JOHN,

SECOND LORD JEFFREYS,

SON of the noted chancellor. I find two little pieces ascribed to this lord in the Collection of State Poems, in four vols. 4to.: one is called, "A Fable"."

The other 3,

"A burlesque Translation of an Elegy on the Duke of Gloucester."

[This lord Jeffreys succeeded to his title on the death of his father 4, in 1689; married Charlotte, the daughter and heiress of Philip, earl of Pembroke, by whom he had only one daughter, who married Thomas, earl of Pomfret. The title of Jeffreys became extinct in 17035. He was characterized at

Vol. ii. p. 241.

3 Vol. iii. p. 342.

• Dunton, the bibliopolic projector, informs us, that he sold above six thousand copies of a book called the Bloody Assizes, in which the chancellor Jeffreys was made a very cruel man; and he therefore formed a new project, wholly to change the same, and turn the Bloody Assizes into a Merciful Assizes, or "A Panegyric on the late Lord Jeffreys for hanging so many in the West." See Dunton's Life and Errors, p. 277.

• Bolton's Peerage, p. 156.

the time of his death as a person of very good parts; and has been considered as the author of

"Lord Jeffreys Argument in the Case of Monopolies," 16897.

His name is prefixed to the satirical

"Translation of an Elegy in Latin Verse, by Dr. Bentley, on the Death of the Duke of Gloucester;' and to the following fable, versified from Æsop, and politically applied, with much force and terseness:

"In Æsop's tales an honest wretch we find,
Whose years and comforts equally declin'd;
He in two wives had two domestick ills,

For different age they had, and different wills:
One pluckt his black hairs out, and one his grey;
The man for quietness did both obey,

Till all his parish saw his head quite bare,
And thought he wanted brains as well as hair.

THE MORAL.

The parties, hen-peckt Wm, are thy wives,
The hairs they pluck are thy prerogatives :
Tories thy person hate; the Whigs, thy power;
Though much thou yieldest, still they tug for more,
Till this poor man and thou alike are shown,
He without hair, and thou without a crown."]

• Annals of Queen Anne's Reign, p. 231.

7 Bibl. Westiana, No. 954.

"State Poems, vol. iii. p. 380.

LUCY,

MARCHIONESS OF WHARTON,

[DAUGHTER of Adam Loftus, baron Lisburne, in Ireland, second wife to Thomas, marquis of Wharton, and mother to Philip, duke of Wharton". According to sir William Musgrave's register in his manuscript obituary, this lady died in 1706: but according to a note taken from his Adversaria, in 1716. She was thus celebrated as a toast by the kit-cat club, in 1698:

When Jove to Ida did the gods invite,

And in immortal toastings pass'd the night,

With more than bowls of nectar they were blest,

For Venus was the Wharton of the feast.

The following neat verses are assigned to this lady in Nichols's Miscellany Poems, and had been printed with the duke of Wharton's poetical works:

"TO CUPID.

"Spite of thy godhead, powerful love!

I will my torments hide;

For what avails, if life must prove

A sacrifice to pride?

• Nichols's Collection, vol. v. p. 10.