ased upon a pun, and that a very sorry one.

A. R.

_Sonnet (query by Milton?)_ (Vol. iii., p. 37.).--May I inquire from your
correspondent whether he possesses the book, _A Collection of Recente and
Witty Pieces by Several Eminente Hands_, London, 1628, from which this
sonnet is stated to be extracted. The lines look suspiciously modern, and I
should, before making any further observations upon them, be glad to be
assured of their authenticity through the medium of your pages.

JAS. CROSSLEY.

_Medal given to Howard._--Hepworth Dixon, in his _Life of Howard_, mentions
a Russian General Bulgarhow, who was presented by his countrymen with a
gold medal, as "one who had deserved well of his country." The General's
reply stated that _his_ services to mankind reached his own country only;
but there _was_ a man whose extraordinary philanthropy took in all the
world,--who had already, with infinite toil and peril, extended his
humanity to all nations,--and who was therefore alone worthy of such a
distinction; to him, his master in benevolence, he should send the medal!
And he did so. Can any of your readers inform me who now possesses this
medal, and where it is to be found?

W. A.

_Withers' Devil at Sarum_.--Where is Withers' _Devil at Sarum_, mentioned
in Hudibras, to be met with? It is not in any of his collected works that I
have seen.

JAMES WAYLEN.

_Election of a Pope._--I have read somewhere that some cardinals assembled
in a water-closet in order to elect a pope. Can any of your readers refer
me to any book where such a fact is mentioned?

T.

_Battle in Wiltshire_.--A pamphlet dated (in MS.) Dec. 12. 1642, describes
an engagement as taking place in Wiltshire between Rupert and Skippon. If
this be so, how comes it to pass that not only the general histories are
silent as to the event, but that even the newspapers omit it? We know that
Rupert was at the sack of Cirencester, in February, 1642-3; and Cirencester
is on the borders of Wiltshire: but is there any authority for the
first-mentioned visit to this county, during the period from the affair at
Brentford to the taking of Cirencester?

JAMES WAYLEN.

_Colonel Fell_.--Can you inform me who are the representatives or
descendants of Lieut.-Colonel Robert Edward Fell, of St. Martin's in the
Fields, London, where he was living in the year 1770? He was the
great-grandson of Thomas Fell, of Swarthmore Hall, co. Lancaster, Esq.,
Chancellor of the Duchy of