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Notes : — 



Old Son^s ----,,. 557 

 "Junius Identified," bv J. Tavlor- ... 258 



Folk r.ore :_Spiilers a Cure for Ague— Funeral Super- 

 stition — Folk Lore Rhymes , . . . 259 

 On a Passaie in the Tempest, hv S. W. Singer - 2.19 

 Pnnisliment of De.ith by Burning ... 2fi0 

 Note on Morganatic iMarriagps .... 261 

 Minor Notes :— Alderman Beckford — Frozen Horn 



— Inscription translated — Parallel P^issajes Note 



on r;eoi ge Herbert's Poems — ' ' Crede q\iod 'habes " 



— Grant to Karl of Sns>ex_ First Woman formed 

 from a Kib— Beau Brummell's Ancestry - . 262 



Queries : — 



Gray's Elegy and Dodsley's Poems ... 264 



Hnu-h Holland and liis Works, by E. F. Rimbault I 



. i'i>n. ' . . .'26.5 



Harvey and the Circulation of the Blood . . 266 



Minor Queries:— Bernardus Patricius Meaning of 



Hanger — Cat and Bagpipes — .Andrew Becket 



Laurence Slinot — Modena Family — Bamboozle _ 

 Butcher's Blue Dress —Hatchment and .\tchievenient 



— "Te colui Virtntem" — " Ilia suavissima Vita"— 

 Christianity. Early Influence of— Meaning of Wraxen 



— Saint. Legend of a — Land Holland — I'arewell 



Stepony Ale — "Regis ad Exemplar " — La Caconac. 

 mierie—Rev. T. Taller — Mistletoe as a Christmas 

 Kvergreen— Poor Robin's Almanacks — Sirloin — 

 Thompson of Esholt ..... 266 



Replies: — 



Replies to Minor Queries :— Pension — Execution of 

 Ch:irles I. — Paper Hanghigs — Black-guard — Pil. 

 grims' Road — Combs buried with the De.ad — Aeros. 

 tation — St. Tliomas of Lancaster — Smoke Money — 

 Robi'rt Herrich — Guildhalls — .Abbe Strickland — 

 Long Lonkin— llavnck — Bccket's Mother — Watch- 



ing the .Sepulchre— Portraits of Charles I Joachim, 



the French Ambassador - . . , . 26S 



Mlscellaneous : — 



Notes on Hooks. .Sales, Catalogues, &c. 

 Books ami Odd Volumes Wanted 

 Notices to Correspondents 

 Advcrtiberaents ... 



271 

 271 

 271 

 272 



OLD SONQS. 



I heard, "in other days," a father .sinoinsr a 

 comic (,M soiii,' to one of his chii.lien, who was 

 sitting' on Ills knee. This was in Yorksiiin4; and 

 yet it could hmdly he a Yorksiiire .soncr, as the 

 scene was laid in another county. It eonimenced 

 with — 



« Ranrile O'Shay has sold liis m.ire 

 For iiiiiftecn groats at Warrin'ton fair," 



and {Toos on to show liow the simpleton was cheated 

 out of his money. 



Vol.. 11. — X(,. 47. 



I finil in Hasted's History of Kent (vol. i. p. 468., 

 2nd edit ) mention made of the family of Shaw, 

 who held the manor of Eltham, &c., and who "de^ 

 rive themselves from the county palatine of Ches- 

 ter." It is further stated tliat Paindul de Shaw, 

 his son, was settled at Haslingtou Hail in that 

 county. 



All, indeed, that this proves is, the probaljility 

 of the hero of the song being also a native of 

 Cheshire, or one of the adjacent counties; and that 

 the legend is a truth, even as to names as well as 

 general facts. The song is worthy of recovery and 

 preservation, as a remnant of English character 

 and manners ; and I have only refe^-red to Hasted 

 to point out the probable district in which it will 

 be found. 



There are many ether characteristics of the 

 manners of the humbler classes to be found in 

 songs thathad great local pojndarjty within the 

 period of living memory ; for instance, the Wed-, 

 nesbury Cocking amongst the colliers of Stallbrd- 

 shire, and Rotherham Status .iinongst the cutlers 

 of Sheffield. Their language, it is true, is not 

 always very delicate — peihaps was not even at the 

 time these songs were composed, — as they picture 

 raiher the exuberant freaks of a half-civilised 

 people than the better phases of their character. 

 Yet even these form "part and parcel" of the 

 history of "the true-born Englishman." 



One song more may be noticed here : — the rig- 

 marole, snatches of which probably mo.-^t of us have 

 heard, which contains an immense number of mere 

 truisms having no connexion with each other, and 

 no bond of union but the metrical form in which 

 their juxtaposition is effected, and the rhyme, 

 which is kept up very well throughout, though 

 sometimes by the introduction of a nonsense line. 

 Who does not remember — 



" A yard of pudding's not an ell," 

 or 



" Not forpjetting dytherum rli, 

 A tailor's goose can never fly," 

 and other like parts ? 



It is just such a piece of burlesque .is Swift 

 might have written : but many circumstances lead 

 me to think it must be much older. Has it ever 

 been printed ? 



