshire, Sir Amias Paulett, for some misdemeanor committed by him, clapped him in the stocks; which the Cardinal, when he grew into favour with Henry VIII., so far resented, that he sought all manner of ways to give him trouble, and obliged him (as Godwin in his Annals, p. 28., observes) to dance attendance at London for some years, and by all manner of obsequiousness to curry favour with him. During the time of his attendance, being commanded by the Cardinal not to depart London without licence, he took up his lodging in the great gate of the Temple towards Fleet Street.">[
Brunswick Mum.
—Why was the beer called Brunswick Mum so named? When I was young it used to be drunk in this country, and was, I am told, extensively exported to India, &c. Is it still manufactured?
G. CREED.
[Skinner calls Mum a strong kind of beer, introduced by us from Brunswick, and derived either from German mummeln, to mumble, or from mum (silentii index), i.e. either drink that will (ut nos dicimus) make a cat speak, or drink that will take away the power of speech.
"The clamorous crowd is hush'd with mugs of mum,
Till all, tun'd equal, send a general hum."—Pope.