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 9* s. viii. NOV. 23, 1901.] NOTES AND QUERIES.

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Scottish Popular Ballads,' part iii. p. 1. The version used by Kingsley in ' Westward Ho ! ' resembles one given in Chappell's * Christmas Carols,' edited by Dr. E. F. Rimbault, p. 22, which is said to be traditional in Somerset- shire. From a few trifling variations, we may presume that Kingsley himself took down the words from oral recitation in that county or in North Devon. It forms only the latter half of the original carol.

An incomplete version of the carol will be found in 'N. & Q.,' 4 th S. xii. 461, which was taken from the mouth of a wandering gipsy girl in Berkshire ; and there is a fragment from Worcestershire in 4 th S. iii. 75. A copy of the carol in the Guardian, 27 December, 1871, is partly com- piled "from several ancient sources," and partly composed by the contributor (see 4 th S. ix. 117 : x. 73). Other common versions will be found in Hone's 4 Ancient Mysteries,' p. 90 : Sandys's ' Christmas Carols,' p. 123 ; and Sylvester, 'A Garland of Christmas Carols,' p. 45. W. F. PRIDEAUX.

Kingsley may have taken this carol from Hone's * Ancient Mysteries,' 1823, pp. 90-93. A full text and comment thereon are to be found in Bullen's 'Carols and Poems,' 1886, pp. 29-32, and notes 252, 253.

W. G. BOSWELL-STONE. [Answers also from G. E. W. and others.]

SHAKESPEARE QUERIES (9 th S. vii. 388, 494 ; viii. 86, 148, 294, 347). I believe that Shake- speare does not fail us. In * Much Ado aoout Nothing,' V. iii, Claudio, standing by the family tomb of Leonato, reads " out of a scroll " :

Done to death by slanderous tongues Was the Hero that here lies :

Death, in guerdon of her wrongs, Gives her fame which never dies.

So the life that died with shame

Lives in death with glorious fame.

Hang thou there upon the tomb,

Praising her when 1 am dumb.

ST. SWITHIN.

SIR ISAAC PENNINGTON, LORD MAYOR OF LONDON, 1643 (9 th S. viii. 263). Citizen and fishmonger of London ; alderman of Bridge Out Ward from 29 January, 1638/9, till dis- charged 23 October, 1657 ; Sheriff in 1638-9 ; Lord Mayor 16 August to October, 1642, and 1642-3; M.P. for London, April-May, 1640, November, 1640, to 1653, and May, 1659, till February, 1660. He was eldest son of Robert Pennington, citizen and fishmonger (who died 18 April, 1628), by his wife Judith, daughter of Isaac Shatterden, of London ; and was forty years old at his father's death.

From the beginning of the Civil War he took a most decided stand on behalf of the Parliament. In December, 1640, he presented the citizens' petition to the House against the discipline and ceremonies of the National Church. Upon the deposition of Sir Richard Gurney from the mayoralty in August, 1642, for publishing the king's Commission of Array, Alderman Pennington was appointed to the " trust and charge of Lord Mayor," and was re-elected in the following year by the citizens. He took the National Covenant 1 November, 1643, and in the same year was nominated by the House Lieutenant of the Tower, holding that office until displaced by the Self-denying Ordinance 26 April, 1645. He served on most of the important Stand- ing Committees, including Goldsmiths' Hall Committee for Compounding, 8 November, 1643 ; New Model, 5 February, 1645 ; Bucks County Committee, 27 June, 1646 ; Plundered Ministers, 15 May, 1646 ; for Adjudging Scandalous Offences, 3 June, 1646 ; London Militia, 2 April, 1647. He was also on the Committee of Justice against the king, 23 December, 1648, and one of the Commis- sioners in the Ordinance for the king's trial, 29 December, 1648. He was present on all four days of the trial, and also at sentence, but did not sign the warrant for execution. He was one of the aldermen who proclaimed in the City the abolition of kingship and the House of Peers, 7 March, 1649 ; subscribed to the Engagement in February, 1649, and was one of the Committee for taking the Engagement by all, 9 November, 1649 ; on the Committee in the Act for religious toleration, 29 June, 1649, and on that for suppressing blasphemies, 24 June, 1651.

He was knighted by the Speaker of the House of Commons by order of the House in June, 1649, a dignity, of course, not allowed after the Restoration ; suffered severe reverse of fortune in 1655, and was prosecuted for debt, but was relieved by protection. He returned with the "Rump" in May, 1659, but left the House in February, 1660, upon the readmission of the " secluded " members.

Displaced from all offices at the Restora- tion, he was committed to custody 15 June, 1660, excepted out of the Act of Pardon and O.blivion, tried as a regicide on 16 October, condemned and sentenced to death, but his life was spared. His estates were, however, confiscated, and he died a prisoner in the Tower 17 December, 1661. On 19 December his body was delivered to his friends for burial.

Alderman Pennington was twice married, and left four sons and four daughters. Full