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NOTES AND QUERIES. [io> s. i. FEB. 27, im

"PAPERS " (9 th S. xii. 387 ; 10 th S. i. 18, 53, 111). In a deposition taken 15 June, 1768, at Nassau, Bahama Islands, occurs the fol- lowing :

" He ordered the sloop's colours to be struck, saying to this deponent, that they must be taken, and if she is a Guai da Costa, she would carry them into port, where, upon producing their papers, they

should certainly be cleared That thereupon the

Spanish Captain asked Capt. Nott, whether the papers of the snow would not answer for their purpose ; to which Capt. Nott replied that a snow's papers would not do for a brigantine." Boston Chronicle, 8-15 August, 1768, i. 322, 323.

In a letter written from Halifax, Nova Scotia, occurs the following :

"Capt. Andrew Bryson, of the Ship Betsy, ar- rived in this Place last Week from Bristol, which Place he left the 18th of July, as appears by the Papers lodged in the Custom House." Boston Gazette, 16 October, 1769, p. 2, col. 2.

ALBERT MATTHEWS. Boston, U.S.

PANNELL (9 th S. xii. 248, 475). For several months in 1899 the Rev. A. Pidgepn Pannell was one of the curates of the parish church here. He was subsequently appointed to the living of Bulmer, Suffolk, which he still holds.

in 1869 Mr. 0. Pannell, of Walton Lodge, Torquay, was elected a life member of the Devonshire Association. His name appears in the list of members at the address named until 1883, and without address until 1902, when it disappears, though there is no reference to him in the obituary for the year. Is he living ? and if so, where ?

In Mr. R. C. Hope's l List of English Bell- founders ' (Arch. Journal, 1. 150-75) are to be found the following names : Pannell, Charles & Co., 1820-5 ; Pannell, William, 1820-6 ; Pan- nell, William & Charles ; Pannell, William & Son, 1820-44.

There is evidence that a family of this name existed years ago in the parish of Coombe-in-Teignhead, Devon.

T. CANN HUGHES, M.A., F.S.A. Lancaster.

AYLSHAM CLOTH (10 th S. i. 4). I was pleased to see W. C. B.'s note on the above. During the reigns of Edward II. and Edward III Aylsham was the chief town in that part of the kingdom for linen manufacture, whence it was denominated in records "Aylsham webs, " cloth of Aylsham," &c. : but in suc- ceeding reigns this branch of business was superseded by the woollen manufacture, and m the time of James I. the inhabitants were rincipally employed in knitting worsted

Jckings, breeches, and waistcoat pieces CHAS. F. FORSHAW, LL.D.

Baltimore House, Bradford.

ROBIN A BOBBIN (9 th S. xii. 503 ; 10 th S. i. 32). It may be worth while to put on record a complete version of this " nomony," as it was current in the West Riding of Yorkshire some twenty years ago (and may be still). I have heard it in the same form from many singers, and the "verses" given below were considered complete. I do not remember any case in which it was continued by im- promptu additions. Each verse consisted of the first line repeated with four different endings, as in the fiqgt verse. It will be seen that the second character is slightly different, and the third entirely different, from those given by MR. RATCLIFFE as known in Derby- shire.

1. Let's go to the greenwood, said Robin a Bobbin ; Let 's go to the greenwood, said Richard a Robin ; Let's go to the greenwood, said Hullybaloo ; And let 's go to the greenwood, said every one.

2. What to do there ? said Robin a Bobbin.

3. To catch a green linnet, said Robin a Bobbin.

4. What to do with it? said Robin a Robbin.

5. To sell to the queen, said Robin a Bobbin.

6. How much for it ? said Robin a Bobbin.

7. Sixpence for it, said Robin a Bobbin.

8. What t' do wi' the sixpence? said Robin a

Bobbin.

9. Buy some terbacker, said Robin a Bobbin.

At this practical suggestion the singing ended, and tobacco usually received atten- tion. I think it would be interesting if variants of this version (traditional, not impromptu) could be gathered into ' N. & Q.'

H. SNOWDEN WARD. Hadlow, Kent.

The words and music of this song are given in full in both Mr. A. W. Moore's 'Manx Ballads ' and the late Deemster Gill's work on Manx melodies. F. G.

ROBERT CATESBY (10 th S. i. 86). The baptism of a son of his is thus recorded in the old register of Chastleton : " Robert Catesbie, son of Catesbie, was baptised the llth day of November, 1595."

"Of the fate of this boy nothing is known with certainty, except that he was in London with his father at the time of the discovery of the Plot in 1605. "- 1 N. & Q.,' 6 th S. xii. 364.

The 'Dictionary of National Biography' says that Robert Catesby's son Robert married a daughter of Thomas Percy, and that of his subsequent history nothing is known. EVERARD HOME COLEMAN.

71, Brecknock Road.

CHRISTMASTIDE FOLK-LORE (9 th S. xii. 505). William Sandys, F.S.A., in his ' Christmas- tide : its History, Festivities, and Carols,'