2nd s. N« 44., Nov. 1. '66.] 



NOTES AND QUEEIES. 



349 



An Alderman of London fined Fifty Pounds. — 

 The annexed account of the operation of a bye- 

 law in London at an early period is worth no- 



■ ticing. I extracted it from an abridgement of 

 Grafton's Chronicle^ edition 1563. 



"London, 14G7. This yeare John Darby, Alderman, 

 because he refused to pay for the carriage away of a ded 

 dogge that lay at his dorc, and did also geue euell lan- 

 gwage vnto the Maior, was by a court of Aldermen 

 denied to a fyne of fyfty poundes, and he paled euery 

 pciiy." 



Henry Kensington. 



Abbey Libraries. — I do not know whether any 

 of your correspondents have made mention of the 

 " Catalogus Librorum " of the library at Glaston- 

 bury, in the year 1248. It seems to have been a 

 splendid collection, for the period. At the Disso- 

 lution, many of these MSS. found their way to 

 the library of Trinity College, Cambridge. The 



■ catalogue is given by Hcarne, in his Appendix to 

 John of Glastonbury's Chronicles of that Abbey, 

 Oxford, 1726. Henet T. Rilet. 



Derivation of '•'' Folly." — Is it possible that the 

 widely prevailing word folly, applied to some 

 unstable or objectless building, may have been 

 originally suggested by the old Norman-French 

 foillie, which we find in the Roman de Rou, line 

 12,136 : 



" Mult veient loges hfoilUes," 



and which is explained by M. Pluquet as — 

 " Baraques faites avec des branches d'arbre" ? 



C. W. Bingham. 



^miiti. 



BALLAD ON AGINCOURT. 



In the Introduction to Shakspeare's Henry F., 

 in my new edition, now in the press, I have 

 printed a ballad on the battle of Agincourt, re- 

 garding which I can obtain no intelligence. I am 

 not aware that it has ever been published in any 

 of our collections of popular poetry, or separately, 

 since the time the black-lefrer broadside was 

 issued, which is thus headed : " Agin Court, or 

 the English Bowman's Glory ; to a pleasant new 

 Tune." And it purports, at the end, to have been 

 "printed for Henry Harper, in Smithfield;" but 

 without any date of the year, or any mark of 

 authorship. The first stanza is this : 



" Agincourt, Agincourt ; 

 Know ye not Agincourt, 

 Where English slue and hurt 



All their French foemen? 

 With our pikes and bills brown. 

 How the French were beat down. 



Shot by our bowmen." 



Every stanza begins in the same way, with 

 " Agincourt, Agincourt ;" and there are eleven of 



them, some possessing great spirit and consider- 

 able poetical excellence. Thus, the fifth stanza 

 runs as follows : 



" Agincourt, Agincourt ; 

 Know ye not Agincourt ? 

 Either tale, or report 



Quickly will show men 

 What can be done by courage, 

 Men without food or forage ; 

 Still lusty bowmen." 



Again, where the king is mentioned, stanza 9. : 

 " Agincourt, Agincourt ; 

 Know ye not Agincourt ? 

 When our best hopes were nought, 

 J, Tenfold our foemen ; 



Harry led his men to battle. 

 Slue the French like sheep and cattle: 

 Huzza ! our bowmen." 



The last stanza is this : 



" Agincourt, Agincourt; 

 Know ye not Agincourt? 

 Dear was the victory bought 



By fifty yeomen. 

 Ask any English wench. 

 They were worth all the French : 

 Rare English bowmen ! " 



What I want to know is, whether any of your 

 readers can give me any tidings of such a pro- 

 duction ? Have they seen it printed, or quoted, 

 or noted any where ? Do they know its date ? 

 From the black-letter type, it seems to me that 

 Harper republished it considerably before the 

 Restoration — perhaps in the reign of Charles I. 



Another point on which I need information is, 

 whether, if any duplicate copy be known, the last 

 line in it is : i^^ 



« Rare English bdHIn^ " 



or whether it is — 



" Rare English women ? " 



The copy I have used has the last, which I am 

 persuaded is a misprint, because every other 

 stanza ends with " bowmen," and the old printer 

 (it must have been a reprint of an older impres- 

 sion when it came out of Harper's shop) no doubt 

 was misled by the mention of " English wench," 

 in the fifth line of the concluding stanza. In 

 short, I shall be much obliged for any information 

 regarding this production. J. Payne Collieb. 



Maidenhead. 



"CANDIDe" AND THE "QUARTERLY REVIEW." 



In an article entitled "Whately's Edition of 

 Bacon's Essays," in the last number (cxcviii.) of 

 the Quarterly Review, the writer quotes " the 

 contemporaneous examples of dethroned sove- 

 reigns, when Voltaire wrote his Candide. They 

 were sufficiently numerous to suggest one of the 

 most striking passages in the work. Candide, at 

 Venice, sits down to supper with six strangers 

 who are staying at the same hotel with himself; 



