The Curiosities of Dudley and the Black Country, From 1800 to 1860 / Also an Account of the Trials and Sufferings of Dud Dudley, with His Mettallum Martis: Etc.

FOOTNOTES:

[1] The Lecturer cannot sufficiently express the delight he experienced, when, at the termination of the lecture, he was informed, that the gentleman who first applied the principle here noticed to practical purposes was at that time in the lecture room. Under the management of our able and ingenious townsman, Mr. Richardson, “the Dudley Gas Works” consume in the furnaces this singular species of fuel; gas tar being used with the water to effect its decomposition; after three years’ experience Mr. Richardson bears testimony to the importance of the discovery.

[2] Formerly a banker, but at time of the Procession a bankrupt, on an extensive scale, in the neighbourhood.

[3]

“A low prelusive strain, to nature true.”

Southey.

[4]

“A sudden storm, with terrible ding dong,

Swept through the streets and wash’d the crowd along.”

Tom Thumb the Great.

[5]

Thus fear and interest will prevail with some;

For all have not the gift of martyrdom.

Dryden.

[6] An apt conjunction of lawn and black satin, we entitle a Bishop.

Tale of a Tub.

[7] He is a main scholard, Latins it hugely, and talks his own mother tongue as well as one of your varsity Doctors.

Don Quixote.

[8]

Video meliora, proboque.

Ovid.

[9]

Cantabit vacuus.

Juv.

[10]

Post ingentia facta Decorum in tomplum receptus.

Hor.

[11]

Raro antecedentem scelestum,

Deseruit pede, poena, claudo.

Hor.

[12]

——The wind sallied forth,

And in anger or merriment, out of the north

From the peak of the crag blew his rev’rence away.

Wordsworth.

[13]

Such was the wight: th’ apparel on his back,

Tho’ coarse, was rev’rend; and tho’ bare was black.

Pope.

[14] The Poet glanceth at copper tokens, which these disinterested tradesmen had issued in great abundance, solely with an eye to the public good, and which by reason of their being, as was said, recently counterfeited, were in no very high repute at the time of the procession.

[15] He was once thought to be a great Presbyterian, if not worse.

[16] Hark ye, Sir, a word in your ear. You are a coxcomb by all the rules of physiogonomy. But let that be a secret between you and me.

Addison’s Drummer.

[17]

I know a lady in Venice would have walk’d barefoot to Palestine, for a touch of his nether lip.

Shakespeare.

[18]

He carries fate and physic in his eye.

Crabbe.

[19]

Good morrow, Benedick: why what’s the matter,

That you have such a February face,

So full of frost, of storm, and cloudiness?

Shaks.

[20]

Oh! I thought I should faint, when I saw him, dear mother,

Feel my pulse with one hand, with a watch in the other;

No token of death that is heard in the night

Could ever have put me so much in affright:

Thinks I—’tis all over—my sentence is past,

And now he is counting how long I may last.

New Bath Guide.

[21]

Procul discordibus armis.

Virg.

[22]

They were all of opinion ’tis proper to cheer,

The stomach and bowels as well as the ear.

New Bath Guide.

[23]

Vivitur ex rapto.

Ovid.

[24]

Thence from cups to civil broils.

Milton.

[25] The Vicar’s live stock is said to be of the starveling family, like the nags in the Epigram:

“Thy nags (the leanest things alive)

So very hard thou lov’st to drive;

I heard thy anxious coachman say,

It cost thee more in whips than hay.”

[26]

Intus et in cute novi.

Pers.

[27] Our author’s little anachronism, in wishing the ladies to be mothers first, and wives afterwards, it is hoped will be pardoned as an unavoidable sacrifice to the rhyme.

[28] Had not the pious Doctor given us his word that the Epigram was totally unnoticed by him till Monday morning, we might have been inclined to suspect that the following lines of Pope were descriptive of the manner in which he spent his Sunday evening hours.

“Swearing and supperless the hero sate

Then gnaw’d his pen, then dash’d it on the ground,

Thinking from thought to thought, a vast profound

Plung’d far his sense, but found no bottom there,

Yet wrote and flounder’d on in mere despair.”

[29] This vaunted concern for the glory of the church, we would charitably hope, is real, and not like that of Rebel, in the Comedy of the Committee-man curried by Sam. Sheppard. I laugh (says Rebel) to think when I counterfeit a whining passion, and talk of God and goodness, walk with a sad and mortified countenance, how I’m admired among the brethren, and styled a man of God.

And thus I cloke my naked villany

With old odd ends stolen forth of holy writ,

And seem a saint when most I play the Devil.

Shakspeare.

[30]

Like will to like,—says the Proverb.

A lizard’s body lean and long,

A fish’s head a serpent’s tongue.

Cameleon.

[31]Who more fit to unkennel the fox, than the honest terrier who is part of him.

Hickeringill.

[32]

Feliciter is sapit, qui periculo alieno sapit.

Plaut.

[33] Of these I am told that our respected fellow-townsman, Mr. Lester, retires owing to illness, but will continue to evince his interest and good wishes by nominating his late colleagues, with some others, for your approval.

[34] The Circular issued by the Vicar and Warden, dated August 20th.

[35] This note was received through the Post on Sunday morning in an unstamped envelope.

[36] This large increase in the number of electors arose from the fact that the Borough of Dudley was included in the Act of 1873, which gave a large increase of voters to many boroughs in the country, by embracing in their boundaries large adjacent populous villages.

[37] The reason why this account of the building of the Parish Church does not appear at the beginning of this Book, arose from the inability to obtain a copy of these documents until the work was nearly printed off.—Editor.

[38] We have seen this item in Dr. Booker’s handwriting.

Dud Dudley’s
Metallum Martis:
OR,
IRON
MADE WITH
Pit-coale,
Sea-coale,
&c.

And with the same Fuell to Melt and
Fine Imperfect Mettals, and Refine
perfect Mettals.

LONDON, Printed by T. M. for the Authour.
1665.

N.B.—This Work is an exact reprint from the original, and the errors in spelling and the peculiar Grammar of the Author have been faithfully followed.

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