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- Title: Notes and Queries, Number 47, September 21, 1850
- Author : Various Authors
- Release Date : January 01, 2012
- Genre: Study Aids,Books,Reference,
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This is a notes book. I heard, 'in other days', a father singing a comic old song to one of his children, who was sitting on his knee. This was in Yorkshire: and yet it could hardly be a Yorkshire song, as the scene was laid in another county. I find in Hasted's History of Kent (vol. i. , 2nd edit. ) mention made of the family of Shaw, who held the manor of Eltham, &c. , and who "derive themselves from the county palatine of Chester'. It is further stated that Randal de Shaw, his son, was settled at Haslington Hall in that county. All, indeed, that this proves is, the probability of the hero of the song being also a native of Cheshire, or one of the adjacent counties; and that the legend is a truth, even as to names as well as general facts. The song is worthy of recovery and preservation, as a remnant of English character and manners; and I have only referred to Hasted to point out the probable district in which it will be found.