p. 70 _To Henry Pain, Esq._ Henry Neville Payne, politician and author, was a thorough Tory and an ardent partisan of James II. Downes ascribes to him three plays: _The Fatal Jealousy_, produced at Dorset Garden in the winter of 1672, a good, if somewhat vehement, tragedy (4to, 1673); _Morning Ramble; or, Town Humours_, produced at the same theatre in 1673 (4to, 1673), which, though lacking in plot and quick incident, is far from a bad comedy; and _The Siege of Constantinople_, acted by the Duke’s company in 1674 (4to, 1675), a tragedy which very sharply lashes Shaftesbury as the Chancellor, especially in Act II, when Lorenzo, upon his patron designing a frolic, says:-- My Lord, you know your old house, Mother Somelie’s, You know she always fits you with fresh girls. Mother Somelie is, of course, the notorious Mother Mosely. Henry Payne wrote several loyal pamphlets, and after the Revolution he became, according to Burnet, ‘the most active and determined of all King James’ agents.’ He is said to have been the chief instigator of the Montgomery plot in 1690, and whilst in Scotland was arrested. 10 and 11 December of that year he was severely tortured under a special order of William III, but nothing could be extracted from him. This is the last occasion on which torture was applied in Scotland. After being treated with harshest cruelty by William III, Payne was finally released from prison in December, 1700, or January, 1701, as the Duke of Queensbury, recognizing the serious illegalities of the whole business, urgently advised his liberation. Payne died in 1710. As Macaulay consistently confounds him with a certain Edward Neville, S.J., the statements of this historian with reference to Henry Neville Payne must be entirely disregarded. p. 72 _The Fair Jilt._ Editio princeps, ‘London. Printed by _R. Holt_ for _Will. Canning_, at his Shop in the _Temple-Cloysters_’ (1688), ‘Licensed 17 April, 1688. _Ric. Pocock_’, has as title: _The Fair Jilt; or, The History of Prince Tarquin and Miranda_. As half-title it prints: _The Fair Hypocrite; or, The Amours of Prince Tarquin and Miranda_. All subsequent editions, however, give: _The Fair Jilt; or, The Amours of Prince Tarquin and Miranda_. The Dedication only occurs in the first edition. p. 73 _Scrutore._ Escritoire, cf. Sir T. Herbert, _Trav._ (1677): ‘There they sell . . . Scrutores or Cabinets of Mother of Pearl.’