ng draw the antiquities) a great
disorder, occasioned by the tardy and expensive contour of the
iron-whay. People will find equally thither, a complete sortment of
stranger wines, and of the kingdom, hot and cold baths, stables and
coach houses, the whole with very moderated prices. Now, all the
applications and endeavours of the hoste, will tend always to
correspond to the tastes and desires, of their customers, which will
acquire without doubt, to him, in to that town, the reputation whome,
he is ambitious."

The above is a literal copy of a card in the possession of a friend of
mine, who visited Pompeii, 1847.

W.L.

_Epitaph._--While engaged in some enquiries after family documents in the
British Museum lately, I lighted on a little poem, which, though not
connected with my immediate object, I copied, and here subjoin, hoping your
readers will be as much attracted as I was by the simplicity and elegance
of the lines and thoughts; and that some one of them, with leisure and
opportunity, will do what I had not time to do, namely,--decypher in the
MSS. the _name_ of the "Worthie Knight" on whom this epitaph was composed,
and give any particulars which can be ascertained concerning him.

EPITAPH ON ----

(_Harleian MSS._, 78. 25. b. Pluto 63 E.)

"Under this stone, thir ly'th at reste
A Friendlie Manne--A Worthie Knight,
Whose herte and mynde was ever prest
To favour truthe--to furder righte.
"The poore's defense--hys neighbors ayde,
Most kinde alwaies unto his Kyne,
That stynt alle striffes that might be stayed,
Whose gentil grace great love dyd wynne,
"A Man that was fulle earneste sette
To serve hys prince at alle assayes,
No sicknesse could him from itt lette,
Which was the shortninge of hys daies.
"His lyf was good--he dyed fulle welle,
Hys bodie here--the soule in blisse;
With lengthe of wordes, why should I telle,
Or further shewe, that well knowne is,
Since that the teares of mor or lesse
Right welle declare hys worthynesse."

A.B.R.

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QUERIES.

THE TALE OF THE WARDSTAFF.

Can any of your antiquarian correspondents furnish further elucidation of
the strange ceremony of the gathering of the Wardstaff (which was in old
time one of the customs of the hundred of Ongar, in Essex) than are to be
found in Morant's _History of Essex_, vol. i. p. 126.? from whence