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No. 65.] 



Saturday, January 25. 1851. 



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CONTENTS. 

 Notes : — 



Traditional English Ballads, by Dr. E. F. Rimbaiilt • 

 The Father of Hliilip Massinger - - - ■ 



T..nclistone's Dial, by George Stephens - - 



Discrepancies in Dujdale's Account of Sir Ralph de Lob 



ham, by W. Hastings Keike 

 Henry Chettle - - - * " 



Coverdale's Bible ---•■' 

 Answer to Cowley - 

 Folk Lore of Lancashire, Ko. 1 . 



Minor Notes : — Proclamation .,. „- . ^ ,, 



Se-its in Clmrche&— Flemish Account— Lse of Mono 

 syllables — Specimen of Foreign English — Lpitaph 



QtJEKIES : — 



TheTaleoftheWardstaff, by S.W. Singer - 

 Ballad ascribed to Sir C. Hanbuty Williams, by G. H^ 



Mi^u.'r''Q..eries:-Bo"ok calfed Tartnare- William Wal- 

 h.ce in London -Obeism-Aged Monks -Lady Alice 

 Carmichiel - " A Verse may find hira • _ Daresbury, 

 the White Chapel of England— Ulm Ma.^uscript - 

 Merrick and Tattersall - Dr. Trusler's Memoirs - 

 Life of Bishop Frampton— Piobabilism — twr Henry 

 Chauncv's Observations on Wilfred Kntwys^l - 1 heo- 

 lopical iracts - Lady Bingham - Gregory the Great 

 -John HiU-s Penny Post in l(i.59 - Andrea Ferrara - 

 Imi.uted Letters of SuUustius -Thomas Rog"? "f 

 Horninger — Tandem D.O.M.— The Episcopal Mitre 



Replies : — 



The Passage in Troihis and Cressida, by John Taylor - 

 Black linages of the Virgin, by J. B. Litchfield - 

 Outline in Painting ----■" 

 Ten Children at a Birth - - - - " 



Shakspe.ire's Use of •' Captious" - - - ' 



SAord of William the Conqueror - - - - 



Meaning of Eisell ---"*" 

 Altar Lights, &c. - - - ' ^ '^ ' 



Kci.lies to Minor Queries : — Handbell before a Corpse 



— Sir George Downing- Hulls, the Inventor of Steam- 

 boats -" Clarum et vcnerabile Norain — Occult 

 Transposition of Letter^— Darby and Joan — Did 

 Bunvan know Hobbes V — Mythology of the Stars — 

 Dodo Queries -Uolbind Laid— Swe.iring bv Swa.is — 

 The Frozen Hon- Cockade and True Blue— 1 he 

 Vavasours of Hajlewood — " Breeches " Bible — His- 

 toirc des Sevarambes — Verses attributed to Charles 

 Yorke — Archb shop Bolton of Cashel — Erasmus and 

 Farel- Early Culture of the Imagination — W 'Ibam 

 Chilcot — By and bv — Mocker— Was Colonel Hew- 

 son a Cobbler ''— Mole -Pillgarlick-A recent Novel 



— Tablet to Napoleon -North Sides of Cliurchy.ards 



— Wisbv — Singing of Swans— Daere Monument at 

 Hc■r^tmonce^x — ilerstm mceiix Castle — ■*."''"1 ; 

 Kerlin" ; Grasson — Poi trait of Archbishop Williams— 

 Swan» hatched during Thunder — Etymology ol Apri- 

 cot —' Plurima gemm.i latetcaia tellure sepnlta — 

 Time wh.-n Heroilitiii wr .te — Lucy and Ccdiii- 

 Translations of Apiileius, Sec — Ktyniology of " Gras- 

 Bnn"-Lvnch Law— -Talk not of Lo>e _ 1 he 

 Butcher Duke — Curfew — Kobertson Struan 



MUCEM.ANEOL'S: — 



Notes on Hooks, Sales, CataUiRues, 4c. - 

 Books and Odd VolinneH Wanted 

 Notices to Correspundellts 

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TRADITIONAL, ENGLISH BALLADS. 



The task of gatLering old traditionary song is 

 surely a ple:if;ant and a lightsome one. Albeit the 

 harvest has been plentiful and the gleaners many, 

 still a stray sheaf may occasionally be found worth 

 the having. But we must be careful not to "pick 

 up a straw." 



One of your correspondents recommends, as .an 

 addition to the value of your pages, the careful 

 o-ettino- together of those numerous traditional 

 ballads that are still sometimes to be met with, 

 tloatiiig about various parts of the country. This 

 advice is by no means to be disregarded, but I 

 wish to point out the necessity of the contributors 

 to the undertaking knowing something about 

 ballad literature. An acquaintance with the or- 

 dinary published collections, at least, cannot be 

 dispensed with. Without this knowledge we 

 should be only multiplying copies of worthless 

 trifles, or reprinting ballads that had already ap- 

 peared in print. 



The traditional copies of old hlcck-letter ballads 

 are, in almost all cases (as may easily be seen by 

 comparison), much the worse for wear. As a 

 proof of this I refer the curious in these matters to 

 a volume of Traditional Versions of Old Ballads, 

 ciillccted by Mr. Peter Buchan, and edited by 

 i\Ir. Dixon for the Percy Society. The Rev. iSJr. 

 Dyce pronounces this " a volume of forgeries ;'' 

 biit, acquitting poor Buchan (of whom more anon) 

 of any intention to deceive, it is, to say the least 

 of it, a vohime of inibbish ; inasmuch as the baliails 

 are all worthless modern versions of what had 

 appeared "centitries ago" in their genuine shape. 

 Had these ballads not existed in print, we should 

 have been glad of them in any form; but, in the 

 present case, the publication of such a book (more 

 especially by a learned society) is a positive 

 nuisance. 



Another work which I cannot refrain from 

 noticing, called by one of the reviewers "a valu- 

 able contribution to our stock of balhul literature"? 

 is Mr. Frederick Sheldon's Minstrelsi/ of the 

 English Border. The [ireface to this volume 



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