"And little do I esteem an uncharitable and malicious practice in publishing of an erroneous and ill-spelled pamphlet under the name Pricket, and dedicating it to my singular good lord and father-in-law, the Earl of Exeter, as a charge given at the assizes holden at the city of Norwich, 4th August, 1606, which I protest was not only published without my privity, but (beside the omission of divers principal matters) that there is no one period therein expressed in that sort and sense that I delivered: wherein it is worthy of observation, how their expectation (of scandalizing me) was wholly deceived; for behold the catastrophe! Such of the readers as were learned in the laws, finding not only gross errors and absurdities on law, but palpable mistakings in the very words of art, and the whole context of that rude and ragged style wholly dissonant (the subject being legal) from a lawyer's dialect, concluded that _inimicus et iniquus homo superseminavit zizania in medio tritici_, the other discreet and indifferent readers, out of sense and reason, found out the same conclusion, both in respect of the vanity of the phrase, and for that I, publishing about the same time one of my commentaries, would, if I had intended the publication of any such matter, have done it myself, and not to have suffered any of my works pass under the name of Pricket; and so _unâ voce conclamaverunt omnes_, that it was a shameful and shameless practice, and the author thereof to be a wicked and malicious falsary." J. G. Exon. * * * * * WHITE ROSES. (Vol. vii., p. 329.) The allusion is to the well-known Jacobite badge of the white rose, which was regularly worn on June 10, the anniversary of the Old Pretender's birthday, by his adherents. Fielding refers to the custom in his _Amelia_: "On the lovely 10th of June, under a serene sky, the amorous Jacobite, kissing the odoriferous Zephyr's breath, gathers a nosegay of white roses to deck the whiter breast of Celia."--_Amelia_, edit. 1752, vol. i. p. 48. The following lines are extracted from a collection of considerable merit, now become uncommon, the authors of the different papers in which were Dr. Deacon and Dr. Byrom, and which is entitled _Manchester Vindicated_ (Chester, 1749, 12mo.). The occasion was on a soldier snatching a white rose from the bosom of a young lady on June 10, 1747: I. "Phillis to deck her snowy breast The rival-flowers around display'd, Thraso, to grace his war-like crest Of orange-knots a huge cockade, That reds and whites, and nothing else, Should set the beaux against the belles! II. "Yet so it was; for yesterday Thraso met Phillis with her posies, And thus began th' ungentle fray, 'Miss, I must _execute_ those roses.' Then made, but fruitless made, a snatch, Repuls'd with pertinacious scratch.