it. Nat lang {172} after one of them cam to hir mornyngly
arrayde, and sayde that his felowe was deed, and so required the
money, and she delyuered it to hem. Shortly came the tother man,
and required to have the moneye that was lefte with her in
kepyng. The maiden was than so sorrowfull, both for lacke of the
money, and for one to defend her cause, that she thought to
hange her selfe. But Demosthenes, that excellent oratour, spake
for her and sayd: 'Sir, this mayden is redy to quite her
fidelitie, and to deliuer agayne the money that was lefte with
her in kepyng, so that thou wylt brynge thy felowe with thee to
receyue it.' But that he coude not do."

This is the 69th tale in the collection. I cite from the reprint which
appeared in 1831, under the title of _The Hundred Merry Tales: or
Shakspeare's Jest Book_.

C.H. COOPER

Cambridge, July 29. 1850.

The story of _the three men and their bag of money_ (Vol. ii., p. 132.)
is here stated to be "in the Notes to _Rogers's Italy_": but it is in
the _body_ of the work, as a distinct story, headed, "The Bag of Gold."

ROBERT SNOW.

_Will. Robertson of Murton_ (Vol. ii., p. 155.) is stated by Douglas in
his _Baronage_, p. 413., to be descended in the fourth decree from
Alexander Robertson, fifth baron of Strowan. The pedigree of Robertson
of Strowan is given in the same vol.

F.R.S.L. and E.

_Long Meg of Westminster._--I am not quite of DR. RIMBAULT'S opinion,
that Long Meg of Westminster is a fictitious personage. I believe her to
have been as much a real wonton as Moll Cutpurse was a century later.

If the large stone shown as Long Meg's grave had been anywhere else
within the walls of Westminster Abbey than where it is, I should have
had great dockets about the Westminster tradition. But Long Meg, there
is reason to believe from the numerous allusions to her in the
Elizabethan dramatists, was a heroine after the Reformation, and her
burial, therefore, in the cloisters, where few people of wealth or good
reputation were buried between 1538 and 1638, seems to me a common
occurrence. Had Islip or Esteney buried her among the abbots in the
cloister, I could then have joined in DR. RIMBAULT'S surprise. I have
altered the passage, however, to "marking, the grave, _it is said_."
This will meet, I trust, DR. RIMBAULT'S objection, though I have Gifford
to support me in the passage as it at present stands:

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