The above particulars are wanted for genealogical purposes.
G. B. A.
Minor Queries.
"Row the boat, Norman."—In the Chronicles of England collected by John Stow, and printed in 1580, is the following passage:—
"1454. John Norman, Draper, Maior. Before thys time the Maiors, Aldermen, and Commoners of the Citie of London were wonte all to ride to Westminster when the Maior should take hys charge, but this Maior was rowed thyther by water; for the whiche the watermen made of hym a song, 'Rowe the boate, Norman,' &c."
Are any of your correspondents in possession of the words of this song? or is the tune to which it was sung known?
T. G. H.
The Hereditary Standard Bearer.—In Crawford's Peerage of Scotland it is mentioned, that in the year 1107 Alexander I., by a special grant, appointed a member of the Carron family (to whom he gave the name of Scrimgeour, for his valour in a sharp fight) the office of Hereditary Standard Bearer. Can you inform me how the Scrimgeours were deprived of this honour? The family is not extinct, and yet I see the Hereditary Royal Standard Bearer is now a Wedderburne, and the Earl of Lauderdale is also Hereditary Standard Bearer. There surely must have been injustice committed some time to cause such confusion. When and how did it take place?
T. G. H.