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NOTES AND QUERIES, no s. VIL JAN. 19, 1907:

sung at Hawkstone was not printed with the words, I feel sure that the hon. secretary of the Folk-Song Society, Miss Lucy Broad- wood, 84, Carlisle Mansions, Victoria Street, Westminster, would be very glad to obtain a transcript of it. W. PERCY MERRICK.

In ' The Horkey,' a ballad by Robert Bloomfield containing a mine of Suffolk provincialisms, occurs in the description of the harvest party at Farmer Cheerum's the following stanza :

John sung ' Old Ben bow,' loud and strong.

And I, ' The Constant Swain ' ; " Cheer up, my lads," was Simon's song,

"We'll conquer them again." This may be the song mentioned by MR. SOUTHAM. Admiral Benbow died from the effect of his amputated leg at Kingston, in Jamaica, in 1702. Capts. Kirkby and Wade were shot on board the Bristol at Plymouth in 1703 for cowardice.

JOHN PICKFORD, M.A. Newbourne Rectory, Woodbridge.

BLAKE'S SONGS : AN EARLY PRIVATE REPRINT (10 S. vi. 421, 473, 511). The copy of Blake's ' Songs of Innocence and of Ex- perience ' which Messrs. Methuen will reproduce in their forthcoming issue is the one lately in the possession of Lord Crewe, which was sold in 1903 for 300Z. This is, presumably, the copy described by MR. SAMPSON in his invaluable edition of Blake's poems, as follows :

"54 plates, each printed on a separate leaf. Foliated by Blake 1-54. Dated watermark 1818. Plates printed in brown. Delicately coloured, with wide wash borders."

A collation of it is given in Table III. of the Bibliographical Preface of the above men- tioned work, pp. 82-3.

The ' Songs ' in Messrs. Methuen's edition will form the second volume of ' William Blake ' under Mr. Laurence Binyon's editor- ship. The first volume, published last November, contained * The Illustrations of the Book of Job,' prefaced by a study of Blake, the man, the artist, and the poet.

S. BlJTTERWORTH.

GAMELSHIEL CASTLE, HADDINGTONSHIRE (10 S. vii. 8). Of this tower, which pro- bably was a strength of the Hepburns, nothing remains but the shattered east end of the keep, with walls 4 ft. 6 in. thick. M'Gibbon and Ross (' Castellated and Domestic Architecture,' vol. iii.) refer it tentatively to the sixteenth century, and it is one of an innumerable series of border peles which stand, or stood, in the valley of the Tweed. MR. GEMMELL should consult

the indices to the"! ' Rotuli Scotiae ' and' ' Inquisitiones,' sources of much direct information as to former owners of lands and houses in Scotland.

HERBERT MAXWELL.

BACCHANALS OR BAG-O'-NAILS (10 S. vi. 427, 490). Though not of much importance, a slight error in replies given may be men- tioned. " The Bag of Nails " at Loughton,. in Essex, has ceased to exist as an inn, liaving been converted into a grocery store and post-office some years ago.

I. CHALKLEY GOULD.

DONCASTER : IMAGE OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN (10 S. vii. 9). The image of the B.V.M. at Doncaster was an object of much veneration in Yorkshire. Thus William Ecopp, rector of Heslerton, by his will, 1472, desires a pilgrimage to be made " Beatse Mariae de Doncastre " (' Test. Ebor.,' iii. 201) ; and in 1507 Dame Catherine Hastings bequeaths " to our Lady of Don- castre my tawny chamlett gown " (iv. 257). The image was probably in the chapel of Our Lady at the bridge-end (Hunter, ' South Yorkshire,' i. 19), where there was a cross with niches for three images. In 1518 a York tradesman required his wife to make a pilgrimage to " the roode of Dancastre at the brigge ende " (' Test. Ebor.,' iv. 202).

Curious accounts of the burning of such figures at Smithfield, Chelsea, and elsewhere are in Wriothesley's ' Chronicle,' i. 74-5, 80, and in Crakanthorp's ' Defensio Ecclesise Anglicanse,' ed. 1847, p. 591 ; but that from Doncaster is not mentioned. W. C. B.

See ' Letters and Papers Henry VIII.,' vol. xiii. i. 1054, 1177 ; ii. 860, 1280 (f. 5b). The image in question stood in the Carmelite- Church at Doncaster, and was removed by the Archbishop before 17 Nov., 1538. If it was removed to London, it was possibly burnt at Smithfield, as Latimer suggested it should be. Henry VIII., before his zeal for Protestantism had awakened, had kept a candle perpetually burning before Our Lady of Doncaster.

JOHN B. WAINE WRIGHT.

One cannot answer as to the burning, but the first entry in the volume of Kenyon MSS., issued by the Historical Manuscripts Commission about 1904-5 deals with a reputed miracle at Doncaster, under date 15 July, 1524, and gives " testimony by William Nicolson and others to a miracle worked upon them by which they escaped drowning " : " All the company. . . .did call and cry to Allmighti God and to our-