under the name of Fitz Clarence, the eldest being created earl of Munster. In 1811 they separated by mutual consent, Mrs Jordan being granted a liberal allowance. In 1815 she went abroad. According to one story she was in danger of imprisonment for debt. If so, the debt must have been incurred on behalf of others--probably her relations, who appear to have been continually borrowing from her--for her own personal debts were very much more than covered by her savings. She is generally understood to have died at St Cloud, near Paris, on the 3rd of July 1816, but the story that under an assumed name she lived for seven years after that date in England finds some credence. See James Boaden, _Life of Mrs Jordan_ (1831); _The Great Illegitimates_ (1830); John Genest, _Account of the Stage_; Tate Wilkinson, _The Wandering Patentee; Memoirs and Amorous Adventures by Sea and Land of King William IV._ (1830); _The Georgian Era_ (1838). JORDAN, THOMAS (1612?-1685), English poet and pamphleteer, was born in London and started life as an actor at the Red Bull theatre in Clerkenwell. He published in 1637 his first volume of poems, entitled _Poeticall Varieties_, and in the same year appeared _A Pill to Purge Melancholy_. In 1639 he recited one of his poems before King Charles I., and from this time forward Jordan's output in verse and prose was continuous and prolific. He freely borrowed from other authors, and frequently re-issued his own writings under new names. During the troubles between the king and the parliament he wrote a number of Royalist pamphlets, the first of which, _A Medicine for the Times, or an Antidote against Faction_, appeared in 1641. Dedications, occasional verses, prologues and epilogues to plays poured from his pen. Many volumes of his poems bear no date, and they were probably written during the Commonwealth. At the Restoration he eulogized Monk, produced a masque at the entertainment of the general in the city of London and wrote pamphlets in his support. He then for some years devoted his chief attention to writing plays, in at least one of which, _Money is an Ass_, he himself played a part when it was produced in 1668. In 1671 he was appointed laureate to the city of London; from this date till his death in 1685 he annually composed a panegyric on the lord mayor, and arranged the pageantry of the lord mayor's shows, which he celebrated in verse under such titles as _London Triumphant, or the City in Jollity and Splendour_ (1672), or _London in Luster, Projecting many Bright Beams of Triumph_ (1679). Many volumes of these curious productions are preserved in the British Museum.