NOTES AND QUERIES: A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, GENEALOGISTS, ETC. * * * * * "When found, make a note of."--CAPTAIN CUTTLE. * * * * * No. 47.] SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1850 [Price Threepence. Stamped Edition 4d. * * * * * CONTENTS. NOTES:-- Old Songs. 257 "Junius Identified." by J. Taylor. 258 Folk Lore:--Spiders a Cure for Ague--Funeral Superstition--Folk Lore Rhymes. 259 On a Passage in the Tempest, by S.W. Singer. 259 Punishment of Death of Burning. 260 Note on Morganatic Marriages. 261 Minor Notes:--Alderman Beckford--Frozen Horn--Inscription translated--Parallel Passages--Note on George Herbert's Poems--"Crede quod habes"--Grant to Earl of Sussex--First Woman formed from a Rib--Beau Brummell's Ancestry. 262 QUERIES:-- Gray's Elegy and Dodsley's Poems. 264 Hugh Holland and his Works, by E.F. Rimbault, L.L.D. 265 Harvey and the Circulation of the Blood. 266 Minor Queries:--Bernardus Patricius--Meaning of Hanger--Cat and Bagpipes--Andrew Becket--Laurence Minot--Modena Family--Bamboozle--Butcher's Blue Dress--Hatchment and Atchievement--"Te colui Virtutem"--"Illa suavissima Vita"--Christianity, Early Influence of--Meaning of Wraxen--Saint, Legend of a--Land Holland--Farewell--Stepony Ale--"Regis ad Exemplar"--La Caronacquerie--Rev. T. Tailer--Mistletoe as a Christmas Evergreen--Poor Robin's Almanacks--Sirloin--Thompson of Esholt. 266 REPLIES:-- Replies to Minor Queries:--Pension--Execution of Charles I.--Paper Hangings--Black-guard--Pilgrims' Road--Combs buried with the Dead--AÎrostation--St. Thomas of Lancaster--Smoke Money--Robert Herrich--Guildhalls--AbbÈ Strickland--Long Conkin--Havock--Becket's Mother--Watching the Sepulchre--Portraits of Charles I.--Joachim, the French Ambassador. 269 MISCELLANEOUS:-- Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, &c. 271 Books and Odd Volumes Wanted. 271 Notices to Correspondents. 271 Advertisements. 272 * * * * * NOTES. OLD SONGS. I heard, "in other days," a father singing a comic old song to one of his children, who was sitting on his knee. This was in Yorkshire: and yet it could hardly be a Yorkshire song, as the scene was laid in another county. It commenced with-- "Randle O'Shay has sold his mare For nineteen groats at Warrin'ton fair," and goes on to show how the simpleton was cheated out of his money. I find in Hasted's _History of Kent_ (vol. i. p. 468., 2nd edit.) mention made of the family of Shaw, who held the manor of Eltham, &c., and who "derive themselves from the county palatine of Chester." It is further stated that _Randal de Shaw_, his son, was settled at Haslington Hall in that county.