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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2°d S. VIII. Smtt. 24. '59. 



" O wTidr got ye that bonnie blue bonnet " (2"* S. 

 viii. 148.) — We are indebted to the courtesy of the 

 editor of the (Glasgow) Morning Journal for send- 

 ing us a copy of that paper containing the follow- 

 ing communication : — 



" Ir the impression of your journal for Wednesday last, 

 under the heading « A Lost Flower of Scottish Song Re- 

 covered in Arabia,' it is stated that a correspondent of 

 Notes and Queries asks information regarding the ballad 

 there quoted. I am not aware that the ballad has found 

 a place in any published collection ; but I heard it sung 

 in Glasgow more than sixty years ago. I was then a 

 mere child, and have not heard it since — yet it is fresh 

 in my memory ; and I recollect an additional stanza with 

 which the song commenced. It was : — 



'O! whar got ye that bonnie blue bonnet? — 



Silly, blind body, canna ye see ? 

 I got it frae a braw Scotch callan, 

 Between St. Johnstone and bonnie Dundee. 



' ! gin I saw the dear laddie that gied me't ; 



Fu aft has he dandled me on o' his knee : 

 But noo he's awa, and I dinna ken whar he's — 

 ! gin he were back to his minnie and me ! ' 



" If this information be of any interest to • Yemen,' it is 

 very much at his service. — I am, &c., 



" D. M. I. 

 " Stockbridge Manse, 

 Berwickshire, Sept. 9. 1859." 



Leigh (2°^ S. v. 266.) — I thank Lancastri- 

 ENsis for his note, and have only to say that I 

 copied the spelling of both " Leigh" and " Boethes" 

 from several of the Harl. MSS., and though the 

 Lyme branch spelt their name " Legh," all the 

 other branches of the same family appear to have 

 used the i. Y. S. M. 



Bonaventure's Works (2"'^ S. viii. 128. 178.218.) 

 — Your correspondent will find a list of Bona- 

 venture's Works in Fabricii Bibl. Lot. Med. et 

 Inf. JEtatis (vol. i. p. 692—70. ap. m.). My own 

 copy of Bonaventure (not his complete Works, 

 which form eight or nine volumes) is printed at 

 Paris, 1504, black letter. H. B. 



Rire Jaune (2"'^ S. vii. 172.; viii. 218.)— In the 

 Dictionnaire du Bas-Langage (Paris, 1818, 2 vols. 

 8vo.), the following articles occur : — 



" Jaune. Terme metaphorique et injurieux pour bete, 

 sot, imbecile." 



" Dire des contes jaunes ou hleus. Dire des choses in- 

 croyables, des mensonges." 



The use of rire jaune for a forced, affected, or 

 foolish laugh, seems to be allied with these appli- 

 cations of the yfovd jaune. L. 



Dr. Shelton Mackenzie QiP^ S. viii. 169. 235.)— 

 It is now about four^r five years since a gentle- 

 man who knew Dr. Mackenzie informed me that 

 an account of his death had then recently ap- 

 peared in a New York paper, which entered, at 

 Bome length, into various particulars of Dr. M.'s 

 literary career, both in England and America. 



Dr. M. had left this country for the United States 

 about two years before his death, of which Mr. 

 AiNswoRTH must have been ignorant when he 

 wrote to " N. & Q." J. Macrat. 



Wife-selling (P' S. passim; 2"* S. i. 420. ; vi. 

 490.) — It seems that wives yet remain an article 

 of merchandise in some parts of England. The 

 following cutting is from the Record newspaper 

 of August 26th : — 



"Selling a Wife. — The disgraceful exhibition of 

 selling a wife took place at Dudley on Tuesday night. 

 Hundreds of people were congregated in Hall Street, the 

 scene where the shocking spectacle was to be seen. The 

 first bid was l^d., and ultimately reached 6c?. Her hus- 

 band, in his ignorance thinks — this repeated three times 

 — she has actually no claim upon him. — Daily Telegraph." 



Very quaint all this certainly is, and an ad- 

 mirable paragraph Mr. Froude would have written 

 thereon had he, when collecting materials for his 

 History of the Reign of Henry VIII., discovered 

 that such a scene had been enacted in the then 

 picturesque streets of one of our old county towns. 

 The vivid picture we should have had of the strong- 

 willed English people struggling, though some- 

 times abnormally, to break through the barriers 

 that had so long retarded their free develop- 

 ment, would have been worth anything ; but it is 

 not so pleasant to read of such a transaction in 

 last week's newspaper. One wonders whether 

 there are any magistrates in Dudley, and whether 

 there was a policeman on beat in Hall Street or 

 among the " large crowd " which another account 

 says followed the vendor shouting after him. For 

 the information of magistrates and policemen in 

 that neighbourhood and elsewhere, it may be as 

 well to reprint a paragraph that appeared in 

 " N. & Q." 1^' S. viii. 209. : — 



" West Riding Yorkshire Sessions, June 28, 1837 



Joshua Jackson convicted of selling his wife, imprisoned 

 one month with hard labour." 



K. P. D. E. 



Somersetshire Poets (2°* S. viii. 204.) — I ought 

 to have stated that, when speaking of Somerset- 

 shire as the birthplace of poets, I purposely ex- 

 cluded Bristol from it. Of course the names of 

 Southey, Chatterton, and others, will occur to the 

 minds of most people, but it is difficult to ascer- 

 tain which side of the Avon gave them birth, 

 and therefore whether the honour belongs to 

 Gloucestershire or to Somerset. C. J. Robinson. 



Side Saddles (2"'^ S. viii. 187.)— See John Rous 

 in his Historia Regum Anglice (Hearne, 2nd edit. 

 p. 205.) : — 



" Etiam mulieres nobiles tunc utebantur thiaris altis et 

 cornutis cum togis caudatis et sellis vel sediliis lateralibus 

 equorum, exemplo venerabilis Annse reginae, filije regis 

 Bohemia3, quas h£ec primum in regnum introduxit. Nam 

 prius mulieres de omni statu equitabant ut viri tibiis super 

 equos divaricatis." 



Erica. 



