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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?