l and infamous crimes. He was certainly a most
ineffably impudent, perjured villain.

3. The Chacon is supposed by Sir John Hawkins to be of Moorish or
Saracenic origin. "The characteristic of the Chacone is a bass, or
ground, consisting of four measures, wherein three crotchets make
the bar, and the repetition thereof with variations in the several
parts, from the beginning to the end of the air, which in respect
of its length, has no limit but the discretion of the composer. The
whole of the twelfth sonata of the second opera of Corelli is a
Chacone." _Hist. of Music_, vol. iv. p. 388. There is also, I am
informed, a very celebrated Chacon composed by Jomelli.

4. By the _White Boys_ or _Property Boys_, are meant the adherents of
the Duke of Monmouth, who affected great zeal for liberty and
property, and assumed white badges, as marks of the innocence of
their intentions. When the Duke came to the famous Parliament held
at Oxford, "he was met by about 100 Batchellors all in white,
except black velvet caps, with white wands in their hands, who
divided themselves, and marched as a guard to his person." _Account
of the Life of the Duke of Monmouth_, p. 107. In the Duke's tour
through the west of England, he was met at Exeter, by "a brave
company of brisk stout young men, all cloathed in linen waistcoats
and drawers, _white and harmless,_ having not so much as a stick in
their hands; they were in number about 900 or 1000." _ibid._ p.
103. See the notes on Absalom and Achitophel. The saints, on the
other hand, mean the ancient republican zealots and fanatics, who,
though they would willingly have joined in the destruction of
Charles, did not wish that Monmouth should succeed him, but aimed
at the restoration of the commonwealth. Hence the following dispute
betwixt Tyranny and Democracy.

5. The atrocious and blasphemous sentiment in the text was actually
used by the fanatics who murdered Sharpe, the archbishop of St
Andrews. When they unexpectedly met him during their search for
another person, they exclaimed, that "the Lord had delivered him
into their hands."

6. It is easy to believe, that, whatever was the, nature of the
schemes nourished by Monmouth, Russel, and Essex, they could have
no concern with the low and sanguinary cabal of Ramsay, Walcot, and
Rumbold, who were all of them old republican officers and
comm