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iv. DEC. so, loos.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 537 heard an explanation of what the origin of the tale of the tailor and the goat may be. L. L. K.

(10ᵗʰ S. iv. 69, 330).—John Baines, of Layham, in Suffolk, died in 1776. By his will, made in 1753, he leaves to his eldest son John 1s., he having been provided for already: and to his wife property in Layham, Boxford, Little Cornard, and Polding [sic], in Suffolk and Essex, for life, and at her death to his younger children not named. James Johnson, Bishop of Gloucester, his brother-in-law, and Sarah Johnson, his sister-in-law, are trustees should his wife die before the youngest child is twenty-four years old. His wife Elizabeth survived him, and proved his will as sole executrix; she was born in 1711.

A John Baines was born in or about Langham, in Essex, between 1703 and 1707; he was the son of William, the grandson of Robert, and the great-nephew of John Baines, all of Langham. By a will made in 1722 his great-uncle John left him property in Great Cornard, Little Cornard, Newton, Copdock, Belstead. and the manor of Heyses, in Suffolk, and 1,200l. in money, all at twenty-one years of age, and made him one of his executors. The same testator, who was for that time a very wealthy man, also left a mortgage on property in Polden and Colchester to another great-nephew.

I think there can be no reasonable doubt that the John Baines born at Langham about 1705 was the John Baines who died at Layham in 1776. I find that John Baines, of Melford, who was mixed up in the rector of Melford's lawsuits, died without issue, in 1729, having been a Fellow of Peterhouse since 1689; he also was an Essex man.

References: Brit. Mus. Davy's MSS. under Babergh and Cosford Hundreds, and pedigrees, Johnson of Melford. —Wills: Prerogative Court. John Baines of Melford, 328 Abbott. John Baines of Layham, 53 Bellas. John Baines of Langham, 3 Bolton. —Commissary of London for Essex and Herts. —Robert Bains of Langham, 392 Rickett. William Baines of Langham, 251 Backhouse.

(10ᵗʰ S. iv. 488).—I think that this will be found to have been the Hon. Eliot Yorke, son of the Earl of Hardwicke of c. 1850.

(10ᵗʰ S. iv. 488).—I know not what may be the custom nowadays, but in former times the rôle of Toby in "the great drama of Punch" was invariably sustained by a male comedian. Cf.' The Old Curiosity Shop,' chap, xvii., near the end: Here he is,' said Jerry, producing a little terrier from his pocket. 'He was once a Toby of yours, warn't he?

(10ᵗʰ S. iv. 488).—An article with the-title 'Dogs in War' appeared in The Glasgow Herald of 4 November.

(10ᵗʰ S. iv. 89, 155).—Judging from 's and 's replies, I gather that nothing more is actually known about the date of "the more modern ballad of Chevy Chase" than was known to Percy when he published his 'Reliques of Antique English Poetry' in 1765. In the introduction to the original poem he said:—

With regard to the "more modern ballad" Percy wrote:—

It would certainly appear doubtful if there were any substantial ground for Froude's assertion that the "doleful dumps" stanza "was composed in the eclipse of heart and taste, on the restoration of the Stuarts."

In the first line of the stanza at p. 155 "haste" is a misprint for "harte" (the ordinary spelling of the period).

(10ᵗʰ S. iv. 469).—The spelling of this name should be Guydickens. I nave since found the date of his appointment as Ambassador to Russia—1749. He retired at his own request in 1755. He had been Envoy Extraordinary to Sweden in 1742 (Marquis townshend's MSS.).