"Heigh ho! says Rowley"

The burden of "*Heigh ho! says Rowley*" is certainly *older* than R.S.S. conjectures; I will not say how much, but it occurs in a *jeu d'esprit* of 1809, on the installation of Lord Grenville, as Chancellor, at Oxford, as will be shown by a stanza cited from memory:— "Mr. Chinnery then, an M.A. of great parts, Sang the praises of Chancellor Grenville. Oh! he pleased all the ladies and tickled their hearts; But, then, we all know he's a Master of Arts, With his rowly powly, Gammon and spinach, Heigh ho! says Rowley."