English anti-aristocratic pornography was also deeply rooted in a French tradition, that of the chroniques scandaleuses. These salacious little stories about the court at Versailles delighted English readers.

O! he is attended upon most Babylonically, and Xerxes so evercloyed not the Hellespont, with his Frigates, Gallies, and Brigantines, as he mantleth the narrow Seas, with his Retinue, being not much behind in the Checkroll of his Janisaries and Contributories, with Eagle-soarging Bullingbreak, that at his Removing of Houshold into Banishment, as Father Froysard threaps us down, was accompanied with forty-thousand Men, Women, and Children weeping, from London to the Land's End, at Dover.

We made an odd party before the arrival of the Ten, particularly when the Celebrity dropped in for lunch or dinner. He could not be induced to remain permanently at Mohair because Miss Trevor was at Asquith, but he appropriated a Hempstead cart from the Mohair stables and made the trip sometimes twice in a day.

Stamens five; filaments linear, flat, attached on the outer side of the hypogynous disc; anthers 1.4 mm long and 0.45 mm wide, splitting up to one-half; appendage pointed, 0.25 mm long; hypogynous disc cup-shaped, lobes oblongate, strongly thickened, blunt.