to the question_;"--by what writer the anecdote is recorded, or on what
authority it rests.

C. FORBES.

Temple.


_The Carpenter's Maggot._--I have in my possession a MS. tune called the
"Carpenter's Maggot," which, until within the last few years, was played
(I know for nearly a century) at the annual dinner of the Livery of the
Carpenters' Company. Can any of your readers inform me where the
original is to be found, and also the origin of the word "Maggot" as
applied to a tune?

F.T.P.


_Lord Delamere._--Can any of your readers give me the words of a song
called "Lord Delamere," beginning:

"I wonder very much that our sovereign king,
So many large taxes upon this land should bring."

And inform me to what political event this song, of which I have an
imperfect MS. copy, refers.

EDWARD PEACOCK, JUN.