"DUBLIN, June 6. The Rev. Dean rendered himself on his indictment for a the bar of the Court of King's Bench, a Monday"-London Evening Post, Jun June 13, The Rev. Thomas Sawbridge, vas indicted for ravishing Susanna Ru as put off for some time past, on moti on behalf of the said Susanna, was yeste King's Bench, and acquitted. It is tends to indict her for perjury, he bein ford when she swore the rape was comm of Dublin."-Daily Post-Boy, Jun

I.

OUR brethren of England, who love us so dear,
And in all they do for us so kindly do mean,
(A blessing upon them!) have sent us this year,
For the good of our church, a true English dean.
A holier priest ne'er was wrapt up in crape,
The worst you can say, he committed a rape.

II.

In his journey to Dublin, he lighted at Chester, And there he grew fond of another man's wife;

* "DUBLIN, June 6. The Rev. Dean Sawbridge, having surrendered himself on his indictment for a rape, was arraigned at the bar of the Court of King's Bench, and is to be tried next Monday."-London Evening Post, June 16, 1730.- DUBLIN, June 13. The Rev. Thomas Sawbridge, Dean of Fernes, who was indicted for ravishing Susanna Runkard, and whose trial was put off for some time past, on motion of the King's Counse on behalf of the said Susanna, was yesterday tried in the Court of King's Bench, and acquitted. It is reported, that the Dean intends to indict her for perjury, he being in the county of Wexford when she swore the rape was committed against her in the sity of Dublin."-Daily Post-Boy, June 23, 1730.-NICOL.

Each priest had a concubine, jure ecclesia; Tho'd be dean of Fernes without a commendam? And precedents we can produce, if it please ye: hen why should the Dean, when whores are so cheap,

e put to the peril and toil of a rape!

VIII.

f fortune should please but to take such a crotchet (To thee I apply, great Smedley's successor)

To give thee lawn sleeves, a mitre, and rochet, Whom wouldst thou resemble? I leave thee a

guesser.

*

But I only behold thee in Atherton's shape,
For sodomy hang'd; as thou for a rape.

* A bishop of Waterford, sent from England an hundred years go, who was hanged at Arbor-hill, near Dublin.-See "The penitent death of a woful sinner, or the penitent death of John Atherton, executed at Dublin the 5th of December, 1640. With -ome annotations upon several passages in it. As also the Sernon, with some further enlargements, preached at his burial. By Nicholas Barnard, Dean of Ardagh in Ireland.

Quis in seculo peccavit enormius Paulo ? Quis in religione gravius Petro? illi tamen pænitentiam assequuti sunt non solum

ctitatis. Nolite ergo ante temvos laudatis, Deus reprehendit, audabit, primi novissimi, et no .. Dublin, Printed by the Society

723; but being only found guilty commit the crime, the worthy colovate party prosecuting.

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