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1840, the hatchments still remain excellent examples of the vigorous style of the fifteenth - century painters. Besides those
 * given at 12 S. ii. 28, there remain two more

of English prelates, which are illustrated in the second number of the Archives He- raldiques Suisses for 1916. That of John Langdon, Bishop of Rochester, d. Sept. 30, 1434, has the same arrangement as that of Bishop Thomas of Worcester, but has no inscription. His shield shows an anchor- <$ross and a border. The second is that of Robert Gallion, Prior of Tydd in the bishop- ric of Ely, chancellor of Bishop Robert Fitzhugh of London. His arms are Azure, a horseshoe silver, quartering silver, acock sable. I should be glad to know whether the horseshoe arms are those of the priory. Might I also repeat my question about the . identity of the " Abbot of York " ?

D. L. GALBREATH.

INDIAN MOUNDS, U.S.A. (12 S. iii. 90). . As to these, see the three books by Warren K. Moorehead :

" Port Ancient, the great prehistoric earth- work in Warren County, Ohio, compiled from

a careful survey, with an account of its Mounds and Graves, a topographical map, 35 full-page phototypes, and surveying notes in full " (1890).

" Primitive Man in Ohio " (Putnams, New York and London, 1892).

" The Stone Age in North America, an Arch- Ornaments, Weapons, Utensils, &c., of the Pre- historic Tribes of North America, with more than 300 full-page plates and 400 figures illustrating
 * seological Encyclopedia of the Implements,

over 4,000 different objects " (2 vols., Constable, 1911).

See also Squier and Davis' s ' Ancient Monuments of the Mississippi Valley ' (1847). It appears that the human remains found In these mounds indicate differences of race, and that the other objects discovered there indicate varying degrees of culture.

E. BRABROOK.

DERBY RAM (12 S. iii. 70). This legendary

~ -animal of gigantic proportions has been regarded as a quasi patron saint of Derby- shire for hard upon two hundred years, for a letter dated Nunsfield, Derby, June 10, 1739, from the Rev. Henry Cantrell (the

.first vicar of St. Alkmund's)to his son, winds up as follows : " And thus I conclude this

~t long story ; almost as long a tale as that of the Derby Ram."

The ram has been immortalized in a ballad

,of fifteen doggerel verses, originally published in a miscellany entitled ' Gimcrackiana,' by

,<me Richard,son at Derby in 1833. Mr. LI.

-Jewitt includes one version (for there are

several, varying more or less) in his ' Ballads and Songs of Derbyshire,' published by Bemrose in 1867. The same publishers brought out, in 1869, a clever illustrated edition by Priestman Atkinson, the drawings being by Alfred Wallis. The authorship of the epic is unknown, though it has been attributed to Dr. Darwin, the author of ' The Botanic Garden,' &c. (see 4 S. iv. 247). It would be too lengthy to reproduce in extenso unless desired. It commences :

As I was going to Darby All on a market day I met the finest ram, sir, That ever was fed on hay.

Daddle-i-day ; Daddle-i-day ;

Fal de ral ; Fal de ral ; Daddle-i-day ;

and some idea of the stupendous proportions of this mythical monster may be gleaned from the tragical episodes that followed its slaughter, as set out in verse 10 :

The butcher that killed this ram, sir,

Was drownded in his blood,

And the boy that held the pail, sir,

Was carried away in the flood.

Daddle-i-day, &c. The ballad was set to music by Calcott.

I am afraid I can throw no specific light on the inscription on the engraved coin referred to by F. P. B.

WlLLOTJGHBY MAYCOCK.

I am interested in the explanation of F. P. B.'s inquiry, as I have often wished to know what the " Derby Ram " song was that made Col. Newcome " laugh so that it did you good to hear him," at the Cave of Harmony, as I do not remember ever having seen any other mention of it, except a cartoon of Tenniel's in Punch some forty years ago of the then Lord Derby butting his head against a wall, called ' The Derby Ram ' so the artist knew about it.

T. E. R.

This is the title of a song well known in the middle of the last century, and generally supposed to be an old one. The subject and style of it may be gathered from the following quotation, which I give from memory : The butcher that killed this ram, sir, Was up to his knees in blood, And four-and-twenty houses Were washed away in the flood. I had never heard of the song being sung till, one day about 1873, 1 met a boy singing it for his own gratification in the street in Birmingham. He added a most appropriate refrain, which I have not seen in print, and which he sang in an undertone, apparently as a kind of saving clause, after each verse : Tiddy falleery, that's a lie ! That's a lie

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