correspondents are possessed of any variations or additional stanzas, they
may be pleased to forward them to your interesting publication.

"Heigh ho! my heart is low,
My mind runs all on _one_;
W for William true,
But T for my love Tom."

T. W.

Burnley, Lancashire

_Death-bed Mystery._--It may, perhaps, interest MR. SANSOM to be informed
that the appearance described to him is mentioned as a known fact in one of
the works of the celebrated mystic, Jacob Behmen, _The Three Principles_,
chap. 19. "Of the going forth of the Soul." I extract from J. Sparrow's
translations., London, 1648.

"Seeing then that Man is so very earthly, therefore he hath none but
earthly knowledge, except he be regenerated in the Gate of Deep. He
always supposeth that the Soul (at the deceasing of the Body) goeth
only out at the Mouth, and he understandeth nothing concerning its deep
Essences above the Elements. _When he seeth a blue Vapor go forth out
of the Mouth of a dying Man_ (which maketh a strong smell all over the
chamber), then he supposeth that is the Soul."

A. ROFFE.

_Bradshaw Family._--There is a popular belief in this immediate part of the
country, which was formerly a stronghold of the Jacobites, that no Bradshaw
has ever flourished since the days of the regicide. They point to old halls
formerly in possession of Bradshaws, now passed into other hands, and shake
their heads and say, "It is a bad name,--no Bradshaw will come to good." I
heard this speech only yesterday in connexion with Halton Hall (on the
Lune); but the feeling is common, and not confined to the uneducated
classes.

Haigh Hall remains in the possession of the descendants of the family from
which Judge Bradshaw was descended, because, so said my informant, the
heiress married a "loyal Lindsay" (the Earl of Balcarras).

E. C. G.

Lancaster.

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