The mention, on pp. 116, of “our bold Army” turning out the “black Synod,” refers less probably to Colonel “_Pride’s Purge_” of the Presbyterians, on 6th December, 1648, than to the events of April 20, 1653; and helps to fix the date to the same year. In 6th verse the blanks are to be thus filled, “Arms of the _Rump_ or the _King_;” “C. R., or O. P.;” the joke of “the breeches” being a supposed misunderstanding of the Commonwealth-Arms on current coin (viz., the joined shields of England and Ireland) for the impression made by Noll’s posteriors. Compare “Saw you the States-Money,” in _Rump_ Coll., i. 289. On one side they marked “God with us!” “_~Common-wealth~ on the other, by which we may guess_ _~God~ and the ~States~ were not both of a side._” Pages 121, 375. _Come, let’s purge our brains._ This song is almost certainly by THOMAS JORDAN, the City-Poet. With many differences he reprints it later in his _London in Luster_, as sung at the Banquet given by the Drapers Company, October 29th, 1679; where it is entitled “The Coronation of Canary,” and thus begins (in place of our first verse):— _Drink your wine away,_ _’Tis my Lord Mayor’s day,_ _Let our Cups and Cash be free._ _Beer and Ale are both || But the sons of froth,_ _Let us then in wine agree._ _To taste a Quart || Of every sort,_ _The thinner and the thicker;_ _That spight of Chance || We may advance,_ _The Nobler and the Quicker._ _Who shall by Vote of every Throat_ _Be crown’d the King of Liquor._ 2. _~Muscadel~ Avant, Bloody ~Alicant~,_ _Shall have no free vote of mine;_ _~Claret~ is a Prince, And he did long since_ _In the Royal order shine._ _His face, &c._, (as in _M. D. C._ p. 112.) In sixth verse, “_If a ~Cooper~ we With a red nose see_,” refers to Oliver Cromwell; and proves it to have been written before September, 1658. Pages 125, 315. _Lay by, &c., Law lies a-bleeding._