Annotation:Trusty Dick
TRUSTY DICK.AKA and see "When the King Enjoys His Own Again." English, Air and Country Dance Tune (cut time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AA'BB'. "Trusty Dick" is the name that the Charles II gave to Richard Penderel (c.1606 – 1672), a Roman Catholic farmer and a supporter of the Royalist cause during the English Civil War. He assisted with the escape of the King after the Battle of Worcester in September 1651. Antiquarian William Chappell, writing in the mid-19th century, finds mention of the ballad "Trusty Dick" [Roud Number: V27606] as "An excellent new song of the unfortunate Whigs: to the tune of The King enjoys,&c," in the Roxburghe Collection (iii. 914), "printed for S. Maurel," in 1682. It begins:
The Whigs are but small, and of no good Race,
And are Belov’d by very few;
Old Tony broach’d his Tap in e’ry place,
To encourage all his Facetious Crew:
At some great Houses in the Town,
The Whiggs of High Renown,
And all with a true Blue was their Stain;
For since it is so,
They have wrought their overthrow
Old Tony will ne’r enjoy his own again.
