iv. DEC. so, loos.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 537
heard an explanation of what the origin of the tale of the tailor and the goat may be.
Baines Family (10ᵗʰ S. iv. 69, 330).—John Baines, of Layham, in Suffolk, died in 1776. By his will, made in 1753, he leaves to his eldest son John 1s., he having been provided for already: and to his wife property in Layham, Boxford, Little Cornard, and Polding [sic], in Suffolk and Essex, for life, and at her death to his younger children not named. James Johnson, Bishop of Gloucester, his brother-in-law, and Sarah Johnson, his sister-in-law, are trustees should his wife die before the youngest child is twenty-four years old. His wife Elizabeth survived him, and proved his will as sole executrix; she was born in 1711.
A John Baines was born in or about Langham, in Essex, between 1703 and 1707; he was the son of William, the grandson of Robert, and the great-nephew of John Baines, all of Langham. By a will made in 1722 his great-uncle John left him property in Great Cornard, Little Cornard, Newton, Copdock, Belstead. and the manor of Heyses, in Suffolk, and 1,200l. in money, all at twenty-one years of age, and made him one of his executors. The same testator, who was for that time a very wealthy man, also left a mortgage on property in Polden and Colchester to another great-nephew.
I think there can be no reasonable doubt that the John Baines born at Langham about 1705 was the John Baines who died at Layham in 1776. I find that John Baines, of Melford, who was mixed up in the rector of Melford's lawsuits, died without issue, in 1729, having been a Fellow of Peterhouse since 1689; he also was an Essex man.
References: Brit. Mus. Davy's MSS. under Babergh and Cosford Hundreds, and pedigrees, Johnson of Melford. —Wills: Prerogative Court. John Baines of Melford, 328 Abbott. John Baines of Layham, 53 Bellas. John Baines of Langham, 3 Bolton. —Commissary of London for Essex and Herts. —Robert Bains of Langham, 392 Rickett. William Baines of Langham, 251 Backhouse.
Eliot Yorke (10ᵗʰ S. iv. 488).—I think that this will be found to have been the Hon. Eliot Yorke, son of the Earl of Hardwicke of c. 1850. Wm. H. Peet.
Dog Training (10ᵗʰ S. iv. 488).—I know not
what may be the custom nowadays, but in
former times the rôle of Toby in "the great
drama of Punch" was invariably sustained by a
male comedian. Cf.' The Old Curiosity Shop,'
chap, xvii., near the end: "' Here he is,'
said Jerry, producing a little terrier from his
pocket. 'He was once a Toby of yours,
warn't he?'" Mistigris.
Dogs in War (10ᵗʰ S. iv. 488).—An article
with the-title 'Dogs in War' appeared in The
Glasgow Herald of 4 November.
St. Ewart.
'Chevy Chase' (10ᵗʰ S. iv. 89, 155).—Judging
from Col. Prideaux's and Mr. E. Yardley's
replies, I gather that nothing more is
actually known about the date of "the more
modern ballad of Chevy Chase" than was
known to Percy when he published his 'Reliques
of Antique English Poetry' in 1765. In
the introduction to the original poem he
said:—
"Addison has given an excellent critique on this very popular ballad, but is mistaken with regard to the antiquity of the common received copy; for this, if one may judge from the style, cannot be older than the time of Elizabeth. I flatter myself I have here recovered the genuine antique poem, the true original song …… Whoever considers the style and orthography of this old poem will not be inclined to place it lower than the time of Hen. VI.: as, on the other hand, the mention of James, the Scottish King, with one or two anachronisms, forbids us to assign it an earlier date."
With regard to the "more modern ballad" Percy wrote:—
"When I call the present admired ballad modern I only mean that it is comparatively so: for that it could not be writ much later than the time of Queen Elizabeth, I think may be made appear; nor yet does it seem to be older than the beginning of the last [seventeenth] century …… That it could not be much later than that time, appears from the phrase, 'doleful dumps'; which in that age carried no ill sound with it, but to the next generation became ridiculous."
It would certainly appear doubtful if there were any substantial ground for Froude's assertion that the "doleful dumps" stanza "was composed in the eclipse of heart and taste, on the restoration of the Stuarts."
In the first line of the stanza at p. 155
"haste" is a misprint for "harte" (the ordinary spelling of the period).
Melchior Guy Dickens (10ᵗʰ S. iv. 469).—The spelling of this name should be Guydickens. I nave since found the date of his appointment as Ambassador to Russia—1749. He retired at his own request in 1755. He had been Envoy Extraordinary to Sweden in 1742 (Marquis townshend's MSS.).
