Note 1064b — PART IV. From the Reformation to the present time. (continued 7)

Of those little poems, one is entitled The Dissolution; and as the name of Martha Rastrick is affixed to if, we may presume it was a present, perhaps a new years gift to that daughter. The greatest part of it we will here take the liberty of inserting, thought we have no reason to think that the author had the remotest idea of its publication. Yet as it cannot dishonour his memory, and has lain in MS. now nearly if not quite a hundred years, it may be placed here as a curious relic. It runs as follows—