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 ie* s. iv. AUG. 19.1905.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 155 justify the view that either he or his father was at any time connected with Patney in Wiltshire. It is tolerably certain that the father's home was at Wainfleet, in Lincoln- shire. In a deed of 1497 the father was described as Richard Patyn, otherwise called Barbpur, of Waynflete. See Dr. Macray's 'Register of Magdalen College,' N.S., vol. ii. p. ix. My excuse for writing again on this subject is that Mr. A. R. BAYLEY, in his interesting article on 'Magdalen College School,' ante, p. 21, states, apparently in reliance upon Mr. Leach's earlier work, that Waynflete was " a full Wykehamist probably by education." I have no desire to dogmatize upon the point, bat upon the evidence, as it at present stands, the probability seems to me to lean all the other way. H. C. WELLINGTON'S BADGE : WATIER'S, 1814 (10th S. iv. 68).—It is probable that many of these Watier souvenirs of the Peace fetes of 1814 are in existence, and perhaps no two of them precisely alike. Miss WINN'S badge differs materially from one that I have just seen, which is in the form of a floreated crown of laurel and fleur-de-lis in centre, the circlet below being composed of a pearl,emerald, ame- thyst, chrysoprase, and emerald, thus spelling "Peace." It has a Maltese cross pendant with turquoise in centre, and on the reverse of the brooch is engraved " Watier's, July, 1814." This jewel, which is of gold, belonged to and was worn by Miss Knight (of Barrels, Warwickshire, and 44, Grosvenor Square) at the fete in question, and bequeathed by her to her niece, Miss Catherine Bolton King, who showed it to me. In her journal of that year Miss Knight records, under date 1 July, 1814, " Went to Watier's Masquerade, most beautiful; got home at 7." There is also another brooch, exactly like the one described, belonging to Miss Shirley, daughter of the late Evelyn Shirley, of Ettington, the only difference being that it has the day of the month, and has two very fine small chains attached. FRANCIS KING. PREROGATIVE COURT OF CANTERBURY WILL REGISTERS (10th S. iii. 488; iv. 95).—The proper and only style of the above Court is, the Prerogative Court of the Archbishop of Canterbury. S. M. AMERICAN PLACE-NAMES (10th S. iii. 188,276, 333).—ENQUIRER will find twelve verses, be- ginning, " Sweet maiden of Passamaquoddy," on pp. 169-71 of William T. Dobson's 'Lite- rary Frivolities,' &c. (London, Chatto & Windus, 1880). They are entitled ' Lines to Miss Florence Huntingdon (Passamaquoddy, Maine),' and appear with others under head- ing ' Nonsense Verses.' As to ' The American Traveller,' by R. S. Newell ("Office Seeker"), that set of somewhat similar verse is often met with, and appears, for instance, in William T. Dobson's companion volume, ' Poetical Ingenuities,' &c. (London, Chatto & Windus, 1882, p. 132, &c.); also in ' Humorous Poems,' selected and edited by W. M. Rossetti (London, no date, pp. 481-3). The Passama- quoddy lines in Dobson's book dfl'er some- what from those given in ' N. & Q.' E. WILSON DOBBS. Toorak, Victoria, Australia. 'CHEVY CHASE' (10th S. iv. 89).—That this ballad, in the form given by Percy, is not older than the time of Elizabeth, may per- haps be granted, but that an ancient ballad on the subject was in existence is shown_ by Sidney's words in his ' Apologie for Poetrie ': " I never heard the olde song of Percy and Duglas that I found not my heart mooved more then with a trumpet." The ^earliest form of the ballad is given by Prof. Skeat in his ' Specimens of English Literature, 1394- 1579,' ed. 1880, p. 67, from the Ashmolean MS. 48, in the Bodleian Library. In this copy the stanza quoted by MR. CAVE runs as follows :— For Wetharryngton my haste was wo, that ever he slayne shulde be ; For when both his leggis wear hewyne in to yet he knyled and fought on his kny. This copy is subscribed "Expliceth, quod Rychard Sheale," but there are no grounds for supposing that Sheale, who seems to have been a " wandering minstrel" in the middle of the sixteenth century, was more than a copyist. Under the title of ' The Hunttis of Chevet' the ballad is mentioned among the " sangis of natural music of the antiquite," sung by the shepherds in ' The Complaynt of Scotland,' a book assigned to 1549. Further information will be found in the late Prof. Child's 'English and Scottish Popular Bal- lads,' iii. 303-15. The " modern " ballad was probably evolved by a process of gradual impairment in'the mouths of the peripatetic singers, until it was crystallized by the Restoration printers of broadsides. W. F. PRIDEAUX. In No. 70 of The Spectator, which is written by Addison, is the following : — " The old Song of ' Chevy Chace' is the Favourite Ballad of the common People of England, and Ben Jonson used to say he had rather have been the Author of it than of all his Works, bir tfulip Sidney in his Discourse of Poetry speaks of it in the following Words: 'I never heard the old Sung of