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Thread #44678   Message #658462
Posted By: Murray MacLeod
26-Feb-02 - 05:00 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Cold is the snow that lay in Glencoe
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Cold is the snow that lay in Glen Coe
The Lord Fielding to whom Rick refers was Henry Fielding, also famous as the author of bawdy novel "Tom Jones", and immortalized in folksong by the couplet in "The Newry Highwayman"

"Lord Fielding's men they did me pursue
And taken was I by that cursed crew"

I always thought Sir Robert Peel was regarded as the founder of the British Police Force ....

Murray