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NOTES AND QUERIES. p* s. XL JAN. a, iocs.

breeder of horses, and a member of an ancient Catholic race not much inclined to adopt such desperate remedies for his wrongs, to join the Gunpowder Plot for the removal of James I. When the plotters were discovered Rook wood was the last to fly. Proud of his great stud, he placed relays of horses on the road from London to Dun- church. He commenced his flight at 11 o'clock, and in two hours he rode thirty miles on a single horse, and made the whole distance of eighty-one miles in less than seven hours. But his flight was of no avail. He was cap- tured, tried, drawn on a hurdle, hung and disembowelled in Palace Yard, Westminster.

In connexion with the execution of Ambrose Rookwood, may it be recorded in 'N. & O.' that interesting discoveries have recently been made at the Tower of London of some inscriptions placed on the walls by persons confined there in past times'? In the work of repairing a defective window-opening in the St. Martin's Tower, according to the Daily Telegraph, a piece of deal framing had to be removed. Behind this was found the name of Ambrose Rookwood. It was finely carved, and the surname was divided "Rook- wood," indicating the nature of its deri- vation. It may be added that in * Old and New London,' vol. iii. p. 564, there is an illustration showing very fully indeed how the conspirators in the Gunpowder Plot were executed. HENEY GERALD HOPE.

119, Elms Road, Clapham, S.W.

[See also p. 9.]

'OLD ENGLISH SONGS AND DANCES.' (See 9 th S. x. 378.)' Cu-bit's Gardin ' is in ' The Scouring of the White Horse,' by Thomas Hughes. Here is the last verse literatim, as I have it in one of my MS. books : Zays I, " My stars and gar-ters !

This here s a pretty go, Vor a vine young mayd as never was

To sar' all man-kind zo." But the t'other young may-den looked sly at me,

And vrom her zeat she risn, Zays she, " Let thee and I go our own waay, And we '11 let she go shis'n."

'Willow, Willow, Willow,' is in Percy's 'Reliques,' book ii. No. 8 ('Ballads that illustrate Shakespeare'), two parts, contain- ing in all twenty-three stanzas. J. B.

In your review of ' Old English Songs and Dances ' your reviewer quotes from memory one stanza of ' Cupid's Garden,' and says he does not know where it is to be found. I send the four (your reviewer refers to only three) stanzas. He will find how very faith- ful his memory has been, as there are only

trifling verbal differences between the version sent and his recollection.

'Twas down in Cupid's garden for pleasure I did go,

To see the pretty flowers that in that garden grow;

The first it was the Jessamine, the Lily, Pink, and

They are the finest flowers that in that garden

grows. I 'd not been in Cupid's garden no more than half

an hour When I see'd two fine young maidens, a-sitting

in Cupid's bow'r, A-pulling of the Jessamine, the Lily, Pink, and

They are' the finest flowers that in that garden

grows. I fondly steps to one of them, and there to her I

SSiVS

"Be you engaged to ne'er a young man? Come

tell to me I prays."

"I bean't engaged to ne'er a man, I solemnly declare, I aims to be a maiden and still the laurel wear."

Says I, " My stars and garters, why here 's a pretty

For a fine young maid as ever was, to serve all

mankind so. Then t'other young maid looked sly at me, and trom

her seat she 's risen, Says she, " Let us go our own way, and we 11 let

she go shis'n."

From 'Songs of Four Nations,' edited by Harold Boulton, music arranged by Arthur Somervell (London, J. B. Cramer & Co., 1893). JOHN HUGHES.

SIR THOMAS BODLEY. The 'D.N.B.' states :

" His first attempt to enter into public life seems to have been unsuccessfully made in 1584, when he was recommended by Sir Francis Cobham for election to parliament as member for Hythe.'

Mr. G. Wilks, in his ' Barons of the Cinque Ports/ p. 62, gives a letter in full, dated 25 October, 1584, from Cobham Hall, signed W. Cobham, recommending Thomas Bodyly in the following terms :

" Wherein I would wishe that good consideration should be had of the man, who shalbe soe elected, for the partie whom I am willed to nominate, besydes the comendacion which is deliyvred unto me of him, I am persuaded that he is such a one as maie and will be readye to pleasure you and your towne, and of that credite as may staunde you in steade."

The election is recorded in the Assembly Book of Hythe :-

" Memorandum That the first daye of Novem- ber, 1584, M r Mayor, the Juratts and Comon'ty beinge assembled in the Town Hall there, to choose and appointe Burgesses to the Parliament to be holden the xxiij 1 ^ day of this instant of November at Westm', accordinge to the Sumons in that behalfe directed, as also accordinge to the eftect of a 1're sentt to the sayd Mayor, Juratts, and Comons from our Lord Warden in the behalfe of one M r Thomas Bodyly, whoe is ellected to be one of the said Burgesses and for the Election of ye