The History and Remarkable Life of the Truly Honourable Colonel Jacque, Commonly Called Colonel JackDefoe, Daniel
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The History and Remarkable Life of the Truly Honourable Colonel Jacque, Commonly Called Colonel Jack
Defoe, Daniel
Adventure stories, English; England -- Social life and customs -- 18th century -- Fiction; Picaresque fiction
Footnote 11: This old proverb was quoted by Robert Burton in his
“Anatomy of Melancholy” (1621), “Where God hath a temple the Devil hath
a chapel” (Part III. sc. iv. subs. 1). It was also No. 670 in George
Herbert’s “Jacula Prudentium,” first published in 1640, where it ran,
“No sooner is a temple built to God but the Devil builds a chapel hard
by.” Defoe was the first rhymer of the proverb, and the rider to it is
his own.
Footnote 12: William the Conqueror. [D.F.]
Footnote 13: Or archer. [D.F.]
Footnote 14: Dr. Sherlock, _de facto_. [D.F.]
Footnote 15: K. J. I. [D.F.]
Footnote 16: K. C. II. [D.F.]
Footnote 17: Lady Castlemaine, of the Italian-French family of Villars,
was first known to Charles II. as Mrs. Palmer. Afterwards her husband
was made Earl of Castlemaine, and in 1668 she was made Duchess of
Cleveland. Of the cost of this woman Andrew Marvell wrote:—“They have
signed and sealed ten thousand pounds a year more to the Duchess of
Cleveland; who has likewise near ten thousand pounds a year out of the
new farm of the country excise of beer and ale; five thousand pounds a
year out of the Post Office; and, they say, the reversion of all the
King’s leases, the reversion of all places in the Custom House, the
green-wax, and, indeed, what not? All promotions, spiritual and
temporal, pass under her cognisance,” &c. Charles II. had by her five
children.
Footnote 18: Louise Renée de Puencovet de Queroualle came over to Dover
as a maid of honour, and was created Duchess of Portsmouth in August
1673. She cost as much as Lady Castlemaine. Her son, Charles Lennox,
was made Duke of Richmond. The Duchess of Portsmouth was living when
this satire appeared. She died in 1734.
Footnote 19: Frederick de Schomberg, an old favourite of King
William’s, was made Duke of Schomberg on the 10th of April 1689.
Another friend of the King’s, William Bentinck, was created Earl of
Portland on the 9th of April 1689. His son and heir was raised to a
dukedom in 1716.
Footnote 20: The drunkard’s name for Canary. [D.F.]
Footnote 21: “Mobile,” applied to the movable, unstable populace, was
first abridged to “mob” in Charles the Second’s time.
Footnote 22: The Devil.—[D.F.]
Footnote 23: Dating from 1688-89, the Revolution and accession of King
William III.
Footnote 24: Charles I., James II., William III.
Footnote 25: On the 16th of July, 1604, the Puritan clergy within the
Church were required to conform on or before the 30th of November on
pain of expulsion. On the 4th of December Whitgift’s successor, Richard
Bancroft, was consecrated Archbishop of Canterbury. He strictly carried
out this order, and declared every man, cleric or lay, to be
excommunicated who questioned the complete accordance of the Prayer
Book with the Word of God. On the 6th of September, 1620, the
_Mayflower_ left England with the first freight of English families
that sought freedom of worship where they came to be the founders of a
New England across the sea.
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