"Who, about eight years ago, went out of meer curiosity to see their
Club, and has since furnish'd me with the following papers. I was
inform'd that it was kept in no fix'd house, but that they remov'd as
they saw convenient; that the place they met in when he was with 'em
was in a blind ally, about Morefields; that the company wholly
consisted of Independents and Anabaptists (I am glad for the honour of
the Presbyterians to set down this remark); that the famous Jerry
White, formerly Chaplain to Oliver Cromwell, who no doubt on't came to
sanctify with his pious exhortations the Ribbaldry of the Day, said
Grace; that after the table-cloth was removed, the anniversary anthem,
as they impiously called it, was sung, and a calve's skull fill'd with
wine, or other liquor, and then a brimmer went about to the pious
memory of those worthy patriots that kill'd the tyrant, and deliver'd
their country from arbitrary sway; and lastly, a collection made for
the mercenary scribler, to which every man contributed according to his
zeal for the cause, or the ability of his purse.
"I have taken care to set down what the gentleman told me as faithfully
as my memory wou'd give me leave; and I am persuaded that some persons
that frequent the Black Boy in Newgate Street, as they knew the author
of the following lines so they knew this account of the Calves' Head
Club to be true."
The anthems for the years 1693, 1694, 1695, 1696, and 1697, are given; but
they are too long and too stupidly blasphemous and indecent to quote here.
They seem rather the satires of malignant cavaliers than the serious
productions of any Puritan, however politically or theologically heretical.
EDWARD PEACOCK.
Bottesford Moors.
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PHOTOGRAPHIC CORRESPONDENCE.
_The Calotype Process._--I have made any first essay in the calotype
process, following DR. DIAMOND'S directions given in "N. & Q.," and using
Turner's paper, as recommended by him. My success has been quite as great
as I could expect as a novice, and satisfies me that any defects are due to
my own want of skill, and not to any fault in the directions given. I wish,
however, to ask a question as to iodizing the paper. DR. DIAMOND says, lay
the paper on the solution; then _immediately_ remove it, and lay on the dry
side on blotting-paper, &c. Now I find, if I remove immediately, the
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