I am led to write to you on this subject, by having observed, a few days
since, in the collection at Blenheim, two portraits by Paul Veronese, of
persons unknown. There may be many such, and that of Sir Philip Sidney
may yet be identified.

STEUART A. PEARS.

Harrow, Sept. 6.


_Confession._--You would much oblige if you could discover the name of a
Catholic priest, in {297} German history, who submitted to die rather
than reveal a secret committed to him in confession?

U.J.B.


_Scotch Prisoners at Worcester._--In Mr. Walcott's _History of St.
Margaret's Church, Westminster_, I find the following extract from
church wardens' accounts:--

"1652. P'd to Thos. Wright for 67 loads of soyle laid on the
graves in Tothill Fields, wherein 1200 Scotch prisoners, taken
at the fight at Worcester, were buried; and for other pains
taken with his teeme of horses, about mending the Sanctuary
Highway, when Gen. Ireton was buried."

I have taken the pains to verify this extract, and find the figures
quite correctly given. I wish to put the Query: Is this abominable