that the testator was a native of Lincolnshire. It also appears
that the proceedings in Chancery were instituted previously to June, 1623;
and, inasmuch as Sir George Buck's will is recited in those proceedings, he
must have died before they were commenced, and not in September, 1623, as I
once supposed. It may, perhaps, aid Mr. Corser's researches to know that
the will (which is not to be found at Doctors' Commons) mentions, besides
the brother Robert, a sister, Cecilia Buck, who had a son, Stephen, who had
a son, George Buck, whom his great uncle, Sir George, made ultimate heir to
his lands in Lincolnshire.

CECIL MONRO.

Registrars' Office, Court of Chancery.

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"A FROG HE WOULD A-WOOING GO."

Your SEXAGENARIAN who dates from "Shooter's Hill," has _not_ hit the mark
when he suggests that Anna Bouleyn's marriage with Henry VIII. (in the
teeth of the Church) is the hidden mystery of the popular old song,--

"Sir Frog he would a-wooing go,
Whether his mother was willing or no."

That some courtship in the history of the British monarchy, leaving a deep
impression on the public mind, gave rise to this generally diffused ballad,
is exceedingly probable; but the style and wording of the song are
evidently of a period much later than the age of Henry VIII. Might not the
madcap adventure of Prince Charles with Buckingham into Spain, to _woo the
Infanta_, be its real origin? "Heigho! for Antony Rowley" is the chorus.
Now "Old Rowley" was a pet name for Charles the Second, as any reader of
the Waverley Novels must recollect. No event was more likely to be talked
about and sung about at the time, the adventurous nature of the trip being
peculiarly adapted to the ballad-monger.

FRANCIS MAHONY.

_"A Frog he would a-wooing go"_ (Vol. ii., p. 45.)--Your correspondent
T. S. D. is certainly right in his notion that the ballad of "A frog he
would a-wooing go" is very old, however fanciful may be his conjecture
about its personal or political application to Henry VIII. and Anne Boleyn.
That it could not refer to "the Cavaliers and the Roundheads," another of
T. S. D.'s notions, is clear from the fact, that it was entered at
Stationers' Hall in November, 1581; as appears by the quotation made by Mr.
Payne Collier, in his second volume of _Extracts_, printed for the
Shakspeare Society last year. It runs thus:--

"Edward White. Lycensed unto him, &c., theis iiij. ballads followin