the {171} progresses, and rode in the carts with the pots and
kettles, the people in derision gave the name of _black_-guards"

I find also the following in Butlerts _Hudibras_, part 3.:--

"Thou art some paltry, _blackguard_ sprite,
Condemn'd to drudgery in the night;
Thou hast no work to do in the house,
Nor halfpenny to drop in shoes."

AREDJID KOOEZ.

_The Three Dukes_ (Vol. ii., p. 9.).--Perhaps a note which I have just
stumbled upon, in a MS. account of the Griffin family, may furnish some
clue as to "the Dukes who killed the Beadell."

"Edward Griffin was probably the same person, to whom a pardon
was granted, April 11. 1671, for the death of Peter Werriel; in
the like manner as _was granted to the Duke of Albemarle and
the_ Duke of Monmouth."

At all events, both casualties occurred in the same spring, and a
reference to the gazettes of the day would perhaps set the question at
rest.

BRAYBROOKE.

Audley End.

_Bonny Dundee_ (Vol. ii., p. 134.) is the name attached to one of the