Note 118 — Chapter II · LOCAL SURNAMES.

Talking of ‘Manners,’ however, we may add one on the celebrated Marquis of Granby:—

‘What conquest now will Britain boast,

Or where display her banners?

Alas! in Granby she has lost

True courage and good Manners.’

Puns of this nature may be met with frequently in books of the last century. Some complimentary verses to Dr. Gill, on account of a supposed victory in a public controversy, in 1727, in support of immersion at baptism, have a play of this kind at one part:—

‘Stennet,’ at first, his furious foe did meet,

Cleanly compelled him to a swift retreat;

Next powerful ‘Gale,’ by mighty blast made fall

The Church’s Dagon, the gigantic ‘Wall.’

(Gill’s Works, edit. 1839.)