At this point “Dot” puts his hand out, and the one touched has to take his place. This is practically a “counting-out rhyme,” and there seems every probability that it is a very ancient one. The Manor of Edge, in the Hundred of Broxton, was held, according to _Domesday Survey_, by Edwin, a Saxon thane, who, although he was compelled to become tenant to Norman Robert FitzHugh, managed to retain for himself the two Edges. Contemporary with him was Dot, the Saxon lord of sixteen manors, some of them conjointly with Edwin; but, more unlucky than he, Dot lost all his manors and fled to Wales. His grandson, Cadwgan Dot, was father of Hova Dot or Dod, from whom the Edge and Broxton Dods claim lineal descent. The following are additional “counting-out” specimens:-- Orcum, Borcum, Boni, Corkum, Ericum, Bericum, bo-ni-bus. O.U.T. spells out. (_Chester._) One, two, Sky-blue; All in But you. (_Chester_, 1904.) MUSIC Although Cheshire cannot be described as a musical county, yet it has no reason to be ashamed of its past musical history. “Cheshire Rounds” was a celebrated tune and dance--sometimes danced by a couple (whose gyrations resembled the movements of the sun and moon) and sometimes by a single person. The only known portrait of Doggett (who founded the celebrated waterman’s badge) shows him dancing the “Cheshire Round.” Miss Stanley writes from Alderley Park-- _Sep. 8, 1798._ We had yesterday what is generally called a harvest home supper, but _here_ a “shutting.” Old Peter danced the Cheshire Round on the table after supper with Charlotte Alcock, one of the women. A play-bill of the time of William III. shows how popular the dance was then-- In Bartholomew Fair, at the Coach-house, on the pav’d stones at Hosier Lane end, you will see a Black that dances the _Cheshire Rounds_ to perfection. The Morris Dance has always been a favourite, especially in the Knutsford district, where it was danced to the following:-- [Music: Morris Dance is a very pretty tune, I can dance in my new shoon; My new shoon they are so good, I could dance it if I would. This is it, and that is it, And this is Morris dancing. My poor father broke his leg, And so it fell a chancing. ] Just over the border, in Lancashire, the version runs-- My new shoon, they are so good, I could dance Morris if I would; And if hat and sark be drest I will dance Morris with the rest. Three ballads were very popular, viz. “The Miller of the Dee,” “The Spanish Lady” (who is supposed to have fallen in love with the Cheshire knight Sir Uryan Leigh), and “The Cheshire Cheese.” CHURCHES The old parish account-books show that much more was spent on music in old times than in the present day, _e.g._ _Bunbury_:--