8: but it may be the same as that in
the _Annual Register_.

BRAYBROOKE

April 27.

_Journeyman_ (No. 19. p. 309.).--"GOMER" may like to know that the old
labourers in North Essex still speak of a day's ploughing as a "_journey
at plough_."

BRAYBROOKE.

_Sydenham or Tidenham._--I have no doubt as to Sydenham, included in the
inquiry respecting Cromwell's Estates (No. 24. p. 389.), being
_Tidenham_; for this manor, the property of the Marquis of Worcester,
was possessed by Cromwell; and, among my title deeds connected with this
parish, I have Court Rolls _in Cromwell's name_ both for _Tidenham_
itself and for _Beachley_, a mesne manor within it.

These manors, which were inherited from the Herberts by the Somersets,
were taken out of the former Marches by the statute 27 Hen. VIII. cap.
26. Sec. 13., and annexed, together with _Woolaston_, similarly
circumstanced, to the country of Gloucester and to the hundred of
Westbury; of which hundred, in a legal sense, they still continue a
part.

GEO. ORMEROD.

Sedbury Park, Chepstow, April 18. 1850.

_J.B.'s Treatise on Nature and Art_ (No. 25. p. 401.).--The book to
which your correspondent "M." refers, is, I believe, "_The Mysteries of
Nature and Art, in Foure severall Parts: The First of Water Works,--the
Second of Fire Works, &c., &c. By John Bate_."

I have the second edition, 1635; to which is prefixed a rude engraving
of the author:--"Vera effigies Johannis Bate, memoria manet, modo
permaneant studium et industria."

HERMES.

"_A Frog he would a-wooing go_."--In answer to the inquiry of "B.G.J."
(in No. 25, p. 401.), as to the origin of "'Heigh ho!' says Rowley," I
do not think it is older that thirty of thirty-five years, when Liston
sang an altered version of the very old song,--

"A frog, he would a-wooing ride,
With sword and buckler by his side,"

and instead of the usual chorus[5], inserted

"Heigho, says Rowley,"

as burthen. Liston's song was published by Goulding and Co., Soho
Square, entitled "The Love-sick Frog," with an original air by C.E.H.,
Esq. (_qy._ Charles Edward Horn?), and an accompaniment by Thomas Cook.
The first verse is as follows:--

"A frog he would a-wooing go;
'Heigh ho!' says Rowley;
Whether his mother would let him or no,
With a rowly, powly,
Gammon and spinach,
'Heigh!' and Anthony Rowley,"

R.S.S.

April 23. 1850.

[Footnote 5: In my interleaved copy of Halliwell's _Nurse