Mrs. Tempest (Vol. ii., p. 407.).—­In reply to your correspondent requesting information respecting this lady, I have much pleasure in sending you the following particulars, which I leave obtained through the kindness of Colonel Tempest of Tong Hall, the present representative of the ancient family of Tempest of Tong.  Henry Tempest, the oldest son of Sir John Tempest, Bart., of Tong Hall, by Henrietta his wife, daughter and heir of Sir Henry Cholmley of Newton Grange, married Alathea, daughter of Sir Henry Thompson of Marston, county of York, and had two daughters, Alathea and Henrietta; one of these ladies was celebrated as Pope’s Daphne.  Henry Tempest died very young, before his father Sir John; the next brother, George, succeeded to the title and Tong estates.  Daphne was on the point of being, married very highly, tradition says to the Duke of Wharton, but died of the small-pox before the celebration.

In the library at Tong Hall there is a painting, by Sir Godfrey Kneller, of Pope’s Daphne.

OLIVER THOMLINSON WYNDOWE.

Cardinal Allen’s Declaration (Vol ii., p. 497.).—­I am happy to inform H.P. that the Declaration of the Sentence and Deposition of Elizabeth, the Usurper and pretended Queen of England, alluded to in his note, is in the Bodleian Library; where, a few days since, I saw Dr. Cumming poring over it; and where, I have no doubt, he, or any friend, can easily obtain a sight of it by applying to any of the librarians.

Z.X.Z.

Cardinal Allen’s Admonition (Vol. ii., p. 497.).—­The Declaration of the Sentence and Deposition of Elizabeth, the Usurper and pretended Queen of England, will be found accurately reprinted in the Appendix to vol. iii. of Dodd’s Church History, edited and enlarged by the Rev. M.A.  Tierney, F.R.S., F.S.A., in whose possession a copy of the Declaration is stated to be.

D.

Scandal against Queen Elizabeth (Vol. ii., p. 393.).—­Although many of your correspondents must be well able to reply to P.T.’s Query, I have seen no notice of it as yet.  The note to Burton’s Diary, in citing Osborn, ought to have begun with the word which precedes the words quoted.  The note would then have run thus:—­

    “That Queen Elizabeth had a son, &c., I neglect to insert, as fitter
    for a romance than to mingle with so much truth and integrity as I
    profess.”

In the Add.  MSS. 5524. is an apparently modern note, stated to be in the handwriting of Mr. Ives, to the following effect:—­

“I have heard it confidently asserted, that Queen Elizabeth was with child by the Earl of Essex, and that she was delivered of a child at Kenilworth Castle, which died soon after its birth, was interred at Kenilworth, and had a stone put over it, inscribed ‘Silentium.’”

This is doubtless one of the many tales, which, as Osborn says, “may be found in the black relations