_Jetheston_. Here was lately a very round large bed, big enough to
hold fifteen or twenty couple, in imitation (I suppose) of the
remarkable great bed at _Ware_. The house was in all things
accommodated, at first, for large business; but the road not
supporting it, it is in much decay at present; though there is a
good bowling-green and a pretty large garden, with land sufficient
for passengers' horses. The business of these two inns is much
supported by the annual cock-matches that are here fought."

In Cruttwell's _Tour through the whole Island of Great Britain_ (Lond.
12mo. 1801), vol. v. 208., is the following:--

"Osmondeston, or Schole. The inn here was once remarkable for a
pompous sign, with ridiculous ornaments, and is said to have cost a
thousand pounds; long since decayed."

I shall be glad to be referred to any other notices of this sign, and am
desirous of knowing if any drawing or engraving of it be extant.

C.H. COOPER.

Cambridge, 21st Jan. 1850.

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PASSAGES FROM POPE.

In addition to the query of "P.C.S.S." (No. 13. p. 201.), in which I
take great interest, I would beg leave to ask what evidence there is
that Quarles had a _pension?_ He had, indeed, a small _place_ in the