Taylor at Manton, Wiltshire, and there they remained to the last. Nat Flatman was Payne's favourite jockey, and for some time he had the first call on his services. His betting was very reckless; he would sometimes back twenty horses in a race for a big handicap, and then miss the winner. He lost 33,000l. in 1824, when Mr. Gascoigne's Jerry won the St. Leger; but in the succeeding year he recovered great part of the money by backing Memnon. He owned horses from 1824 to 1878, yet his only victories of any importance were with a purchased filly, Clementina, which won the One Thousand Guineas in 1847, and with Glauca, which won the Cesarewitch.
He was an infatuated gambler, not only on the turf, but also at the card-table. He was one of the persons who, in the winter of 1836, accused Henry William, twenty-second Baron de Ros, of not playing fairly. At the trial, on 10 Feb. 1837, he was one of the witnesses, and had his character most unfairly aspersed by Sir John Campbell (afterwards the first Baron Campbell). Payne had serious thoughts of publicly horsewhipping Campbell, but the latter, through the medium of Colonel Anson, made an apology (Times, 11 Feb. 1837, pp. 2–4, 13 Feb. pp. 2–4).
Payne had hosts of friends and admirers, and no enemies. He died unmarried at 10 Queen Street, Mayfair, London, on 2 Sept. 1878, and was buried at Kensal Green on 6 Sept., King Edward VII, then Prince of Wales, and many friends being present. His only brother, William Payne, died at Pitsford Hall, Northamptonshire, in 1858. His sister Elizabeth Martha married, in 1827, Sir Francis Holyoake Goodricke, bart., who died in 1865.
[Baily's Mag. 1860 i. 183–6 (with portrait), 1883 xli. 148–53; New Sporting Mag. 1837, xiii. 364; Westminster Papers, 1878, x. 139 (with portrait); Nethercote's Pytchley Hunt, 1888, pp. 4, 99, 117–48 (with portrait); Thormanby's Famous Racing Men, 1882, pp. 113–20 (with portrait); Rice's British Turf, 1879, ii. 296–308 (with portrait); Cecil's Records of the Chase, 1877, pp. 135–6; Daily Telegraph, 3 Sept. 1878, p. 5; The Field, 7 Sept. 1878, p. 312; Times, 3, 5, and 7 Sept. 1878; Sporting Times, 8 May 1875, pp. 305, 308 (with portrait); Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News, 1876, iv. 475, 496 (with portrait); Illustrated London News, 1844, v. 72 (with portrait); Graphic, 1878, xviii. 276 (with portrait); Racing, in Badminton Library (1886), pp. 75, 198, 204–5.]
PAYNE, HENRY NEVILLE (fl. 1672–1710), conspirator and author, is credited by Lord Macaulay with having been ‘an intimate friend of the indiscreet and unfortunate Coleman’ [see Coleman, Edward], and with having been committed to Newgate as an accomplice to the ‘popish plot’ (History of England, ed. 1883, ii. 217). Macaulay seems, however, to have confounded Payne with Edward Neville (1639–1709) [q. v.], a jesuit. Another statement of Macaulay, that ‘Payne had been long known about town as a dabbler in poetry and politics,’ has more evidence to support it. Downes ascribes to him three plays: the ‘Fatal Jealousie,’ a tragedy, acted at the Duke's theatre, licensed 22 Nov. 1672, and published in 1673; ‘Morning Rambles, or the Town Humours,’ a comedy, acted at the Duke's theatre in 1673, and published in 1673; and the ‘Siege of Constantinople,’ a tragedy, acted at the Duke's theatre in 1674, and published in 1675. The latter contains various indirect allusions to the politics of the period. In all probability he is also identical with the Henry Payne who wrote ‘The Persecutor Exposed; in Reflections by Way of Reply to an Ill-bred Answer to the Duke of Buckingham's Paper,’ 1685; and ‘An Answer to a scandalous Pamphlet entitled a Letter to a Dissenter concerning his Majestie's late Declaration of Indulgence,’ 1687. The latter called forth ‘An Answer to Mr. Henry Payne's Letter concerning his Majesty's Indulgence writ to the Author of the Letter to a Dissenter by T. T.’ ‘Mr. Payne,’ writes the author of this pamphlet, ‘I cannot help asking you how much money you had from the writer of the Paper which you pretend to answer; for as you have the character of a man who deals with both hands, so this is writ in such a manner as to make one think you were inclined to it by the adverse party;’ and he adds: ‘Both in your books of Constitution and Policy, and even in your poems, you seem to have entered into such an intermixture with the Irish that the thread all over is linsey-wolsey.’
After the revolution Payne became, according to Bishop Burnet, ‘the most active and determined of all King James's agents,’ and, although he had ‘lost the reputation of an honest man entirely,’ succeeded by his ‘arts of management’ in inducing those to employ him who were well aware of his indifferent character (Own Time, ed. 1838, p. 545). He was generally believed to have been the chief instigator of the Montgomery plot in 1690 [see Montgomery, Sir James, tenth Baronet of Skelmorlie]. Balcarres affirms that each was the dupe of the other: Payne promising Montgomery ‘all his ambition, vanity, or avarice could pretend to,’ and persuading him that he (Payne) was entrusted by King James to dispose ‘of money, forces, and titles as he pleased;’ while Montgomery
