Liverpool, Sept. 1851.
_Tom Chipperfeild, &c._--In Herrick's _Works_ (W. and C. Tait,
Edinburgh, 1823), p. 216., are the following lines:
"_To his Booke._
"The dancing frier, tatter'd in the bush,
Those monstrous lies of little Robin Rush;
_Tom Chipperfeild_, and pritty lisping _Ned_,
That doted on a maide of gingerbread.
The _flying pilcher_, and the _frisking dace_,
With all the rabble of _Tim Trundell's_ race,
Bred from the dunghils and adulterous rhimes,
Shall live, and thou not superlast all times?"
Can any of your correspondents versed in the folk lore of the West of
England give me any explanation of _Tom Chipperfeild_ and Co.?