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Updated: May 13, 2025
From Lambeth to Westminster is an easy journey, but unhappily there are no survivals of the numerous inns which figure in records of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. One of those hostelries makes its appearance in the expense sheet of a Roger Keate who went to London in 1575 on the business of his town of Weymouth.
"Judson, the Admiral wants to see you!" said the Staff-Captain, disregarding the scoffer of the "Mongoose". "I told you you'd be a dockyard-tender yet, Juddy. A side of fresh beef to-morrow and three dozen snapper on ice. On ice, you understand, Juddy?" Bai-Jove-Judson and the Staff-Captain went out together. "Now, what does the Admiral want with Judson?" said Keate from the bar. "Don't know.
Keate within the past week had so managed to bungle the slinging in of a small torpedo-boat on the "Vortigern", that the boat had broken the crutches in which she rested, and was herself being repaired in the dockyard under the Club windows. "One for you, Keate.
He then referred to "the settlement of the western boundary of the Transvaal by Governor Keate, and the immediate repudiation of it by the Transvaal Rulers. Then came the Pretoria Convention only two years ago which added a large block of native land to the Transvaal. That was not enough. Freebooters came over, mostly from the Transvaal, and afterwards from other parts of the country.
Keate was the Torpedo Lieutenant of the big "Vortigern", and he despised small things. "His top-hamper," said he slowly. "Oh, ah yes, of course. Juddy, there's a shoal of mullet in the bay, and I think they're foul of your screws. Better go down, or they'll carry away something." "I don't let things carry away as a rule. You see I've no Torpedo Lieutenant on board, thank God!"
On his left is Keate, like Jupiter about to hurl his thunderbolt; on his right "the birch cupboard;" and though he can see nothing, he has little doubt of what is in his rear, the instant he is operated on. "Neither intemperance nor old age hae, in gout or rheumatic, an agony to compare wi' a weel-laid-on whack of the tawse, on a part that for manners shall be nameless."
The Queen's Speech President Brand and Lord Kimberley Sir Henry de Villiers Sir George Colley's plan Paul Kruger's offer Sir George Colley's remonstrance Complimentary telegrams Effect of Majuba on the Boers and English Government Collapse of the Government Reasons of the Surrender Professional sentimentalists The Transvaal Independence Committee Conclusion of the armistice The preliminary peace Reception of the news in Natal Newcastle after the declaration of peace Exodus of the loyal inhabitants of the Transvaal The value of property in Pretoria The Transvaal officials dismissed The Royal Commission Mode of trial of persons accused of atrocities Decision of the Commission and its results The severance of territory question Arguments pro and con Opinion of Sir E. Wood Humility of the Commissioners and its cause Their decision on the Keate award question The Montsoia difficulty The compensation and financial clauses of the report of the Commission The duties of the British Resident Sir E. Wood's dissent from the report of the Commission Signing of the Convention Burial of the Union Jack The native side of the question Interview between the Commissioners and the native chiefs Their opinion of the surrender Objections of the Boer Volksraad to the Convention Mr.
In the territories marked out by a decision known as the Keate Award, in which Lieutenant-Governor Keate of Natal, at the request of both parties, laid down the boundary line between the Boers and certain native tribes, the Boer Government carried it with a yet higher hand, insomuch as the natives of those districts, being comparatively unwarlike, were less likely to resist.
The decision of the Commissioners in the question of the Keate Award, which next came under their consideration, appears to have been a judicious one, being founded on the very careful Report of Colonel Moysey, R.E., who had been for many months collecting information on the spot.
Sir John David and Sir Simonds D'Ewes belonged to the Middle Temple. Massinger's dearest friends lived in the Inner Temple, of which society George Keate, the dramatist, and Butler's staunch supporter William Longueville, were members. Milton passed the most jocund hours of his life in Gray's Inn, in which college Cleveland and the author of 'Hudibras' held the meetings of their club.
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