Mar. 23. 1850.] 
that it was this Richard Shuckburgh, he was ordered 
to be called to him, and was by him very graciously 
received. Upon which, he went immediately home, 
armed all his tenants, and the next day attended on 
him in the field, where he was knighted, and was pre- 
sent at the battle of Edghill.”] 
Mousetrap Dante (No. 10. pp. 154, 155.). —I 
bee to refer your correspondent to the Visconte 
Colomb de Batines’ Bibliographia Dantesea (Prato, 
1845-48. 8vo.), tom.ii. pp. 264, 265., where he 
will find a list (correct so far as it goes) of the 
fifteen MSS. of the Comedia, purchased for the 
Bodleian Library about the year 1822, from the 
Abbate Matteo Canonici, of Venice. 
I have reason for believing, that the only MSS. 
which exist in that collection, in addition to those 
enumerated in the list, are: 1. Canon Ital. 100. 
“ Compendium Cujusdam Commentarii” (4to pa- 
per); and 2. “ Codices Canonici Miscellanei 449.” 
fol., vellum (it cannot therefore be this), which 
contains the complete commentary of Jacopo 
dalla Lana. F. C. B. 
Cromwell’s Estates (No. 18. p. 277.).— The 
seignory of Gower is the peninsula which runs out 
between the bays of Swansea and Carmarthen; 
and which terminates at Swansea on the S.E. side, 
and at Longhor on the N.W., and comprises the 
district which, in common with a part of Scotland, 
anciently bore the name of Rheged. It is a 
locality rich in all that can attract the antiquary 
and the naturalist. 
Mr. Dillwyn’s Contributions towards a History 
of Swansea contains the following references to 
the Gower property of Cromwell :—‘“ We are in- 
formed by the Minute-book of the Common Hall” 
(at Swansea), “that on May 19, 1648, there came 
to this towne the truly Honourable Oliver Crom- 
well, Esq. . . . Lord of this towne, the Seignory 
of Gower, and Manor of Killay, with the members 
thereof,” &ce. ‘On May 5. 1647, Parliament set- 
tled the estates of the Marquis of Worcester, in 
Gloucestershire and Monmouthshire, on Cromwell; 
and, by a subsequent order, the estate in Glamor- 
ganshire was added to this grant. The convey- 
ance from Parliament to Cromwell is made, not 
only in the name of his Majesty, but has a portrait 
of Charles the First at its head.” SELEUCUS. 
Genealogy of European Sovereigns (No.6. p.92.). 
—The best and most comprehensive work on this 
subject bears the following title: —Johann Hiib- 
ners genealogische Tabellen, 4 vols. folio, oblong, 
Leipzig, 1737 et seq. (Of the 3rd vol. a new 
and much improved edition, by G. F. Krebel, ap- 
peared in 1766.) Supplement: Tafeln zu J. Hiib- 
ner’s genealogischen Tabellen, by Sophia Queen of 
Denmark, 6 parts, folio, oblong, Copenhagen, 
-1822—24, A. Asumr. 
Berlin. 
NOTES AND QUERIES. 
| owner ? 
| Durfey, in the time of Charles the Second. 
339 
Shipster (No. 14. p. 216.).— Are not Baxter 
and Tapster the feminines of Baker and Tapper 2 
—and may not Shipster signify a female ship- 
F.C. B. 
Kentish Ballad (No. 16. p. 247.).—The song 
beginning “ When Harold was invaded” has long 
| been a favourite in this county. It is entitled 
“ The Man of Kent,” and was composed by Tom 
It 
may be found, with the music, in Chappell’s Col- 
lection of English Airs. He cites it as being in 
Pills to purge Melancholy, with Music, 1719, and 
states that in the Essex Champion, or famous His- 
tory of Sir Billy of Billericay and his Squire 
Ricardo, 1690, the song of “The Man of Kent” 
is mentioned. I have none of these works at hand 
for immediate reference, but the above note con- 
tains all that I have been able to collect on the 
subject of our popular ballad. 
There is another song, much to the same pur- 
port, beginning — 
«“ When as the Duke of Normandy, 
With glistening spear and shield,” 
in Evans’s Song's, vol. il. p. 33., printed by him 
from The Garland of Delight, by Delone, in the 
Pepys Collection at Cambridge—a black-letter 
volume ; and probably the song was by himself. 
Your correspondent “F. B.” asks for the re- 
mainder of the song. In pity to yourself and your 
readers, I forbear sending you the countless stan- 
zas—numerous enough in the original song, but 
now, by the additions of successive generations, 
swelled to a volume. He will find in Chappell’s 
collection all that is worth having, with the as- 
surance, repeated oft enough for the most enthu- 
siastic of our modest countrymen, that 
“In Britain’s race if one surpass, 
A man of Kent is he.” 
Lampert Larxine. 
Ryarsh Vicarage. 
Bess of Hardwick (No. 18. p. 276.). — The 
armorial bearings of John Hardwick, of Hardwick, 
co. Derby, father of Bess, were: Argent, a saltier 
engrailed, and on a chief blue three roses of the 
field. M. Comes. 
Oxford, March 9. 1850. 
Trophee (No. 19. p. 303.).—“ Trophe,” in the 
Prologue of Lydgate’s Translation of Boceaccio’s 
Fall of Princes, is a misprint: corrige — 
“ In youth he made a translation 
Of a boke, which called is Troyle, 
In Lumbardes tonge, as men may rede and se, 
And in our vulgar, long or that he deyde, 
Gave it the name of Troylous and Cresseyde.” 
The book called Troyle is Boccaccio's Troilo, or 
Filostrato. M. C. 
Oxford, March 11. 1850. 
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