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[18] _Tory_, so called from the Irish word _Toree_, give me your
money.--TODD'S JOHNSON.

[19] As he was carried to the gallows, Jack played a fine tune of his
own composing on the bagpipe, which retains the name of Macpherson's
tune to this day.--_History of the Rapparees_.

[20] "Notwithstanding he was so great a rogue, Delany was a handsome,
portly man, extremely diverting in company, and could behave himself
before gentlemen very agreeably. _He had a political genius_--not
altogether surprising in so eminent a _Tory_--and would have made great
proficiency in learning if he had rightly applied his time. He composed
several songs, and put tunes to them; and by his skill in music gained
the favor of some of the leading musicians in the country, who
endeavored to get him reprieved."--_History of the Rapparees_. The
particulars of the _Songster's_ execution are singular:--"When he was
brought into court to receive sentence of death, the judge told him that
he was informed he should say 'that there was not a rope in Ireland
sufficient to hang him. But,' says he, 'I'll try if Kilkenny can't
afford one strong enough to do your business; and if that will not do,
you shall have another, and another.' Then he ordered the sheriff to
choose a rope, and Delany was ordered for execution the next day. The
sheriff having notice of his mother's boasting that no rope could hang
her son--and pursuant to the judge's desire--provided two ropes, but
Delany broke them one after the other! The sheriff was then in a rage,
and went for three bed-cords, which he plaited threefold together, _and
they did his business_! Yet the sheriff was afraid he was not dead; and
in a passion, to make trial, stabbed him with his sword in the soles of
his feet, and at last cut the rope. After he was cut down, his body was
carried into the courthouse, where it remained in the coffin for two
days, standing up, till the judge and all the spectators were fully
satisfied that he was stiff and dead, and then permission was given to
his friends to remove the corpse and bury it."-_History of the
Rapparees_.

[21] Highwaymen, as contradistinguished from footpads.

[22] Since Mr. Coates here avows himself the writer of this diatribe
against Sir Robert Walpole, attacked under the guise of _Turpin_ in the
_Common Sense_ of July 30, 1737, it is useless to inquire further into
its authorship. And it remains only to refer the reader to the _Gents.
Mag._, vol. vii.