2'"i S. X. Aug. 18, '60.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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LONDON, SATURDAY, AUGUST 18. 18G0. 



N«. 242.— CONTENTS. 



NOTES: — Ballads and Songs of Yorkshire. 121— Shak- 

 speariana : Shaksperiau Portraits — Shakspeare — Deriva- 

 tion of Shakspere, 122 — Anecdote Biography, 123. 



MiNOE Notes : — Cities turned into Stone — Dicky Dicken- 

 son — To Shunt — Defacement of Monuments in Ely 

 Cathedral — Witty Despatches, 123. 



QUERIES : — Archbishop Leighton, 124 — Welsh Blblio- 



fraphy, 125 — Allport Family — Old English Tunes — Tory 

 ong — Richard Johnson: Sir Thomas Parkyns — " Pelo- 

 pidarmn Secunda " — Mrs. H. Stewart — Coddington Race- 

 course — Family of Ap Rhys, or Rice — Dramatic Authors 

 — Worcestershire Badge — Nelson of Chaddleworth — A 

 Prologue to Square Play — Greek Penmanship — Seson 

 Family — Limited Liability, 126. 



QuEKiES WITH Answees : — Commemoration Sermons — 

 Adderley Church — Mrs. Ann Wheeler — De Sancto Ve- 

 dasto = Forster —"The Royal Pastoral " — Star — " One 

 Soueraigne of Golde " — ^on, 128. 



REPLIES : — Centenarianism, 129— Fratres de Sacco, 131 — 

 The Magnetic Declination, lb. — James Ainslie, 132 — 

 Drawing Society of Dublin, 134 — Char, Charwoman, Id. — 

 Duke of Buckingham: James Douche — Toads found in 

 Stone — Cardinal Mazarin — Oliver Cromwell's Letter — 

 Queen Eleanor and Fair Rosamond — Taafe and Gordon 

 Families — Mary Wiltshire — Gonge : the Conge, Yar- 

 mouth — Bath Family — Poem by J. G. Lockhart — Six- 

 tine Bible — Knighthood conferred by the Lords Justices 

 of Ireland — Legendary Painting — The Medicinal Virtue 

 of Spiders' Webs — Clever — Peers serving as Mayors — 

 Latin, Greek, and German Metres — Novel Weather Indi- 

 cator — Armorial Queries — Single Supporter, &c., 135. 



Notes on Books. 



fiatt€. 



BALLADS AND SONGS OF YORKSHIRE. 



The lovers of our ballad literature are greatly 

 indebted to Dr. Ingledew for the very interesting 

 little volume bearing the above title, which he has 

 recently published. There are, however, a few 

 pieces not included in the collection, which (con- 

 sidering the general character of its contents) I 

 expected to have found therein, and which I con- 

 clude have escaped the researches of the compiler, 

 since they are neither of the kind which he states 

 to have been purposely omitted, nor such as he 

 would (in my opinion) have rejected when exer- 

 cising tlie duty of selection. To these, therefore, 

 I wouUi beg leave to invite his attention. 



The first belongs to a class of songs of which a 

 great part of the volume is composed, viz. those 

 relating to events of a public nature, but it is of 

 so purely local a character, and of such temporary 

 interest, that it possibly has scarcely been heard 

 ot beyond the boundaries of the town to which it 

 relates, and in which it was most likely composed 

 — circumstances quite sufficient to account for its 

 absence from Dr. Ingledew's pages. It was sung 

 in tiie streets of Bradford during the Musical 

 Festival on the opening of St. George's Hail in 

 that town in August and September, 1853 ; and 

 tlie copy beneath is transcribed from a broadside, 

 with(jut either printer's name or place of publica- 



tion, which I, there and then, purchased of the 

 minstrel who was carolling forth the ditty. The 

 sheet on which it is printed also contains a song 

 acquainting us "How five and twenty shillings 

 are expended in a week " ; but that is, I think, of 

 metropolitan origin. 



" A New Song on the Opening of St. George's Hall. 



" Good people all that's standing round, I pray you now 



attend, 

 And listen with attention to the lines which I have 



penn'd ; 

 I hope that I shall none offend, I wish to please jou all ; 

 It's all about the opening of the Great St. George's Hall. 



" There is the Maj'or and Corporation, and the Merchants 



too likewise, 

 At the opening of St. George's Hall they will you all 



surprise ; 

 Thej' are going to have a Festival, a Concert and a Ball, 

 To celebrate the opening of the great St. George's Hall. 



" From Halifax and Huddersfield, and likewise York and 



Leeds, 

 The sporting Ladies will swarm in just like a flock of 



Geese, 

 With bran new bustles on their rumps, and dandy caps 



and all ; 

 They will make some j'oung men rue the day they 



came to George's Hall. 



" There is a dandy Weaver, she works at the Queen's Head, 

 A cabbage [net] to hold her hair she has upon her head, 

 With artificials on her cap, and flounced gown and all, 

 She'll cut a dash upon the day they open George's Hall. 



" Her sweetheart is a Snob who swears, in spite of wind 



and weather, 

 He'll sell his lapstone and his Avax, likewise his hemp 



and leather. 

 He swears that he will sell his cloak and little pigs 



and all, 

 To buy a ticket for his dear to go to George's Hall. 



" There is another verse I'll sing to you, you never heard 



the like, 

 The lasses that are in the town for wages mean to strike, 

 They say they'll have a better price or else not work 



at all. 

 They mean to strike upon the day they open George's 



Hall. 



" The Masons and the Carpenters, and Builders too like- 

 wise. 



Upon that day I mean to say a tool they will not raise ; 



The Counter-jumpers, Barbers' Clerk's, and Factory 

 Lads and all. 



Will have a spree upon the day they open George's Hall. 



" So to conclude and finish this [the last] verse of my 



song. 

 We'll drink success to George's Hall and Bradford's 



noted town ; 

 And Lasses, when you're going home, take care you do 



not fall, 

 For it's ten to one you rue the dav you went to George's 



Hall." 



The next is a ballad, entitled " The Merchant's 

 Son [of York] and Beggar Wench of Hull," 

 printed in Evans's Old Ballads (iii. 267.), edit. 

 1810; the omission of which must have been, I 

 imagine, quite accidental, as Dr. Ingledew has ad- 

 mitted into his collection songs which have a much 



