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 s. xii. JULY 24, i9io.] NOTES AND QUERIES.

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The dukes persist, and offer gold, silver, pearls, and

We will give you anything All for a pretty girl.

In the end the mother relents, or is bribed ; a lad and a lass are invited from the row and stand together, the rest making a ring round them. The boy and girl kiss, while all dance round them singing, " Now you are married, you must obey."

THOS. RATCLIFFE.

Southfield, Worksop.

Your correspondent is evidently thinking of the well-known singing game " Here we come gathering nuts in MajV which goes to the tune of the still better- known " Round the mulberry bush." Some children begin it at the second verse :

Here come three dukes a-riding, With a ransom tansom toby ;

and the dukes are told,

My daughter Jane she is too young To listen to your nattering tongue.

No doubt the words differ in different localities, but they usually describe quite impossible conditions, such as nuts in May, the mulberry bush, &c.

American children have a game in which they sing about " Lager wine," a quite unknown product. H. BROWN.

HISTORY OF ENGLAND WITH RIMING VERSES (11 S. iv. 168, 233, 278, 375, 418, 517 ; v. 34 ; x. 267, 393 ; xi. 306, 436). In the ' Encyclopaedia of Heraldry, or General Armory,' by John and John Bernard Burke, third edition, 1844, third page of sign, e, otherwise ninth page after p. xxvi, is a poem headed ' The Royal Ensigns deduced metri- cally from the Northmen, or Normans. . . .to the union with Scotia, or Scotland,' &c.

It is a mixture of heraldry and history. The first stanza is :

The Norman standard and the shield,

That Norman WILLIAM wore, Two golden leopards on a field,

Of royal ruby bore.

The last two of the thirty-six stanzas are : ,-:- :

Then shout, ye lieges great and brave,

From Dover to Dundee ; Oh may the union banner wave

O'er nations yet to be.

And where it waves may free born man

Pursue his righteous way, Extending o'er a world's wide span

The mind's unshackled sway.

The poem is signed " R. R.," and is said to have been " found in the bureau of an

Amateur Herald of some consideration in his own times."

R. R. appears to have been an uncom- promising Orangeman, as he writes of William III. :

At Limerick for faith renown'd, For mercy at Glencoe.

ROBERT PIERPOINT.

PRICE : ROBINS : BULKELEY : KIRKMAN (US. xii. 9). The branch of the Bulkeleys to which (Col.) Philip Bulkeley belonged was that of the Bulkeleys of Bulkeley, later known as the Bulkeleys of Stanlow, co. Stafford, which estate came into the family through the marriage of Ralph Bulkeley, ninth in descent from the founder of the family, Robert Bulkeley, Lord of the Manor of Bulkeley in the time of King John.

A very full pedigree of the family is recorded in Burke' s ' Landed Gentry,' ed. 1846, p. 46, Sup., to which I beg to refer your correspondent, as it would take up too much of your valuable space to record Philip's lineage in full in the pages of ' N. & Q.' If, however, this work is not available, and MR. LEONARD C. PRICE would like to have the whole of the direct line to Philip Bulkeley (and to Sir Richard, second baronet, for they were kinsmen), I should be pleased, on hearing from him to that effect, to copy it and send it to him.

The fourth in direct line from the above- named Robert was another Robert, who was of Eaton, and was Sheriff of Cheshire in 1309. He was the common ancestor of Sir Richard Bulkeley, second baronet concerning whom I have, through your courtesy, already supplied some informa- tion (see ante, p. 52), to which I might add that he has a place in ' D.N.B.,' vol. vii. p. 233 and of Philip Bulkeley, respecting whose identity your correspondent in- quires at the above reference. The latter was, through Robert's eldest son, Robert Bulkeley of Eaton, Sheriff of Cheshire 1341, fourteenth in direct descent from Robert, Sheriff of Cheshire 1309; whilst the former was, through Robert's second son, Richard, eighth in descent from the Sheriff of 1309.

Of Philip Bulkeley's great-great-grand- father, Arthur Bulkeley of Stanlow, who died 1614, it is stated that it was he who

" commenced a family diary containing the births, marriages, deaths, &c., of his family, and also a record of the other principal events in his family, which has been continued by every succeeding representative down to the present day' [.e., c. 1845].