Vulgar words in Notes and Queries, Number 211, November 12, 1853 - A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, - Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. (Page 1)
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Mrs. Kirke and her daughter Diana are unfavourably alluded to by Mrs. Grace Worthley, a lady of the same class, who will not "be any longer a laughing-stock for any of Mr. Kirk's bastards" (vide letter to her cousin Lord Brandon, September 7, 1682, _Diary of Henry Sidney, Earl of Romney_, i. pp.
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And again, the same lady, in another letter, speaks of "the common Countess of Oxford and her adulterous bastards" (_Ibid._).
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A print is given of the scene; and the obnoxious toasts are also quoted; they are: "The pious memory of Oliver Cromwell;" "Damn--n to the race of the Stuarts;" "The glorious year 1648;" "The man in the mask," &c. The print is dated 1734, which proves that the meeting at which the disturbance arose was not the first which had taken place.