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vious to the last fire that the last descendant of that miller of Dee whose independence pro-voked the envy of King Hal and whose memory survives in the immortal lyric referred to above, passed away in the person of Mr. Alderman Johnson of Chester. There is, perhaps, no spot on all the banks of the " sacred Dee" by which all good Cymry swear, more often mentioned in song and story than the mills of the Dee. Though often burned and as often rebuilt, they will always remain an historic landmark just as if their existence had been unbroken since thrifty Hugh, or " Wolf" Lupus built the first of the four which have existed these eight hundred years and more. Charles Kingsley's " Sands o' Dee" commemorates the treachery of the sands at various points, and many a local tradition could be told of hapless stran-gers lost in the crawling foam.
The history of " My Lodging is on the Cold Ground," as far as concerns the music, will be found in Chappell's "Old English Popular Music/' It was originally written by Matthew Lock of " Macbeth" music fame to words by Sir William Davenant? and sung in an alteration of Fletcher's " Two Noble Kinsmen" called " The Rivals," 1664, by Mary, or Moll Davies, one of the earliest English actresses. She sang the
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