Rumbold, “the one-eyed archer,” fled to Holland, and came to Scotland with Argyle, on his ill-concerted expedition.  He was singled out and pursued, after the dispersion of his companions in a skirmish.  He defended himself with desperate resolution against two armed peasants, till a third, coming behind him with a pitch-fork, turned off his head-piece, when he was cut down and made prisoner, exclaiming, “Cruel countryman, to use me thus, while my face was to mine enemy.”  He suffered the doom of a traitor at Edinburgh, and maintained on the scaffold, with inflexible firmness, the principles in which he had lived.  He could never believe, he said, that the many of human kind came into the world bridled and saddled, and the few with whips and spurs to ride them.  “His rooted ingrained opinion, says Fountainhall, was for a republic against monarchy, to pull down which he thought a duty, and no sin.”  At his death, he declared, that were every hair of his head a man, he would venture them all in the good old cause.

11.  “I must not,” says Langbaine, “take the pains to acquaint my
   reader, that by the man on the pedestal, &c. is meant the late Lord
   Shaftesbury.  I shall not pretend to pass my censure, whether he
   deserved this usage from our author or no, but leave it to the
   judgments of statesmen and politicians.”  Shaftesbury having been
   overturned in a carriage, received some internal injury which
   required a constant discharge by an issue in his side.  Hence he was
   ridiculed under the name of Tapski.  In a mock account of an
   apparition, stated to have appeared to Lady Gray, it says, “Bid
   Lord Shaftesbury have a care to his spigot—­if he is tapt, all the
   plot will run out.” Ralph’s History, vol. i. p. 562. from a
   pamphlet in Lord Somers’ collection.  There are various allusions to
   this circumstance in the lampoons of the time.  A satire called “The
   Hypocrite,” written by Carryl, concludes thus: 

     His body thus and soul together vie. 
     In vice’s empire for the sovereignty;
     In ulcers shut this does abound in sin,
     Lazar without and Lucifer within. 
     The silver pipe is no sufficient drain
     For the corruption of this little man;
     Who, though he ulcers have in every part,
     Is no where so corrupt as in his heart.

At length, in prosecution of this coarse and unhandsome jest, a sort of vessel with a turn-cock was constructed for holding wine, which was called a Shaftesbury, and used in the taverns of the royal party.

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