It's dowie i' the hin' o' hairst, When the winds grow cauld, when the burns grow bauld, An' the wuds are hingin' yellow. 87. Wigs; or, The Inundation. Sung also in 'The Oddities' (revived). On Nos. 18, 19, 21, 22, 23, 25, 26, 27, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, and 36 appears a note adver This enshrines the mood represented by the tising the harpsichord lessons (see below). Of equestrian pace of Clerk Colvin. THOMAS BAYNE. A BIBLIOGRAPHICAL ACCOUNT OF THE (Continued from 9th S. x. 245.) 1790. The Wags; or, The Camp of Pleasure, a Table Entertainment written & composed by Charles Dibdin, first performed 18th October, 1790. The songs were published in folio, price 1s., signed by Dibdin, on a sheet of 4 pp. Usually the music and first stanza of the songs are on pp. 2 and 3, the front being blank, and p. 4 occupied by the rest of the words and arrangements for flute and (or) guitar. Exceptions are noted. The headings of the songs, unless mentioned as otherwise, are similar to that on No. 1. 1. The Watery Grave. Written and composed by Mr. Dibdin, for his entertainment called The Wa Vags, or The Camp of Pleasure. London: Printed and Sold by the Author, at his Music Warehouse, No. 411 Strand, opposite the Adelphi. Title on front page. 2. A Drop of the Creature. 3. Sound Argument. 4. Patrick O'Row. (Price marked with a pen.) 5. The Soldier's Adieu. 6. Nautical Philosophy. (No price marked.) 7. Indian Death Song. 8. Happy Jerry. 9. Jack in his Element. Title on front page. 10. The Joys of the Country. 11. Death or Victory. Title on front page. 12. The Virtue of Drunkenness. 13. Buxom Nan. 14. Family Likeness. 15. Morality in the Foretop. 16. The Dustman. 17. Swizzy. 18. Soldier Dick. 19. The Shipwreck. 20. The Negro and his Banjer. 21. Olympian Hunt. 22. The Camp of Pleasure. 4 pp. 23. Death Alive. 24. Irish [Mock?] Italian Song. 12 pp. Front and back blank. Price 2s. 6d. 25. Shenkin and Winny. 26. Celia. 27. The Woodman. 28. The True English Sailor. 29. True Friendship. 30. The Wily Fox. 31. A Savage Love Song. 32. Bonny Kate. 33. Little Ben. 34. The Constant Sailor. 35. The Pleasures of the Chase. 36. Love's Concerto. (This was apparently in 'The Oddities' as 'The Musician's Love Song.') several songs I have later impressions from Early advertisements of 'The Wags' mention No. 39, also a song :42. Hey Fellow Well Met (of which I find no other trace), also 'The Finale.' 1790. (Museum date, doubtful.) *Ode in honour of His Majesty's birthday, written and composed by C. Dibdin. London, folio. 1790. *Book of the songs in A Divertisement [sic], with Dialogue intended only to introduce the following favourite songs, selected, written and composed (with new Accompany ments) by Mr. Dibdin. In two parts; 13 songs and an overture. The first performance, at Covent Garden Theatre, was on 23rd November, 1790. 1791. A Sonata, adapted for the Harpsichord or Piano-Forte, with an accompaniment for the violin or flute; from the subjects of Bachelor's Hall, Poor Tom, & the Camp of Pleasure; being No. 1 of a collection to be publish'd monthly by Mr. Dibdin from the favorite Songs in his Wags and Oddities. Printed and sold by the Author at his Music warehouse 411 Strand. Oblong folio, 8 pp., front and back blank. Signed at foot of first engraved page. Nos. 2 and 3 are similar. The subjects in No. 2 are 'Happy Jerry,' 'The Virtue of Drunkenness,' and the 'Greenwich Pensioner.' Those in No. 3 are the Mock Italian Song,' 'Ben Backstay,' and 'Peggy Perkins. Price 1s. 6d. A fourth number was advertised as in preparation in an advertisement of Dibdin's Entertainment, but I doubt if it appeared. 1791. Private Theatricals; or, Nature in Nubibus, a Table Entertainment by Charles Dibdin! first performed 31st October, 1791. The songs were published in folio, pricke 1s., signed by Dibdin, on a sheet of 4 pp. Usually the music of the song is on pp. 2 and 3, the front being blank, and p. 4 occupied by the rest of the words and arrangements for flute and (or) guitar. Exceptions are noted. Headings of songs are similar to No. 1, or mentioned as otherwise. 1. Bill Bobstay written and composed by Mr. Dibdin, for his entertainment called Private Thea *23. The Beau. *24. True Wisdom. *25. The Application. *26. All the Birds of the Air. *27. Tight Lads of the Ocean. 1792. A Collection of Songs. Second volume published, also third edition of vol. i. See 1790 ante. 1792. The Quizes; or, A Trip to Elysium, a Table Entertainment written & composed by Charles Dibdin, first performed 13 October 1792. The songs were published in folio, price 1s., signed by Dibdin, on a sheet of four pages, the front being blank, except where noted. In some cases there are arrangements on p. 4 for the flute or two flutes, but the first stanza is oftener continued on p. 4 than in previous entertainments. Headings of songs similar to No. 1, or noted as otherwise. are Nos. 1 to 21 formed the original programme of songs in the order as advertised; Nos. 22 to 24 were added afterwards. I have seen copies of several songs bearing Dibdin's Leicester Place address; also of Nos. 6 and Probably an error; see No. 14, 'The Quizes 20 published by G. Walker, 106, Great (1792). *28. Honesty in Tatters. *29. General Frog and General Mouse. Portland Street, from Dibdin's plates. 1793. The Younger Brother: a novel, in three Dibdin's advertisements mention, but I have volumes, written by Mr. Dibdin. Thus runs the not been able to trace, world away. Shakespear. Vol. 1 (2 or 3) London: Printed for the Author, and sold at his Warehouse, No. 411, Strand, opposite the Adelphi. 8vo, 3 vols. Vol. 1, pp. iv (unnumbered), iv, xxviii, 250. Vols. 2 and 3, 312 pp. and 336 pp. ; both paged continuously from half-title. No date on title; dedication to the most noble the Marquis of Salisbury, dated 8 Jan., 1793. Advertisements of 1794 and 1795 mention "a new edition," which I have not seen. 1793. Castles in the Air; a Table Entertainment, written and composed by Charles Dibdin, first performed 12th October 1793. 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. 6. Taffy and the Birds. Title on front page. Of this still popular song there are many 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, took place on this day in 1791. The lady, Miss daughter; but the bridegroom was no painter, and a Shropshire farmer's Hoggins, was doubtless not yet Lord of Burleigh. He was a Mr. Cecil, 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." 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 "set off for the distant parish church, some long while before the time for service, and opening a little side door in the narrow humble edifice, with a key he had brought......[he] entered with reverence. Bidding Alice stand by the mouldering rails of the altar, he went into a sort of little crypt or vestry, and, bringing out from thence a small square cushion covered with a faded green baize, laid it down upon 14. The Power of Music. 10 pages, front and back the old worn altar-stone. The rich rays of the glad 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. the Second.') (Afterwards in Mecenas The only copy I have seen was published at 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 together, in a ray of golden light, which slanted took the child's small hand, and thus they stood downward from the great saint's halo. 'Though all so faded and so worn, so dusty, Alice,' spoke the nigh fifty now, a yeoman's daughter of the village father, gently, 'on this knelt many years ago, perhaps 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 Hogarth assigns the song to this entertain-her at her spinning-wheel, beside her father's rustic ment. I have not traced the music. 22. British Bounty or Beauty's Donation. I have seen Leicester Place issues of 12, 17, and 19, and of 8, 11, and 15 by G. Walker, from original plates. 1793-4. A Collection of Songs. Third volume probably published during this winter. See 1790 ante. E. RIMBAULT DIBDIN. Morningside, Sudworth Road, New Brighton. (To be continued.) TENNYSON'S LORD OF BURLEIGH.' ON 3 October, 1902, the following appeared in the Yorkshire Telegraph and Star, having evidently been taken from some other paper: farmhouse door, and, admiring her looks of goodness and beauty and modesty, courted her from here married her, she in all love and trust taking that same day, and, with her parents' full consent, him for what he seemed, a plain and humble gentleman. Some few days after being married here, thought, to his humble home in Lincolnshire. But they travelled together across England, as she 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 immortal Greece, till, in a room still more magand sweeping banners, and the rarest sculpture of nificent, he clasped her to his heart, and said, “I am the Earl of Burleigh, and you his wife," and then she swooned away, stricken by terror at her own humility of rank and this great fortune. Nor did she ever, it is said, recover from the great shock received this night; but often thinking of her own humility, though she was so much nature's lady as to make a fitting, as she made a loving wife, allowed this grief to prey upon her heart, till at last she drooped and died. And so this English story, my sweet Alice, consecrates this old and dusty altar-stone, this mouldering church, this faded, humble cushion. For, excepting that of the Lady Godiva of Coventry, we have in English story none so touching or more sweet.' And so together, with a sort of sweet and solemn silence, they paced round the humble aisle in the warm sunbeams slanting from above, turned to the marriage service in the large old Book of Prayer, trod in the very steps of that sweet yeoman's daughter, went into the old vestry, shadowed and made dull by a mass of sweeping ivy round the mouldering casement, till at last, going out into the churchyard, they sat and rested on a rustic grave, till the service hour. What wonder, then, that Alice treasures in her heart this sweet and touching story, made fitly sweet and touching since that time by a great poet in a ballad which will be immortal! Weeping, weeping late and early, And he look'd at her and said, That her spirit might have rest." If any Shropshire antiquary could kindly inform your readers if Miss Meteyard is correct, and give the name of the village, and particulars of the entry in the church register, it would be of great interest, and would corroborate both her story and the poem of the late Lord Tennyson. Since I wrote the foregoing, there has appeared in the December number of Chambers's Journal an exhaustive account of this romance, by Mr. Arthur O. Cooke, entitled The Truth about the Cottage - Countess,' which confirms my opinion as to the validity of the most important item in Miss Meteyard's story, for, according to Mr. Cooke, the marriage took place at Bolas Magna, Shropshire, on 13 April, 1790, as the church registers testify. He, however, strips the romance of that which made it "so touching and sweet," for it appears the marriage was an illegal one-neither was the bridegroom at the time the Lord of Burleigh. As soon as he could legally do so, he went through the ceremony [Long and interesting articles on the marriage of the Lord of Burleigh, mainly by MR. W. Ö. WOODALL, will be found at 7th S. xii. 221, 281, 309, 457, 501; 8th S. i. 387, 408. Henry Cecil was married at Bolas Magna under the name of John Jones, the officiating clergyman being the Rev. Cresswell Tayleur, and the witnesses John Pickers and Sarah Adams. The bridegroom had, however, at this time a wife living, from whom, as she had eloped in June, 1789, he was divorced by a private Act of Parliament in the session ending 10 June, 1791. On 3 October, 1791, he again married Sarah Hoggins, this time at St. Mildred, Bread Street.] "FORTUNE, INFORTUNE, FORT-UNE."-In a reply of mine (9th S. x. 453) concerning the motto "Fert," I mentioned incidentally the motto "Fortune, Infortune, Fort- Une." Perhaps some account of it may be interesting, quoted from the 'Guide-Express de l'Église de Brou,' par l'Abbé H. P., 5me Edition, Bourg, 1899. The motto is that of Marguerite d'Autriche : "This princess composed this motto or legend, perhaps at Point-d'Ain after the death of the Duc Philibert, and always afterwards retained it, causing it to be written, painted, or sculptured on all her deeds and monuments. What is its meaning? Let us notice first that, everywhere, at Brou and at Malines, it is written in four words, which excludes many fanciful interpretations given by divers authors, as though Marguerite had meant to say by it that her life had been an uninterrupted series of good fortunes and misfortunes, or again that whether she had good fortune or bad fortune, nothing came amiss to her, it was all the same, it was all similar ones are unknown to the authors contemindifferent to her. These explanations and other porary with Marguerite, who no doubt were well aware of her real meaning. Now they all give us the sense of this enigma by making the word infortune the third person indicative of the verb infortuner: La fortune infortune (persecutes, makes unfortunate) fort une femme. Fortune renders one woman very unfortunate. "Guichenon adopts this version, and says that Marguerite composed her motto 'to show that she had been greatly persecuted by fortune, having the Prince de Castille and the Duc de Savoye, her been repudiated by Charles VIII. and having lost two husbands.""-Chap. xiv. pp. 83, 84, 85. died in 1530. Philibert II. (le Beau), Duke of Marguerite d'Autriche, Duchess of Savoy, Savoy, died in 1504. Samuel Guichenon was born in 1607 and died in 1664. ROBERT PIERPOINT. AMBROSE ROOKWOOD.-In the new edition of Mr. W. Hepworth Dixon's 'Her Majesty's Tower' (Cassell & Co., 1901), at vol. i. p. 344, it is related how the haughty Catesby induced the wealthy young Suffolk squire Ambrose Rookwood, a great lover 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 Rook wood was the last to fly. Proud of his great stud, he placed relays of horses on the road from London to Dunchurch. He commenced his flight at 11 o'clock, and in two hours he rode thirty miles on a single horse, and made the whole distance of eighty-one miles in less than seven hours. But his flight was of no avail. He was captured, tried, drawn on a hurdle, hung and disembowelled in Palace Yard, Westminster. 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 Rook wood. 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 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 For a fine young maid as ever was, to serve all her seat she's risen, Then t'other young maid looked sly at me, and from From 'Songs of Four Nations,' edited by SIR THOMAS BODLEY.-The 'D.N.B.' states: Ports,' p. 62, gives a letter in full, dated "Wherein I would wishe that good consideration The election is recorded in the Assembly "Memorandum-That the first daye of Novem- |