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NOTES AND QUERIES. 
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English Ballads. — Where are the complete 
words to be found of two English ballads, of 
which the following are fragments? I heard 
them sung forty years ago. The tunes of both 
are pleasing, particularly that of the first : 
“ Down in the valley the sun setting clearly, 
Lilly o lille, lilly o lee; 
The nightingale carols her sonnet so cheerly, 
Lily 0 lillo, lilly o lee.” 
« Lady Alice was sitting at her bower window, 
A-mending her midnight coif; 
And there she saw the finest corpse 
That ever she saw in her life. 
“ Fal-de-ral. 
«¢ What bear ye, what bear ye, ye six men tall, 
Upon your shoulders strong?’ 
‘We bear the corpse of Sir Giles Collins, 
An old and true lover of yours.’ 
“ Wal-de-ral. 
e . . . 
“ Lady Alice was buried all in the east, 
Giles Collins all in the west ;~ 
A lily grew out of Giles Collins’s grave, 
And touched Lady Alice’s breast. 
“ Fal-de-ral.” 
Unepa. 
Philadelphia. 
Paternity of Anne Boleyn.—In the Dublin 
Weekly Telegraph, April 19, 1856, Dr. Cahill 
states among the crimes of Henry VIIL: 
“ Plundering hundreds of convents, robbing hundreds 
of churches, banishing thousands of men, murdering se- 
veral wives, debauching scores of the reformed nobility, and 
marrying Anne Boleyn, his own daughter.” 
Hume says of Henry: 
“ Unlike most monarchs who judge lightly of the crime 
of gallantry, and who deem the young damsels of their 
courts rather honoured than disgraced by their passion, 
he seldom thought of any other attachment than that of 
marriage, and in order to attain this end he underwent 
more difficulties, and committed greater crimes, than 
those which he sought to avoid by forming the legal con- 
nection.” — History of England, iv. 174. 
Henry was born in 1491, Anne Boleyn in 1507. 
If he was her father he must have been profligate 
when young. 
As Dr. Cahill is a clergyman of rank and 
station, and a lecturer on history and philosophy, 
it must not be supposed that he wrote these as- 
sertions without authority. I shall be obliged by 
a reference to any as to the scores of the reformed 
nobility, and Henry’s marriage with his own 
daughter. H. B.C. 
U. U. Club. 
Poems by a Literary Society. —In Nichols’s 
Literary Anecdotes, vol. viii. pp. 146, 147, 148., 
there is an account of a volume of poetry under 
the following title, “ Poems by a Literary Society, 
comprehending Original Pieces in the several 
Walks of Poetry.” The work was published in or 
about the year 1784. Amongst the contributors 
there is W. Van Mildert, afterwards Bishop of 
Durham. Can you, or any of your readers who 
may have an opportunity of seeing this volume, 
give me the names of poems in this collection 
which are written by the bishop ? xe (15) 
Extraordinary Fact.—Can you explain the 
following “extraordinary fact,” as stated in the 
Dublin Penny Journal (vol. ii. p. 248.) ? 
“About the close of the last century, a gentleman, who 
was superintending the digging out of his potatoes in the 
county of Antrim, was surprised to see some sailors who 
had entered the field in conversation with his labourers, 
who only spoke Irish. He went to them, and learned 
that the sailors were from Tunis; and that the vessel, to 
which they belonged, had put into port from stress of 
weather. The sailors and country people understood each 
other ; the former speaking the language spoken at Tunis, 
and the latter speaking Irish. The anecdote was related 
by a person of credit, and must interest the Irish scholar.” 
ABHBA. 
Jacobins outlawed in 1745.—Can any of your 
correspondents tell me where I can find a list of 
the Jacobins outlawed in 1745? A. B. 
Picture in the Cathedral at Hereford. —In the 
Gentleman's Magazine of November, 1816, is the 
following notice : 
“The Dean and Chapter of Hereford have added 
their cathedral Mr, Leeming’s beautiful picture from 
altar-piece of Magdalen College, Oxford. The pai 
is very much admired, and reflects high credit on 
young artist.” 1 
Can any of your correspondents at Hereford 
furnish me with a description of this picture, or 
give any information regarding the artist, &c. ? 
Liuwyver. 
Water-Eaton, Oxfordshire. — What was the 
date of that attack on the manor-house of Water- 
Eaton by the soldiers from Banbury, in conse-= 
quence of which Lady Lovelace was carried away 
in her coach to Middleton Stoney, there turned 
out, and left to find her way home again as she 
best could ? Web. 
Heraldic Colours indicated by Lines. — When 
were lines, &c., first used in England to represent 
the heraldic colours? Mr. Planché, in his Pur- 
suivant of Arms, p. 20., says : 
“ This useful mode of indicating colour is said to have 
been the invention of an Italian, Father Silvestre de 
Petra Sancta; and the earliest instance of its application 
in England, the engraving of the death-warrant of 
Charles I., to which the seals of the subscribing parties 
are represented attached.” 
I would therefore ask, when did Father Silvestre 
de Petra Sancta live? When was this engraved 
representation of the death-warrant of Charles I. 
made? And is it the earliest instance of the ap- 
plication of the invention in England? C.R.M. 
