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NOTES AND QUERIES. [ii s.- vn. MAR. 29, 1913.

Such a method of determining a man's descent appears the exact reverse of logical, and I have not succeeded in establishing the fact from the examination of wills and parish registers.

The Warrens alias Waller of Ashwell Were certainly descended from a family similarly described, and long resident at Bassingbourne, co. Cambridge. At a sub- sequent period the alias was discontinued, and the name of Waller alone used, with the arms of Warren. Richard Warren alias Waller of Bassingbourne made his will in 1557 ; and in the Churchwardens' Accounts of that parish (1497-1534) I find several mentions of persons of the name of Waller, but none of the name of Warren. William Waller was churchwarden in 1525.

In the Parish Registers of Bassingbourne, dating from 1558, there are numerous entries relating to the family. The name " Waller " alone is frequent, but " Warren " alone is rare. Up to 1600 Warren alias Waller is common ; later, it becomes more rare, and is, perhaps, used chiefly in the case of old persons.

In the Registers of Ash well (transcripts), dating from 1615, Wallers and Warrens are numerous, but there is no instance of Warren alias Waller.

There appears, however, to have been no strict observance in this matter, for " Wil- iam Waller alias Warren of Bassingbourne, yeoman," in his will, dated 1635, signs " William Waller," and refers to his children by the name of " Waller " only. Yet in the proof of the will his widow is described as " Marcie Waller alias Warren."

The funeral certificate (Heralds' College) of " Henry Waller of Ash well, gentleman " (" citizen and draper of London," according to his will), who died "at his house in Watling strete " on 27 Oct., 1631, is signed by his brother " Edward Warren alias Waller."

If your correspondent will communicate with me direct, I will lend him such notes as I have relating to the family.

P. D. MUNDY.

49, Selborne Road, Hove.

CRECY (11 S. vii. 190). See ' Crecy and Calais, from the Public Records,' by the late Major-General the Hon. George Wrottes- ley, which forms pt. ii. of vol. xviii. (1898) of the publications of the William Salt Archaeological Society, and is admirably illustrated and indexed.

S. A. GRUNDY-NEWMAN, F.S.A.Scot.

A LETTER, OF SCOTT'S : " MUTALE " (11 S. vii. 145). The quotation referred to Would seem to be from the Jacobite song ' What Murrain now has ta'en the Whigs ? ' which will be found in Hogg's ' Jacobite Relics of Scotland,' i. 146 (Edinburgh, William Black- wood, 1819). The first stanza, as given there, runs :

What murrain now has ta'en the Whigs?

I think they 've all gone mad, sir By dancing one-and-forty jigs,

Our dancing may be bad, sir.

Hogg in his notes says : " This is a popular ballad, to an old original air ; but neither have ever been published." Very possibly, if " mutale " should read muckle, as sug- gested by your correspondent, Scott was quoting from a variant.

In ' The Jacobite Songs and Ballads of Scotland, from 1688 to 1746,' edited by Dr. Charles Mackay (London, Richard Griffin & Co., 1861), the first line is given as

O what 's the matter wi' the Whigs.

Hogg says : " There must have been some great original collection of Jacobite songs, from which others copied what suited or pleased them." I think it is more likely that there were various versions, according to the taste, or memory, of those who sang them. T. F. D.

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