od's _Cheshire_, vol. iii. p. 333., Sir Urian Legh,
of Adlington, disputes the fact of being the hero of that romantic
affair. "Sir Urian Legh was knighted by the Earl of Essex at the siege
of Cadiz, and during that expedition is traditionally said to have been
engaged in an adventure which gave rise to the well-known ballad of
'The Spanish Lady's Love.' A fine original portrait of Sir Urian, in a
Spanish dress, is preserved at Bramall, which has been copied for the
family at Adlington." So that between these two chivalrous knights it
is difficult to decide which is the famed gallant. From the care
exercised by Mr. Illingworth in collecting all the anecdotes and
notices of the Bolle family, the presumptive evidence seems to favour
his hero.]

_"Bothy."_--In the March Number of _Blackwood's Magazine_, 1854, the word
"bothy" is frequently used in an article called "News from the Farm." Will
some one of your numerous correspondents give me a little account of "the
bothy system?"

F. M. MIDDLETON.

[A bothy is a cottage or hut where labouring servants are lodged, and
is sometimes built of wood, as we read in the _Jacobite Relics_, ii.
189.:

"Fare thee well, my native cot,
_Bothy_ of the birken tree!
Sair the heart, and hard the lot,
O' the lad that parts wi' thee."

Bothies, or detached houses, in which the unmarried farm-servants sleep
and prepare their victuals, and of which there is a considerable number
in Perthshire, though convenient and beneficial in some respects, have
not, certainly, contributed to the formation of virtuous habits. These
servants are often migratory, removing frequently at the expiration of
the year, according as humour or caprice may dictate, and, like birds
of passage, taking their departure to other lands.]

_"Children in the Wood."_--Was Weyland Wood in Norfolk the scene of the
"Children in the Wood?"

S. Z. Z. S.

[The following account of this tradition is given in _Beauties of
England and Wales_, vol. xi. p. 269., Norfolk:--"Near the town of
Watton is Weyland Wood, vulgarly called _Wailing_ Wood, from a
tradition that two infants were basely murdered in it by their uncle;
and which furnished the story of a beautifully pathetic and well-known
ancient ballad, entitled "The Children in the Wood, or the Norfolk
Gentleman's Last Will and Testament