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wards, and I venture to translate them for the sake of the illiterate lowlander. [Then follows the hash of Eglinton's rendering.] This is pretty, and should be sung, let me say, to the air of ' My faithful fond one' ( ' Mo run geal dileas ')."

Without calling in question Skelton's right to pronounce on the prettiness of lines which he claims as his own, I may point out that the music of ' Mo run ' cannot possibly be twisted to fit his version. Further, the "shieling" stanza in its altered form had appeared over and over again before 1889. Thus, in 1885, Mr. Chamberlain quoted it with great effect in his Inverness speech; in 1883 it occurs in R. L. Stevenson's 'Silverado Squatters '; and in 1881 in Dr. Cameron Lees's 'Stronbuy.' Dr. Donald Macleod, Glasgow, tells me that his brother, Dr. Nor- man Macleod, quoted the stanza at a public meeting in 1845. That was four years before it was reprinted in Tait, and hence it was then presumably quoted in its original form.

I wish to discover (a) the original Gaelic words, (b) the musical setting by Lord Eglinton, (c) the name of the person (if not Skelton) that spoilt the " shieling " stanza. P. J. ANDERSON.

University Library, Aberdeen.

This song or at least part of it appeared in Blackwoods Magazine for September, 1829, but I have not the magazine at hand to refer to, and cannot recollect if the song is given there as a translation or not. M. N. G.

RAWLINS-WHITE (9 th S. vii. 428). Rawlins White, a Cardiff fisherman, is said to have been burnt at that town for heresy in the reign of Queen Mary. The local records contain no allusion to the event, which, though quite possible, rests solely on the notoriously untrustworthy evidence of Foxe's ' Martyrology.'

JOHN HOBSON MATTHEWS.

Town Hall, Cardiff.

UNMARRIED LORD MAYORS (9 th S. vii. 428). Mr. Cokayne's statement, as given by E. C. at the above reference, is correct. Harl. MS. (Brit. Mus.) 1049, in referring to Sir John Leman, Lord Mayor of London 1616-17, informs us that " this Maior was the 2 d batchelor.^ The first was John Matthew, Mercer, Mayor 1490-1, of whom Stow states, "He lived and died a bachelor, and never was bachelor Mayor before." W. I. R. V.

DUTTON AND SEAMAN FAMILIES (9 th S. vii.

408). MR. FYNMORE may be glad to hear of an earlier Dutton Seaman, viz., " Dutton, son of Thomas Seaman, aturny in Bowe lane," christened at St. Mary Aldermary, London,

25 November, 1627. His mother was perhaps " Jenne Downes," who was married there in 1623 to John Disney and in 1625 to Thomas Seaman. (See Harl. Soc. PubL, Registers, vol. v. pp. 15, 79. 80.) This Dutton Seaman was probably identical with (1) "Dutton Seaman, son of Thomas S., of London, gent," admitted at Gray's Inn on 2 February, 1651/2, and with (2) Dutton Seaman, "of St. Mildred's, Poultry, gent., bachr., abt. 36," who in 1663 married Mary Sea, of St. Bennet Sherehog. London. She apparently survived him, ana was remarried in 1667 to Thomas Hall, of the Middle Temple. (See Harl. Soc. PubL, vol. xxiii. pp. 99, 140.) H. C.

JOHN STOW'S PORTRAIT, 1603 (9 th S. vii. 401). While congratulating MR. HENDRIKS on his good fortune in possessing a copy of this rare print, I should be glad to know if he is aware of the authority on which Dr. Dalton based his statement that an edition of Stow's ' Chronicle ' was published in small quarto in 1603. I cannot find any mention of this edition in Lowndes, Hazlitt, or any other bibliography that I possess. May not Dr. Dalton by a slip of the pen have confused the ' Chronicle ' with the * Survey '? In that case, Mr. Lee may possibly be right in saying that the engraving was prepared for the ' Survey,' 1603. It may not have been ready when the book issued from the press, and this would account for one of the known copies having been pasted on the back of the title of a copy of the * Survey,' and the other on the fly-leaf of another copy of the same work. An edition of Stow's * Annals ' was published in 1605, and one of ' The Sum- mary of English Chronicles' in 1604, but none of either work apparently in 1603.

W. F. PRIDEAUX.

OLD LONDON TAVERNS (9 th S. vii. 69, 154, 236, 354, 432). I have in my possession two copies (identical) of the small pamphlet " pre- sented by the D.D. Cellars, 49, Bishopsgate Street Without, London, E.G." Neither of them bears any date, but both are probably about twenty years old. I presume these are copies of the document to which MR. ANDREW OLIVER refers. If so, I am at a loss to find therein any allusion to "lines by Charles Dickens," or reference " to one of the early volumes of Chambers's Journal" The pam- phlet contains five pages of prose, * The His- tory of Dirty Dick : a Legend of Bishopsgate Without,' and three pages of poetry, "The Dirty Old Man (Dirty Dick) : a Legend of Bishopsgate. From Household Words (con- ducted t>y Charles Dickens)." 1 notice that nowhere in the letterpress is the exact locality