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The governor then said to Monsieur Grammont, I'll tell you a secret that the reason of my capitulation was, because I was in want of powder. Monsieur replied, 'And secret for secret the reason of my granting you such an easy capitulation was, because I was in want of ball." Biog. Gallica, vol. i., p. 202. Count Grammont and his lady left England in 1669.
See a fuller account by the Earl of Buchan and Dr. Kippis in the Biog. Brit. and the recently published one by Mr. Frazer Tytler. No. 84. Tolle periclum, Jam vaga prosiliet frenis natura remotis. HOR. Lib. ii. Sat. vii. 73. But take the danger and the shame away, And vagrant nature bounds upon her prey.
She denounced Henry VIII's divorce and gained wide recognition as a champion of the queen and the Catholic church. She was granted interviews by Archbishop Warham, by Thomas More, and by Wolsey. She was finally induced by Cranmer to make confession, was compelled publicly to repeat her confession in various places, and was then executed; see Dict. Nat. Biog. Illegitimate child.
Huet, Bishop of Avranches, born 1630, died 1721, published in 1718 Commentarius de rebus ad eum pertinentibus. Nouv. Biog. Gene. xxv. 380. When Dr. Blair published his Lectures, he was invidiously attacked for having omitted his censure on Johnson's style, and, on the contrary, praising it highly.
A Club in London, founded by the learned and ingenious physician, Dr. BOSWELL. This club, founded in 1788, met at the Blenheim Tavern, Bond-street. Reynolds, Boswell, Burney, and Windham were members. Rose's Biog. Mrs. Thrale's Collection, March 10,1784. Vol. ii. p. 350. Hawkins's Life of Johnson, p. 583. See what he said to Mr. Malone, p. 53 of this volume. See ante, i. 223, note 2.
Thomas Jollie told a curious tale about how the manuscript had been forcibly taken from the man who was carrying it to the press by a group of armed men on the Strand. See ibid. Alexander Gordon in his article on Thomas Jollie, Dict. Nat. Biog., says that the pamphlet was drafted by Jollie and expanded by Carrington. Carrington as the author.
William Cooke, 'commonly called Conversation Cooke, wrote Lives of Macklin and Foote. Forster's Essays, ii. 312, and Gent. Mag. 1824, p. 374. Mr. Richard Paul Joddrel, or Jodrell, was the author of The Persian Heroine, a Tragedy, which, in Baker's Biog. Dram. i. 400, is wrongly assigned to Sir R.P. Jodrell, M.D. Nichols's Lit. Anec. ix. 2. For Mr. Paradise see ante, p. 364, note 2. Dr.
Biog. and by the British Museum catalogue. Hartford-shire Wonder. Or, Strange News from Ware, Being an Exact and true Relation of one Jane Stretton ... who hath been visited in a strange kind of manner by extraordinary and unusual fits ..., London, 1669. The title gives the clue to this story. The narrator makes it clear that a certain woman was suspected of the bewitchment.
Women are more credulous, more curious, "their complection is softer," they have "greater facility to fall," greater desire for revenge, and "are of a slippery tongue." Treatise of Witchcraft, 42-43. "In Cheshire and Coventry," he tells us. For the whole case see Howell, State Trials, II. See article on Bernard in Dict. Nat. Biog. See below, appendix C, list of witch cases, under 1626.
Up, and to Alderman Backewell's He was a man of considerable wealth during the Commonwealth. After the Restoration he negotiated Charles II.'s principal money transactions. He was M.P. for Wendover in the parliament of 1679, and in the Oxford parliament of 1680. According to the writer of the life in the "Diet. of Nat. Biog.
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