Yokeney, this following ought to be
remembred, made 1646 or 1647, viz.:-
"What if the King should come to the city,
Would he be then received I trow?
Would the Parliament treat him with rigor or pity?
Some doe think yea, but most doe think no, &c."'
It is a lively, briske aire, and was playd by the lowd musick when
King Charles the Second made his entry in London at his restauration.
Captain Thomas Stump, of Malmesbury. Tis pity the strange adventures
of him should be forgotten. He was the eldest sonn of Mr. Will.
Stump, rector of Yatton Keynell; was a boy of a most daring spirit; he
would climbe towers and trees most dangerously; nay, he would walke on
the battlements of the tower there. He had too much spirit to be a
scholar, and about sixteen went in a voyage with his uncle, since Sir
Thomas Ivy, to Guyana, in anno 1633, or 1632. When the ship put in
some where there, four or five of them straggled into the countrey too
far, and in the interim the wind served, and the sails were hoist,
and the stragglers left behind. It was not long before the wild people
seized on them and strip's them, and those that had beards they
knocked their braines out, and (as I remember) did eat them; but the
queen saved T. Stump, and the other boy. Stump threw himself into the
river Pronoun to have drowned himself, but could not sinke; he is
very full chested. The other youth shortly died. He lived with them
till 1636 or 1637.
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