The songs were published in folio, price 1s., signed by Dibdin (and in one or two cases "C. A. D." is stamped on p. 4), on a sheet of four pages, the front being blank, except where noted. In the majority of cases there are arrangements for two flutes on p. 4. Headings of songs are similar to No. 2, unless otherwise indicated.

*1. Castles in the Air.

2. Nappy, written and composed by Mr. Dibdin, and sung by him in his new Entertainment called Castles in the Air. London. Printed and Sold by the Author, at his Music Warehouse, No. 411 Strand, opposite the Adelphi.

3. The Tear of Sensibility.

4. No Good without an Exception.
5. Tack and Half Tack.

6. Taffy and the Birds. Title on front page.
7. The Village Wedding. Title on front page.
8. The Token.

Of this still popular song there are many arrangements, of which the best is that made for Mr. Santley by Dr. E. F. Rimbault (Chappell).

9. The Soldier's Funeral. (Afterwards in 'The Melange.')

10. The Whistling Ploughman.

11. The Merry Archers.

12. Tom Tackle. Title on front page.

13. The Watchman.

"The romantic marriage of the Lord of Burleigh and the village maiden, immortalized by Tennyson, The lady, Miss Hoggins, was doubtless a Shropshire farmer's daughter; but the bridegroom was no painter, and He was a Mr. Cecil, not yet Lord of Burleigh. nephew and heir-presumptive of the Earl of Exeter. He was then aged 37, and had just divorced his wife. The wedding was celebrated before no village altar, but in the church of St. Mildred, in Bread Street, EC. The husband succeeded to the earldom and estates two years afterwards. The poet is more accurate in his later details; for the Countess did bear her husband three children, and died five years after her marriage. Three years later the Earl was made a marquis, and married a divorced Duchess of Hamilton; and he died in 1804."

took place on this day in 1791.

Now Miss Meteyard, who was a doctor's daughter living in Shrewsbury, has recorded many incidents of her early life in her story 'The Doctor's Little Daughter,' and on p. 413 of that book relates how she and her father one day

blank, price 2s. 6d.

15. Jack's Fidelity.

16. The Hare Hunt. Title on front page.
17. Father and Mother and Suke.
18. The Jolly Ringers.

19. The Auctioneer. (Afterwards in 'Mæcenas the Second.')

The only copy I have seen was published at Leicester Place.

warm sun, slanting through the old oriel far above, threw on this mouldering cushion's faded greenness new greenness from the palms borne in the hands, a strip of purple from the robes, a breadth of scarlet from the hanging scarfs, of various saints and angels painted there, who, kneeling, seemed to say good prayers to heaven. The father took the child's small hand, and thus they stood together, in a ray of golden light, which slanted downward from the great saint's halo. Though all so faded and so worn, so dusty, Alice,' spoke the father, gently, 'on this knelt many years ago, perhaps nigh fifty now, a yeoman's daughter of the village here; and by her knelt a middle-aged and plaindressed man, who, though of courtly manners, was not known for other than a wandering artist by the yeoman's daughter, who, kneeling here upon this very cushion, became his wife. He had first seen her at her spinning-wheel, beside her father's rustic farmhouse door, and, admiring her looks of goodness and beauty and modesty, courted her from that same day, and, with her parents' full consent, here married her, she in all love and trust taking him for what he seemed, a plain and humble gentleman. Some few days after being married here, they travelled together across England, as she thought, to his humble home in Lincolnshire. But one evening, after several days' journey, the old post-chaise which bore them passed through magnificent park gates, up the noble avenue of the park itself, till, stopping and alighting before a noble portico lined with liveried servants, she, all wondering and trembling, was led by this poor painter through the gorgeous hall, rich in heraldry and sweeping banners, and the rarest sculpture of immortal Greece, till, in a room still more mag. nificent, he clasped her to his heart, and said, "I am the Earl of Burleigh, and you his wife," and

breeder of horses, and a member of an ancient Catholic race not much inclined to adopt such desperate remedies for his wrongs, to join the Gunpowder Plot for the removal of James I. When the plotters were discovered Rookwood was the last to fly. Proud of his great stud, he placed relays of horses on the road from London to Dun

They are the finest flowers that in that garden grows.

an hour

When I see'd two fine young maidens, a-sitting in Cupid's bow'r,

In connexion with the execution of Ambrose Rookwood, may it be recorded in 'N. & Q.' that interesting discoveries have recently been made at the Tower of London of some inscriptions placed on the walls by persons confined there in past times? In the work of repairing a defective window-opening in the St. Martin's Tower, according to the Daily Telegraph, a piece of deal framing had to be removed. Behind this was found the name of Ambrose Rookwood. It was finely carved, and the surname was divided "Rookwood," indicating the nature of its derivation. It may be added that in 'Old and New London, vol. iii. p. 564, there is an illustration showing very fully indeed how the conspirators in the Gunpowder Plot were executed. HENRY GERALD HOPE. 119, Elms Road, Clapham, S.W. [See also p. 9.]

'OLD ENGLISH SONGS AND DANCES.' (See 9th S. x. 378.)-Cu-bit's Gardin' is in 'The Scouring of the White Horse,' by Thomas Hughes. Here is the last verse literatim, as I have it in one of my MS. books :

Zays I, "My stars and gar-ters!

This here's a pretty go,

Vor a vine young mayd as never was
To sar' all man-kind zo.'

But the t'other young may-den

looked sly at me,

And vrom her zeat she risn, Zays she, "Let thee and I go our own waay, And we'll let she go shis'n." 'Willow, Willow, Willow,' is in Percy's 'Reliques,' book ii. No. 8 ('Ballads that illustrate Shakespeare'), two parts, containing in all twenty-three stanzas. J. B.

In your review of 'Old English Songs and Dances' your reviewer quotes from memory one stanza of 'Cupid's Garden,' and says he does not know where it is to be found. I send the four (your reviewer refers to only three) stanzas. He will find how very faithful his memory has been, as there are only

A-pulling of the Jessamine, the Lily, Pink, and Rose,

I

They are the finest flowers that in that garden grows.

fondly steps to one of them, and there to her I

SIR THOMAS BODLEY.-The 'D.N.B.' states: "His first attempt to enter into public life seems to have been unsuccessfully made in 1584, when he was recommended by Sir Francis Cobham for election to parliament as member for Hythe."

Mr. G. Wilks, in his 'Barons of the Cinque Ports,' p. 62, gives a letter in full, dated 25 October, 1584, from Cobham Hall, signed W. Cobham, recommending Thomas Bodyly in the following terms:

"Wherein I would wishe that good consideration should be had of the man, who shalbe soe elected, for the partie whom I am willed to nominate, besydes the comendacion which is deliyvred unto me of him, I am persuaded that he is such a one as maie and will be readye to pleasure you and your towne, and of that credite as may staunde you in steade."

The election is recorded in the Assembly Book of Hythe:—

"Memorandum-That the first daye of November, 1584, Mr Mayor, the Juratts and Comon'ty beinge assembled in the Town Hall there, to choose and appointe Burgesses to the Parliament to be holden the xxiijd day of this instant of November at Westm', accordinge to the Sumons in that behalfe directed, as also accordinge to the effect of a l're sentt to the sayd Mayor, Juratts, and Comons from our Lord Warden in the behalfe of one Mr Thomas Bodyly, whoe is ellected to be one of the said Burgesses......and for the Election of ye

other Burgesse for the sayd towne, the sayd Assembly have no'iated, elected and chosen, Christopher Honiwood gent., Mayor there, together with the sayd Mr Bodyly, to be and appeare at Westm at the day above sayd, and the sayd Mr Honiwood is to be allowed for his fee in this s'vice iiijs. the daye duringe the tyme of the said P'liament."

The Lord Warden was Sir William Brook, Lord Cobham.

Mr. Wilks states that the member recommended was afterwards better known as Sir Thomas Bodley, the munificent_founder of the Bodleian Library, Oxford. In the succeeding Parliament, 1586, the members chosen for Hythe were John Smyth, of Westernhanger, gent., and William Dalmyngton, jurat, so that Sir Thomas Bodley's connexion with Hythe was of brief duration.

Sandgate, Kent.

R. J. FYNMORE.

'N. & Q.' ANAGRAM. (See 9th S. x. 185.)— Notes and Queries-reasoned inquest. This anagram-in the "general sense" of the word inquest ('N.E.D.,' s.v. 3+ b and c), "a search or investigation in order to find something; ......a research ;......inquiry or investigation into something". -is proposed as even more apt, because more comprehensive, than a question-sender." C. P. PHINN. Watford.

BURIAL CUSTOM AT ARDOCH.-Perhaps this pagan survival may be interesting :

"We are authorized to state that while opening a grave in the Ardoch graveyard the other day, the gravedigger came upon a decayed coffin in which were bones and a pint bottle containing liquid. The gravedigger, being a teetotaler, could make nothing of it, until a neighbour with more pro; nounced olfactory nerves scented the 'rale Mackay,' upon which the lad of the pick and shovel offered to hand it round. Some years ago a grave was found to contain a skeleton and a well-filled tobacco pouch, so that, it may be presumed, Ardoch in former days not only fed ye here,' but gave ye something to carry ye ower the brae.""-Strathearn Herald, 8 Nov., 1902. IBAGUÉ.

LODONA. Pope's myth of the nymph Lodona in Windsor Forest' is evidently founded on that of Syrinx in Ovid's Metamorphoses' (i. 12), the scene of which was the river Ladon (a tributary of the Alpheius, now called Ruféa), in Arcadia. But it is scarcely accurate of the late Dr. Cobham Brewer, in his "Reader's Handbook,' to say "Lodona is an affluent of the Thames " for some would not recognize in the word the river Loddon, which flows into the Thames at Wargrave, after passing near Binfield, where Pope wrote several of his early poems and part of 'Windsor Forest' itself. W. T. LYNN.

DAGGER MONEY.

ing, the Mayor, addressing Mr. Justice Channell, "At the Newcastle[-on-Tyne] Assizes this morn. said: I don't know whether your lordship is aware that it is the custom in this city for the Mayor for the time being to present to the judge a coin, which we call 'dagger money.' In olden times, before railways and coaches, I assume it was necessary for the Mayor of the old town of Newcastle to furnish an escort for the judge of Assize between Newcastle and Carlisle. That escort consisted of a body of men to protect the person of the judge, when exposed to the attacks of marauders and freebooters, especially in the neighbourhood of Bewcastle and that desolate part of the county of Northumberland......I am to ask your lordship to accept this Jacobus coin."--Newcastle Evening Paper, Nov. 19,

1902.

Queries.

L. L. K.

WE must request correspondents desiring information on family matters of only private interest to affix their names and addresses to their queries, in order that the answers may be addressed to them direct.

WALTON AND COTTON CLUB. Forty years ago several questions were asked under this heading (see 3rd S. i. 273). The then Editor himself answered all the questions except the first, which was, "Can any of your readers inform me whether this Club is still in existence?" Being the happy owner of the Editor as quite a rare book of the rules, described by the said 66 gem," I ask to be allowed to repeat the unanswered question. If, as I fear, it is a fact that the Club has ceased to exist, I should like to be informed when and why it did. STAPLETON MARTIN.

The Firs, Norton, Worcester.

ANNIE OF THARAU.-I should be much obliged if one of your correspondents could tell me whether Aennchen von Tharau was a real person, or if there is any legend connected with her. I know, of course, the German ballad to her by Helder, and that he took the subject from an older Northern one; also that Longfellow has made a translation of it. I should be grateful if your correspondents could tell me the date when she "flourished" or of the legend.

or

(Miss) CATHERINE L. GIBBS. RUBENS PICTURES.-Can any reader kindly give information regarding pictures sketches painted by Rubens representing Time and Truth? I know of the finished picture forming one of the Marie de Médicis series, and of two sketches showing different treatments of the same subject, all in the Louvre at Paris. There may be others, perhaps, among the sketches in the Munich

[We find no mention of the name in the 1900 edition of Mrs. Gatty's work.]

TENNYSON AND KINGSLEY.-Perhaps some of your correspondents can inform me whether the lines in Lord Tennyson's last poem,

And may there be no moaning of the bar,
When I put out to sea,

are an allusion, accidental or implied, to the
refrain in Charles Kingsley's well-known
poem of The Three Fishers.' I presume
the allusion is obvious, and that in all pro-
bability Lord Tennyson regarded it as such.
J. LUTTRELL PALMER.
[See 9th S. x. 247.]

BURKE.-Is there evidence that Burke's father was ever a Catholic? Is not Mr. Morley certainly in error when stating that Burke's wife had been a Catholic? Her father was a Catholic, her mother a Presbyterian-which latter was her religion, just as, Burke's father being the Protestant and his mother the Catholic, he resulted in a Protestant. W. F. P. STOCKLEY.

Ottawa.

[See also Mixed Marriages,' 9th S. x. 447.] KIEFF, KIEV, KIEW.-How ought this word to be spelt? Are we right, or the French, or the Germans, for all three nations spell it in a different way? In England, however, the first two forms are used, the first being the more frequent. One would think that a reference to the Russian spelling should decide the matter at once; but here a difficulty seems to present itself. For in Russian the word is spelt Kiev+the mute hard sign, which the French call -ierre. Of this letter Motté, who names it -oh-, says :

"The hard semi-vowel (oh or ierre) has now no sound whatever, but it serves to give to the consonant that precedes it a strong and harsh pronunciation as though this were double. Before oh (or ierre) a weak consonant has always the sound of its corresponding strong, thus v=ph."

I avoid giving the Russian characters, as I have never seen them printed in 'N. & Q.,' though I should be very pleased to immortalize myself by being the first to introduce them there. Then Motté goes on to give as an example of his rule Krov+oh

Kroff (a roof). If this is correct, then Kieff would be the right spelling, and Fuchs, who wrote a Russian grammar for French students, seems to agree. The real truth appears to be that the French, with their quick sense of what is elegant, have followed the Latin word Kiovia, while we have chosen the uncouth but more accurate form Kieff. Gibbon, it is to be noted, calls the town Kiow. T. P. ARMSTRONG.

REV. SAMUEL FISHER. — Information is desired concerning the Rev. Samuel Fisher, called. a minister, I think, of the Baptist Church, located in Norwich some time prior possibly the latter part of_the E. D.

to 1813

eighteenth century. Bridgeport, Conn., U.S. ARMS WANTED. Whose arms following, which are engraved on snuff-box? Ermine, on a cross gules five plates (or bezants); in dexter chief a canton with a badge of a baronet.

Lostwithiel.

an old

R. BARCLAY-ALLARDICE.

HERALDIC SHIELDS: THEIR ORIGIN. I should like to ask students of heraldry if the origin of heraldic shields has been ascertained. There has seemed to me some reason to suspect they have been evolved from scenes representing ancient methods of worship, especially the worship of the sacred tree. For example, on one of the Assyrian cylinders we see in the centre the conventionalized tree, on each side a winged human figure holding up a hand towards the tree in worship, and above the tree the winged disc of deity. We have thus a central object, two supporters, and a symbol in the position of the crest. There are similar designs in the Temple of Athene at Priene; in St. Mark's, Venice in India, Mexico, and elsewhere. But i speak in entire ignorance of heraldry. C. CALLAWAY.

Montpellier Villas, Cheltenham. PRINCESS CHARLOTTE -In Mrs Bagot's book of recollections lately published it is stated, on the authority of "Mrs. Martin," that when the autopsy was made upon the body of the Princess Charlotte (daughter of