Notes and Queries, Number 48, September 28, 1850 by Various
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tried at the Old Bailey, and acquitted.
Should it be in the power of any of the readers of your interesting miscellany, by reference to the Session Papers, to give me the actual name of poor "Mac," I shall feel obliged. SENEX. September 9. 1850. [Footnote 1: Mr. Cunningham, vol. i. p. 69., gives an interesting quotation from Strype respecting Worcester House, which gave the name of "Worcester Grounds" to Mr. Kitchener's property.] * * * * * SATIRICAL POEMS ON WILLIAM III. Some years since I copied from a MS. vol., compiled before 1708, the following effusions of a Jacobite poet, who seems to have been "a good hater" of King William. I have made ineffectual efforts to discover the witty author, or to ascertain if these compositions have ever been printed. My friend, in whose waste-book I found them,--a beneficed clergyman in Worcestershire, who has been several years dead,--obtained them from a college friend during the last century. "UPON KING WILLIAM'S TWO FIRST CAMPAGNES. "'Twill puzzle much the author's brains, That is to write your story, |
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