Note 585 — REIGN OF GEORGE I.: 1714–1727. (continued 3)

The Horn Order and Crispin Knights are satirised in several pasquils of the time of Queen Anne as fraternities practising debauchery to an unusual degree. A satire on the Union says:

The Canongate know no cabals,

Nor knights of the Horn order;

And lights were not put out at balls,

When I was a dame of honour.

The Crispins, and the Crispin pins,

Wore things unknown unto us;

We ladies then thought shame to sin,

It cost pains to undo us, &c.

Maidment’s Collection of Pasquils, il. 75.