13. ORMOND THE BRAVE. This very interesting Ballad was taken down, words and music, from J. Peake, tanner, Liskeard; it was sung by his father about 1830. It refers to the Duke of Ormond's landing in Devon in 1714. Ormond fled to France in the first days of July, "a duke without a duchy," as Lord Oxford termed him, when it was manifest that the country was resolved on having the Hanoverian Elector as King, and was unwilling to summon the Chevalier of St. George to the throne. At the end of October the Duke of Ormond landed in Devon at the head of a few men, hoping that the West would rise in the Jacobite cause, but not a single adherent joined his standard, and he returned to France. The Devonshire squires were ready to plant Scotch pines in token of their Jacobite sympathies, but not to jeopardise their heads and acres in behalf of a cause which their good sense told them was hopeless. I have met with the ballad in a Garland, B.M. (11,621, b 16). This, however, is imperfect. It runs thus-- "I am Ormond the brave, did you ever hear of me? Who lately was banished from my own country. They sought for my life and plundered my estate, For being so loyal to Queen Anne the Great. I am Ormond, etc. "Says Ormond, If I did go, with Berwick I stood, And for the Crown of England I ventured my blood, To the Boyne I advanced, to Tingney (Quesnoy?) also, I preserved King William from Berwick his foe. "I never sold my country as cut-purses do, Nor never wronged my soldiers of what was their due. Such laws I do hate, you're witness above, I left my estate for the country I love. "Although they degrade me, I value it not a straw, Some call me Jemmy Butler, I'm Ormond you know. (_Rest of verse missing._) "But in the latter days our late Mistress Anne, Disprove my loyalty if you can, I was Queen Anne's darling, old England's delight, Sacheverel's friend, and Fanatic's spite." When Peake sang the song to Mr. Sheppard and me, he converted German Elector into German lecturers.