_Cromwell's Seal._--I am in possession of a fine seal; it is a beautiful engraving of the head of Oliver Cromwell, and was once his property: he presented it to a favourite officer, whose nephew, to whom it was bequeathed, gave it to the father of the lady from whom I received it a few years ago. Thus I am in the singular position of being the _fifth_ holder of it from the Protector. Y. S. M. Dublin. _Rhymes upon Places._--Buckinghamshire: "Brill upon the Hill, Oakley in the Hole, Shabby little Ickford, Dirty Worminghall." H. T. Ingatestow. _Tom Track's Ghost._--The following piece of metrical romance has dwelt in my memory as long {428} as I have been able to remember. I have never seen it in print, nor heard it, at least for some years, from any one else; and have not been able to discover who wrote it: "Tom Track he came from Buenos Ayres; And now, thought I, for him who cares: But soon his coming wrought me woe; He misled Poll,--as you shall know. All in the togs that I had bought, With that ere Tom she did consort, Which gave my feelings great concern, And caused a row,--as you shall learn. So then challenge Tom I did; We met, shook hands, and took a quid; I shot poor Tom.--The worse for me; It brought his ghost,--as you shall see. Says he, 'I'm Tom Track's ghost, that's flat.' Says I, 'Now only think on that.' Says he, 'I'm come to torment you now;' Which was hard lines,--as you'll allow. 'So, Master Ghost, belay your jaw; For if on me you claps a claw, My locker yonder will reveal, A tight rope's end, which you shall feel.' Then off his winding-sheet he throwed, And by his trousers Tom I knowed; He wasn't dead; but come to mess, So here's an end,--as you may guess." The _implicatio_, the _agnitio_, and the _peripetia_ are so well worked out, that Aristotle would, I think, be compelled to admit it as an almost perfect specimen of that most ancient kind of drama which was recited by one actor. I refer especially to C. XXII. of the _Poetics_, which says, that that _agnitio_ is most beautiful which is joined with the _peripetia_, of which here we have so striking an example. These reasons embolden me to ask if it be worth preserving in "N. & Q," and who was the author? W. FRASER. Tor-Mohun. * * * * * Queries. JACOB BOBART AND HIS DRAGON, ETC. Dr. Zachary Grey, in his edition of _Hudibras_, vol. i. p. 125., relates the following anecdote: