ENGLISH BALLADS AND OTHER POEMS BY LORD JOHN JAMES R. MANNERS, M.P. 1850 Edited by David Trutt ENGLISH BALLADS AND OTHER POEMS BY LORD JOHN JAMES ROBERT MANNERS, M.P., 1850 LONDON: FRANCIS & JOHN RIVINGTON ST. PAUL’S CHURCH YARD, AND WATERLOO PLACE To Alexander Baillie Cochrane, esq. M.P. : These pages, in memory of happy hours passed, and historic scenes visited together, are affectionately dedicated. Many of the following Poems have appeared in various periodicals; but I venture to reprint them, in the hope they may afford pleasure to some who have not met with them before. Published 2010 by David Trutt Los Angeles, California USA email:
[email protected] Web Site: www.haddon-hall.com 3 INTRODUCTION John James Robert Manners (1818-1906), Seventh Duke of Rutland, succeeded to the title when his older brother died in 1888. He published two books of poetry, England’s Trust and Other Poems in 1841 and English Ballads and Other Poems in 1850. His father, John Henry Manners, Fifth Duke of Rutland, succeeded to the title at the age of nine in 1787 and enjoyed the title for seventy years, until his death in 1857. John Henry Manners, perhaps more than any other person, was responsible for enabling the creation of the romance of Haddon Hall and its accompanying legend of the elopement of Dorothy Vernon. A Haddon Hall visitor noted in 1825: “Bakewell is much improved of late. Belongs almost entirely to the Duke of Rutland, who has built an excellent new inn–the Rutland Arms–a very nice house to dine or stay at night.