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Ten six-line stanzas. First line: ‘Come follow, follow me’. At the top is written in a different hand: ‘Some slight variations from Percy’s text. Stanzas 9 and 10 added.’

Numbered 30.

Undated, but probably printed in 1751. A small piece of the heading has been torn off.

Beaumont.—On the night of 4–5 March about 150 Chouans gathered at Pierrefitte (Pierrefitte-en-Auge) and St Hymer and committed robberies, after which they took refuge in the Château de Reux. Complains of the behaviour of the soldiers of the 3e Compagnie franche, who did not do their duty in fighting the Chouans.

(Certified by Lévêque as a true copy.)

The sheet is marked ‘Pt II’ and headed ‘Active Rouses’. The top sketch, which is captioned ‘No. 1. The Rouse Missile’, shows one man waking another with the contents of a jug of water, and the second throwing his boots at the first. The bottom sketch, which is captioned ‘No. 2. The Rouse Tractile’, shows one man dragging another out of bed by his heel.

The sketches are undated, but were probably drawn at the same time as those on ff. 27r and 28r.

First line: ‘’Tis not the splendour of the Place’.

Nine lines, beginning ‘Si mihi sint vires, et prædia magna: quid inde?’ Addressed to ‘Dn: Alberto Wessenero’ (dative).

(Engraved by Francesco Bartolozzi from a design by Giovanni Battista Cipriani.)

The sheet is marked ‘Pt I’. The top sketch, which is headed ‘1. The Rouse Persuasive’, shows a man pointing to a window, trying to rouse a person in a four-postered bed. Below is written: ‘come! do get up! here are all Backhouse‘s little pigs running about. come & see them’. The bottom sketch, which is headed ‘2. The Rouse Vituperative’, shows a person looking out of a window with a man below raising his fist. Below is written: ‘Get up! you lazy hound!’.

Cf. the sketches on ff. 27v and 28r.

Caen.—Encloses f. 28.

(Dated 24 Ventôse, an 4. Letter-head of the Commissaire du Directoire Exécutif, près l’Administration Départementale du Calvados. Answered on 16 Mar. Dugua has added the following note: ‘le 22. [12 Mar.] le citoyen feral a donné un Certificat de bonne Conduite au capitaine de 3e Compagnie franche qu’il a denoncé le 20 [10 Mar.].—Repondu le 28. ventose [18 Mar.].)

The full inscription is: ‘Treatise | on | the art of Early Rousing | by G. F. C. | in three parts. | — | Part I. Passive Rouses | Part II. Active Rouses | Part III Rouses Frustrated | — | Published for the benefit of the Late Rising Association. | —’

Motto in Hebrew. Dated at Wittenberg. Addressed to (Balthasar Friedrich) Saltzmann.

Numbered 26.

First line: ‘I am a Saucy Scribler lately Come from france’.

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Transcript

I am a Sauc’y Scribler lately Come from france
for Laurall or for Pilory Ile write and Take my Chance
And a Scribleing I will go &c’

In hopes of Some Preferment a way to Court I flew
And Laughed to hear the Q— Taulk of things She Never Knew
And a Taulkeing &c’

The Next Unto the Q— Stood grave Sr {1} P K—g
More Sable than the Black jock the Maids of Honour Sing
when a jocking they do go &c’

Then Stood the P—ce and P—ces and D–ke that Merry Blade
who wishes all his Sisters wedd, and all their fortunes payed
for he cares Not were they go &c’

I should have Named the K— first but why the Reason’s plaine
The women ware the Breeches In England, france, and Spaine,
And to Cou–cel they do go &c’

Sr Ro—ts gone to Norfolk with Many Nobles More
The Nation’s Left in Mourning whilst he Keeps Open Door
And a Begging whe do go &c’

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{1} Reading uncertain.

Richard Mynsterley, one of the messengers of the Queen’s Chamber, asks for an allowance of £5 16d. for riding at the command of the Lord High Treasurer (the Marquess of Winchester) from the Treasurer’s place at London to Cheshire and Lancashire, as far as Hornby Castle, to deliver letters to the collectors in those shires. Mynsterley asks for an allowance for his charges and pains to be rated by the Treasurer at 2s. 8d. a day and paid by one of the tellers of the Receipt. ‘I was out xxxviij dayes in thys same Jorney.’

(Marked ‘fiat Alloc[atum]’, and signed by the Marquess of Winchester.)

The two men are separated by a vertical line. Above the thin man on the left, who is measuring his chest and saying ‘only 15 inches’, is written ‘Before three doses of SLOTH the patent medicine’; above the fat man on the right, who holds a label marked ‘16 stone’, is written ‘After three doses of SLOTH’. At the foot is written, ‘Published for the benefit of the Late Rising Association’.