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posed the verses. He and Adam Scott, " the Pecket," were arrested as ringleaders in the murder, tried in Edinburgh, and sentenced to have their right hands struck off and thereafter to be hanged ; which doom they suffered on Nov. 14, 1601 (Pitcairn's 1 Criminal Trials,' ii. 505).

The other song of the same name was composed by Sir Alexander Bos well of Auchinleck (1775-1822), and published in Edinburgh anonymously in 1808 with others of his songs. It was entitled ' The Old Chieftain to his Sons,' and may be found, set to the old music, in the ' Songs of Scot- land,' by G. F. Graham (Edinburgh, Wood & Co., n.d.).

Despite the doleful association of both these songs, William Stenhouse (1773-18L7) observed that " this beautiful tune has, time out of mind, been played at the breaking up of convivial parties in Scot- land." HEBBEKT MAXWELL.

Monreith.

This is the first line of the song ' The Old Chieftain to his Sons ' by Sir Alex- ander Boswell of Auchinleck. See ' The Poetical Works of Sir Alexander Bos- well,' collected and edited by Robert Howie Smith (Glasgow, Maurice Ogle & Co., 1871), p. 33. It is also given in Chambers' s ' Scottish Songs,' i. 80 (Edinburgh, William Tait, 1829). In the latter work it is stated that it is sung to the tune " Gude -night, and joy be wi' you a'." Sir Alexander was the son of " Bozzy," and was born in 1775. He was created a baronet in 1821, and killed in a duel with James Stuart of Dunearn, March, 1822.

T. F. D.

The words will be found in the old Border song ' Armstrong's Good-night.' James Hogg, the Ettrick Shepherd, borrowed them for his song ' Good-night and Joy.'

C. L. S.

MEDALS : INNOCENT X. AND GEORGE II. (12 S. iv. 216). No. 2 is Jernegan's Lottery Medal. It is described on p. 517 in vol. ii. of Hawkins, Franks, and Grueber's ' Medallic Illustrations of the History of Great Britain and Ireland.' The figure on the obverse is there said to be Minerva. The T. in the exergue stands for the engraver, John Sigismund Tanner.

" Henry Jcrnegan, the fourth son of Sir Francis Jernegan (or Jerningham) of Cossey [Costessey], in Norfolk, was a goldsmith and banker in Bussell Street, Covent Garden. He made a curious

silver cistern, which was disposed of by lottery in the year 1737, and of which there is a fine engraving by Vertue. The prige of a ticket wa& either five or six shillings, and the purchaser of each share received into the bargain one of the above silver medals, valued at about three shillings. The medal induced many people to buy shares, and in consequence about 30,000 were struck."

A statement of Vertue is added (from Add. MS. Brit. Mus. 23,079, 19 b) that the Queen encouraged his lottery, " and as he had employed Gr,avelot to draw him the cistern to be engraved, he was the inventor of the conceit of the Queen on the medal, and drew the design for the engraving of the die." Vertue is mistaken in saying that the engraver was Crocker. The authors of the ' Medallic Illustrations ' say that Weyl in his Catalogue mistook the medal for a- coin of the province of Carolina.

EDWARD BENSLY.

[MB. ALECK ABRAHAMS also refers to Jernegan's Lottery.]

DEAN JOHN LEWIS or OSSORY (12 S. iv. 190). Dean Lewis was the son of John Lewis of London. His mother, whose Christian name was Alice, subsequently became the wife of Dr. John Nicoll, Head Master of Westminster School. Young Lewis was admitted to the same school in 1725, became a King's Scholar there in 1730, and was elected to Ch. Ch., Oxford, in 1734. He graduated B.A. 1738, and M.A. in 1741. He held the living of Dartford in Kent from 1746 to 1755, and became Dean of Osspry May 24, 1755. He married first Catherine, daughter of the Rev. George Villiers, Vicar of Chalgrove, Oxfordshire, and secondly Charlotte, daughter of Admiral CotterelL He died June 28, 1783. G. F. R. B.

SAXTON'S -MAP OF LANCASHIRE (12 S. iv. 218). The first of Saxton's maps was done in 1577, and published in 1579. The one engraved by Hole was issued in 1607 in the sixth edition of Camden's c Bri- tannia.' See a valuable paper by W. Harrison in vol. xxv. of the Lanes, and Ches; Antiq. Soc. R. STEWART-BROWN.

Bromborough.

Being away from my books and notes, I can consult only the ' D.N.B.' Christopher Saxton's maps in his 'Atlas' were begun about 1574 and completed in 1579, but William Hole did not engrave any of these. COL. CHIPPIND ALL'S map is apseudo-Saxton which Hole engraved for Camden's 'Bri- tannia,' published in 1607. L. L. K. ,