When the King Enjoys His Own Again

[3] Upon Queen Mary II's death in 1694, Bristol Jacobites publicly rejoiced with bell-ringings and danced through the streets to the song.

[4] In September 1711 a commander of a company of London militia, Captain John Silk, had his trained bands march to the song through the City.

[6] After the accession of the first Hanoverian king, George I, there was a resurgence of Jacobitism in the form of celebrating Charles II's Restoration Day (29 May).

[7] At Oxford on Restoration Day in 1716 local Jacobite gownsmen disrupted attempted Whig celebrations of it by playing the tune.

[10] In 1722 in St Albans the future MP for the town, Thomas Gape, had musicians play the song during an election riot.

However, in October the pair toured Oxford's colleges with two musicians who played ‘When the king enjoys his own again’ and they were subsequently expelled, fined and sentenced to two years' imprisonment.

I think myself to be as wise As he that gazeth on the skies; My skill goes beyond the depth of a pond, Or rivers in the greatest rain, Thereby I can tell all things will be well When the King enjoys his own again.

There's neither swallow, dove, nor dade, Can soar more high, or deeper wade, Nor show a reason from the stars What causeth peace or civil wars; The Man in the Moon may wear out his shoon By running after Charles his wain: But all's to no end, for the times will not mend Till the King enjoys his own again.