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Your correspondent J. W. H. (see "N. & Q." p. 500) may like to know that the old song about John Cook's pigs, part of which his grandfather used to repeat, was current in Sussex as well as in Yorkshire. My mother used to sing it to my children when they were infants more than forty years ago. I know the tune quite well; I consider the song as a duet, and subjoin a version of the words as I have heard them sung by my mother1st voice. "Whose three pigs are these?

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Whose three pigs are these?
They are John Cook's, I know by their looks,
And I found them in the peas.

Go pound them! Go pound them!
I dare not for my life;

For he that poundeth John Cook's pigs
Must never kiss his wife."

There was an old song which used to amuse me when a child, called "The Irishman's Journey to Town; or, the New Langolee," of which I recollect only scraps :—

"Why then, sir, says I, may I make bold to ask it, If the coach goes at six, pray what time goes the basket?

At that time the accommodation for outside passengers was a basket-work seat at the back of the coach, as may be seen in Hogarth's picture. The song goes on:

“Then he made up his mouth, and says he, Sir, the

basket

Goes after the coach a full hour or two."

If I remember rightly Paddy waits the hour or two, and finds the basket went with the coach. There are many verses, of which I only remember the following:

"Good luck to the moon! for a noble sweet cratur

That gives us her light each night in the dark.

"Twould save the whole nation a great many pounds, sir,

To subscribe for to light her all the year round, sir." There was another old song, the burthen of which was

"Needles and pins, needles and pins,

When a man marries his trouble begins."

M. P. M.

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J. W. H.

SEVEN AGES OF MAN'S LIFE (3rd S. x. 228.)— It may interest some of your readers if I describe a little volume which I recently met with, more particularly as it to some extent corresponds with one described by MR. CORSER in "N. & Q." (ut sup.) It is in 24mo, and was stall-acquired, at one penny; like many such acquisitions, it is without title, and hopelessly tattered. A running title, "The Pious Soul's Divine Breathings continues to p. 81; from 82 to 136, "Meditations on the Seven Ages of Man's Life"; after which come "Rules for Christian Walking,' ""A Threefold Alphabet of Rules for Christian Practice," and a " Morning Prayer for Private Families." The Meditations appear to be the same as those said to be by Bunyan, contained in the edition of 1701 described by MR. CORSER. They are in prose; each age has a rude emblematical woodcut, and is preceded by a text and eight lines of verse, except the first, which has six; and the whole concludes with a poetical abstract of eighteen lines. The first portion of the volume is not the same as Practical Contemplations (see "N. & Q." 3rd S. iii. 429), which was reprinted in 1803 under the title of Divine Breathings. W. C. B.

CELEBRATED CHRISTIAN BURIALS (4th S. iv. 512.)-Will the following references be of any service to W. H. S. ?—

Edward IV., Archæologia, i. 375.
Edward VI., ib. xii. 334.

Mary Queen of Scots, ib. i. 3.

Anne of Cleve, Excerpta Historica, p. 303. Isabel of Warwick, Duchess of Clarence, Dugdale's Monasticon (3-vol. ed.), i. 160, from MS. Cott. Cleop. C. III.

Richard Neville, Earl of Salisbury (father of the King-maker), Arundel MS. 26.

Anne Hyde, Duchess of York, and her childrenstyles, inscription on coffin-plates, necessaries provided for Duke of Cambridge's funeral, 1661, &c., Addit. MS. 12,514, fol. 188, 189, 193, 195, 197, 199, 220. HERMENTRUde.

EDZEL, ENZIE (4th S. iv. 409, 523.) — My answer to this query contains a misprint. For Engioholm, line twenty-third, read Engieholm. The name Engie, pronounced Aingy, ought properly to have been derived from the Icelandic engi, a meadow, generally near a low river, whence the local Scotch name Aingy and Danish Eng.

J. C. ROGER.

THE WHITE SWAN (4th S. iv. 515.)—Henry IV. used the swan and antelope as his supporters. Henry V. removed his father's swan in favour of a lion. The swan appears as a supporter on the seal of Thomas Plantagenet, Duke of Gloucester, youngest son of Edward III.; his father often used it as a badge, and appeared at the tournament at Canterbury in 1349 in a tunic emblazoned with white swans, with the motto

"Hay! hay! the wythe swan! By God's soul I am thy man!" Henry IV. married Mary de Bohun, youngest daughter of Humphrey de Bohun. Mr. Planché, in a paper on "The Badges of the House of Lancaster," in the Journal of the British Archæological Association (vi. 385), says the swan was the badge of the De Bohuns, not as Earls of Hereford, but of Essex, they having received it from the Mandevilles Earls of Essex. These Mandevilles and also the Nevils had a common ancestor in Adam Fitz-Swanne (perhaps corrupted from Sweyn), who had large estates in England temp. William I. Thus we have the origin of this badge. The antelope was the immediate cognizance of the Bohuns, and is frequently found associated with the swan as a badge. It became a supporter of the arms of their principal descendants-Katharine queen of Henry V., of their eldest son Henry VI., of John Duke of Bedford, and Humphrey Duke of Gloucester, his brother.

JOHN PIGGOT, JUN. If your correspondent refers to Harleian MSS. No. 1073 and 3740, he will see that Henry IV. is said to have borne as supporters on the dexter side an antelope argent, ducally collared, lined, and armed or, and on the sinister side a swan argent. For further information see Willement's Regal Heraldry, p. 27.

Kirklees Park, Brighouse.

GEO. J. ARMYTAGE.

GUILD OF MASONS AT FAVERSHAM ABBEY (4th S. iv. 310, 374,460, 519.)-Lewis says the statutes of mortmain were enacted in the reign of King Henry III., and that the monks of Faversham were affected by them: both statements are erroneous. This historian contradicts himself on the latter point.

If Jacob is wrong in saying 342 houses only produced 487. in 1538, MR. CowPER is as far out the other way in giving 10s. as the average rental of houses in 1498: the sum is outrageous. Jacob says his figures are based on "a record remaining"; if this were not so, clearly he had the unblushing impudence to fabricate the figures. The record may easily be among the corporation papers at Faversham and be unknown.

I cannot see that I am unfortunate in pointing to the old houses in Abbey Street. MR. COWPER fully admits all I said about them, viz. that a mason would be wanted in repairing them.

MR. COWPER argues as follows:-if in 1498 a given number of houses, viz. 23, produced a rental of 11. 12s. 5d. (not 3d.), and 201. Os. 3d. being the lump sum of all the houses, it follows that as 10s. is the average rental of the twenty-three houses, the total number at the date in question was forty. May I be allowed to put the case another way? Richard Drylond belonged to one of the best families in Faversham, yet he seems to have lived in one of the twenty-three houses, the rental of which was 4d. only. Now if a good house only cost 4d. per annum, surely the balance between the two above sums, viz. 81. 78. 10d., must represent more than seventeen houses. Moreover Southouse only gives a detailed account of the important houses-that is to say, those held by leases. He says, "Thus have we informed you of their rents reserved upon leases."

In conclusion, I will ask what guild met at the ancient Guild Hall in Tanners' Street? I know of three for certain, viz., the "Brotherhede," to which the barons of Faversham belonged; next, a" Brotherhood of the Mass of St. Anne"; and lastly, the Guild of Fishers, dating certainly as far back as temp. Hen. II., perhaps earlier.

6, Pulross Road, Brixton.

GEORGE BEDO.

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Bolton Percy, near Tadcaster.

DATE OF GRANT OF ARMS (4th S. iv. 513.) Given the name, we may find the arms; given the arms, we may find the name. A. F. H. does neither, yet inquires what steps he can take to find out at what date arms were granted to our family, adding that they bear arms now. We refer him to any alphabet of arms under letter H; there the date may be given of the arms which he has neglected to describe, and which may there be identified by him as those now used by the H. family. The circumstance of their being a younger branch does not annul their right to use the paternal coat with the due difference; denoting from which junior best son of the parent stock they derive their descent. If no date is given in the alphabet of arms, A. F. H. will obtain the best information by exhibiting the arms the family now bears at the Heralds College.

E. W.

THE REDBREAST (4th S. iv. 507.)- Had MR. SALA'S scruples not interfered with his appetite, he would have discovered, from their size, that the "Robins on toast" at Willard's Hotel were no relations of his and our friend the redbreast. The American robin is a kind of thrush, which, save in the matter of a red breast, has no resem

blance either in size, voice, or manners to our well-known winter favourite. P. E. N.

OLD WEATHER-WIT (4th S. iv. 509.)-When, at the beginning of this year, I ventured to send to the Editor a few old proverbs relating to the weather, I was aware of no work in which such weather-wit was classified. But since then, I think in April, an admirable little book has been published, with the title :

"Weather Lore: a collection of Proverbs, Sayings, and Rules concerning the Weather, compiled and arranged by R. Inwards, F.R.A.S., Fellow of the British Meteorological Society. W. Tweedie, Strand."

Supplement to the former editions of the "Historical Memorials." We wish the publishers of all books of which enlarged and improved editions are called for, would more frequently follow the liberal example thus set by Mr. Murray.

Weapons of War; being a History of Arms and Armour from the Earliest Period to the Present Time. By Auguste Demmin. With nearly Two Thousand Illustrations. Translated by C. C. Black, M.A., AssistantKeeper, South Kensington. (Bell & Daldy.)

We gather, from the Introduction to this volume, that the English translation is published contemporaneously with the French original, and a version which has been prepared for the use of German antiquaries. But not in Paris, not in Berlin, or Vienna, can its publication be so well timed as in London, where students of arms and armour have just now the advantage of examining the famed Meyrick Collection at South Kensington and the national collection at the Tower, recently re-arranged by Mr. Planché. M. Demmin has devoted many years to

I beg therefore to recommend those readers who may desire to study the weather of the other months and seasons of the year, to procure Professor Inwards' comprehensive and well-arranged investigating the history of weapons of war; not merely

book of weather-wisdom, ancient and modern. I
constantly refer to its pages, and very seldom with-
out finding what I want; but often regret the
brevity of its table of contents, and the absence
of an index.
Yaxley.

GREEK EPITAPH (4th S. iv. 253.) —
"Here in sweet sleep the son of Nicon lies;

W. H. S.

He sleeps-for who shall say the good man dies?" Your correspondent M. A. may refer his afflicted clerical friend to an epitaph written by Callimachus, who flourished about 256 years B.C., viz.

Τῇδε Σάων ὁ Δίκωνος Ακάνθιος ἱερὸν ὕπνον

κοιμᾶται · θνήσκειν μὴ λέγε τοὺς ἀγαθούς.

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NOTES ON BOOKS, ETC.

Supplement to First and Second Editions of Historical Memorials of Westminster Abbey, by Arthur Penrhyn Stanley, D.D., Dean of Westminster. With Illustrations. (Murray.)

Since Dean Stanley first published his graphic and interesting Memorials of the venerable Abbey over which he presi les, two editions of it have been called for. The third edition has been so enriched, not only by the Dean's own personal researches, but by the communica tions of his friends, and as the result of many investigations made in various parts of the Abbey itself, that the book almost takes the character of a new book; more especially since advantage has been taken to correct in it the oversights almost inseparable from the first issue of a work, every page of which is crammed with names, dates, and facts. The skilful pencil of Mr. Scharf has also been called into requisition, to furnish pictorial illustrations of many objects of peculiar interest. These, which are some twenty in number, and the additions and corrections to which we have referred, form therefore a very important

as recorded by authors who have written on the subject, but by a careful personal inspection of all the great collections scattered over Europe. The result of his re

searches we have in the volume before us, which contains in one line of its title a statement sufficient to stamp its value. It is illustrated with nearly two thousand woodcuts. When it is remembered that these illustrations have been selected by so complete a master of his art as M. Demmin, our readers will see how great claims his volume has to be considered as at once a scientific, complete, and, what is scarcely less valuable, a compact handbook on arms and armour.

The Poems of Joseph Fletcher, M.A., Rector of Wilbye, Suffolk: for the first time edited and reprinted with Memorial-Introduction and Notes, and original Illustrations and Fac-simile. By the Rev. Alexander Grosart. (Printed for private circulation.)

The Poems of Sir John Beaumont, Bart., for the first time collected and edited: with Memorial-Introduction and Notes, and Engraving of Grace-Dieu. By the Rev. Alexander Grosart. (Printed for private circulation.)

In the first of these two new volumes of Mr. Grosart's Fuller Worthies' Library the editor presents us with the writings of a poet, Joseph Fletcher (connected, as it would seem, only in name with Giles and Phineas Fletcher), who is almost as entirely forgotten as his works. There is no mention of him to be found in any county history; and according to Mr. Grosart, bibliographers know little more of him and of his poems. These, as will be seen from their titles-"The Perfect-CursedBlessed Man," and "Christ's Bloodie Sweat," are of a highly devotional character; and as the worthy parson of Wilbye exhibits a good deal of poetic feeling, the poems of Joseph Fletcher will assuredly be welcome to lovers of sacred poetry. The second volume contains the collected poems of one better known to fame-Sir John Beaumont, Bart., the brother of the well-known dramatist Francis, and whose chief poem, "Bosworth Field," first published in 1629, has been several times reprinted. His "Metamorphosis of Tabacco," dedicated to Drayton, is only known by one copy, namely that in the King's Library in the British Museum, from which it was some time since reprinted by Mr. Collier. These, with a large number of Sacred Poems, of Royal and Courtly Poems, and of Elegiac Memorials of Worthies (valuable, also, for biographical allusions), and of Translations, and an Appendix, in which Mr. Grosart has

included the poems of our author's son, the second baronet, make up a volume not inferior in interest to any which has yet appeared in the Fuller Worthies' Library.

The late facetious and accomplished Father Prout little thought, when he published in Bentley's Magazine his clever French parody on Wolfe's "Monody on the Death of Sir John Moore," and pretended it had been written on Lally Tollendal, and was to be found in the Appendix to his Memoires, how enduring the hoax would prove. Twenty years ago the true story of this hoax and of another, attributing Wolfe's Ode to a Dr. Marshall of Durham, was told in "N. & Q." But the Lally Tollendal theory has cropped up again in our excellent contemporary L'Intermediare, where a writer signing himself Acheté gravely inquires whether Wolfe was "traducitore o traditore." It is clear that Acheté has been sold.

The fine old church of St. Clement's, Sandwich, which is very fully described in Murray's Handbook of Kent, where it is said that "it well deserves a visit," stands in need of thorough restoration. The vicar, churchwardens, and inhabitants are making every effort to accomplish this; but it is quite beyond their means, and they are compelled to ask assistance from without. We commend their appeal, which will be found in our advertising columns, to the attention of our readers.

THE BALLAD SOCIETY will issue to its members next week Part I. of the Roxburghe Ballads, with short notes by Wm. Chappell, Esq. author of Popular Music of the Olden Time; and with copies of the original woodcuts by Mr. Rudolf Blind and Mr. W. H. Hooper.

THE EARLY ENGLISH TEXT SOCIETY will next week begin to issue to its subscribers the following five Texts. In its Original Series: 1. Text B, from the Laud MS. of William's Vision of Piers Plowman, edited by the Rev. W. W. Skeat. 2. The Alliterative Romance of Troy, from Guido de Colonna, edited from the unique MS. by the Rev. G. Panton and D. Donaldson, Esq.-For the Society's Extra Series, 3. Chaucer's Prose Translation of Boethius de Consolatione, edited from the two oldest MSS. by Richard Morris, Esq. 4. Queene Elizabethes Achademy (by Sir Humphrey Gilbert), a Book of Precedence, and several poems and tracts on manners and courtesy, edited by F. J. Furnivall, Esq. with a Second Part containing an account of Early Italian Courtesy-Books by W. M. Rossetti, Esq., and an account of Thomasin von Zirclario's Wälsche Gast, and other early German books on courtesy. 5. Four early tracts on Vagabonds and Thieves: Audsley's Fraternitye of Vacabondes, Harman's Caveat, or Warning for Commen Cursetors, Parson Habere's Sermon in Praise of Thievery, The Groundwork of Conny Catching. For next year the Society has nearly ready these texts: English Gilds," "Bestiary and Passion Poems," ed. Morris; "Ratting, Raving," &c., ed. Lumby; "Scotch Moral Poems," ed. Lumby; "Poems on the Holy Rood," ed. Morris; "Supplication of the Beggars," &c., ed. Furni vall and Denton; Sir D. Lyndesay's Works, Part V., ed. Murray, &c. Several other works are in the press, and an early alliterative fragment of the "Romance of Joseph of Arimathea, or the History of the Holy Graal," will be produced early in 1870, under the editorship of the Rev. Walter W. Skeat.

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THE SPALDING SOCIETY, one of the numerous publishing societies founded on the principle of the Camden Society, which was instituted at Aberdeen in 1839, "for printing the Historical, Ecclesiastical, Genealogical, Topographical, and Literary Remains of the NorthEastern Counties of Scotland," having, in the opinion of its managers, accomplished its work, has been formally dissolved.

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Owing to our desire to include as many Replies as possible in this Number, and to the necessity of going to press earlier on account of Christmas Day, we have been compelled to omit several interesting Notes and many Queries.

THE GHOST IN THE TOWER has already been very fully discussed. The tenth volume of our Second Series contains no less than three communications on the subject from our valued Correspondent, Mr. Lenthall Swifte, who saw the appearance" in the Jewel House.

LEWIS CARROLL. The couplet on Wordsworth's Poems appeared in "N. & Q." 3rd S. viii. 522.

CURIOSUS. Some account of Erasmus Smith, the founder of schools in Ireland, is given in “N. & Q." 2nd S. vii. 106.

H. W. HENFREY (Brighton.) The Life of Sir Walter Raleigh, 1677, 8vo, was compiled as well as published by Benjamin Shirley, according to a MS. entry in the British Museum copy.

ERRATUM. In our last number, p. 545, col. i, line 19, for "uncriti

cal" read “critical.”

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INDEX.

FOURTH SERIES.-VOL. IV.

[For classified articles, see ANONYMOUS WORKS, BOOKS RECENTLY published, EPITAPHS, FOLK Lore, Proverbs
AND PHRASES, QUOTATIONS, SHAKSPERIANA, AND SONGS AND BALLADS.]

A.

Abhba on J. Barralet, artist, 395

Delamain family, 573

Entrance-registry, Trinity College, 83
St. Douloghs, 376

"Vindication of the Primitive Church," 337)

Ackermann (Rudolph), publisher, 109, 129
Addis (John) on "A little bird told me," 292
Bedlam beggars and rosemary, 122
Baccalaureus, 467

"Castles in the air," 184

Chaucer, hard words in, 64; "Smoterlich," 408

Davies (Sir John) and the "Ancient Mariner,"

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Andrews family, 434

Angels' music sung to St. Dunstan, 450, 524
Angevin, worth of a pound, 116

Anglo-Scotus on the Borthwick peerage, 280

Battle of Biggar and Blind Harry, 297
Dunbar castle, its fall, 544

Newark peerage, 38, 176

Roger (Sir William), knt., 167
Sudereys, 200

"Annuals," the early, 130

Anonymous Works:-

All the Talents, 15

Art of Making Love, 74

Churches and Church Services, 435

Drop of the Real for those who love a dram, 408
Ephemeris Parliamentaria, 437

Entomology by the Hon. Mrs. W. and Lady M.,

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