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" BAN<;O WAS HIS NAMK, O ! " In his 'The Spirit of the Downs' Mr. Arthur Beckett, in a chapter headed ' Songs of the South Downs,' quotes an old forfeit-song known as ' Bango,' which was sung at harvest suppers :

The miller's old dog

Lay on the mill floor,

And Bango was his name, O.

B A and X G O,

And Bango was his name, O.

Mr. Beckett tells us that the method of singing th's song was as follows :

" The leader would sing the verse, repeating the fourth line thrice, and, turning to his right- hand neighbour, would say ' B,' the next man would say ' A,' the third ' N,' the fourth ' G,' the fifth ' O,' whereupon the whole company roared out the chorus, ' And Bango was his name, O ! ' If one of the singers missed his proper letter, he had to drink an extra glass of beer !

Have you seen old Simon's wallet

Hanging on the wall, O ?

Budget, bottle, wallet, satchel,

Hanging on the wall, O !

Have you seen the beggar's wallet

Hanging on the nail, O ? Mutton, bacon, beef and pudden.

Hanging on the nail, O !

And so the song worked round the room. I have heard this old forfeit-song sung in the north of England to another tune ; the words were slightly different, and the miller's dog was known as ' Bingo.' "

Mr. Beckett might have referred his readers to ' Ingoldsby,' who in an introduc- tory notice to ' A Lay of St. Gengulphus ' sets out the following " primitive ballad " in burlesque black-letter :

A Franklyn's dogge leped over a style, And hys name was littel Byngo. B with a Y Y with an N, N with a G G with an O, They call'd hym littel Byngo I

Thys Franklyn, Syrs, he brewed goode ayle,

And he called it Rare goode Styngo !

S, T, Y, N, G, O !

He call'd it Bare goode Styngo !

Nowe is notte thys a prettie song ? I thinke it is, bye Jyngo ! .1 wythe a Y N, G, O I sweare yt is, bye Jyngo !

Can any of your readers tell me the origin of the song ? F. B. GALE.

" JOLLY BOBBINS/' What is the allu- sion ? I find the phrase in Tho. Lodge's 'Wits Miserie,' 1596, p. 18 :

" Paying him out the mony and receiuing his assurance, he casts lolly Robbins in his head how to cousin the simple fellow."

RICHAKD H. THORNTON.

DENE HOLES OK DANE HOLES, LITTLE THURROCK. Can any one give information as to these holes (visited by me last week), their origin and use ? A. B B.

[These holes were discussed in our pages in 1882-3. A correspondent quoted Virgil's descrip- tion of subterranean life in winter ('Georg.,' iii. 376 ff.). Mr. Elton's 'Origins of English His- tory ' and the Transactions of the Essex Arch. Society, vol. ii. pt. iii., were also referred to (6S. vi. 414). MR. JOHX MURRAY (ibid., p. 430) compared the dene holes with the cavities in the neighbourhood of Heims used as wine-cellars. In 6 S. vii. SIR J. A. PICTON raised the question as to the strata in which such cavities have been made, and ibid., p. 309, CANDIDUS expressed the opinion that it was a mistake to suppose that they were quarries for chalk ; and MR. NESBITT and other correspondents referred to The Archaeo- logical Journal, Nos. 152, 153, for an exposition by Mr. Spurrell of the theory that they are granaries or refuges.]

ADMIRAL LORD RODNEY. There seems some doubt as to the ancestry of Admiral Lord Rodney. Burke's 'Peerage' (1861 ed.) commences with Henry Rodney of Walton- on-Thames, the Admiral's father. Joseph Foster, however, makes Henry Rodney* "great-nephew of Sir Edward Rodney, knighted at the Charterhouse 11 May, 1603 (by Jane, dau. of Sir Henry Seymour, brother of the Protector, Edward, Duke of Somerset), descended from Sir Richard Rodney, knighted at Keynsham, 1316."

Other authorities question Foster's state- ments, and doubt the possibility of proving them. Has the subject been dealt with in any publication? P. D. M.

THE DUKEDOM OF CLEVELAND. In ' Cal- S.P. Dom.,' under date of 12 Oct., 1672, occurs the following :

" Grant of the remainder of the Dukedom of Cleveland to the Earl of Euston after the decease without heirs male of their bodies of the Earl of Southampton and Lord George Palmer."

The Earl of Euston was the second son of King Charles II. by Barbara Villiers, and the only one of her sons who was left out in the remaindership in the original patent of creation. Was this grant completed ? If so, upon the death, in 1774, of William Fitzroy, second Duke of Cleveland and Southampton, this dukedom should have passed to the Duke of Grafton.

W. D. PINK.

ST. PANCRAS. (See 11 S. ix. 191, 235, 312, 352.) MR. ABRAHAMS has probably overlooked my inquiry as to the present location of John Martin's MS. history. Will he please reply ? SOMERS TOWN.