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(Captioned by hand: ‘Stephen Humble’s Portrait.’)

First line: ‘I’ll tell you a Story, a Story that true is’. A ballad, relating an imaginary dialogue between King George I and Bishop Atterbury, recently banished as a Jacobite conspirator.

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Transcript

I’ll tell you a Story, a Story that true is,
Concerning a Monarch whose name is George Lewis, {1}
And he is a Prince, & a Prince of great might,
Tho’ he cares not a half penny how be came by ’t.

More over good People a Story you’ll hear,
Concerning the Abbott of Westminster, {2}
And he is a Priest & a Priest of renown,
Tho’ now he is banish’d from fair London town. {3}

The King then to this Abbot he sent
And tax’d him with Treason against his Government,
And told him it was a most dangerous thing,
For a Priest to pretend to more sense than his King.

To the King then the Abbot would faine† have reply’d
Fore† surely the fact he would not have denyed
But the King bid him answer him questions three
Or his head should be Sever’d from his Body.

When I am seated on my royall Throne,
Surrounded by Kendal, {4} my Turks {5} & my Son, {6}
Trust up in my Robes, my Crown, & so forth
You must tell me directly how much I am worth

The Next without hesitation or doubt
How soon I may ride my Dominions throughout
The third Question you must not Shrink
But tell me truly on what I do think.

I need not set any Price on your Throne
The Abbot replyed, for it is none of your own,
But pay for the Stock, that your Whores & you bought.
And by just computation you’re not worth a groat.

The Next without hesitation or Doubt
How soon you may ride your Dominions throughout
Set out when Don Phœbus begins to Shine
And you’ll be out of Hanover eer you need dine.

Two questions resolved at the third I’ll not Shrink
But tell you directly on what you do think
Why now see his Highness coming in at the door
You think he’s not yours but the Son of a Whore

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{1} King George I.

{2} Francis Atterbury, Dean of Westminster and Bishop of Rochester.

{3} Atterbury was exiled by Parliament as a Jacobite conspirator in 1723. He left the country on 18 June.

{4} Melusine von der Schulenberg, one of the king’s mistresses. She was created Duchess of Kendal in her own right in 1719.

{5} Mustapha and Mahomet, the king's two favourite valets, taken captive during one of his Turkish campaigns (Dictionary of National Biography).

{6} The Prince of Wales, the future George II.

(The illustration, which is headed ‘Frontispiece’, is subscribed with the title ‘Horse Man’s Sure Guide and Complete Horse Doctor’ and the following lines: ‘The Horseman thus equipped behold, | Does the Secrets of our Book unfold; | The Grooms, the Stables are at hand, | And ev’ry Assistance at Command.’)

The defendant is given a week to plead, after the delivery of further particulars of the plaintiff’s demand, pleading issuably.

(A printed form, filled up by hand.)

(A list of Eddington’s own publications.)

Numbered 10.

‘Malo accepto stultus sapit. At fœliciter is sapit: qui alieno periculo sapit.’ Dated at Strasbourg.

(Engraved by John Sturt.)

(Probably from an edition of The Christians Defence against the Fears of Death issued in 1720. The True Relation is attributed to Daniel Defoe.)

‘Æternitatem Cogita.’ Text in Hebrew. ‘S[ymbolum]. T.A.N.D.E.M.’ Dated at Frankfurt am Main.

‘In solo Domini Verbo sapienta vera: | In solo Christi merito fiducia vera: | In solo Coelo vita est et patria vera.’ (Johann Ernst Gerhard.) Dated at Altdorf.

(Illustration engraved by V. O. from a drawing by M.B., 1700.)

‘Si in necessariis veritas, in non-necessariis libertas, in omnibus charitas sit, Ecclesiæ vulnera sanarentur.’ (Rupertus Meldenius, etc.) Dated at Ratisbon (Regensburg).

‘Omne facile contemnit, qui seriose moriturum cogitat.’ Dated at Wittenberg.

(Engraved by J. Wallis from a drawing by William Marshall Craig. Captioned ‘Christian rising to glory by faith in the Cross, notwithstanding the fierce attack of evil Spirits.’ Engraving published Aug. 1804(?). The last figure of the year is indistinct.)

(Engraved by Edwards from a drawing by Craig.)

‘Vanitas vanitatum et omnia vanitas.’ (Ecclesiastes, i. 2 and xii. 8.) Dated at Strasbourg.

‘Semita certè, tranquillæ per virtutem patet unica vitæ.’ (Juvenal, Satires, x. 363–4.) Dated at Berlin. Numbered 125.

‘In mundo spes nulla boni, spes nulla salutis, | Una salus servire DEO, sunt cetera fraudes.’ Dated at Halle.