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Jacobite Songs
rT^HERE are a considerable number of Jacobite songs and
A ballads extant in broadsides which have not been reprinted.
There are also many in manuscript. The Rawlinson MSS. in the
Bodleian Library contain several small collections which would
be worth looking through. The four ballads which follow are
from broadsides in the Douce collection in the Bodleian and belong
to the reign of George I.
The first of the three, like 'James the Rover' printed on
p. 138 of the last number of this Review, celebrates the birthday
of the Prince. The second verse is evidently inspired by verse
two of '
Sally in Our Alley,' and it was doubtless sung
to the
same tune. The second ballad illustrates one of the favourite
popular jests against the Hanoverian kings. The turnip, introduced
into England from Hanover, was satirically treated as the
characteristic if not the sole product of the electorate, and the
favourite diet of its rulers. This may be further illustrated by a
caricature, viz. ' The Hanover Turnip-man Come Again,' number
2578 in the British Museum Catalogue of Satirical Prints. The
date of this ballad can be determined by the last verse but one.
Melusina von Schulenburg, the mistress of George I., was created
Duchess of Munster, June 26, 1716, and Duchess of Kendal,
March 19, 1719. Mr. Paul, whose fate is lamented in the third
ballad, was William Paul, vicar of Orton-on-the-Hill in Leicestershire,
executed on July 13, 1716, for having joined the rebels at
Preston. The Petition of is Tyburn easily dated. It was written
not long after Lord Stanhope's elevation to the
peerage (July 12,
1717), and before his death (February 4, 1721).
It is to be hoped that the
enquiry suggested in Mr. Lang's
interesting paper (S.H.R. viii. 132) will be further pursued, and
that he, or some one inspired by him, will systematically go
collection and test his texts. But in order to
through Hogg's
trace the history of Jacobite songs it will be necessary to collect
also some of the earlier ones. Further, some Jacobite songs are