Boucher was then claiming to be recuperated for his losses as a Royalist, he having been deprived of his all by his ejection from America during the War of Independence, because he stoutly adhered to the maintenance of the old relations with the mother country. He therein states that his wife was a member of

the family from which the great Addison had sprung, and it appears that she derived her claim through the Whitehaven branch, a scion of which had emigrated to Maryland, where she was born, and where Boucher, then Minister of Saint Anne's, Annapolis, met with her.

The biographers of Addison have ascribed his political success to his literary performances; but without undervaluing their excellence, it may be stated that his father owed his exalted position as Dean of Lichfield to the favour of Sir Joseph Williamson, whose father was minister of Bridekirk, within half-adozen miles of Low Wood Nook, the parent seat of the Addisons. Sir Joseph was a member of a powerful coterie, and his associates were no doubt disposed to look favourably on the brilliant son of his old protégé. The probability that Sir Joseph was his sponsor has been conjectured from the identity of their Christian names.

The same authorities tell us that Tickell's introduction to Addison arose through his laudatory ode on the opera of

Rosamond," but it is more probable that their previous acquaintance led to the ode being written, for Tickell's father, Richard, was a successor of Williamson in the vicarage of Bridekirk, and naturally came within the same sphere of local relationship. The Tickells, too, at the commencement of last century, had members of their family engaged in business in Whitehaven, and Joseph of that name, sometimes called "Armiger," and at others "Generosus," was a benefactor to the library of St. Bees School, concerning which something of interest might be said at present it must suffice, as falling within our range, to state that in 1737 he presented to that institution "The Works of Addison, in four volumes quarto, edited by Thomas Tickell," published in 1721-a presentation copy which would have sent Dibdin into raptures, for the interest of such a possession, coming through such a channel, would, to a book

lover, far more than counterbalance the beauty of type of the Baskerville edition, concerning which he raves so Bibliomanically. It was to this, the editio princeps of the great Essayist, that Tickell prefixed the "Ode on his Death," which has been so highly praised by Johnson, Goldsmith, and Macaulay, and so unmercifully criticised by Steele and others of a later date. That Whitehaven was at once literary in its tastes at that time, and possessed a special interest in the essayists of the Tatler, Spectator, &c., is evidenced by the fact of an edition of Steele's "Christian Hero" having issued from its press.

Ill blood arose between Tickell and Steele on account of Addison's appointment of the former to be his under-secretary, both when he went to Ireland, under the Earl of Sunderland, and when he became Secretary of State for England in 1717. So far as I have ascertained, the only existing trace of the Addisons at Whitehaven (Low Wood Nook has long changed owners) is to be found in the name of "Addison's Alley," which, I apprehend, is just so much more than there is of the Tickells, of that line, in the district wherein they were both once so well known.

VIII.

Anderson's Cumberland Ballads.

Reprinted from the "Carlisle Journal," August 7th, 1874.

HE Dialect Society is about to publish a bibliographical list of English dialect books, arranged according to their respective counties. All Cum

brians, who take any interest in the subject, will be desirous that the honourable position their county has hitherto maintained by the number and quality of its dialect productions, should not suffer in comparison with other counties through any omission in the catalogue. I append a list of all the editions of Anderson which I have seen or heard of, and shall be glad to be supplied by any of your readers with full details of the edition of 1809 and 1823, or of any others, and there are others that have not come before me. This list, imperfect though it may be, sufficiently indicates how highly the poet's successful delineations of manners and character have been, and continue to be, appreciated by those best qualified to judge; and I doubt whether any county in England can show a circulation of any local author equal to this of Anderson, having due regard to the proportionate population.

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Ballads, in the Cumberland Dialect," by Robert Anderson; with Notes and a Glossary. Sm. 8vo. Carlisle W. Hodgson, 1805. Dedication and Preface viii., Poems, Notes, and Glossary, 174 pp. (This is the first collection, but many pieces had been published in newspapers and current in broadsheets long previously.)

"Ballads, in the Cumberland Dialect," chiefly by R. Anderson,

with Notes and a Glossary; the Remainder by various Authors, several of which have been never before published. 12mo. Wigton printed by R. Hetherton, 1808. Dedication and contents vi., Poems, Notes, and Glossary, 258 pp. Engraved frontispiece, tail pieces by Bewick.

Another edition, 12mo., 1809.

"Anderson's Popular Songs," selected from his Works, calculated to enliven the Mind and exhilarate the Spirits in difficult Times. 32mo. Wigton printed by R. Hetherton. 1811. Contents ii., Original Songs, 75 pp.

"Ballads, in the Cumberland Dialect," chiefly by R. Anderson, with Notes and a Glossary; the Remainder by various Authors, several of which have been never before published. Second edition. 12mo. Wigton printed by E. Rook, 1815. Dedication and contents vi., Poems, Notes, and Glossary, 258 pp. Engraved frontispiece, tail pieces by Bewick. (Differs in no respect from edition of 1805, except imprint on title.)

"The Poetical Works of Robert Anderson," Author of "Cumberland Ballads," &c., to which is prefixed the Life of the Author, written by himself; an Essay on the Character, Manners, and Customs of the Peasantry of Cumberland; and Observations on the Style and Genius of the Author, by Thomas Sanderson. Two vols. 12mo. Carlisle B. Scott, 1820. Vol. i., Dedication, Address, Letter, Memoir, and Essay, lxi., Poems and Notes, 223 pp.; Vol. ii., Contents vi., Poems, Notes, and Subscribers' names, 278 pp.

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Ballads, in the Cumberland Dialect," by Robert Anderson, and others; with Notes and Remarks on the Manners and Customs of the Cumberland Peasantry; to which is added "The Borrowdale Letter." Sm. 12mo. Carlisle : Printed for John Jollie, 1823. 84 pp.

Another edition, 18mo. Wigton: 1823. 158 pp.

"Ballads, in the Cumberland Dialect," by R. Anderson, with Notes and a Glossary; and an Essay on the Manners and Customs of the Cumberland Peasantry, by Thomas Sanderson. Sm. 12mo. Carlisle Printed for H. K. Snowdin, 1828.

Contents iv., Poems, Notes, and Glossary, 166 pp. Elegant Vignette, "Tib and her Measter," by Lizars.

"Ballads, in the Cumberland Dialect," by R. Anderson, with Notes, a Glossary, and a Biographical Sketch of the Author. 24mo. Wigton: Printed and sold by John Ismay, 1834. Contents and Biographical Sketch xiv., Ballads, Notes, and Glossary, 222 pp. (Frontispiece, " King Roger," engraved from a painting by G. Sheffield.)

"Anderson's Cumberland Ballads," carefully compiled from the Author's MS., containing above one hundred pieces never before published, with a Memoir of his Life, written by himself, Notes, Glossary, &c., to which is added several other songs in the Cumberland Dialect, by various authors. 8vo. double columns. Wigton Printed and sold by William Robertson. London: G. Routledge and Co., Farringdon Street. Preston: J. Harkness. Carlisle C. Thurnam and Sons, T. W. Arthur, J. I. Lonsdale, and all booksellers. Preface, Life and Contents x., Poems, Notes, and Glossary, 138 pp. [Frontispiece same as editions of 1808 and 1815. Some, probably later issued, copies have simply, Wigton: printed and sold by William Robertson, and all booksellers.]

"Ballads in the Cumberland Dialect," by Robert Anderson, with Notes descriptive of the Manners and Customs of the Cumberland Peasantry; a Glossary of Local Words; and a Life of the Author, 24m0. Alnwick Printed by W. Davison. Contents and Life xvi., Ballads, Notes, and Glossary, 224 pp. [Frontispiece, "The Codbeck Wedding." This edition was stereotyped, and the types being subsequently sold to T. W. Arthur, Carlisle, he re-issued it substituting his own name. A large portion of the stock in sheets was purchased by Crosthwaite and Co., Whitehaven, who in like manner placed their name on the title, and is now being sold by their successors, Pagen and Gill, of the same place.]

"Ballads in the Cumberland Dialect," by Robert Anderson; with Notes descriptive of the Manners and Customs of the Cumberland Peasantry; a Glossary of Local Words, and a Life of the Author. 18mo. Carlisle B. Stewart, 1864. Contents and Life, xvi. ; Poems, Notes, and Glossary, 224 PP.