_Chauncy or Chancy_ (Vol. ix., p. 126.).--Your correspondent J. Y. will
find an account of Charles Chauncey, B.D., and Fellow of Trinity College,
Cambridge, born in 1589, and died in 1671, in vol. iii. p. 451. of Brook's
_Lives of the Puritans_. See also Chalmers's _Biographical Dictionary_.
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Dublin.
_"Three cats," &c._ (Vol. ix., P. 173.).-MISS BOCKETT wishes for the
remainder of the "old ballad" beginning with "Three cats;" and I beg to
inform her, that there never was any more than what she mentions. The
object of the singer was, to cause fun by an elaborately modulated cadenza
on the word _coal-dust_, and then to call on the company to join in chorus.
He next continued with some significant word, as "notwithstanding;" and,
after a pause of some bars rest, he went on with "Three cats," as before,
_ad infinitum_, changing the initial word each time. It required some tact
to give it effect; but, if sung by a clever humorist, was sure to keep the
room in a roar of laughter. But its day is gone by.