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Hume records “that in the invectives of that age [Cromwell] is often stigmatized with the name of the brewer.” In Mr. Huth's volume of “Inedited Poetical Miscellanies, 1584–1700” (8vo., 1870) there is a poem entitled “The Parliament, 1657,” in which the following lines occur:—

And in Mr. Collier's reprint of “An Antidote to Purge Melancholy,” 1661, we have “The Brewer. A ballad made in the year 1657,” in which the allusions to Cromwell are most marked.