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 NOTES AND QUERIES. [9* s. XL JAN. 3, im

The songs were published in folio, price Is signed by Dibdin (and in one or two case "0. A. D." is stamped on p. 4), on a sheet o four pages, the front being blank, excep where noted. In the majority of cases ther are arrangements for two flutes on p. 4 Headings of songs are similar to No. 2, un less otherwise indicated.
 * 1. Castles in the Air.

2. Nappy, written and composed by Mr. Dibdin and sung by him in his new Entertainment calle< Castles in the Air. London. Printed and Sold b the Author, at his Music Warehouse, No. 41 Strand, opposite the Adelphi.

3. The Tear of Sensibility.

4. No Good without an Exception. 6. Tack and Half Tack.

6. Taffy and the Birds. Title on front page.

7. The Village Wedding. Title on front page.

8. The Token.

Of this still popular song there are many arrangements, of which the best is that made for Mr. Santley by Dr. E. F. Kimbault (Chappell).

9. The Soldier's Funeral. (Afterwards in 'The Melange.')

10. The Whistling Ploughman.

11. The Merry Archers.

12. Tom Tackle. Title on front page.

13. The Watchman.

14 The Power of Music. 10 pages, front and back blank, price 2s. 6d.

15. Jack's Fidelity.

16. The Hare Hunt. Title on front paee

17. Father and Mother and Suke

18. The Jolly Ringers.

19. The Auctioneer. (Afterwards in 'Maecenas the Second.')

The only copy I have seen was published at Leicester Place.


 * 20. Finale : The Trial.

These formed the original programme of songs, in the order, as advertised. The fol- lowing also appear to have been used : 1792 1 ' ThePleasuresof the Camp. See The Quizes,'

Hogarth assigns the song to this entertain- I have not traced the music.

22. British Bounty or Beauty's Donation.

I have seen Leicester Place issues of 12 17 and 19, and of 8, 11, and 15 by G. Walker,' from original plates.

K Ki 93 ~ 4 'u ?!, le ? tion of Son s - Third volume pro- bably published during this winter. See 1790 cm.

E. EIMBAULT DIBDIN

Mornmgside, Sudworth Road, New Brighton. ' (To be continued.)

TENNYSON'S 'LORD OF BURLEIGH'

9i? V 00 ^ 61 "' 1902 ' the Allowing appeared m the Yorkshire Telegraph and Star,Lv! evidently been taken from some other paper

" The romantic marriage of the Lord of Burleigh and the village maiden, immortalized by Tennyson, took place on this day in 1791. The lady, Miss Hoggins, was doubtless a Shropshire farmer's daughter ; but the bridegroom was no painter, and not yet Lord of Burleigh. He was a Mr. Cecil, nephew and heir-presumptive of the Earl of Exeter. He was then aged 37, and had just divorced his wife. The wedding was celebrated before no vil- lage altar s but in the church of St. Mildred, in Bread Street, E.G. The husband succeeded to the earldom and estates two years afterwards. The poet is more accurate in his later details ; for the Countess did bear her husband three children, and died five years after her marriage. Three years later the Earl was made a marquis, and married a divorced Duchess of Hamilton ; and he died in 1804."

Now Miss Meteyard, who was a doctor's daughter living in Shrewsbury, has recorded many incidents of her early life in her story ' The Doctor's Little Daughter,' and on p. 413 of that book relates how she and her father one day

"set off for the distant parish church, some long while before the time for service, and opening a little side door in the narrow humble edifice, with

a key he had brought [he] entered with reverence.

Bidding Alice stand by the mouldering rails of the altar, he went into a sort of little crypt or vestry, and, bringing out from thence a small square cushion covered with a faded green baize, laid it down upon warm sun, slanting through the old oriel far above, threw on this mouldering cushion's faded green- less new greenness from the palms borne in the lands, a strip of purple from the robes, a breadth >f scarlet from the hanging scarfs, of various iaints and angels painted there, who, kneeling, jeemed to say good prayers to heaven. The father ^ook the child's small hand, and thus they stood ogether, in a ray of golden light, which slanted downward from the great saint's halo. ' Though all o faded and so worn, so dusty, Alice, 3 spoke the ather, gently, 'on this knelt many years ago, perhaps ligh fifty now, a yeoman's daughter of the village lere ; and by her knelt a middle-aged and plain- Iressed man, who, though of courtly manners, was not known for other than a wandering artist by the eoman's daughter, who, kneeling here upon this ery cushion, became his wife. He had first seen er at her spinning-wheel, beside her father's rustic arm house door, and, admiring her looks of good- less and beauty and modesty, courted her from hat same day, and, with her parents' full consent, .ere married her, she in all love and trust taking im for what he seemed, a plain and humble gentle- nan. Some few days after being married here, hey travelled together across England, as she bought, to his humble home in Lincolnshire. But ne evening, after several days' journey, the old pst-chaise which bore them passed through mag- ificent park gates, up the noble avenue of the ark itself, till, stopping and alighting before a oble portico lined with liveried servants, she, all rendering and trembling, was led by this poor ainter through the gorgeous hall, rich in heraldry nd sweeping banners, and the rarest sculpture of mmortal Greece, till, in a room still more mag- ificent, he clasped her to his heart, and said, "I m the Earl of Burleigh, and you his wife," and
 * he old worn altar-stone. The rich rays of the glad