2nd g. xo 107., Jan. 16. '58.] 



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in.' ' Oh I ' says he, wittily and pleasantly, ' though he 

 pui'chased there, he did not think of residing upon it ! ' " 

 Cole then adds the following : — 

 "Mr. Thomas Potter died at Ridgmont about the 

 middle of June, 1759, of a long decay. It was he whom 

 his father insisted upon his marriage with Dr. Manning- 

 ham's daughter, by whom he has left an only son, now at 

 Emanuel College. By his last wife, a daughter of Mr. 

 Low of Ridgmont, he has left two young daughters. 

 The vain old archbishop has so ordered his Will, that his 

 estate is to go to the sons of all his children first, who are 

 to take the name of Potter, if they are the children of his 

 daughters; and in lack of male issue, the daughter's 

 children to change their name to Potter. One daughter 

 married Dr. Sayer, who had an intrigue with my Lady 

 'Baltimore, and a public trial ensued, in which many of his 

 letters were produced: yet the old archbishop was not 

 backward in asking a bishoprick for him of the present 

 king, who absolutely refused it upon the indecency of it ; 

 telling him, that a colonel's commission would be more 

 in character. Dr. Sayer is Archdeacon of Durham, and 

 has other great preferments in the Church, among the 

 rest, the Rectorj' or Vicarage of Witham in Essex, at 

 least was possessed of it twenty years ago, when I [Wm. 

 Cole] well remember his visiting my worthy good friend, 

 Thomas Western of Rivenhall in that county; as also 

 that he was a very well-bred man, and much of a gentle- 

 man. Another of the archbishop's daughters married my 

 schoolfellow and brother antiquary, Dr. Mills, Canon of 

 Exeter ; and a third, Dr. Tanner, son to the bishop of 

 that name. My friend, Mr. Williamson, Rector of Mil- 

 broke in Bedfordshire, calling on nie Sept. 5, 1759, he 

 gave me the foregoing particulars, being the person who 

 buried Mr. Potter, the Curate of Ridgmont being super- 

 annuated, and he charitably serving the cure for him : his 

 name is Richardson, and is Vicar of Husband -Cawley, a 

 poor benefice adjoining. Mr. Potter, some few days 

 before his death, took his steward with him, and fixed 

 upon his place of sepulture in the churchyard of Ridg- 

 mont, at the west end of the belfry, in a place where no 

 one was used to be buried. He ordered himself to be 

 carried by six labourers, and his pall to be supported by 

 six of his tenants, two from Houghton-Conquest, two 

 from Eaton-Bray, and two of Ridgmont. He was put 

 into three coffins, one of which ivas lead, and an arch of 

 brick turned over his coffin, on which was a white plate, 

 ■with this short inscription ; 



' Thomas Potter, Esq., 



Died June 17, 1759, 



Aged 41 years.' 

 He was buried on Monday, 25th June, Dr. Mills and his 

 eldest son, now in the Secretary of State's office under 

 Mr. Pitt, with whom his father was greatly connected, 

 being at Ridgmont, but did not attend the corpse to the 

 grave. Mr. Potter desired Dr. Dell, his physician, who 

 lived near him, to open his side, where he would find the 

 cause of his death ; which he accordingly did, and found 

 his lungs and liver much decaj'ed. I think Mr. Potter 

 had been Judge of the Isle of Ely." 



J. Y. 



" I M TO BE MARRIED SUNDAY. 



A contributor to the Shakspeare Society s Papers 

 (vol. i. p. 80.) has inserted an interesting ballad, 

 under the above title, in illustration of a passage in 

 The Taviing of the Shrew, Act II. Sc. 1. : — 



" We will have rings, and things, and fine array ; 

 Aud, kiss me, Kate, we will be married o' Sunday " 



The contributor, however, was not aware that 

 an earlier version existed in print in Mrs. Cent- 

 livre's comedy of The Platonick Lady, acted at 

 the Queen's Theatre in the Hay market, in 1707, 

 and printed in quarto in the same year. The 

 fair authoress calls it " A Country Song." It 

 differs so materially from the traditional copy in 

 the Shakspeare Society s Papers, that I thinlc the 

 readers of "N. & Q." will not object to see it 

 revived : — 



" As I walked forth one May morning, 

 I heard a pretty maid sweeth^ sing 

 As -she sat under the cow a milking. 



Sing I shall be marry'd a Tuesday ; 



I mun look smug upon Tuesday. 



" I prithee sweet-heart, what makes thee to marry. 

 Is j'our maiden-hood grown a burthen to carry ? 

 Or are you afraid that you shall miscarry? 

 I prithee now tarry till Wednesday. 



" I praj', good Sir, don't wish me such ill, 

 I have kept free these seven A'ears against mj- own will ; 

 I have made a vow, and I will it fulfil, 



That I will be marry'd on Tuesday, 



So I mun look smug upon Tuesday. 



" A Tuesday morn it will be all my care, 

 To powder my locks and to curl up my hair. 

 And two pretty maids for to wait on me there ; 



So I mun look smug upon Tuesday, 



So fine and so smug upon Tuesday. 



" Then two young men to the church will me bring, 

 Where my husband will give me a gay gold ring ; 

 I could not wish for a much prettier thing. 

 So I mun look smug upon Tuesday, 

 So fine and so smug upon Tuesday." 



I have made a few verbal alterations fur the 

 sake of the fair writer's reputation. 



Edward F. Eimbault. 



THE POET COLLINS. 



As I see that the reissue of the Aldine Poets 

 by the publisher of " N". & Q." comprises a new 

 edition of CoUins's poems, by Mr. Moy Thomas *, it 

 may be apropos to send you one or two facts and 

 speculations from my Note-book concerning Col- 

 lins, of whom so little, unfortunately, is known. 



In some papers of a gentleman who resided in 

 the neighbourhood of Chichester about 1720 — 40, 

 I find many bills of tradesmen in that city, and 

 among these one with the following item : — 

 « July yo 24. A hatt and lace, 14s." 



Under this is the following receipt : — 



" Received the full contents and all accounts by me. 

 " Elizabeth Collins." 



CoUins's father, as is well known, was a halter 

 in Chichester, The signature is undoubtedly that 

 of CoUins's mother, whose name was Elizabeth, 



• This Note is unfortunately too late for Mr. Thomas's 

 use. His edition is published. See post, for Notes on 

 Books, — Ed.] 



