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NOTES AND QUERIES, --fiis.lv. NOV. 18,1911.

sweeping stakes what harm will Miss Clara come to by your having the use of her siller?" Mowbray expected to "bag" 10,OOOZ. at play, if only he could get 500Z. to stake in the gamble.

ALEX. W ARRACK. Oxford.

HISTORY OF ENGLAXD WITH RIMING VERSES (US. iv. 168, 233, 278, 375). May I say under this heading that the riming verses mentioned by me at 9 S. x. 330, and concerning which a correspondent inquired at 10 S. x. 228, were, I have every reason to believe, written by my aunt, the late Mrs, Everard Healey, in the fifties or early sixties ? Although I know the whole of our kings and queens from William I. to Victoria were included in the verses, I have so far been unable to find any complete manuscript or to come across any one who could remember more than I printed at 9 S. x. 330.

I have, however, recently turned up a manuscript of the lines commencing The Romans in England long did sway. It appears to have been copied by my late mother, as it bears her maiden name and is dated 26 January, 1850. It finishes thus May our present Victoria long rule us in love, And the young Prince of Wales be bless' d from

above.

The ' History of England in Verse,' by A. Rossendale, mentioned by MR. ALECK ABRAHAMS at the last reference, was the work of the Rev. Albany Rossendale Lloyd, who in some of his publications used his second Christian name as a surname. I believe its price was sixpence.

To the numerous references already given may be added 7 S. iv. 66.

JOHX T. PAGE.

As a schoolboy in the early sixties I remember lines which have not been quoted. As far as memory serves me they com- menced :

The Britons of old were the lords of the land. But bowed for five ages to Roman command ; Then conquering Saxons the people enthralled, And formed seven kingdoms, the Heptarchy call' d ; But these seven kingdoms were soon overthrown By Egbert,*who reigned over England alone, &c.

J. E. LATTOX PICKERING. Inner Temple Library.

Probably the latest of these lucubrations is a song, the words and music of which are composed by one John J. Cauchois (author of 'Our Presidents,' 1789 to 1910). It was published in the United States last year, under the title of ' Sovereigns of

England, 1066 to 1910,' and dedicated to " The United Kingdom of Great Britain in memory of King Edward the Seventh." I will confine myself to quoting the last verse (there are three) and refrain : Next in line was Charles the Second, joyful for his

own ; James the Second followed him, he fled and lost

the throne. After him King William Third, Prince Soldier of

renown, Mary Second, next Queen Anne, then George First

wore the Crown. George the Second, George the Third, who lived

to good old age ; George the Fourth, then William Fourth, we add:

to hist'ry's page. Queen Victoria next in turn, King Edward'

Seventh, son George the Fifth succeeded him, his reign now"

just begun.

God save our glorious land ; with love \ve cling To our traditions old : " God save our King.'*

WrLLO'ITG-HBY MAYCOCK.

A school - book, Bartle's ' History,' in use many years ago, had at the beginning a condensed history in rime, which began : In 55 and 54 ere Jesus' birth Came Caesar o'er.

At Hythe or Deal on Cantuar's coast First lands the mighty Roman host. 'Twas then the standard-bearer cried When dashing in the surging tide, " Come, fellow-soldiers, follow me, Or the standard falls to th' enemy."

W. BRADBROOK.

THACKERAY: WRAY (US. iv. 283, 333). The generic similarity of the names Thackwray and Dockwray is noticed by Dr. Barber in his ' British Family Names ' (1894), p. 208. He ascribes Dockray and Dockwra to a local name in Cumberland. It is singular, however, that he makes no mention of the family name Dacre. But in the preface (p. ix) of S. Baring-Gould's 'Family Names and their Story' (1910) we read :

" The Dacres no doubt in some cases derive from a crusading ancestor who won distinction at Acre ; but in most instances take their name from a village near Penrith so called ; and a Ranulph de Dacre, co. Cumberland, who figures in the ' Placita quo waranto ' in the reign of Edward I., certainly was designated after this village."

In Surtees Society's vol. xcvi. occur the following f forms Dokweray, Dokwraa, Dokray. In Flower's ' Visitation of York- shire ' Dokeraa appears. If the name that was originally Dacre or D'Acre has been corrupted into these forms, may not Thack- wray also be one of the varieties ? In point