2n<> S. VIII. Oct. 29. '59.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



363 



" O wTiar got ye that bonnie blue bonnet" (2°'' S. 

 vlii. 148. 258.) — 



[By the courtesy of the editor of another Scottish 

 Journal, The Dundee Courier, we are enabled to lay be- 

 fore our readers the following farther illustration of this 

 ballad. The writer, in his communication to The Dundee 

 Courier of the 12th October, observes, " from the song I 

 send it will be seen that the words quoted by D. M. I. 

 do not likely belong to the 'Lost Flower,' but to the 

 song of ' Bonnie Dundee.' "] 



" The song which I give below was published 

 in the second vcl«me of Urbani's Select Collection 

 of Original Scottish Airs, for the Voice," Sfc, 

 which was entered at Stationers' Hall in 1794. 

 The song is set to the air of "Bonnie Dundee." 

 There is no author's name given. The few words 

 of difference may arise from D. M. I.'s memory 

 proving treacherous during the lapse of sixty 

 years : — 



" BONIE DUNDEE. 



" whaur did ye get that hauver meal bannock, 



silly blind body, O dinna ye see ? 

 I gat it frae a young brisk sodger laddie, 



Between Saint Johnston, and bonie Dundee. 

 O gin I saw the laddie that gae me't, 



Aft has he doudl'd me upon his knee ; 

 May heaven protect my bonnie Scots laddie, 



And send him safe hame to my babie and me. 



" My blissin's upon thy sweet wee lippiel 

 My blissin's upon thy bonnie e'e bree ; 

 Thy smiles are sae like my blythe sodger laddie, 



Thou's ay the dearer, and dearer to me ! 

 But I'll big a bower on yon bonnie banks, 

 Whare Tay rins wimplin' by sae clear; 

 And I'll deed thee in the tartan sae fine. 

 And mak' thee a man, like thy daddie dear. 



« J. M.» 

 « Mains, October 10, 1859." 



Jacobite Manuscripts (2"* S. viii. 307.) — The 

 Jacobite MSS. described by Mr. J. P. Phillips 

 are of no value, as the first three were printed in 

 various brochures setting forth Prince Charles's 

 proclamations and edicts in the years 1745 and 

 1746, and the two last, namely, letters from the 

 Prince to his father, dated at Perth and at Pinlcie, 

 are fabrications. It was common for the Jacobites 

 to circulate these and similar documents in manu- 

 script, and hence, no doubt, the existence of the 

 packet " carefully preserved among the muni- 

 ments at Picton Castle." R. Chambers. 



Edinburgh. 



Ephraim Pratt (2"'^ S. viii. 11. 137.) — There 

 are some errors in the account of this person 

 which your correspondent copied for you from 

 Allen's Biographical Dictionary. No John Pratt 

 resided at Plymouth, N. E. in 1620; but a Phi- 

 nehas Pratt, probably the ancestor of Ephraim, 

 was there a few years later. 



Though Ephraim Pratt lived to a great age, it 

 was not a remarkable one. This is made clear in 

 the Genealogy of the Rice Family, by Andrew H. 

 Ward, an octavo volume published at Boston, U. 



S. in 1858. Mr. Ward devotes a long note to the 

 subject on pp. 14-16. From public records he 

 finds that Ephraim Pratt was born at Sudbury, 

 Mass., Nov. 30, 1704. The error in regard to 

 his age was pointed out by Rev. Dr. Sumner of 

 Shrewsbury, Mass., in June, 1804. The Massa- 

 chusetts Spy, a newspaper published at Worces- 

 ter, Mass., in its issue June 6, 1804, notes the 

 death of Mr. Pratt of Shutesbury, " on the 22d 

 ult., aged 116 yrs. 5 mos. and 22 days." Rev. Dr. 

 Sumner sent a communication to the Spy, which 

 appeared the next week, in which he gave the 

 date of Pratt's marriage to Martha Wheelock, 

 July 9, 1724, and the births of their six sons and 

 two daughters from the records. Assuming that 

 he was 21 years old, as represented, when married, 

 the doctor concluded that Pratt was about 101 

 years old when he died. This was two years too 

 much, as his real age was 99 years 5 months 22 

 days. 



Michael or Micah Pratt, son of Ephraim, was 

 born April 5, 1731. This materially reduces his 

 age at his death in 1826. 



The story of Pratt's great age was first pub- 

 lished in the Gazette, a newspaper printed at 

 Windsor, Vt., from which it was copied into the 

 Massachusetts Spy for Aug. 5, 1801. President 

 Dwight, probably induced by this story to do so, 

 visited Pratt at Shutesbury, Nov. 13, 1803 ; and 

 he gives an account of the interview in his Travels, 

 vol. ii. p. 358. Pratt must have connived at the 

 error, if it did not originate with him. Metacom. 



Koxbury, U. S. 



Dr. Johnson's Chair (2»« S. viii. 68.) — The 

 favourite easy chair of my illustrious kinsman, 

 Samuel Johnson, referred to by Mr. Paternoster 

 in " N. & Q." July 23rd, is now (together with 

 the crimson velvet cushion on which Mary Queen 

 of Scots kneeled at her execution), in my posses- 

 sion. I have purchased them of Mr. Pater- 

 noster. His fears lest the chair should " pass 

 into unworthy hands " were not altogether ground- 

 less. It has fallen into mine. I " would they 

 were worthier." 



J. H. Shorthocse, M.D., LL.D. 



Carshalton, Surrey. 



Somersetshire Poets (2"^ S. viii. 204. 258. 319.) 

 — Southey was born at No. 11. Wine Street, and 

 afterwards resided in Terrel Street, both in the 

 city of Bristol, and on the Gloucestershire side of 

 the river Avon. He subsequently removed to 

 Westbury-on-Trym in that county. 



Chatterton's family for many years rented a 

 small house on Redcliffe Hill, behind that now 

 occupied by Mr. Isaac Selfe, chemist and druggist, 

 and there, in all probability, the poet was born ; 

 his father, who died before his birth, having been 

 Master of Pile Street School, close to the east end 

 of Redcliffe church. That he was born in the 



