handes and custodie to pay unto the said Inigo Jones the said allowaunce of fortie sixe poundes pr ann for the rent of his sayd house, in such manner as other allowaunces and enterteyts of that office are usually paid, the first payemt to begin from the ffeast of the Annunciacon of the blessed Vergine Mary last past before the date hereof and to continue during his naturall life. And theise or res shalbe sufficient warrt and discharge aswell to the said Payemaster of or workes for the due payet of the sayd some of fortie sixe poundes pr ann as to the Auditors of or Imprests and all other or officers whom it may concern, for giving allowaunce thereof from tyme to tyme upon his Accomptes. Given under or signet at or pallace of Westminster the third day of Aprill [1629] in the fifth yeare of or Raigne." Jones's annual receipts from the Crown were, nearly as I conceive, as follows:

I have been thus minute to set aside in future (if possible) the statements of Walpole and his followers. "His fee as surveyor," says Walpole, "was eight shillings and four pence per day, with an allowance of forty-six pounds a year for house rent, besides a clerk and incidental expenses. What greater rewards he had are not upon record. Considering the havoc made in offices and repositories during the war, one is glad of being able to recover the smallest notices." This is copied by

1 Anecdotes by Dallaway, ii., 341.

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Mr. Cunningham into his life of Inigo Jones;' but Jones's annual allowance is still more inaccurately stated in Mr. Collier's excellent Annals of the Stage. "I may here add,” he says, "on the authority of Harl. MS. No. 1857, the annual allowance for the office of Surveyor of the Works, the situation at this time held by Inigo Jones. It is given in the following form:

Mr. Collier meant to refer, I presume, to Harl. MS. 4257 (not 1857) where Inigo's income as surveyor stands as follows :

The Harl. MS. 1848 (fol. 21 b.) gives the riding Expences of the Surveyor in 1593 at four shillings a day, and the Boathire at the same rate.

Srveyor

THE WORKES.

Fee at 20. pr diem-One Clerk 64. per diem-Expences when he rideth at 4o. per diem. Boate hire at 48. pr diem

In 1610, the salary of Simon Basyl was as follows (Harl. MS., 1857, fol. 18):

I purpose printing in the second volume of these Papers (should the Society continue to think my communications of sufficient interest to warrant their insertion) several curious extracts from an account now before me of the "6 Charges incurred in building a Banquetting House at Whitehall and erecting a new Pier in the Isle of Portland for the conveyance of stone from thence to Whitehall." Inigo Jones's Banqueting House at Whitehall has other interesting features (invisible though they be) than the breadth and harmonious proportions of its architecture: as the court playhouse upon great occasions, it is inseparably allied with the history of our early theatres, with Lowen and with Taylor, with the masques of Jonson and the plays of Shakespeare, Fletcher, Massinger, and Shirley.

P. CUNNINGHAM.

ART. XXIV.-On the word "Ducdame," in As You Like it.

The notes of the commentators on this word, which occurs in a song in “As You Like It," are by no means satisfactory. Mr. Collier judiciously omits the accent Ducdàme, for, it being necessarily a trisyllable, owing to the construction of the verse, if any accent were required, we ought to print Ducdamé. The mere fact of the word being a trisyllable shows at once the inconsistency of attempting to establish a connexion with the old country song, commencing,

"Dame, what makes your ducks to die?"

on which Whiter and Farmer have so elaborately written, and which Mr. Knight pronounces much more rational than Hanmer's conjecture of duc ad me, which is forced and unnecessary, I admit, but not quite so absurd as to suppose Jaques was using some country call of a woman to her ducks. Mr. Collier seems correct when he says that Jaques's declaration of its being "a Greek invocation to call fools into a circle " is merely a jeer upon the ignorance of Amiens. In other words, Amiens understood as little about Ducdame as Mr. Knight and the commentators, and the answer of Jaques is playful, not a serious exposition of the word.

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I have recently met with a passage in an uncollated MS. of the "Vision of Piers Ploughman," in the Bodleian Library, which goes far to prove that Ducdamé is a burden of an old song, an explanation which exactly agrees with its position in the song of Jaques. The passage is as follows:

"Thanne sete ther some,

And sunge at the ale,

And helpen to erye that half akre

With Dusadam-me-me."

MS. Rawl. Poet. 137, f. 6.

To show that this is evidently intended for the burden of a song, we need only compare it with the corresponding passage in the printed edition :—

"And thanne seten somme,

And songen atte nale,

And holpen ere this half acre

With How, trolly lolly.”

Piers Ploughman, ed. Wright, p. 124.

Making allowances for the two centuries which elapsed between the appearance of "Piers Ploughman" and "As You Like It,” is there too great a difference between Dusadam-meme and Duc-da-me to warrant my belief that the latter is a legitimate descendant of the more ancient refrain ? At all events, it must be borne in mind that the commentators have not produced any old word equally near it in their dissertations on its meaning.

This word may also possibly be intended by Dmee! dmee! dmee! in Armin's Nest of Ninnies, (Shakespeare Society's reprint,) p. 32. Mr. Collier, however, thinks it "most likely an abbreviation of Dear me."

J. O. HALLIWELL.