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more complete if I had an impression of the 

 Broughton seal, should this barony be actually 

 yet in existence, and possess one. Aliqcxs.. 



Mrs. Myddelton. — Mr. Steinman being about 

 to print his memoir of Mrs. Myddelton, would feel 

 greatly obliged by any reader of "N. & Q." in- 

 forming him where original portraits of the lady 

 are to be found, besides those at Hampton Court 

 and Althorpe. He also wishes for a description of 

 the engraved portrait of her by Gascar mentioned 

 by Bromley. 



Priory Lodge, Peckham. 



Cashel Progresses. — In looking over the old 

 Chapter Book of Cashel lately I found the Sub- 

 dean, who was also economist in the year 1686, 

 took credit for the following sums : — 



"To my selfe 05/. IGs. 8c?., pay'd by me to the ofiicers 

 that attended the state in a progresse made Ano 1678. 



£05. IG. 8. 



"To the Lord ArchBpp. in full payment of what he 

 pay'd the officers aforesaid £10. 00. 0." 



Will you or any of your readers be kind enough 

 to say what or whose progress this alludes to? 

 Also if it was customary to have demands of this 

 kind made ? 



John Davis White, Chapter Clerk. 



Cashel. 



The unhuried Ambassadors. — An old inhabit- 

 ant tells me that some fifty years ago or more 

 there were two large coffins, richly ornamented, 

 lying on the pavement in one of the chapels on 

 the south-east side of the choir of Westminster 

 Abbey, and that these were said to contain the 

 bodies of two foreign ambassadors, who were re- 

 fused burial on account of some legal process. Is 

 it known who they were, or what has become of 

 them ? A. A. 



Poets" Corner. 



" The Golden Bough." — I have in my posses- 

 sion a small engraving or etching, said to be by 

 Turner, of " The Golden Bough." The picture 

 itself illustrates a valley, over which lie the re- 

 mains of noble buildings, the ruins of splendid 

 and magnificent porches. Fairy forms are re- 

 presented, some dancing, some reclining, and 

 one holding up a bough. A few trees also, 

 sketched with all that truth to nature the painter 

 so aptly learnt, completes the foreground. In 

 the background is an almost semicircular stream, 

 on the banks of which are the ruins of a fine 

 castle. Surrounding this stream and ruin is 

 beautiful verdure and rich woodland ; while the 

 stream itself reflects the white clouds which skim 

 across the sky. 



I am not quite certain as to whether I have 

 caught the right interpretation thereof. Will any 

 of your numerous readers render to me the mean- 

 ing of this picture-poem, for so I conceive it to 

 be ? Your kindness in opening your columns for 

 all inquiries relative to science and the fine arts 

 has emboldened me to send this inquiry. 



Joseph Kaines. 



Islington. 



" The Wasp." — In musical literature I often 

 find songs with the name of the composer of the 

 melody, but without any mention of the author of 

 the words. In a music book in my possession is 

 a canzonet, which a relation of mine heard Bartle- 

 man sing nearly half a century ago, the author of 

 which perhaps some of your correspondents may 

 be able to communicate. It is set by Spofibrth, 

 and is called 



"the wasf. 

 '• Why shun the wasp that round thee flies? 

 The harmless insect nierelj'^ seeks, • 

 Lady, to bask beneath thine- eyes, — 

 To taste the roses on thj cheeks. 

 " Attracted by thy fragrant breath, 

 It only comes its sweets to sip ; — 

 And, tlio' perhaps to meet its death, 

 To drink the dew upon thy lip. 

 " And on that lip, — ah trifling pain ! — ' 

 Should it to leave its weapon dare, 

 The useful sting would still remain 

 To punish rash intruders there." 



" The Bee" would, to my thinking, have been 

 more elegant than "the Wasp:" but I presume 

 the author would tell me the song was " founded 

 on fact." Eliza. 



Papier Moure. — What is the effective ingre- 

 dient in the article sold as papier moure ? The 

 first sheet of a new parcel is generally attractive, 

 and always fatal to flies ; the remainder is gene- 

 rally quite worthless. I infer that it must be 

 something very volatile, and what it is would be 

 worth knowing. Tophana. 



Kentish Lougtails. — Can j'ou or any of your 

 correspondents inform me whether the old story 

 of " wearing tails" applies to the "Kentish Men" 

 or the "Men of Kent," and where it is to be 

 found ? 



By the old Frank law, and some others, it was a 

 crime visited with severe punishment to accuse a 

 man wrongfully of " wearing a tail," being cauda- 

 tus or a cmvard ; or a woman of being a stria, a 

 sort of vampire, probably because if the accusa- 

 *tion were just it would subject the accused to a 

 painful death. Folkestone. 



Purliess or Purkis Family. — Whilst staying 

 lately in the neighbourhood of the New Forest, 

 I heard a strange account of the family of Purkis. 

 Many of your readers are aware that it was a 

 man of this name, a charcoal burner of the parish 



