DOI issue:
September 8, 1855
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.16616#0114
OUR ARTIST GOES TO ALLERSHOT TO MAKE A SKETCH IN TEE CAME, AND MEETS WITH AN
ENTHUSIASTIC RECEPTION.
THE TREADMILL FOR A TRIFLE;
OR, A HARD CASE FOR CATNACH.
On Tuesday and on Wednesday they work'd as tliey were wont,
On Thursday Mr. Joseph Brow call'd them unto account,
Before a reverend magistrate, George Hemming is his name,
Who gave these poor men fourteen days' hard labour. What a shame I
'Tis of a case of.hardship as vou shall quickly hear,
Of cruel prosecution and punishment severe, gQ the George Hemming did Farmer Brown preva,!
Mated by John Collin ; his a?e is fifty-two, To -,ve 'hese honest y°un° men a tortD,Sht ln Chelmslord gaol
Of his two sons sent to Chelmsford Gaol for attending a Review.
The one is Thomas Collin, Hie other George by name;
George Collin is a married man and Thomas is the same.
George Collin he has one child and Thomas he has live,
Whom a lleverend Beak for fourteen days of their fathers did deprive.
John Collin's deposition, sworn to and taken down, ^hree „roans for pars0n Hemming and three for Farmer Brown
AloDg with rogues and scoundrels of base and wicked lives.
To work upon the treadmill torn from their families and wives.
In vain did Major Palmer their hard case represent;
The Home Office would not remit their cruel punishment.
Inquiry on the subject, having been, by Sir George Grey,
Of Parson Hemming made, to hear what he had got to say.
Declares that he and his two tons were at work for Joseph Brown,
Of Roydon Hamlet, Essex—a sheep-jobber is he—■
And likewise a small farmer of petty mean degree.
'Twas on the fourth of August these two young men did say
To Mr. Church, Brown's foreman, that they wanted half a day,
To see the Essex Yeomanry review'd on Nazing-mead,
And I think I see three scarecrows paraded through the town;
Then in a bonfire blazing, with a smell of pitch and tar,—
A Parson, and a Farmer, and his Majesty the Czar.
Bad luck to every wretched hunks and all unhappy screws,
That would discourage fine young men from going to reviews,
Likewise to every Justice, whether clerical or lay,
Whereto the foreman neither objected nor agreed. ' That backs them'up in putting any hindrance in their way !
Upon the following Monday, John Collin said and swore,
That he and his two sons got up as sooa as half-past-four,
Which was before their regular time, their master's work to do,
Abyssinian Progress.
So that they shouldn't wrong him by their going to Review. ' O? all the crowned heads of the present day, that of the King 03
j Abyssinia appears to contain as large a quantity aud as good a quality
They work'd till one o'clock, when Church bade them to cease to i of brain as any. His African Majesty has prohibited slavery, re-
mow, I nounced polygamy, and banished 'he Jesuists. Ttiree almost equally
Then Thomas unto Nazing-mead immediately did go, j fine things to do !—what other existing monarch or state has done them
George Collin follow'd after in about another hour, I all ? Africa is not only distancing Europe and Asia in civilisation, but
Not thinking of curmudgeons, nor of Jack Priests in power. j going a-head of America too.
ENTHUSIASTIC RECEPTION.
THE TREADMILL FOR A TRIFLE;
OR, A HARD CASE FOR CATNACH.
On Tuesday and on Wednesday they work'd as tliey were wont,
On Thursday Mr. Joseph Brow call'd them unto account,
Before a reverend magistrate, George Hemming is his name,
Who gave these poor men fourteen days' hard labour. What a shame I
'Tis of a case of.hardship as vou shall quickly hear,
Of cruel prosecution and punishment severe, gQ the George Hemming did Farmer Brown preva,!
Mated by John Collin ; his a?e is fifty-two, To -,ve 'hese honest y°un° men a tortD,Sht ln Chelmslord gaol
Of his two sons sent to Chelmsford Gaol for attending a Review.
The one is Thomas Collin, Hie other George by name;
George Collin is a married man and Thomas is the same.
George Collin he has one child and Thomas he has live,
Whom a lleverend Beak for fourteen days of their fathers did deprive.
John Collin's deposition, sworn to and taken down, ^hree „roans for pars0n Hemming and three for Farmer Brown
AloDg with rogues and scoundrels of base and wicked lives.
To work upon the treadmill torn from their families and wives.
In vain did Major Palmer their hard case represent;
The Home Office would not remit their cruel punishment.
Inquiry on the subject, having been, by Sir George Grey,
Of Parson Hemming made, to hear what he had got to say.
Declares that he and his two tons were at work for Joseph Brown,
Of Roydon Hamlet, Essex—a sheep-jobber is he—■
And likewise a small farmer of petty mean degree.
'Twas on the fourth of August these two young men did say
To Mr. Church, Brown's foreman, that they wanted half a day,
To see the Essex Yeomanry review'd on Nazing-mead,
And I think I see three scarecrows paraded through the town;
Then in a bonfire blazing, with a smell of pitch and tar,—
A Parson, and a Farmer, and his Majesty the Czar.
Bad luck to every wretched hunks and all unhappy screws,
That would discourage fine young men from going to reviews,
Likewise to every Justice, whether clerical or lay,
Whereto the foreman neither objected nor agreed. ' That backs them'up in putting any hindrance in their way !
Upon the following Monday, John Collin said and swore,
That he and his two sons got up as sooa as half-past-four,
Which was before their regular time, their master's work to do,
Abyssinian Progress.
So that they shouldn't wrong him by their going to Review. ' O? all the crowned heads of the present day, that of the King 03
j Abyssinia appears to contain as large a quantity aud as good a quality
They work'd till one o'clock, when Church bade them to cease to i of brain as any. His African Majesty has prohibited slavery, re-
mow, I nounced polygamy, and banished 'he Jesuists. Ttiree almost equally
Then Thomas unto Nazing-mead immediately did go, j fine things to do !—what other existing monarch or state has done them
George Collin follow'd after in about another hour, I all ? Africa is not only distancing Europe and Asia in civilisation, but
Not thinking of curmudgeons, nor of Jack Priests in power. j going a-head of America too.