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 iis. XIL OCT. so, 1915.] NOTES AND QUERIES.

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SONGS WANTED : * JOHN BROWN ' (11 S. xii. 301). The words of the song ' John Brown,' of Harper's Ferry fame, were published in all the penny song sheets in the late sixties. The music was originally published in this country by Messrs. Hopwood & Crew.

Apropos of this song I may mention that Julia Ward (Mrs. Howe), who died a few years ago at the advanced age of 91 /wrote her historical ' Battle Hymn of the Repub- lic ' in 1861, designed for the same tune as tors assert that they " didn't fit," personally I think they do. The ' Battle Hymn ' was reprinted hi The Times of 5 October, and one or two interesting letters ensued respect- ing it.
 * John Brown,' and, though some commenta-

There was another song entitled * John Brown ' much also in vogue in the " sixties," commencing :

I Ve a guinea I can spend, I've a wife and I 've a friend,

And a troop of little children at my knee,

John Brown. T3ut that is another story.

WlLLOUGHBY MAYCOCK.

Newton's ' Capt. John Brown of Harper's Ferry,' published by Fisher Unwin (1902), gives the words and music of the song. W. J. WALKER.

[C. C. B. mentions that the song is in 'War Songs and Songs and Ballads of Martial Life," edited by John Macleay. "Canterbury Poets Series."]

MRS. SAMUEL FOOTE (11 S. xii. 260, 307). Whatever the foundation for it, 'The Georgian Era,' London, 1834, vol. iv. 359-63, is circumstantial as to Foote's marriage. It speaks of

" his union in 1741 with a lady at Worcester, but

his conduct as a husband was anything but

affectionate. It was not long after their marriage that the necessities of Foote caused him to be arrested, and confined in the Fleet Prison. [Then follows an anecdote occurring on his wife's presence there with him.] Foote, who in disposition differed from his wife, proposed a separation from her one time, and they were accordingly parted for a

few months they were eventually brought

together again."

There is no mention of the wife in the sub- sequent part of the memoir. W. B. H.

JOHN DE WARREN, EARL BAUDAKE, OF

SURREY AND SUSSEX (11 S. xii. 301).

Through the kindness of a correspondent who has communicated with me directly, I learn, to my shame, that the query at the above reference was occasioned by my having read across the contents of two

columns in Hennessy's ' Repertorium ' in- stead of taking them separately. Baudake is no part of the name of the patron who presented Richard de Radeford and his four predecessors to the Rectory of St. Martin, Outwich, but the authority for the presenta- tion. It stands for the register of Ralph de Baldock or Baudake, Bishop of London from 1304 or 1305 to 1313, the earliest bishop whose registers are extant. I am sorry to have wasted valuable space in ' N. & Q.' and the time of readers who may have t raced , and, if so be, gibbeted my blunder.

JOHN R. MAG RATH. Queen's College, Oxford.

PEARS AND NETTLES (11 S. xii. 301). Nettles or any other green stuff, if laid down thick enough, will heat in the same way as haystacks do. It is quite likely that such heat would hasten the ripening cf rears.

J. T. F.

Durham.

THE SITE OF THE GLOBE (US. xi. 447; xii. 10, 50, 70, 121, 143, 161, 201, 224, 264, 289). Your correspondent L. L. K. draws attention to the fact that there is a difference of opinion between Dr. Wallace and myself in respect to the position of the land sold by Sir Mathew Brand to Hillarie Mempris in 1626.

Dr. Wallace considers that this land was on the south side of Maiden Lane. Very probably Dr. Wallace has more information than I, and if so he may be perfectly right in his opinion ; but, judging from the wording of the deed of transfer and bearing in mind the locus in quo, it seems to me that the land in question was on the north side of Maiden Lane.

L. L. K. considers that to prove my case it would be necessary to place Mempris's land on the east side of the land leased by Nicholas Brand to Burbage and others, and moreover be necessary to stop Maiden Lane short of Mempris's western boundary, to make room for the Bishop's Park which formed the southern boundary of his land.

These are two distinct points raised by L. L. K., but neither seems to me to be a valid objection to the northern location of Mempris's land. There appears to be no ne- cessity for placing Mempris's land on the east side of the land leased to Burbage by Nicholas Brand, for it was quite possible, and I think that it was quite probable, that Burbage's leasehold land which lay to the south of the alley or way (Globe Alley) dividing his land into two parts formed part and parcel of the land sold by Sir Matthew