[155] 'August:' alluding to a rowing match, held on 1st August, in honour of George the First's accession; instituted by one Doggett, an actor, &c. [156] 'George:' George the Second was born on the 30th of October 1683. [157] 'Augusta:' wife of Frederic, Prince of Wales, a great friend of Lord Bute's. [159] 'Colonel Norborne Berkeley:' second to Lord Talbot in his duel with Wilkes. [160] 'First:' James the First. [161] 'Blood was shed:' Secretary Cecil, who had been a bitter foe of Queen Mary, and became a favourite of James. [162] 'False father:' alluding to the death of the very promising Prince Henry, popularly supposed to have been hated and removed by his father. [163] 'Right Divine:' see, as a _per contra_ to this fierce invective against poor 'King Jamie,' Scott's 'Fortunes of Nigel.' [164] 'Buckingham:' George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham. [165] 'Woman's prate:' Henrietta, the intriguing Queen of Charles the First. [166] 'Inglorious years:' no parliament was summoned from 1628 to 1640. [167] 'Dunkirk:' Dunkirk was, in 1662, sold by Charles the Second to the French for £400,000. [168] 'Tangier:' Tangier, in Africa, was also shamefully sacrificed by Charles the Second. [169] 'Amboyna:' where the Dutch inflicted dreadful and unavenged cruelties on the English. This happened, however, in 1622, under James the First, not Charles the Second. [170] Isa. xlix. 15. THE AUTHOR.[171]