To see it thus much grieved was I, The proverb saith ’sorrows be dry,’ So was I at this matter; When by good luck, I know not how, There thither came a straying cow, And we had milk and water. To nine good stomachs, with a wig, At last we got a tithen pig; This diet was our bounds; And this was, just as if ’twere known, A pound of butter had been thrown Among a pack of hounds. One glass of drink I got by chance, ’Twas Claret when it was in France, But then from it much wider; I think a man might make as good With green crabs boiled in Brazil wood, And half a pint of cider. I kissed the Mayor’s hand of the town, Who though he wears no scarlet gown, Honours the Rose and Thistle; A piece of coral to the mace, Which there I saw to serve in place, Would make a good child’s whistle. At six o’clock I came away, And prayed for those that were to stay Within that place so arrant; For my part I’ll come there no more, Unless it be on better score, Or forced by Tin Warrant. This custom of executing malefactors before trial on common fame, was also an old law amongst the Germans and Swiss Cantons; and if upon trial, after execution done on the criminal, he or she appeared to be innocent, a priest was appointed to pray for his soul. (See Glover’s Somerset, and Duverdier’s History of the Swiss Cantons.) The same law was in force amongst the people of Carinthia, a country adjoining to the Alps and Italy on the south, and Styria on the north; moreover, if upon the trial three days after the offender’s execution, he appeared to be guilty, his body should be left so long to hang upon the gibbet, till his members rotted piecemeal from his body. But if innocent they took it thence and gave it venerable obsequies, with prayers, oblations, and alms deed for the salvation of his soul. This James Hals married Anne, one of the coheirs of John Martin, of Hurston, Gent. attorney-at-law, (lineally descended from the Martins of Pittle Town, in Dorset,) by Anne his wife, daughter of John Mundy, of Rialton, Esq. by Jane his wife, daughter of Walter Kendall, of Pellyn, Esq.; by whom he had issue James Hals, his eldest son and heir, that married Martha, daughter and heir of Thomas Penrose, of Lefeock, Gent. commander of the Bristol, Maidstone, and Monck frigates, during the several Dutch wars of Oliver Cromwell and King Charles II. with the States of Holland; by whom he hath issue James Hals, his eldest son, of Hungerford Park in Berkshire, and Thomas Hals, bred a gentleman volunteer, upon King William the Third’s ship the Sunderland, Captain Tudor Trevor, Commander; but being from thence transferred to the Kingfisher, Captain Tallat, Commander, in order to go to St. Helena, with other men of war, to convoy home the East India fleet, the air on the south part of Africa, near the Cape of Good Hope, not agreeing with his constitution of body, he sickened there of a consumption and died 1702.