June 29. 1850.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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the song. If "deny down," which has been said 

 to be druidical, were judged of by the last song it 

 went with, how old would be the Druids ? M. 



" A Frog he would a-ivooing go." — It may per- 

 haps be interesting to some of your correspondents 

 on the subject of " A frog he would a-wooing go," 

 to know tiiat there exists an Irish version of that 

 woeful tale, which differs in several respects from 

 the ballad which has so long been familiar to En- 

 glish ears. The burthen of " Heigho ! says Row- 

 ley," does not occur in the Hibernian composition, 

 but a still less intelligible chorus supplies its place. 

 The air is exceedingly quaint, and seems to me to 

 bear the stamp of antiquity. The words are as 

 follow : — 



" Misther Frog lived in a welt, 



Heigho 1 my lanti-iddity I 

 And the merry mouse in the mill, 



Terry heigho ! for lang for liddity i 

 Says Mr. Frog, ' I will go coort,' 



Heigho, &c. 

 ' Saddle me nag and polish me boots 1' 



Terry heigho, &c. 

 Frog came to Lady Mouse's hall, 



\ Heigho, &c. 

 Gave a rap and thundering call, 



Terry heigho, &c. 

 ' Where is the people of this house ? ' 



Heigho, &c. 

 ' Here am I,' says my Lady Mouse, 



Terry heigho, &c. 



* I'te come to court Miss Kitty here,' 



Heigho, &c. 

 ' If that she can fancy me.' 



Terry heigho, &c. 

 'Uncle Rat is not at home;' 



Heigho, &c. 

 ' He'll give you an answer — 1 have none,' 



Terry heigho, &c. 

 Uncle Rat, when he came in, 



Heigho, &c, 



* Who's been here since I left home?' 



Terry heigho, &c. 

 ' Misther Frog, a worthy man ;' 



Heigho, &c. 

 ' Give him a wife, Sir, if you can,' 



Terry heigho, &c, 



* Where shall we make the bride's bed ? ' 



Heigho, &c. 

 ' Down below, in the Horse's Head,' 



Terry heigho, &c. 

 ' What shall we have for the wedding supper?' 



Heigho, &c. 

 ' A roasted potato and a roll o' butter.' 



Terry heigho, &c. 

 Supper was laid down to dine, 



Heigho, &c. 

 Changed a farthing and brought up nine, 



'Jerry heigho, &c. 

 First come in was a nimble bee, 



Heigho, &c. 



With his fiddle upon his knee, 



Terry heigho, &c. 

 Next come in was a creeping snail, 



Heigho, &c. 

 With his bagpipes under his tail, 



Terry heigho, &c. 

 Next came in was a neighbour's pig, 



Heigho, &c. 

 ' Pray, good people, will ye play us a jig? ' 



Terry heigho, &c. 

 Next come in was a neighbour's hen, 



Heigho, &c. 

 Took the fiddler by the wing, 



Terry helffho, &c. 

 Next come in was a neighbour's duck, 



Heigho, &c. 

 Swallow'd the piper, head and pluck, 



Terry heigho, &c. 

 Next come in was a neighbour's cat, 



Heigho, &c. 

 Took tlie young bride by the back, 



Terry heigho, &c. 

 Misther Frog jumped down the welt, 



Heigho, &c. 

 ' Zounds, I'll never go coort again ! ' 



Terry heigho, &c. 

 Uncle Rat run up a wall, 



Heigho, &c. 

 • Zounds, the divil's among you all ! ' 



Terry heigho, &c." 



W. A. G. 



Hcpltcrf t0 Minax fShutxitt. 



Carucate of Land(YfA. ii., p. 9.)- — The measure 

 of ilie carucate was as indefinite in Edward III.'s 

 time as at an earlier period. It then, as before^ 

 represented as much land as could be worked with 

 one plough in a year. I am fortunately enabled 

 to give your correspondent E. V. a precise answer 

 to his Query. In a MS. survey of the Hospitallers' 

 lands in England, taken under the direction of 

 Prior Philip Thame, a. d. 1338, which I transcribed 

 from the original, among the records of the order, 

 I find in the " extent " of the " Camera de Hether- 

 ington in comitatu Northampton," — 



" Item. V Carucate terre continentes v<^ acre terre : 

 pretium cujuslibet, viij''." 



" Ba?julia de Eycle (i. e. Eagle in Lincolnshire) cum 

 membris. " 



" Et ibidem iiij. carucate terre, que continent v" 

 acras terre et apud le Wodehous iij carucate terre, que 

 continent iij"^: pretium acre, vj''." 



Here we have a decided instance of the variation 

 in the nunilier of acres represented by the caru- 

 cate. I have generally found that the nearest ap- 

 proximation to correctness, where no other evi- 

 dence is at hand, is to consider the carucate as 

 designating about 100 acres. L. B. E. 



Carucate of Lmul. — A case in point is given in 

 the 33rd vol. of the Archaologia, p. 271. The 



